Onward Christian Soldiers

[fulvio sammut]

What is happening in Metro Rugby Land now that the dust is settling on the season that never really was?

Are the supporters ecstatic over the challenges of an eight team competition with a training run on the ninth week and a rest on the tenth?

Have the Clubs saved enough money from the bar trade generated by the split rounds and the curtailed season to be able to afford a new selection of mercenaries to replace the old?

Have the sponsors been so bedazzled by the vibrancy of the Competition as to loosen their purse strings and flood the clubs with rivers of gold?

Have the club stalwarts and volunteers been inspired to once again gird their loins in anticipation of another exuberant and enthusiastic season of self flagellation?

Have the Club secretaries written their annual impassioned pleas to RugbyWA administration for the allocation of more Force players to sit on the sidelines, cost them money, demoralise their existing players and skew the outcomes?

Have the Presidents held their annual bitchfest gathering to rage against the dying of the light at Head Quarters, only to once again stab each other in the back at the next Council Meeting?

Does anyone still give a tinker's curse for the hollow imploded shell of Club Rugby in WA?

[palitu]

I really don't know who has strings on their purses anymore. Maybe that part of the problem local rugby has in getting money from sponsers?!

[Ralto]

Have the club stalwarts and volunteers been inspired to once again gird their loins in anticipation of another exuberant and enthusiastic season of self flagellation?

At this stage my souffle is on the flop. At the mention of "pre-season", if there's a noticeable twitch I may go round again.

[westies man]

Have the club stalwarts and volunteers been inspired to once again gird their loins in anticipation of another exuberant and enthusiastic season of self flagellation?

Ahhhh No

[Kev]

But wait ... don't we have a new Under 23 championship being played out alongside the sideshow of the NRC as well.
So now we have a pathway to Force academy as well also a pathway to Force contention ... ?

Thankfully there should be some normal club colours on show on Friday, as opposed to everyone wearing Yellow.

[Political BS]

If you want to have a look at the positive things in WA Rugby....
Have a look here....

https://www.facebook.com/RugbyWACommunity

Some great photos from the Junior Grand Finals and the Wallabies training session the Under 23s Comp and plenty of other good stuff.

[Insider]

Fulvio - Are all these people wandering around with blinkers on? Or are they just not "in the know "?
The Premier Club Presidents all met last week without Rugby WA in relation to the state of community rugby in Perth.
The consensus was unanimous - that this season had been a complete failure - had driven revenue down, players and volunteers away from the game - the consensus was to return to the old format - this was to be presented to Rugby Wa on Monday night.
A meeting full of statistics and graphs and rhetoric full of smoke and mirrors - fudging statistics to suit their own beliefs - once again these Presidents failed to deliver the message and are waiting for different scenario's to come from Rugby WA again . Rugby Wa do not understand community rugby , they fail to see the damage they have done to clubs this season and continue their bullshit spiel .

Community Rugby needs to show some balls - tell these paid personnel what is best for their clubs and the future of their clubs and therefore rugby in WA. If rugby wa wasn't a boys club with jobs for your mates they would be out amongst the community eating humble pie instead of stroking each other's egos.

[Ralto]

Community Rugby needs to show some balls - tell these paid personnel what is best.

Not knowing the politics etc, is it that the Presidents don't put up a decent alternative, or is it that they don't really have any power to push it through?".

[fulvio sammut]

"Trust me, I'm from the Marketing Agency. I can turn things around. I can make you fabulously rich.

What was your product again?".

Villains the lot of them.

[Hansie]

Insider don't know who you are or what your agenda is. BUT you are factually incorrect. Happy for you to visit with me to view the method and results from the surveys compiled and to subject these findings to your scrutiny, I would then expect that you would make a full and open apology for spreading malicious and incorrect rumours.

You clearly have no clue whatsoever on how and why the season of 2014 was a disaster - Since you lay all of the blame for the start of the NRC, the directive to end community rugby before the NRC, SANZAR's scheduling of early start to force games on RugbyWA, I look forward to your constructive and alternative outcome.

Now you have thrown the grenade and seem to indicate you care and have the answers, I will be more than happy to listen to your solutions.

The meeting of club presidents was a sensational outcome, something that many have tried to do for years, long may the presidents continue to meet on their own and long may we continue to have open dialogue, acknowledge the failings made in season 2014 and together make 2015 and beyond a whole lot better.

Vicious, unsubstantiated slander, innuendo, false assertions and attempting to show strength behind a façade is damaging to the community. have the guts and visit me and come up with a plan that grows rugby for all participants in WA.

I look forward to your call - PM me for my personal details.

[Insider]

Not knowing the politics etc, is it that the Presidents don't put up a decent alternative, or is it that they don't really have any power to push it through?".

The alternative was to return to the previous format - 1st - 4th grade . At this stage Perth rugby is a unique setup being a 3rd/4th tier sport - that has been proven by the changes in the 18s and 20s comp that never worked - the game in Perth is full of transients linked with the economy - boom/bust cycle - Premier grade clubs should be planning for the following season at the end of round 1 but Rugby Wa are into September and are still leaving clubs up in the air for next season. As clubs lose sponsors,volunteers and their strongest revenue path being their bar takings - they sit up there in their Castle patting themselves on the back - they keep up their revenue stream with their fees and ridiculous fines from community rugby and waste it on substandard development of our game and bottom of the barrel management.
Take your pie graph and eat it.
Wake up Presidents - Do something before you lose even more and rugby becomes a comical sport in WA

[sevenmile]

Insider don't know who you are or what your agenda is. BUT you are factually incorrect. Happy for you to visit with me to view the method and results from the surveys compiled and to subject these findings to your scrutiny, I would then expect that you would make a full and open apology for spreading malicious and incorrect rumours.

You clearly have no clue whatsoever on how and why the season of 2014 was a disaster - Since you lay all of the blame for the start of the NRC, the directive to end community rugby before the NRC, SANZAR's scheduling of early start to force games on RugbyWA, I look forward to your constructive and alternative outcome.

Now you have thrown the grenade and seem to indicate you care and have the answers, I will be more than happy to listen to your solutions.

The meeting of club presidents was a sensational outcome, something that many have tried to do for years, long may the presidents continue to meet on their own and long may we continue to have open dialogue, acknowledge the failings made in season 2014 and together make 2015 and beyond a whole lot better.

Vicious, unsubstantiated slander, innuendo, false assertions and attempting to show strength behind a façade is damaging to the community. have the guts and visit me and come up with a plan that grows rugby for all participants in WA.

I look forward to your call - PM me for my personal details.

Did someone say call me

[sevenmile]

Hansie my friend don't forget what happened to the your name same , who colluded all should I say collided with A HILL ?

Did someone say call me

[MI5_Dog]

Hansie my friend don't forget what happened to the your name same , who colluded all should I say collided with A HILL ?

Are you drunk? Before 7am?
I've looked at that sentence 17 times and it still doesn't make sense.
I even ran it through google translate to translate it from gibberish to English and still no luck.
I mean, normally I'd give you shit about what you're saying but I have to be able to make sense of it first and there is no sense in that, and I use this word lightly, 'sentence'.

[Hohepa]

Are you drunk? Before 7am?
I've looked at that sentence 17 times and it still doesn't make sense.
I even ran it through google translate to translate it from gibberish to English and still no luck.
I mean, normally I'd give you shit about what you're saying but I have to be able to make sense of it first and there is no sense in that, and I use this word lightly, 'sentence'.

Took me a minute - I think ( seven mile you are sick) SA cricketer's demise and A Hill Rugby WA Community manager