Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
One in particular …
They're all drowning in red ink.
One in particular …
It doesn’t work, does it?Maybe the real questions should be.
How have we created a competition thats needs 15 million per team????? With the 15 million needed to be recovered in a handful of local matches and in a relatively short season?????????????????????????
It doesn’t work, does it?
As someone said elsewhere it’s as if the Tahs have had a mid season break in terms of casual engagement with the community over the last little while, wherever they are.
It feels like there has been no Friday 7.30pm game for 4 weeks while the NRL ang AFL have been supplying multiple options in real time.
The Pocock sabbatical was a luxury they could not afford.
Now we’ll see how they handle Folau’s simplistic after world view - sacking him will not only straighten the attack but free up some $$, which will no doubt be wasted on a rebranding or some similarly superficial black hole.
Great test for Castle.
Which players are bigger than the game?
Phil Waugh went to Shore, all you need to know.
The Phil Waugh appointment is pretty staggering. What experience does he bring to the table that others on the board don't already have? There are two past Wallabies (Robinson and McClean) so that's hardly a needed skill.
That board is crying out for someone from either a non-Anglo background or a non-Sydney/Brisbane background. But no, let's get Phil Waugh on there. God they are bad at managing optics.
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absolutely no doubt post 2020 = 3 teamsThe board don't want anyone that will challenge their thinking. I've seen Phil Waugh on Fox a few times in the last year or so and he seems very much a business as usual kind of guy. Was very supportive of getting rid of the Force and was very unsupportive of any kind of fundamental reform of super rugby (I specifically remember Mark Bosnich asking why don't they play a domestic season first and then have the international component be more like a champions league or knockout between the top teams at the end, and Waugh was very dismissive of the idea).
I really get the impression that these guys think all we have to do is go back to the structures and formats in place when the Wallabies were in their golden era in the late 90's, early 00's and all will be well. I think we'll be back to 3 teams soon.
absolutely no doubt post 2020 = 3 teams
The answer is simple. Triple the ARU levy, quadruple the NSWRU levy on every player at grassroots level in the country and lets just wrap the game up forever in Australia. How Cameron Clyne and Bill Pulver can sleep at night is beyond me. They should be marched in chains down George street and face the rugby public for crimes against the game.
Suggestion - take the $1m or so being paid to IF and re invest in 20-25 up and coming players. Gives them a base income any 18-20 yr old would be happy with. Build a structure around their development (catch & pass would be a good place to start), from this we will start to build some depth in our player stock - sadly missing hear in OZ compared to neighbours across the ditch. I know this sounds too simplistic for some but I can't help but feel we have lost what the true strength of the great game is all about.
Super rugby is like the giant whirlpool Charybdis in the Odyssey, sucking rugby into oblivion.
The Phil Waugh appointment is pretty staggering. What experience does he bring to the table that others on the board don't already have? There are two past Wallabies (Robinson and McClean) so that's hardly a needed skill.
That board is crying out for someone from either a non-Anglo background or a non-Sydney/Brisbane background. But no, let's get Phil Waugh on there. God they are bad at managing optics.
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never saw him play but I've heard good things - let's sign him and cut another team
it would be nice to see someone on the board who is not from a privileged background
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