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It all depends on the money. NZR control the market in NZ, but that could change the minute some Millionaire decides that without a salary cap, I may just sign up a couple of All Blacks to play in my Friday night piss-up team.

Well at least something is happening, and good on Twiggy, because quite frankly with a continuation of the current set up after 2020, and I would genuinely fear for the future of the game here as a major code, and maybe I'm jumping ahead but surely its 2021 that is the real crossroads. Can...

In a way you could describe this new competition as simply another version of Super rugby. It is hard to see how in the long run both competitions survive, maybe a merger, but the game changer could ultimately be private money. If WSR can attract large investors that influence & power will...

I just wonder if Twiggy may now be angling at more of a domestic product. Unfortunately couldn't read the article, but things have been pretty quite lately, surely costs of an Asian comp must be prohibitive But the game here is in crisis, and i wonder is it ready for a revolution from within.

I agree the hollowing is happening, I'm just not so sure that genuine change will occur. Rugby in Australia has IMO one major problem it simply is not popular enough domestically for the code here to genuinely grow. Nothing i hear or the whispers going around appear to come close to...

Your right, the game is unpopular for a huge number of reasons, but I dis-agree about the article, I like Wayne Smith but on this one it is just a big whinge, exactly what are his solutions, that world rugby ban the neck roll and protect Izzy in the air, wow that will change things. Or simply...

And that is exactly the crux of the issue, without the game becoming more popular within Australia, this is all well and good but you are just moving deckchairs. It is the the Wallabies & Super rugby that are killing the game here, a reliance on the national team to drive all your growth. Well...

You do wonder, they want the benefits as long as we don't have to do anything, and being concerned about long term commitment. So welcome Forrest as long as you pay for everything all the time,forever.

Any update on that supposed meeting between WSR and the shute shield clubs

Agreed, the whole emphasis in the article is for Australia to get its house in order to benefit a system perfectly suited to NZ, without acknowledging the whole SANZAAR set-up pretty much ensures that Australia will never be able to get its house in order.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12122584 This article highlights why the game will continue its slow decline in Australia, it shows no understanding of why the game is struggling here, and its simple solution as always is that by the Wallabies winning, somehow...

Why wouldn't they want to hear him out, they know under RA the future is pretty f____d

Essentially it is that rigid thinking and narrow focus that will ultimately confine the code in Australia to forever remain a minor sport.

But at some stage, we need to see some details, I heard that after the Panasonic game there was supposed to be an announcement. The reality is its getting awfully late to organize a competition for next year were talking about 6/7 teams that simply don't exist yet. And I would have thought a...

Invariably Parkes always starts his articles with the behemoth that is Northern Hemisphere rugby, a mention of whatever French or English club with the biggest budget and the highest $ figure he can find. As for Australia he immediately implies that the game here will never, ever, ever be able...

Geoff Parkes made up his mind along time ago, he advocates no change he is the ultimate RA apologist. He is the one that will happily ignore any alternatives. Read the article, exactly what does he advocate, apart from acceptance of the current top down structure and for the lower levels to...

Are they going to make the Currie Cup less professional ? But if they add two more teams to Pro 14, are they then committing 4 teams to Super post 2020. Just a thought that super may go to 12 teams with a 5/3/3/1 split post 2020.

What I find curious is the addition of two more SA teams to Pro 14 before the next Super rugby format is known or supposedly known. SA will end up with 7 pro teams come 2021

That is one of the most worrying articles I've read.

I just can't see how this approach can work, it is essentially the structure we have now anyway. 90% of the resources are funneled into the Wallabies, they play what 15 Tests a year. It sounds good in theory but how do you funnel that talent if they are not choosing you in the first place. The...