FRESH men complete cleansweep of RugbyWA offseason

[beige]

Congrats to FRESH for sweeping the men’s titles at the Beach 5s, Margaret River 7s and Cockburn 7s tournaments during the offseason. Their women and U18 boys also had a tournament win each.

Beach 5s
Men: FRESH Nation
Women: Cott Girls
U18 boys: FRESH
U18 girls: Teddy Bears

Margaret River 7s
Men’s A: FRESH
Men’s B: Mandurah
Women: Hong Kong

Cockburn 7s
Men: FRESH Nation
Women: FRESH
U19s: Southern Lions Pride

[westies man]

Okay credit due to Fresh but does anyone know how next season will pan out for those that have not registered and paid their levy for an ARU ID Number.
It's my understanding that the insurance levy paid by each rugby player entitles them to insurance coverage for a 12 month period beginning and ending 1st April each year.
Will this team of league players be allowed to enter Rugby WA sanctioned 7 A-side comps without paying the insurance levy direct to the ARU that every single union player has to pay.
Fresh has taken approx 8000 dollars in prize money out of local 7's comps this season.
Personally I don't think that teams that are loaded up and don't play or contribute to rugby union in any other shape or form should be eligible to take that sort of money out of grassroots rugby.
If one of them got seriously injured who would be liable.

[brokendown gunfighter]

so hong kong are out of the equation also?

[westies man]

They would pay a insurance levy to their governing body for the privilege of playing. It's called user pays Gunny, like everything else.

[brokendown gunfighter]

ok--good question--who has put up the prize money for these comps?

[jargan83]

Surely RugbyWA would have advised Fresh or Hong Kong of the insurance requirements in order to compete in a RugbyWA competition?

[westies man]

ok--good question--who has put up the prize money for these comps?

Alcohol Think Again sponsor Beach 5's and Margaret River 7's. City of Cockburn sponsor Cockburn 7's.Entry fee would also cover a fair bit of prize money

[westies man]

Surely RugbyWA would have advised Fresh or Hong Kong of the insurance requirements in order to compete in a RugbyWA competition?

You used to sign a rego form and be covered automatically but the new online ARU rego now requires 115 dollars to accompany a player rego number in order to be covered in all ARU sanctioned comps.

[westies man]

Just to allay any fears that I'm slipping back into my old negative Rugby WA bashing ways all the off season comps were very professionally run and were a lot of fun.
Wests are also actually allowed back to their Margaret River accommodation for the first time in 4 years. Pity the comp is in Busselton next year.

[westies man]

Okay credit due to Fresh but does anyone know how next season will pan out for those that have not registered and paid their levy for an ARU ID Number.
It's my understanding that the insurance levy paid by each rugby player entitles them to insurance coverage for a 12 month period beginning and ending 1st April each year.
Will this team of league players be allowed to enter Rugby WA sanctioned 7 A-side comps without paying the insurance levy direct to the ARU that every single union player has to pay.
Fresh has taken approx 8000 dollars in prize money out of local 7's comps this season.
Personally I don't think that teams that are loaded up and don't play or contribute to rugby union in any other shape or form should be eligible to take that sort of money out of grassroots rugby.
If one of them got seriously injured who would be liable.

12 months later

[Ecky]

If one of them got seriously injured who would be liable.

Following yesterday's comp this very question will be addressed.

[jargan83]

Doesn't the rego fee cover insurance as well? I believe that was confirmed at some stage last year after the 7's comp.

But whether that insurance will cover an under age player is a different question.

[antiussentiment]

good grief. I'm hating the red tape in sport.

I sail and we are beset with the stuff. Earlier this year we discovered that Yachting WA has been sharing all our personal data with News Corporation without "really" telling us. All because everyone "needed" to be registered. Needless to say a bunch of us are very pissed off about this now we understand what that email back in 2013 actually ment..

I wonder if ARU are doing this sort of thing with personal data too?