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For any international tour the inbound team covers the airfares and the hosting union covers accommodation/food/transport/training venues etc. Not sure what the situation is with "A" teams but would assume RA has got the same deal given they'll be co-located with the Wallabies. So you're only...

Rabbitohs, Raiders and Warriors all trained there during Magic Round. Gets the money in to pay for upkeep and keeps a multi-sport Ballymore front of mind for the politicians who will have to pay for the Eastern Stand. A very good call. A far cry from the stupid Dick Marks/Peter Lewis plan to...

Hardly. It's just that Sydney is too expensive and Ballymore is too shiny to resist.

Many of these players saw the new Ballymore facility for the first time the other week during the Wallaby camp. Word is they were shocked at how good it is (especially compared to Daveyville) and that it swayed thinking among a few...

Hockey's old timers bleating about needing their own stadium are almost as bad as the foolish old QRU Life Members who tried to stop the Ballymore redevelopment to "bring the Reds back".

You'd be wrong about Ballymore then....

Regardless of anything else, $50 million to finish Ballymore - which has a costed plan - or $200 million on a thought bubble from the organisational geniuses at Football Queensland?And $200m is a joke - that concept drawing they put out is a $400m stadium - a slightly smaller Townsville. Which...

Quade is a fast becoming the new Campo. Someone who was once erratically good, but has shit on the liver and a fervent need to tell everyone about the slights he felt were given to him.

Not if they expand the competition to full (or close to it) home-and-away. Same number of games, spread over more weeks (ie, more subscriptions). Also more home games (at least two, maybe three) for the clubs, so more membership/ticketing revenue. Well, at least for the Reds. Brumbies...

You're assuming Joe Schmidt doesn't release some Reds to play Tier One opposition and uses his dirttrackers (ie Brumbies) to play Georgia.

Or maybe we could just get Super Rugby right with an extended 20 week season, full home-and-away schedule - more home games for SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) clubs etc. The alternative is going down the same tired old route off standing up a new comp with limited support (yes, limited, which is why GPS gets 2500 every...

RA pays *half* of a contracted player's salary, not *most*. So if Tupou is on ~$800k then Reds are up for $400k - which is at least one (maybe even two) Peni Ravis.

You mean like the 1000 State u15 and u17 schoolgirls at Ballymore last weekend for the State Championships?

In Australia we call that "standard immigration policy".

God, what you said! Simple answer - full home and away Super Rugby season. 11 teams. Let's not stuff about with creating new comps. What we have isn't perfect, but it's sorta working. Tweak it, not burn it.

Do you have another explanation? Two things happened, 1. The directors ABSOLUTELY hid the state of the Rebels' finances, not just from Rugby Australia, but also from ASIC and the ATO. Their directors will almost certainly be seriously fined and banned from being on boards for a number of years...

Absolute joke of an article. He should be embarrassed. The whole consortium is just a tax scheme to get Leigh Clifford's daughter off from having the ATO/ASIC fine her about $2m and ban her from being a director. Typical Melbourne failchild behaviour.

Works for the Rabbitohs :)

that's why I didn't become an accountant.