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Agreed, of course it was expenditure multiplied by days, Maybe the pertinent question is what exactly does the rugby code here get for its $333,000 spent on it each day, is that money being spent each day getting a good return.

Agreed, and rugby is on the front page, inside back and pretty much the whole back page, so an agenda yep, but you can shove a dozen salt tablets with your coffee its still pretty ugly reading.

Its behind a paywall, but a couple of articles in the Australian (pretty much the whole back-page, not bad for a sport falling of a cliff). But anyway a couple of pretty sobering items financially, in 2018 the RA spent $333,000 a day. legal fees from the Folau case, yet to be paid over $1...

It is the structure that does not work, its like driving a rally car in a road race. The quality of staff are there no doubt, but they can't achieve something the structure will never accommodate and this is what leads to self interest. But its the definition of a club, whenever we talk of a...

Yes apparently now the data in that article is just plain shoddy, not that any evidence of that was put forward. The article highlighted a possible way forward obviously no tweaking of that direction can ever occur. I just find it strange how expectations of the wallabies are to be regularly...

And the data also shows just how limiting it is attaching yourself to a structure that has little chance of growth. So lets not encourage Sydney Uni, Eastwood or Tuggeranong, no lets attach ourselves to a team that has links to some NZ province like say Bay of Plenty, because heaven help us if...

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/forget-the-kiwis-australian-rugby-s-future-is-local-20200508-p54r97.html Well yes that's what the game needs to do to survive.

And then f____k me, I click on this in the SMH, is the penny finally dropping, good old Georgina Robinson. Seriously its not fucking Rocket Science. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/forget-the-kiwis-australian-rugby-s-future-is-local-20200508-p54r97.html

I completely agree with this.

https://rugbynews.net.au/rugby-australia-bubble-desperate-to-survive-even-if-it-kills-rugby-in-australia/ Not everyone happy Wiggs departed

Yes, was a bit disappointing really. Hard for him to come in with anything concrete so early, but concerned me as it sounded like a lot of previous RA media conferences, lots of fluff and lets all come together type comments, from someone that won't be here in 6 months.

And Rob Clarke making statements about reviewing Super rugby and moving forward.

Exactly instead of the game focusing 100% on what the future can be, and how we could possibly get there. We look like getting some quick pay day loan, arranged by a bunch of people who will not be here in 12 months. The most important thing for the game moving forward is what a genuine...

That's part of the issue the games falling of a cliff, yet were still talking about a couple hundred grand consultant fees for the new CEO. The game here thinks its a Porsche, but when you go in the garage theirs an old Vespa parked in there.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/rugby-union/key-rugby-australia-board-member-peter-wiggs-poised-to-walk-away/news-story/ecaa841ece95b77f7f71fe00d19c9961?fbclid=IwAR3htr-74zlFyPbua171hbBt4e8HSM13SYty5MssC705QDu1-msxnxpl-BU Yep, and the fun continues

The only way forward for the game here is with an injection of private money, the issue has always been governance. You can't have it both ways. Look at the Rebels, privately owned until the franchise were gifted back to the rugby community (short for this is a dud deal). The powers to be...

Marinos is based in Sydney, that surely makes it about the most tone deaf statement you could make.

https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/05/04/sanzaar-super-rugby-2021?fbclid=IwAR0fGcGQpVR8tloh9-3XXhUAOOFrv8fhoy4rHMR8TMoe-vPBnNyzYu4AolM Yep SANZAAR with there head in the sand as expected, you can always rely on self interest.

The problem with that approach is a lot of not much at all, you asking fans to engage with a bunch of short tournaments. It will be very hard to engage in any sort of meaningful tribalism on such short periods of time, or take forever to build. For example your NRC team is going to have what 2...

https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/04/30/super-rugby-brumbies-forum?fbclid=IwAR1UDS_CZPWO-38uWUpP3bnrvewCk78SVLEE8fhUjbBCmUl0iAg0uS-t1DI Another interesting article.