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Yeah, how stupid imagine having NSW & QLD derbies to sell to the broadcasters and building up tribalism over the years, invite private owners to help fund things I mean the RA funding everything is working out so well, I mean look at the AFL & NRL they obviously have no idea what there doing.

Fuck, its not rocket science. You have 4 teams already, bring back the Rebels add one NSW & one QLD team, keep the Drua. You then run an 8 team domestic competition over a 14 week home & away plus finals so 17 weeks. You leave the city based club competitions as is. You fuck off Super Rugby as...

Sorry I'm just a bit suspicious of those promises of rivers of gold, rugby here has a long tradition of chasing endless rainbows promising Nirvana at the end, especially as we currently sit with something like $80 million in debt.

And even the best scenario gives them a small surplus come the beginning of 2028. So if they don't then replace Super Rugby and use that capital and whatever they can scrape up with private money to start a domestic competition, then the game deserves to completely disappear down a big fucking...

I'd wish they'd hurry up then.

Sadly about the only things RA are good at is not making the tough calls.

As someone with 14/15 year old's (really need to update the profile pic) I would say kids are watching just as much TV as we did, but they are watching it on there phones, they are simply sourcing content from different suppliers youtube etc. As to physically watching TV that is pretty much...

But that has been the exact strategy for the last 20 years, it's like going to the casino saying everything will be okay as long as I hit the jackpot today. What happens if that top level success doesn't happen, like last Saturday your forever doubling down on the next hand. Success will always...

It has been disastrous because it has failed to keep pace in even the most basic KPI's with its two main competitors the AFL/NRL, which will ultimately lead to the small issue of regardless of Wallaby success, it will mean little when no one gives a shit.

Yeah, because I'm just an ex Kiwi that has been living in Australia for 30 years now and I have followed rugby since a toddler (you sort of did that growing up in NZ) and go back for business a couple times a year now, I noticed that is changing somewhat. And I have made a few observations...

Yeah because the last 25 years have worked out so well for the game here.

Yes, because the AFL/NRL are just stupid and who in the future will gift wrap aus rugby supporters, players & fans.

Which does help numb the pain of being in Melbourne.

Yes the bridge to financial freedom is just around the corner.

Of course its all gonna work out just dandy.

My biggest gripe as well, because the minute the word domestic is added into the conversation you are immediately accused of turning the game here into some sort of North Korean Utopia.

The surely its about time to look at alternatives to a model that is sending the game broke.

Yet the thinking here is that a successful Wallabies cannot co exist with a domestic based club/franchise rugby competition, somehow if we are not playing overseas teams weekly the game cannot survive in Australia, it really is a strange way to look at things. Your to weak & pathetic to survive...

We have leveraged our strengths for 25 years now and look where we are, you are never going to get those commercial people managing the competition or we would have had them by now, the structural limitations of the set up are the reason we,re in this mess. An 8 team home and away competition...

I think it is obvious that we would use the existing 4 teams, They could easily be rebranded, I mean surely the Waratahs would become the Sydney Waratahs. The issue you have is where do the other teams come from, you would hope that the Rebels could be resurrected , potentially add the Drua, you...