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I feel like if there was to be expansion, Wynumm is where we'd need to look. It fills a geographical gap in the current competition and has a reasonably well established club there already. I'm not sure what appetite there is in QPR or from Wynumm Bugs, but it feels more workable than Sunny...

A bit of insight into the good work Peter Horne has been doing behind the scenes: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/22/peter-horne-rugby-australia-high-performance-director-interview

The referral system and 20 minute red card should help here overtime, by taking more time with the decisions and reducing the difference between no sanction and the largest one, but I think the main way they can improve is in the off field process - lean more on suspension than in game...

Yeah, it's a bit dire with the current injury list, though I imagine there might be a few emergency options explored first - calling up foreign based players (like Pone Fa'amausili, Sam Talakai and maybe Ollie Hoskins), Slipper/Robertson jumping across (Nasser could too in a pinch, though that's...

I hope they're exploring options around transition periods or ways to keep Schmidt involved even if he decides he can't stay on as head coach. Ideally he'll carry through to the world cup, but realistically it's somewhat outside of RA's control if he does. Les Kiss, Larkham and Mckellar are the...

It could only be for Wallabies contracted players and not the entire squad, but either way it wouldn't be in their interests to just stop paying and kick off a fight. Would be an awfully big bargaining chip for them in any negotiations going forward though.

More financial pain coming for the northern hemisphere unions, this time England: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2024/11/20/rfu-to-announce-record-losses-up-to-40m/ A huge loss, but it was a world cup year and they're generally in a very strong financial position. Not a great sign for...

I think they're Quints at this point

Knee looking good for Isaac Henry:

One of the (many) things that bothers me about our game is that there isn't any clear communication around the judiciary process for fans. The individual competitions are slightly better (but still miles behind other sports), but for test matches it's ridiculous. There should be very clear comms...

Super W draw is out: https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2025-super-rugby-womens-draw-trans-tasman-20241119 Big step forward for the comp this year with a crossover game to be played against the Super Aupiki champions. Penina Pasifika also coming in to play development games against each team during...

I'm guessing their ideal would be selling them to someone like Amazon across all territories in a monster deal, but more realistically it'd have to be piecemeal to networks and streamers territory to territory. Not sure how reliably they'd be able to generate interest without being able to...

I dunno, I think there'd be a bit of support out there for the Hitachi Magic Wands, their run for the title is just the feel good story rugby needs

we barely need this chat in the threads that are supposed to be about it, we definitely don't need it in the QPR thread

The best way to do this is probably Skelton coming off the bench relatively early, maybe at 50 minutes, so that if it's not working he can pull the ripcord and bring someone else on in the backrow. That might mean having Uru/Williams/Salakaia-Loto/Hooper as the back up backrow over Gleeson...

Yeah, between two posts episodes all go out as podcasts as well: https://open.spotify.com/show/5mrnDlCavGaaMqwID9hUA3?si=66bc2b978c984526 Maybe not ideal given they're originally put together visually, but definitely not bad when you know you won't be able to watch them otherwise.

Read that sentence a little differently the first time around...

Stowers is a good player and good on him for picking up a contract in the US. It will likely be better for his development then cooling his heels as a fringe player in a super squad, which is probably all he could've hoped for here right now, particularly with the end of the Rebels. His best...

I was a bit surprised to see his name included.

The article lists currently contracted players with indigenous heritage, and also suggests bringing in Longbottom from the sevens program: There are also some top level club players like the Oates brothers who could come into contention here to round out a squad. Capping league players for...