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Everything is turning to shit but lets stick with the one thing that has pretty much been part of that slow decline for 25 years. Why not try something new, Super Rugby hasn't worked for god knows how long, what exactly do we have to lose anymore.

Amen, What we should've & could've done 25 years ago is history but one thing remains Super Rugby, and it is an albatross around the neck of the code here. The game is broke losing supporters, fans, money and is simply unsustainable under the current structure. The RA have spent the last 20...

We can only hope it is number 1 or the game is pretty well fucked in this country.

Just look up (Where to for Super Rugby) not sure how many pages it got to before it got retired, something like 2000 And money, yep we've got none Super Rugby has bloody well made sure of that. The game has been living on a Credit Card for years now, just shuffling debt and getting a shiny new...

That's because all we ever do is come up with some issue without ever dealing with the real issue. Centralization, Broadcast Deal, Coaching, Pathways, Grassroots, Global Market, ffs its a bloody merry go round. Its like sitting on a couch and never mentioning the Elephant sitting next to you...

Centralisation is the latest buzz word to fix rugby in Australia, you can centralize all you want, but the boat is still sinking. The financial model moving forward does not add up, the fall through of the PE deal pretty much said it all, sorry the figures don't add up.

I short they've just got the Credit Card statement.

The root cause of the problem is lack of domestic growth. Without growing the game within Australia, those Wallaby wins (rare at that) just means less each year as less people are interested. No amount of Centralization is getting you to the root cause of the problem, that is a domestic product...

I am always bemused how any domestic option is always reduced to running around on a Sunday afternoon in the over 35's with Oranges & Port at halftime. Its hard to see how the game moves forward in Australia, when the only validation it craves becomes increasingly harder to achieve as each year...

Shit we must be bloody brilliant then after 25 years of Super rugby.

Well then, would not the best option be having a better professional footprint at a domestic level. Take NSW you have what 10 professional Rugby League teams offering Professional pathways, Two pro AFL Teams and 3 or 4 Professional Football teams. Rugby Union has one The "Waratahs" So how does...

No one ever said that we wouldn't be playing NZ teams anymore. The Wallabies would still be playing 14/15 Tests a year. and no doubt cross over games would occur with NZ Teams, with champion leagues style competitions. It just seems that whenever a domestic competition is mentioned, it is...

This is the crux of the matter, how do you grow the base, what is the strategy to do that, since rugby went professional it has been through the promotion of the Wallabies, international success will grow the game. Rugby Union has neglected or pretty much ignored the domestic market because it...

And nobody wants to take into consideration that low crowds are partly due to lack of interest in the competition they are playing in. Super rugby with the ridiculous schedule that finishes in what June or the first week of July. Against teams from another country, why can they never get hoards...

Mate I am so over it. (had a couple beers on the road) I have loved rugby Union since I was a kid. yet my son is playing league on the (sunshine Coast), he goes to a state school 3000 kids yet rugby Union has no presence there. We get it shoved down our throat how rugby is a global game, Super...

Of course there is no alternative, lets just keep doing the same shit every year. Don't worry we can borrow another $60 million to get through the next few years, and look Hamish is in Paris signing up for the next wonder fix. Anyone for Lobster, I'll have two thankyou. A bit of moisture in...

Or we can keep Super Rugby and hope all those $billions of dollars of international broadcasting money flow in. "When does the game start honey"

Well of course it would be fantastic if we were competitive with NZ. Experts have been telling that us for 20 years. Its that simple we just have to get our act together and start beating the Kiwi teams, and everyone will start following rugby, ffs.

I would argue we have been arguing these the last how many pages what 2000 under different headings, why is that, well maybe because RA kick the issue down the road every bloody year, due to self interest. ???? Without dealing with the underlying fundamental issue of lack of domestic growth...

That's a good idea, because the last 37 variants haven't quite worked have they.