Australian Rugby / RA
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Strewthcobber
Simon Poidevin (60)
McKellar gone at Leicester
www.leicestertigers.com
Could you imagine a worse career for your family?
Club statement: Dan McKellar
Leicester Tigers can confirm the departure of Dan McKellar from his role as Head Coach with immediate effect.
www.leicestertigers.com
Could you imagine a worse career for your family?
The_Brown_Hornet
John Eales (66)
Wonder if he'll be in the frame for the Tahs job?
whitefalcon
Ron Walden (29)
can we please get Dan Palmer back too
half
Dick Tooth (41)
Those percentages add up to over 170I prefer this graphic:
It's more eloquent
US 87%
AU 6.9%
NZ 2.1%
Adam84
Rod McCall (65)
lol, because it’s traded currency
The graph represents what percent of total currency transaction featured that currency, in every transaction there’s more then one currency…
Tomthumb
Peter Fenwicke (45)
I'd hope so. He's a good young coach and I think his no nonsense approach could be good for the young Tahs players and for getting more ex Rebels interested in going to NSW
Dctarget
Tim Horan (67)
This is farcical. If you're going to cut my team at least manage the dissolution properly.
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
My understanding from reading the article on roar - those players have no obligation to play at Waratahs and they’ll still get their salary next year but be forced to play club rugby wherever they choose
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
Yeah, that's absolutely the case (assuming those players don't take an overseas contract) though I don't believe it'll come to that. With RA having to pay their salaries they'll end exploring salary cap exemptions to get the players where they're happy going and other opportunities like 7s to make it work. Based on the number of injury cover contracts we saw this season we may see a few them end up where they want, but not until mid season.
tahs should also have a second chance at a few more of them once they sort out their coaching/admin, though I'm not sure it'll move the needle as much as they'd hope, regardless of who the team ends up being.
Highlander35
Steve Williams (59)
That lines up with comments from a couple of individuals I'd heard.
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
the current salary cap is 5.5 million.
I think the fairest options is taking the rebels out of equation and being left with 4 teams is to increase the salary cap to 6.875 million (5.5 + 1.375) that allows the 4 Aus RA franchises to spread the salary cap hit from removing rebels fairly across the comp.
Dctarget
Tim Horan (67)
Didn't we cut the Rebels because we couldn't afford them? I think RA need to bank those 5.5 million.
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
Squad sizes are also restricted under the cap and will need to shift as well. The broader problem with all that is what happens in a year or two - does it all contract back down forcing players out or can it be maintained?
swingpass
Peter Sullivan (51)
Well that’s one of the “official” reasons
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
I think the argument would be that the cap increases but the grant doesn't (or at least not to meet it, given it's already below the cap amount). It would then be on those teams to work out how much they can afford to pay as overs, which probably only means the Reds and maybe the Force to a degree.
John S
Peter Fenwicke (45)
Are you suggesting there's an "unofficial reason" or a conspiracy going on?
(However this is probably the wrong thread - feel free to message directly)