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How do you get to the round of 16. If you have 6 pools of 4 Teams, Top 2 qualify which gives you 12. How do they decide the last 4 ?

They may be Apples & Oranges apart, but right now we are all in the same fruit bowl, and currently Rugby looks like a rotten old apple in the corner below a dozen shiny delicious oranges. But fear not Hamish and his buddies are over in Paris now launching the latest new super brand of Apple.

Yes, Money is the whole point of Professional Rugby. Sadly now it also seems to be the only point about Test rugby as well.

This is the problem facing Australian rugby in a nutshell. The International game does fund everything. But that in itself is also it downfall. You are trying to fund everything through the Wallabies. But in doing so you compromise the domestic level of the games ability to become more...

Then surely the issue we need to face is why is Super Rugby a supposedly poor quality competition, it involves arguably the best rugby playing country on the planet, and I do not think you can dismiss the financial aspect (especially if your National Union is footing the bill) because that will...

You should keep posting Half, if you are passionate about it. this is a blog about Australian rugby, "Where to for Super Rugby" how many posts did it get to, and we just moved it to Australian Rugby/Rugby Australia. Lets face it the reason the game here finds itself stuck in a big pile of shit...

Positive reception doesn't matter though it is the underlying structure of those competitions that is important, from the EPL right down to the A-League simply because it works. Yet it is Rugby Union that somehow thinks it can swim against the tide. The RA are $40 Million in debt and about to...

I don't think anyone is arguing that the A-league is a run away success, but those losses are being sustained by private owners who for whatever reason are willing to fund those clubs. The League will thrive or shrink in relation to market demand. Maybe no one is watching the A League, but the...

I think this is the main issue facing Rugby Union in this country, not sure whether the MLR is exactly the answer. But where does expansion of the game here come from when your only option is Wallaby victories. I remember the irony of the Rebels owner handing back the license " Gifting back to...

I agree with all of that my point is though, it is just another Wishlist, why hasn't any of that happened over the last 20 years. The reason why the AFL & NRL are so successful is that those competitions drive the interest & involvement that makes all those things possible. The point is 99% of...

Sadly the self interest or self preservation of those involved in the game here at a professional level ensures that they do not have a plan to reverse the doom. Centralization is just the latest buzz word to fix our rugby, while that is in play things just carry on, and when that fails it will...

Roll back the clock 20 years, Super rugby will take over the world. Asian & American Conferences, who's gonna pay for our Rugby, and here we are 20 years later still trying to unlock the great behemoth. The prime reason why Rugby will go nowhere in Australia, why grow the game in Australia when...

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/sports/wallabies-selectors-arrive-bearing-gifts-in-first-ever-public-school-visit/ On the brighter side, looks like the RA are spreading there wings :):):)

Sadly though this is where, whatever you and I want is just wishful thinking, yes lots of people like Super Rugby, the problem is simply not enough people like it. And they can wish all they want about it returning to a better product, but that again will simply not happen as it is a...

Yes but you can't have equal representation, the fact you have single entities in each state when NSW & QLD are clearly your strongest states. We need to have a set up where QLD & NSW have more Teams to cater for the extra depth in players.

This is the crux of the issue. The game here is bankrupt, $40million in debt, three franchises essentially on lifeline. The Rebels are history in the next year or two. RA are gonna borrow $60 million to operate over the next few years with the best case scenario being every cent of profit from...

Yes but the NRC has been degraded by NZRU over a long period of time. As a competition it has never been allowed to adapt to market conditions. It was replaced in the market place by Super Rugby, it may be very expensive but it exists under the conditions dictated to it, it has not been allowed...

Of course, we have suggested we only play domestically. That means the wallabies will not play 14/15 Tests a year. And of course that means we will ban our domestic teams from playing other countries domestic teams, because we will only play domestically, we will retreat to our great North...

No its just that we can never have a genuine discussion about the game here because as soon as it is mentioned we get ".keep your quaint little, 3-rate domestic competition"