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Open letter to ARU CEO Bill Pulver (pt two): nationalise Super Rugby
4 days agoThe second chapter of this somewhat slow-burning series has arrived, and with an apparently meagre theme, hardly justifying large-scale treatment. But while the subject might seem a triviality, it is a dainty alteration to the body of Super rugby that nonetheless aims to effect a strikingly transformative impression. A leitmotif of this series has been [...]
An open letter to ARU CEO Bill Pulver part one: a lesson from Scotland
4 Feb 2013This is the first in a series of articles addressing the fundamental issues the new head of the ARU, Bill Pulver, must face with ideas on how to tackle them successfully. The opening subject for treatment is how to expand the game internally on a limited, or rather minimal, budget. Mr Pulver declared in his [...]
Why are so many Wallabies injured?
1 Oct 2012The starting Wallabies XV for the most recent South African Test match was the following: Robinson, Polota-Nau, Alexander, Sharpe, Douglas, Dennis, Hooper, Samo, Phipps, Beale, Ioane, Mccabe, Ashley-Cooper, Shipperley, Barnes The first proposition of this article is that the team named would be beaten by the following: Kepu, Moore, Palmer, Horwill, Timani, Higginbotham, Pocock, Palu, [...]
A Gold Coast Super Rugby team?
5 Jul 2012Since the impressive appearance of Ewen McKenzie in Queensland, the Reds have emerged as the most successful sporting team in the state by playing highly entertaining rugby, winning a Super title and luring in record crowds and income. Less noticed perhaps, though no less significant, is the work McKenzie has done in locating and developing [...]
Time's up for Elsom and Mumm in Australian rugby
12 Apr 2012The Wallabies’ recent woes have been the result of a lack of power in the forwards and to a lesser degree in the backs, as well as the broader issue of a drastic shortfall in quality. Last year dazzling players such as Quade Cooper and Digby Ioane were left with opportunity to work their magic, [...]
Super Rugby's final frontiers: Kings, Adelaide, Auckland
29 Feb 2012The purpose of this article is to suggest a way to resolve the current impasse within SANZAR over the South African desire to field a sixth Super Rugby team, while keeping the five they currently possess. We recently learned that South Africa refuses to contemplate removing one of their existing teams in order to clear [...]
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