Look, we hold no enmity to the Rebels. At the end of the day, if the ARU fucks the Force out of the competition, I'd far rather our players (and coaches) went to the Rebels than any other franchise. The Rebels deserve the chance of making a good fist of the competition and if Adam Coleman, Jono Lance and DHP (among possibly others) joined you then all the better chances of that happening. Coleman has previously said that his preference was to stay in WA and, taken at his word, that either means he knows the Force are boned or the ARU is undermining us. Neither would surprise me. Neither are the Rebels fault. You'd like to think, out of compassion, teams wouldn't talk to Force players until a resolution is made, but that isn't a reality from any side of the fence. To me it has got to the point that Australian rugby is entering into a a terminal decline which can only be arrested by some pretty major changes that just don't look like happening. When the Force eventually are removed, don't ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
twenty plyers at least are off contract!
