How long can you cover your arse before the truth comes out?
Answer the bloody questions!
Putting things off only makes the final outcome worse.
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How long can you cover your arse before the truth comes out?
Answer the bloody questions!
Putting things off only makes the final outcome worse.
One of the problems in putting a group of people on a Roller Coaster without safety belts is that on each descent, more people get thrown out of the cars.
IMHO this shows just how financially flat broke the RU actually are. Seems to me they’re not far off insolvency themselves -the money they ‘saved’ culling the Force has disappeared in a nanosecond, so their prospects for the next year don’t look very promising! What I’d like to know is who is making these decisions, is Clyne the gang leader again? Get rid of Clyne & the Board, Pulver is out the door so surely a new Chairperson would bring sanity to their train wreck of an administration & the greedy legal team they’re using for advice. RU want to play hardball? Let ‘em, they’re disappearing up their own backsides. And getting ASIC in the door will blow the place up, we really need to pressure ASIC to act.
The more the RA spend on lawyers, junkets, consultants, fighting Twiggy rather than working with him and propping up basket cases like the Rebels and the Reds they are sending themselves further in to the abyss. Given that tin pot venues like AAMI Park and whatever super fund is sponsoring the stadium on the Gold Coast have been chosen as test venues next year to go with one less home match against the ABs (NZ's turn to host two tests) they are heading in to 2019 where there is a guaranteed loss coming up due to the reduced 4 Nations.
The Sanzaar deal is due to be negotiated next year and there is no guarantee that Super Rugby will continue, if it does with the reduced number of teams (and SA looking to send more to Europe), NZ looking at alternate broadcast partners, the Sydney venue refurbishment (they have already pissed off an alternative in WA), there is a massive possibility of receiving a brutal tv deal that will hammer the bottom line.
They are farked and they know the NZRU can't trust them financially and relationship wise to go in to partnership to start a trans tasman comp they have been crying out for.
Agreed. With all due respect Hansie, most of us are in an information vacuum here and your lack of rebuttal to any of Fulvio's points does not raise any confidence about where the game ACTUALLY stands right now. Some actual counter arguments rather than outright dismissal would be appreciated.
Depends on what he is allowed to say due to deals and possible legal involvement.
A quote from Twiggy
"The hottest fires forge the strongest metals"
The more that the EARU continue to try and destroy us the more we will come together and the more we will try and fight back. An ocean is too large and powerful to destroy just like the sea of blue, the more you try and fight us the stronger and more united we will become, we will never surrender!
Base the iprc in singapore. Have no links to aru. WA team would be linked to singapore rugby union in every way inc insurances etc. Might even be tax advantages.
Do the same for the wa club comp. WA rugby can be a branch of singapore rugby. Singapores chances of winning rugby games would soar.
Just a thought.
Darkness back down with the logical thoughts it doesn’t suit you!
Send that on to Twiggy's team.
Even our eminent Fulvio would respect that confidentiality ( as much as I hate it) binds us to keep things to ourselves. Suffice to say, we are paddling like a duck heading upstream and very near to reaching our goal.
My dismissal to Fulvio's comments are that he paints only one possible outcome which is all about doom and gloom. There are other outcomes possible. I have no doubt Fulvio would also respect the rights of the majority and he would spurn minorities who may not get their way, yet keep nipping away. Our new Community Competition was voted on by all Stakeholders and only 2 clubs out of our total rejected the new format. So, Stop your whingeing, accept that the majority have decided, you may not like it, but get on with it.
By all means keep things to yourselves.
Just don't complain when those from whom things are kept come to their own conclusions, and react accordingly.
What's so secret about revealing to the (former) members of RugbyWA what Union (if any) they will be playing for, or members of. next year, anyway?
Our Community Comp will go ahead in the structure we have outlined, got voted on and agreed to. Pally will still get to play Cottesloe. To be Frank, not sure we'll have 16 clubs able to field 3 teams just yet, we need to keep working on that to check the numbers, we don't want forfeits, we suspect there will be a few cricket scores, but we need to make sure those potentially on the receiving end have the support to keep their members supportive.
West Aussies playing rugby officiated by West Aussies with the competition's administered by West Aussies and being insured by a West Aussie insurance firm, what's the problem and what the fuck could the dysfunctional AU muppets who call themselves the guardians of our game do about it.
It's time to seriously consider this as an option because after the way we have been treated there isn't much more they could they do to us.
Viva La Revolution comrades
We'd be free to update the laws of the game then. I call it rugblea uniron.
As much as I prefer 15 a side, I actually think the future of rugby in the Asia Pacific is likely to be 7's, but the games are too short. Maybe there could be an opportunity to bring out a "Super Sevens", with teams of 15 players but only 7 on the field at any time, double the length of the game, have rolling substitutions American basketball style, commercialised, new rules, then it's a totally new game, and not accountable to anyone else. Just a thought???
Rugby 10s with old-fashioned mauling! :D