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I don’t think it’s as simple as many making it out to be on either side. RA can still be liable for many aspects of the Rebels demise due to the controlling nature they have over the game and all the entities. The Rebels are provided a grant for product supplied via Super Rugby which RA happily negotiate...

I’m far from being a legal mind but I can see a few possibilities here. - the rebels are gone no matter what the solution is, the losses are unsustainable and insurmountable. - this might test the existing practices we have. Currently RA expressing it’s an autonomous 3rd party but also acts...

Can anyone answer why the Aus 18s are playing during the Super Rugby 19s tournament. Surely the vast majority of these guys would potentially be available looking to play in this as well.

Look I’m all for a change in format here as I believe Super Rugby is busted and is contributing to some of our issues. But you can’t really call these clubs “club rugby” in the same terms we do. The English sides for example don’t have any juniors, their academy sides are made up of players invited into...

The issue with the squads going forward is that next years some teams have been improved with players moving with existing contracts. When a lot of these Rebels contracts expire we will see a lot of them move to other opportunities off shore. So we will be back to the same level squads as what...

I think a lot of our issue is just from lack of matches. Our juniors don’t play enough and our pros don’t play enough. I’d go as far as saying some Europeans have played twice as many games of rugby in their life by 25 than most Aussie pros. They are just wiser and understand how to be clever...

Would love to see some proper testing at school boy level in that country.

The fallacy that Covid pumped up the viewing and attendance rates has been debunked. AFL and NRL has shown continued growth in both areas post Covid, if it was a bump then their audiences would have dropped post Covid. Super Rugby unfortunately is on the nose and has a terrible image and engagement...

To be fair there is almost no quantifiable evidence that less equals more quality just like more equals better pipeline of players. All we have heard over the last 5-10yrs is people with heavy agendas bringing flawed “evidence” to suit their argument and depending on what side of the pendulum...

No surprise to me. Basketball is comfortably the second most popular team sport world-wide. It has huge youth participation numbers and just from a personal perspective is a lot better event to turn up to live. Kids and partners love to go despite knowing little about what’s going on with the...

You cant judge the size of the players during their league days. It’s a more cardio based sport and requires a slightly different frame. Someone like Gallen I think would have been a prop or hooker if identified when he was 17. He could have easily been 115-120kg. He’s quite a similar frame to...

The issue with touring Argentina is there is zero commercial benefit from it. They very recently have experience 200% inflation. So any tv deal or commercial deals signed aren’t worth much a few months later

My understanding is that wallaby and AB players will be pulled from Super Rugby not just in Super Round but the weeks leading up to this. Pretty sure I read that somewhere. If this is the case, why do they have to miss a few weeks in advance when neither team would be getting an advantage in the lead up...

I think the conversation shouldn’t be having league players come across now, by the time they are 23-24 it’s far too late. They would have built so many instinctive aspects in their professional training designed for league, it would be extremely hard to unlearn and then learn instinctive habits...

A few things on recent posts. Grassroots is struggling, it’s only at the premier level that it isn’t, and just that is been judged from a sample size in finals and not every week matches. I can only speak for QLD and Vic but outside Premier grade in QLD some of the competitions are a shadow of...

I had a similar experience. My workplace currently does some projects for AFL, NRL and NBL, we had a meeting with RA around 2yrs ago and they were skint then. They thought could have got some work through brand association (which isn’t rare) but we didn’t classify any partnership through...

I don’t mind moving players around. Infact most players started in one position and ended up moving elsewhere. Dan Carter was a 12 to 10, Kerevi 13 to 12, Farrell 12 to 10, most fullbacks wings before moving to 15. PSDT was a lock now blindside, Ardie Savea 7 to 8, Ioane wing to centre, etc. I...

I don’t think it’s this simple. Overseas clubs when in negotiations with SA and Arg players know they are clearly in line to be selected by their national team when in negotiations, Aus players are not because of the nation unions stance. I can’t quite remember the exact detail but over the...

I saw that article as well. Agreed with most his points although he always has to take a swipe at Australia. Inferring that many of us think league takes a lot of our talent, but he just had to point out that our biggest back was 95kg in the league team. He clearly doesn’t understand that any...

Very good chat on latest egonomics podcast on Aus rugby