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You prove my point. Playing in Super Rugby has seen us number 1 in the world and number 7 in the world. so the same cause gave us two very different effects. hence why I suggest its perhaps other factors. Super Rugby has already watered down the playing standard. it has already driven down wages. it resulted in...

Australian rugby went backwards playing in an international provincial comp. No one can claim with certainty that only playing domestic means they wont improve. We had seasons with a worse record vs NZ teams after playing them for 20 years. The "play the best to be the best" is a con. "Playing...

The key stat in this discussion in "480,000". The number of people who tuned in to watch the SRAu final. Does RA (and the broadcaster) want to walk away from that?

Didn’t know he is studying. Definitely could keep him here. Being captain is no doubt an honour but the money overseas would be getting hard to ignore. (Assuming he’d land a contract of course)

If you are Liam Wright and off contract - and missed a Wallabies squad again… surely you’d be starting to look at the money available OS. (This isn’t a rumour - just an observation)

Third point on this. Australia has a history of GF's in its sporting codes. Australian Rugby has lacked this. As a sport you have to acknowledge that local experience and expectation. This years GF really captured that. I dont think oz rugby fans are naïve enough to think being SRAu champion...

and on the question of whether SRAu gets you better players and coaches. Money and exposure gets you better players and coaches - and you get more money and more exposure from having more fans watching games. More exposure makes coaches, administrations and players more accountable. Rugby...

RE: the playing kiwi's bit - between Super Rugby and extended Bled series Australia has played nz teams more than any other country over the past 25 years. We've waited and waited but the pay off never came! Time to try a different strategy - 5 weeks of SRTT and 3 Bleds a year is surely enough...

and back to the rugby and Stewart... not great news about why he's been dropped.

Stewart would be a handy recruit for another Oz franchise or OS team

It’s a stubby cooler in boot form. Four studs on the bottom - laces up the front

Came across this classic piece of supporter merch whilst cleaning out the shed

yeah i noticed this a few weeks ago. we could get punted to Gem. can't blame them though. its a flagship product that goes for two weeks.

Flook played about 30 mins from memory before getting injured. Cant recall the opposition. He really stood out i thought. Looking forward to seeing more from him.

Nz media saying JOC (James O'Connor) wants to go the chiefs

RA statement is a bit ambiguous: “The Final will be played between the top two placed teams on the combined competition table” - but there is no mention of what is combined. And it’s “table” not “tables”. I read it as Aus and nz teams combined on one table for just that comp. We might have to...

DC - I didn’t see that mentioned anywhere. Will see what I can find out. Assumed they were separate comps

Ok... tough comp for Oz teams. I’m not overly excited about losing domestic finals series in 2022. As always we are back to the eternal hope of our teams improving v kiwi teams in order for our comp to be attractive to fans and sponsors alike. Bit lukewarm on that to be honest

Not to be a downer - but in the race for points in the TT comp the kiwis play 5 Aus teams - whilst the Aus teams play 5 kiwis. Now the historical record will show that it’s likely one, if not two, kiwi teams could go undefeated... meaning an Aus team would need to go undefeated against 5 kiwi...

In the original 2020 draw Reds didn’t get a home game until Round 4. It’s gonna happen some years. But I feel your pain