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I’d be highly surprised if it’s anything but a Japanese rugby deal. It’s the only way he can maintain his current salary which is $1.5 over 3 years, which considering wingers are the worst paid players in the NRL a decent deal.

It’s normally done in weeks

Perese officially ruled out of the series. Swinton facing 6 weeks, was offered 4 with the early plea but they have decided to contest it

From some of the wallabies social media looks like Trevor Hosea is involved with the squad currently. Maybe a few players with some injuries and he’s filling in? Or Swinton cover?

The deal also isn’t $70m it’s $40m a season with a further $30m from the host broadcaster to invest in the game, such as development of tv shows, paying an advertising agency for marketing, etc. they also sold 2.5% of the business to cbs. Add then their is almost triple the amount of...

Hodge will almost guaranteed fill the fullback spot. He trained there all pre-season this year but injuries to a few centres lead to him playing 12 or 13 for most games he played. Could be good for Aus going forward as well with him finally playing there on a regular basis. Wing and 13 is a...

DHP has finished up at the club. RA haven’t offered a top up for next year and the Rebels haven’t engaged in any contract discussions. Be nice to see him at the Force but I fear he will never play again at a pro level On the positive side for the Rebels with Koroibete, Naisarani and DHP gone...

The incoming Top League chairman spoke about it a week ago This from an article ~ Top League chairman Osamu Ota revealed on Tuesday evening that talks were under way between the JRFU, New Zealand Rugby and Rugby Australia about a blockbuster cross-border competition that will have the...

Yep, a lot of people want this format. As for the number of domestic teams I am yet to hear a logical argument why 5 (potentially 6) teams won’t work apart from ‘just cause…’. It worked brilliantly this year, maybe add Fiji (only if it’s from Fiji). At the end of the day if you have a domestic...

Apparently Thorne and the other QLD hierarchy have proposed to RA going to a champions cup and challenge cup style competition including Japanese teams from next year. This is from Wayne Smiths most recent article. Smith states that this has seen to be the end goal, but for it to be fast...

Be interesting to see what they do with Hardwick, if he will be offered a deal to stay or not. I can see Kemeny moving into a more 7 than 6 role. I like Leota in the 6 role as I think he plays more as a hard running lock than a guy capable of playing down the tram tracks.

Just about every team plays a Jack of all trades off the bench now. Frans Steyn (well past it but still the most versatile player in SA), Max Malins (Eng), McKenzie (NZ) etc. What I think many people seem to be unable to get their head around is Hodge isn’t competing against others for their...

Yep another 20-30k in the pocket as well just to make it that little bit more enticing to stay in Aus.

If TK is 102kgs I’ll eat my underwear. I’d call him the biggest of Kerevi, Ioane and Nonu

FLW (Fergus Lee-Warner) and Robertson the two hardest done by Kellaway and for me Sio the luckiest. Kellaway might be last man standing with all the outside back injuries but Sio hasn’t been playing as good as Robertson. I wonder if FLW (Fergus Lee-Warner) would come into squad if Swinton is suspended

You do realise Ikitau is in the squad. And you’re right Hodge has been invisible on the field the last 8 weeks Anstee can’t even make the Force starting squad. Agree he’s got some potential but behind several others not selected FLW (Fergus Lee-Warner), Wright, ASY (Angus Scott-Young)

Last regular season game for the year. 49k, which is the 2nd worst audience of the year. TT has now had the worst, second worst and fourth worst ratings of the year. I don’t suspect next weeks final will have a bump in figures. Unless it’s a large audience next week, figures are leading to a...

Would make negotiations a lot easier after today as well lol. I still harbor hope that they can get Leota out of his deal and stay for next year, him and Wells have comfortably been the best players over TT. Add Eloff and Koroibete and would be in conversation for player of the season at the club

Ryan Lonergan is on call if Gordon can’t get fit. No news on Perese so hopefully was nothing serious No news on who would come in if (when) Swinton suspended

I haven’t seen anything official and because the team has been away haven’t had opportunity to talk to anyone.