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Bingo.

Well add the Drua and you have 6 teams. A workable two round domestic leg leading into a single round TT. You can't guarantee that Aus sides will win, what happens if Aussie teams just make up the numbers, its not about guaranteeing every kid a medal but tonight you get an Aussie winner, a full...

I get what your saying, but would it be worth it just restricting the Drua to the Australian conference. If there based out of Sydney you achieve a presence every week in Sydney which continues during the TT component. The issue I see is both the RA and NZRU are pretty stretched financially...

Its just the definition of "all the work" that I'm not quite sure of. Well lets hope there just as keen to do some of the heavy lifting as well. :)

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/afl/australian-rules-football-is-booming-in-sydney-is-it-happening-at-rugby-s-expense-20210416-p57jtz.html A nice sobering article to remind us that chasing large pots of overseas fools gold will get the game nowhere in Aus. Domestic growth is the only way forward.

Fiji’s Super entry has the ingredients for a runaway success (smh.com.au) Good to see people like Tuirinui push for domestic legs of Super, two round domestic comp then a single round crossover will give you 15/16 games then finals, A champion in each country, 3 games each weekend, a domestic...

Solvent. Well that could be debated.

The nature of a competition means you will always have teams below the bar, whether its 5 or 10 teams you'll have a top 3 and bottom 3, and some in the middle. The question that needs answering is what has restricting the code here to 3/5 professional teams achieved for rugby in this country.

Yes, but please remember it does not mean anything until you beat every international team in the world every weekend on a regular basis and then you can start celebrating.

Steven Hansen “Do we owe them(Australia) something? No. But because we are the nation we are, and we care about the game more than just ourselves, we bend and buckle a bit. Oh God, someone pass me a bucket.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/winners-are-grinners-why-super-rugby-au-should-be-kept-as-a-permanent-competition-20210409-p57hsf.html Well lets hope it catches on, and long term the bean counters will want it as well.

Aaahhh. NZR the forever friend, telling you with one hand I want you to be strong while the other arms around your shoulder reminding you that you'll always be too pathetic to do this by yourself.

A two round domestic competition plus TT will give you 16/17 games, winners in each country, a genuine domestic competition, room for growth, independence, a TT competition, Champions league possibilities with other countries ie; Japan & SA. However that does require forward thinking.

And that just highlights the complete folly of trying to find solutions using a model that will never deliver you any long term stability. Chasing never ending pots of gold with some foreign entity just confines you to forever being a beggar, once you've sold the kitchen sink there isn't much...

But NSW and QLD aren't ruining the game, 90% of those people are running sausage sizzles on Saturday keeping there clubs afloat, just like in Melbourne. The issue has always been on the over reliance of servicing a top down performance model that 90% of Australians have little attachment to...

But that's the problem your solution will ensure the exact model you rail against will stay in place. The over reliance on a single entity to run the code will forever be an albatross around its neck, who the f---k is ever going to make themselves redundant. And just like the wallabies, having...

Well good luck, but I'm always a bit suspicious when someone offers to print cash for you.

And what about all the money we've had for 20 years, don't you remember taking over the world with Super rugby, It will always take money. So how much has those 2 Fountain gate members cost the game. So what is our new updated business plan. A TT competition alliance with a union who have just...

So what happens when somehow those trophies don't make it to the cabinet, and what happens if the right people somehow are not in charge. So what happens when the Lions stop touring due to club games dictating availability. And what happens when somehow with all that money, the only plan you...

The real growth in Australian rugby will come from a decent Domestic product, this Wallaby fantasy of pots of gold is what got us to our current situation. A successful Wallabies can help compliment that growth. But just like those wonder years of Wallaby success when apparently we out-rated the...