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If promotion/relegation can be made workable then I'm all for it. If it can't then I am agnostic about which teams get into super rugby to start I'm on the record as saying back when an attempt was made to cut a team, that the best option was to find some way to merge the operations of the...

Willfully relegating rugby to non professional status in Australia is a bad idea. Call me crazy but trying the utmost to avoid the death of our sport seems a reasonable goal to have (realistic? not sure, but fuck knows we should try). That said, your points about Australian Rugby's unique...

I won't dispute that RA's public chest beating is ridiculous, and they payed overs by a bit for Sua'ali'i but the very large limits of their incompetence don't extend to how things played out in this specific example. Mclennan was chest beating and drumming up publicity at a time when Crichton was...

What if we ran a two tiered model for the pro game? Super Rugby Pacific becomes kind of like a champions league type thing for Australia. We consolidate our paticipation to 3 teams max, have our best players playing in it with each other against however many teams NZ want to put in, Drua, Moana...

It wasn't. They were approached, the timing of the story, the figure leaked etc were all from the mananger. RA played a straight bat, offered what they thought was reasonable (which is of course debatable) then walked when it became clear that the manager was trying to inflate his price.

The whole fucking thing was a beat up from Crichton's manager. They made the approach, asked for a certain amount and duration (apparently they wanted an average of 800k/yr for 3-4 yrs) and leaked that this figure was on the table before RA had actually formally tabled their final package. RA...

The wallabies look like their shape is decent and their defense is committed but they have completely fucked themselves with schoolboy level errors. Hoopers braindead ruck entry from the side, Donaldson flying out and leaving an inside ball channel, a fluffed line out 10m out. This hasn’t got...

Sentence 1 - I'd bet good money that is factually wrong Sentence 2 - Conceptually that's bullshit. His only mandate would have been to improve the wallabies results. He's taken the route of going way early with the younger generation which is his prerogative as the man in the chair, but he has...

I wouldn't have booted Rennie a year early, but it's fucking tough because his record was poor despite my general impression that Wallabies played some better rugby under him (though were still murdered by a combination of injuries, ill discipline and stupidity at times) and an experienced...

There has to be something. Aus A tours and international development tours/things like the QPR challenger series are an ok solution in the interim. But longer term it's not enough quality games for the players for the players on the Super Rugby fringe.

Our scrum without Tupou will be less of a weapon for us, but with Arnold, Frost, Hooper, Valetini and Phillip on the bench we fucking better have a massive go at disrupting their lineout. Stop their favourite attacking platform at the source. I have many horrible memories of England, NZ and SA...

They grooming Sua'ali'i as a 13, 14 or 15?

The Wallabies for the last 3-4 years have an absolutely dreadful record with soft tissue injuries

Pocock wore a waterpolo headguard for an ear wound on a spring tour a few years ago I think. Might help Also staples won't help

If we went down a scrum half and an outside back, I’d back Gleeson’s speed and power to make more of an impact as a makeshift winger than Kemeny’s…whatever he’s been selected for.

We need genuine 2nd rowers, ideally Aussie qualified

You'd keep QC (Quade Cooper) there for now, but from next year move on. The flyhalves running around in Asutralian Super Rugby teams will be Gordon (who will be the man in possession of the gold 10 jersey), Lolesio, Edmed, Lynagh, Donaldson, Burey and Pasitoa which is an acceptable position to be in a post RWC...

I'd be keen to see LHP (3); Bell, Slipper, Gibbon (Schoupp on standby) Hooker (3); Porecki, Faessler, Uelese (should be Mafi who will be on standby) THP (3); Tupou, Pone, Nongorr (Talakai on standby) Locks (4); Frost, Skelton, Arnold, Neville (Phillip on...

Is it crazy to consider JOC (James O'Connor) as a utility back that kicks goals, over Hodge? i.e comes off the bench in the easier pool games? I remember him playing some absolutely cracking games for the Wallabies at 13 outside Samu. He's not a 10 anymore, but I don't hate the idea of him providing back up for...

The ankle injury that Josh had was a significant one. Not dissimilar to the one that nearly ended Drew Mitchell's career (who remarkably got back to form over in Europe after nearly 2 years of struggling at the tahs post injury so there is hope).