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From my experience of friends in UK and Ireland, they are not as acutely aware of the political Rugby problems in Australia - they clearly know Australia sit 10th the global standings, but having the Lions come out and win 3-0 is what they want - albeit with some small resistance. I am being...

Geo restricted I believe - nothing a VPN can't solve. No need for an Aussie Credit Card though, and the address thing is a joke as can be made up as all tickets are mobile now.

RA's decision now they own the Waratahs? He should be allowed more games, but I'd like to see a different attack coach.

https://brumbies.rugby/news/match-highlights-act-brumbies-runners-v-nsw-waratahs-a-2024316 Looks like poor attacking ruck management from the Waratahs at the end of the game - pinged for not releasing.

Looking forward to watching the game at SFS tonight - get a different perspective from TV Cams.

"If there was a substantially better option out there I think they would have taken it." Assumptions can lead to the mother of all fcuk-ups - I'll leave it there as this is not a financial engineering forum. Fingers crossed....

Finger in the air - secured against future receipts - 10% - but you would probably need to issue over 150m in debt obligation to attract investors. I have seen riskier grade bonds, secured against less, pay similar - 2 to 3 year maturity.

While RA have the drawdown - it is not clear what the repayment requirements are - theyy might be able to roll the interest up. They would have been better off going to the Capital Bond Markets and issue a coupon paying bond with payments secured against future receipts - that way any default...

I think it works out at 15% - an extra 3% hair on top. Not sure what the previous loan rate was - RA used 40m of the drawdown to pay that off, so they have one consolidated loan now. Annual interest running cost will be around 7.5m - more than it costs to run a Super Rugby Team for a year - rises more...

Agreed - sounds in theory like a nice clean slate. In reality it will be a nightmare scenario.

Indeed - Gleeson played like he had a bar of soap in his hands.

Waratahs #10 played a classy game tonight, and he also over performed in the interview. Thought Waratahs #20 made a huge difference when he came on - #8 needs to stop playing with a bar of soap though!

Must admit - was more of an observation - I like Bowen, and was hoping to see more of him.

You can run that shop ('that is only open 7 times a year') - but only into the ground. The point of the quote, of course.

No Bowen on the bench this week?

Oh how Waratahs could do with him this season in their back row.

Luckily it was only a trial.

Think it says a lot (or not a lot) for the Super Rugby Academies / Pathways systems - similar happened to NSW Waratahs B Team vs two Shute Shield Teams; they should win those easily, but too often they don't even have the best Colts in their pathways or academies. I think it also says a lot that the...

Have to wonder if Reds should play at Ballymore - given they own it, more money to them in a season where cashflow will be King.

Agreed - MJ borderline saved a try vs giving away YC/PT...narrow margins.