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Completely wrong. The QRU is there to ensure the game in QLD is healthy and thriving. When the player base is strong, QLD is strong. People are so obsessed with the top 40 players in the state. I am more concerned about 25,000 men, women, girls and boys who play rugby in one form or another...

And the ARU only gets its $$ from the players it supplies to the ARU.

Yes emanating no doubt from the ARU. The ARU should stick to its mandate and leave QLD rugby to the QRU.

That experiment was an abject failure.

Anyone thinking there are pots of gold in overseas rugby at this point are deluded.

The QRU is responsible for running the game in QLD not the ARU. No matter how many times it is denied by outsiders, the QRU has consistently and repeatedly insisted that the "Reds" ie. the QLD team is the representative team of the QRU. Why on earth would they be separated?

Hockings certainly has potential to join the QLD 100 cap club. This is why it is so disheartening. As for Rodda, there are a few ways to deal with disappointment, the best way is to put your head down and work even harder, prove the bastards wrong. The worst way is to have a sook and spit the...

Time for big Dan Gorman to come out of retirement;)

I'd hope for a genuine apology along with some genuine contrition. HH & Lucas are still pretty young, just what the hell are their parents telling them?

Absolutely bang on Reg. The penny is finally dropping. Consolidation and survival. When food is scarce the pack will shrink, when it is more abundant it can expand.

Extremely poor decision from all 3. Was the time to show a bit of leadership and solidarity. As I have said before during the WRC fiasco loyalty was most certainly rewarded and never forgotten. Does not look good either publicly or within the team environment. Really bad career moves. Best...

Super 10 was effectively the provincial rugby equivalent of the champions league. How it became the bloated, broken mess it is today is truly a lesson on how to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, yet sports administrators always seem to do it. Bigger is not always better, more is not...

Except it isn't. This has been a core theme in QLD for a long while. Most recently, the preseason trials, QLD players going to the bush, NRC in regional QLD - all talking about representing QLD and the QLD rugby community and connecting with the rugby community around the state. Brad Thorn in...

The mass exodus is highly unlikely. Somehow the best 200 players in Australia will find a job elsewhere? And where exactly would that be? I am discounting league, most likely they will have earmarked talent for their game via their own programs. Perhaps a few might go across that otherwise...

Waste of dough bringing back a journeyman in White. Especially when there are 3 fine and able halfbacks already here and all them ahead in terms of ability far, far ahead in terms of longevity.

I think we all agree that throughout last years NRC and thus far for QLD he has been bloody excellent @ 12. We may not agree on this however I believe we have found our next long term centre partnership for both QLD and beyond (RWC 2023 ;) )

^ the dynamic duo. Love their footy and not afraid to show it. Best in the country by a mile.

Ha ha Marky Mark (Nawaqanitawase) in league. Bloke is a walking turnstile though in his favour he was doing better than Koribete pre-rona.

"...Wiggs said at a rugby meeting "This is the worst run business I have ever seen"." gg Ralene. I wonder if she took her bonus on the way out

Mate, club football is the game. I care about rugby & how the game is run overall. That is one of the fundamental duties of the ARU, hence my posts on this thread and forum. Your blinkered view shows that you really don't give a shit about rugby you just want to watch something on the tv.