Aussie Player Exodus

[RugbyReg]

Maybe Fergus Lee-Warner won't be gone for too long...

Worcester’s Premiership future under threat after winding-up petition

The Gallagher Premiership has been thrown into turmoil after Worcester Warriors were issued with a winding-up petition over an unpaid tax bill

www.theguardian.com

gee that's the 2nd club under pressure in a week after Wasps doing the same.

 

[Braveheart81]

Nick Phipps and Taqele Naiyaravoro have signed with NEC Green Rockets in Japan.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1560517336141926405

 

[Tazzmania]

..... They must of heard that if you play in Japan and have not played for the wallabies for at least three years you have a good chance of getting picked for the Wallabies again!!!

 

[Members Section]

Steve Hoiles on between 2 posts said a couple of interesting things, said he was going back to LA to hopefully coach a team that he doesnt know who the owner is or what they will be called. Looks like Gilchrist is out of ownership of rugby teams. Hopefully he is not lost to the game.

 

[Wilson]

Steve Hoiles on between 2 posts said a couple of interesting things, said he was going back to LA to hopefully coach a team that he doesnt know who the owner is or what they will be called. Looks like Gilchrist is out of ownership of rugby teams. Hopefully he is not lost to the game.

Hoiles or Gilchrist?

 

[Members Section]

Hoiles or Gilchrist?

Well both! I ment Gilchrist he did give about 20+ aussies the oppotunity to play professional rugby for 2 years including during covid

 

[Wilson]

Well both! I ment Gilchrist he did give about 20+ aussies the oppotunity to play professional rugby for 2 years including during covid

I'm not sure that Gilchrist is the sort of private ownership we're desperate for in the game

 

[Members Section]

I'm not sure that Gilchrist is the sort of private ownership we're desperate for in the game

Why not? it was almost out of season for club rugby players & he wasn't taking players from Super Rugby squad sides.

 

[RugbyReg]

Well both! I ment Gilchrist he did give about 20+ aussies the oppotunity to play professional rugby for 2 years including during covid

Weren’t most of them professional anyway? Maybe not Poidevin

 

[qwerty51]

Weren’t most of them professional anyway? Maybe not Poidevin

About half were Shute Shield toilers who hadn’t had a pro contract yet. Including the other MLR clubs

 

[PhilClinton]

The MLR is definitely the most unknown factor in terms of rugby comps for Aussies.

I spoke to a number of SS coaches before season 2022 started and many were quite distressed at the number of players in key positions they lost to MLR, specifically front rowers.

It’s great that young Aussie club players get the opportunity to play footy and be paid. But from a development perspective I think the comp is still a bit of a black hole. The standard isn’t good enough yet to look at blokes killing it there and drag them back.

 

[Wilson]

Why not? it was almost out of season for club rugby players & he wasn't taking players from Super Rugby squad sides.

We don't need owners going broke a couple of years in, being investigated for dodgy corporate dealings and and attempting to weaponize the ownership of one team when the other cops a ruling that their unhappy with. It'll be interesting to see how this effects MLR, but the collapse of f45 and the sides they were baking is reminiscent of the firepower saga. I also hate the whole naming a couple of teams after yourself and a classic cocktail, but that's neither here nor there.

As far as the specific recruitment of Australians goes, I don't think they were pulling too many guys away from super squads, but I'm not sure the impacts would've been too positive long term either. Either way the focus on Australian players in those teams was probably more down to the coaches - Coleman/Hoiles at the Giltinis (with Adam Freier as GM) and Sam Harris at the Gilgronis.

 

[WorkingClassRugger]

Gilc

Well both! I ment Gilchrist he did give about 20+ aussies the oppotunity to play professional rugby for 2 years including during covid

Gilchrist has bigger issues than Rugby to worry about at present.

 

[RugbyReg]

About half were Shute Shield toilers who hadn’t had a pro contract yet. Including the other MLR clubs

such as who? I didn't realise. Thought it was just the likes of Meakes, Goddard, Dennis etc

 

[qwerty51]

At just the Giltinis:

Nathan den Hoedt (Randwick)
Lindsey Stevens (Easts)
Charlie Abel (Gordon)
Brooklyn Hardaker (Randwick)

 

[Members Section]

Joe Brial son of wallaby Michael Brial made his debut for Canterbury in the NPC off the bench tonight.

 

[Sideline Hack]

I see Byron Smith (finished Nudgee College in 2021) just got named in the NZ u19 team

https://www.allblacks.com/news/new-zealand-under-19-squad-named-to-tour-south-africa/

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

These ones hurt

 

[Rugby Head]

I see Byron Smith (finished Nudgee College in 2021) just got named in the NZ u19 team

https://www.allblacks.com/news/new-zealand-under-19-squad-named-to-tour-south-africa/

Probably unlikely he becomes an All Black. So not a bad thing he goes and gets some solid development then comes back across the ditch a better player.

 

[Tazzmania]

Tom Banks confirmed at Honda Heat (Japan) together with Pablo Matera today