White establishes talent squad for generation next

[beige]

First the Reds and now the Brumbies...

The ACT Brumbies will establish a talented-player squad to boost depth and give players a pathway to Super Rugby less than a year after the ARU abolished the province academies.

The Canberra Times can reveal Jake White is moving to bridge the gap between amateur and professional rugby with the top 20 players from the capital's premier division to be added to a Brumbies talent squad.

It comes just a year after the ARU decided to restrict Super Rugby clubs to 35-man rosters and replaced individual academies with a centralised ARU program for all Australian teams to utilise in times of trouble.


Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/rugb...#ixzz2EH6NoToy

[sandgroperrugby]

This is great and only a matter of time before all of the clubs tell the ARU where to go. Doesn't something similar happen here as well.

[AndyS]

...which will have the ARU gnash their teeth in public and piss themselves laughing in private, congratulating themselves on getting the provinces to fund their own academies while they cancel the national one and pocket the million or so saving.

[sandgroperrugby]

...which will have the ARU gnash their teeth in public and piss themselves laughing in private, congratulating themselves on getting the provinces to fund their own academies while they cancel the national one and pocket the million or so saving.

You mean QC pocketing the savings.

[mudskipper]

...which will have the ARU gnash their teeth in public and piss themselves laughing in private, congratulating themselves on getting the provinces to fund their own academies while they cancel the national one and pocket the million or so saving.

doesn't matter times they are a changin in AUS rugby... and many of those jokers will be following JON elsewhere... So all along the watchtower...