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10 years ago or even less Rugby was the dominant contact sport for women and we didn’t really try to maintain that position. Now the Islands and even the New Zealand are losing players.

Went negative a bit early

Western Sydney is very different from small country towns (not that Dubbo is small)

:rolleyes: Have you ever been out of Bondi??? You certainly like to make massive generalisations that are very wrong. Most kids in country play both league & union and where I am in the Riverina also a bit of AFL. In much of the Central West, where he is from (Orange, Cowra, Forbes) Union...

They are making the Aussie teams gear (whole team, not just rugby)

One major difference is the A-League would be lucky to be in the top 50 leagues in the world - we would have a league still in the top 5 for quality and more places available for younger talent which currently have to go to NRL or overseas for a professional opportunity

The melt down here would be amazing - BR would you survive????

But he used to play for the Tahs

It must have been bad - I was at the match and had to listen to a whole lot of gloating Kiwi's that continued for a week everywhere I went

Or maybe they're being done properly now

Didn't realise he beat Wilson to the ball ;)

What does kick a team out of the competition achieve? More byes???

Don’t start me on what Stan charge pubs so show it

They probably had some old ones leftover - better to use them somewhere...

I get that & agree to an extent but there's no point getting lower standard players just because their Australian, I'd rather the team win. Who are better Australian wing options who are off contract they should be getting?

Only a problem if the competition is only a trial for the Wallabies, I'd rather the team win and increase viewership and crowds

How were you all expecting them to perform? Every team we played has played in a World Cup final and every final has included one of the teams. When the tournament was announced they were the weakest team and nothing has changed, there is a good chance they will be headed for 2nd division next...

Actually thinking about it it's where they have been for probably most of the past 20 years - are we expecting too much of them. In the past it may not have been as noticeable as there were plenty of other 1st grade teams (they CW crew + Army) but now with only 7 others we need them for a...

I imagine the comp would hold some appeal for Leeton, but there would be a massive increase in the travel requirements for both parties, given the defectors left because they didn't want to go to Hay or Deni I don't see the welcome mat being rolled out. The Phantoms issue is they have (and I...

The Waratahs stopped him then - the states are behind this move so I'd assume the Waratahs would think if it was just a SAu competition there would have to be a 2nd NSW (Sydney) team