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It's definitely an option, though I think Paisami-Ikitau is most likely with Daugunu on the bench covering wing and 13.

Salakaia-Loto's maul work remains questionable and might prevent him from getting the start first up. I'm also pretty doubtful will see Sua'ali'i at 13 for the start of the series, wing is looking more and more likely.

For tackles generally that's true, but I don't think it's unreasonable to release a citing commissioner report for everything that was a yellow card or above. Can't hurt to have those incidents explained to the fans so it's clear how the guidelines and frameworks are intended to be applied.

Possibly, but I doubt we'll be told. I'm not sure how public they make the non-decisions, all I saw was the report that it wasn't cited.

Hopefully they (or someone else) does, but it's worth noting that no state (NSW or otherwise) can claim any sort of opposition to another stepping in to support Vic juniors and bring them through. There might be some issues with overlap if multiple step in that RA would have to manage, but I see...

Yeah, I'm talking the 19s and 16s specifically, where they have the full super comp. The extra teams get a bit of game time in the years where they're only really playing NSW v QLD, but those 16s and 19s comps could really benefit from more teams or more rugby. Will become particularly important...

Oh my bad, that'll teach me for skimming the report. I do think it's probably a bit of a throw away line to explain the cost increase (as opposed to the losses specifically), but arguably anything above 30% ($8m) could reasonably be described as 'largely driven by', assuming there was no other...

Match day is expensive, hard to tell what it costs for specific teams but the Reds spent ~$3.7m on it in 2023 for example. If that's standard you're looking at $15-17 million cost increase on player salaries and match day. Cost increase was about $26m, it seems reasonable to describe that as...

No citing for Wrampling's hit on Siua'ali'i, citing commissioner doesn't see it as meeting the red card threshold.

Grants didn't fully cover the player wage bill (or coaching/support staff wage bill) for the clubs. Particularly not since they had dropped back by around $1.7m since the Force's re-introduction. Seems pretty likely there would have been a 2-3 million dollar shortfall for tahs and Brumbies...

Potentially they'll have a second crack at private equity, though at best that just kicks the can down the road a bit further. I can't see it being a particularly good option at this point anyway though. On the rugby side the World Rugby Nations Championship will be part of it, there's...

Yeah, there's no sense in it being the pinnacle of the age group system anymore, but we do need those 3rd and 4th string sides at that under 18 level, given how many of the top players in each cohort will end up in league. Arguably we should also be exploring 2nd NSW and QLD sides for comps 18...

Fotuaika also plays both sides, so he might jump across if they want to keep Van Nek focusing on tight head.

Very disappointing game from the reds, that was the worst we've played at home in years. Disappointing crowd numbers in the end too. Rain, school holidays and the 3rd game at suncorp in 3 nights seem to have combined to really hurt the turnout.

Maybe, I don't generally have an issue with co-captains, but 4 is pushing it. That said, Kirifi was the only one of them on the field at the end. I do wonder if he's the best choice for it though, as good as he's playing I think he tends to be more focused on his own game and the impact he can...

Yeah, it was the complete lack of game smarts that did it for me, the try they scored took them longer than it should've and there just didn't seem to be anyone to take charge. Not too surprising given the number of 10s they've got sitting on the sideline, and maybe one of them returning could...

Somewhat perversely it's probably the end of Jacomb's season, they won't want to go away from a Carter/Narawa/Stevenson back 3 again.

It's the most spine they've shown in years. A lot of work to do on the detail, but the fight was definitely there

O boy, there's some fight left in this tahs season. Their inability to perform away may still be their undoing, but they've done everything they needed to to keep it alive there.