Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
stoff - And assets are not just cash - though every CEO would like to have it that way.
I haven't had a lot to say in this thread as I have said so much in the past deploring the lack of an ARC.
There is some good stuff in the thread but I think we should read carefully what Brucie is saying.
I, for one, would not be averse to seeing Sydney Uni put forward a team in a new ARC, nor any other Oz club that has the resources, including organisational resources, that they have - though there probably isn't another one.
This is not the opinion I would have had a few years ago, but that is not here nor there; we are allowed to change our opinions.
As for synthetics not being a good thing. I have to disagree on that matter. I went to every Rays game in Gosford and Sydney. Manly players and Rats players couldn't play in the same team with North Sydney guys? - poppycock, and they won the comp.
I also watched every ARC game that could be downloaded and all they had as commentary was the officials chat you get on Sports Ears. I doubt if anybody watched more ARC games than I did in one way or another. I loved the ARC comp, just loved it, but nevertheless I would like Sydney Uni to be a team in any new comp.
People may think it is not egalitarian enough to have an elite club stand alone in a national comp but I look at it a different way (now). If it is feasible for Oz rugby to reprise the ARC in some form and it did not include Sydney Uni, then it would forgo the benefits that would accrue to the competition from a team that has the natural resources it has, and has had for a long time.
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I haven't had a lot to say in this thread as I have said so much in the past deploring the lack of an ARC.
There is some good stuff in the thread but I think we should read carefully what Brucie is saying.
I, for one, would not be averse to seeing Sydney Uni put forward a team in a new ARC, nor any other Oz club that has the resources, including organisational resources, that they have - though there probably isn't another one.
This is not the opinion I would have had a few years ago, but that is not here nor there; we are allowed to change our opinions.
As for synthetics not being a good thing. I have to disagree on that matter. I went to every Rays game in Gosford and Sydney. Manly players and Rats players couldn't play in the same team with North Sydney guys? - poppycock, and they won the comp.
I also watched every ARC game that could be downloaded and all they had as commentary was the officials chat you get on Sports Ears. I doubt if anybody watched more ARC games than I did in one way or another. I loved the ARC comp, just loved it, but nevertheless I would like Sydney Uni to be a team in any new comp.
People may think it is not egalitarian enough to have an elite club stand alone in a national comp but I look at it a different way (now). If it is feasible for Oz rugby to reprise the ARC in some form and it did not include Sydney Uni, then it would forgo the benefits that would accrue to the competition from a team that has the natural resources it has, and has had for a long time.
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