Samu Kerevi confirms he's on his way out of Australian rugby

It’s NBA and then the rest. Exactly correct. To play against the players from the best international team in the world - you have to be playing Super Rugby in fact. It’s fair to say the level is basically as good as anywhere else. A-League and NBA are a huge drop. How many non-Australian top tier international reps are playing A-League and NBL?

The A-League is an average league in global soccer, but your way of about the NBL. The NBL is basically the 2nd best basketball league in the world. You have the NBA at the top then 10-leagues who are more or less the same and that includes the NBL. It's NBA and the rest..

I'll address some points TWAS, as you raised some good points and I'll counter.. 1) So only care about the world cup(every 4 years) lions(every 12 years) Bledisloe(two games a yr)? Well yes as as a matter of "FACT YES", correct.. The casual fan only tunes in for these games, and the marquee players only care about these games to(eg maybe a fancy spring tour at Twickenham or Paris might sell to for there interest levels).. The casual wallaby fan only basically cares about these wallaby tests(world cup/lions/bledisloes), i don't see pubs packed for tests vs the Boks or Argentina unlike those three other wallaby events, eg Argentina, italy, Boks, scotland, one of fiji tests etc, fail the pub test with the casual fan(no interest).. 2)You bang on about training camps, oh big deal if players miss the January camp.. The january camp has been roundly criticized this year as a waste of time, and injuries were sustained eg Dave Pocock our best player.. It was a major disruption on super rugby pre-season camps.. No certainty it will return in a world cup year.. And anyway as I said, the genuinely important camp is the one in July-2019, and all wallabies will be available eg european giteau law wallabies like TPN. Just like in 2015, Gits/Drew Mitchell were realized by Toulon as it was the off-season in Europe, and they attended the whole world cup pre-camp and played in the warm matches, so no nitty gritty stuff did they miss, there was no unnecessary january camp.. 3) You bang on about wallabies being a team in there own right, well argentina/boks, now are picking overseas players again for world cup, and they won't be attending any January camps, so what.. But there best overseas players will all be available for the July world cup camp which is the serious camp anyway and the one that counts, and there best possible side will be sent to the world cup eg overseas players like Figallo/Isa who don't play super rugby .. And Argentina and the Boks will cope fine, with B teams over the next four years often anyway.. Our locals are good enough to be competitive vs Italy, and fiji. Honestly the casual fan couldn't care less if we lose to the Boks and argentina more outside of world cups.. Fiji, cope fine without there best side unless it's at a world cup etc.. And maybe RA should change the business model anyway, to making a full time NRC being the major profit machine not the Wallabies... The aussie boomers basketball team play B and C teams for it's games unless it's at the olympics/basketball world cup etc, and they cope fine and the players attend the pre-tournament camp, and YES it's the only two times basketball fans in mass numbers every four years care about the Boomers correct who cares.. As said, spring tour games and tests vs argentina fail the pub test and are nothing more than soccer style friendlies that most don't care about no wonder world rugby is trying to create a league of nations tournament as no one cares about the spring tour or july three test series(outside lions)...

No offense meant Bobby, but that doesn't seem to make a ton o sense.

I personally think that we should be using these big overseas league's to our advantage. Let them shell out the wages that RA clearly cant afford, so long as they turn out for the Wallabies. Sure super rugby may suffer. But our teams aren't up to much as it is, and its debatable whether its true purpose is in trying to be the best comp in the world, or is it a developmental league. Either way, we should let Europe and Japan pick up the tab and divert some of that money back to promising juniors looking to sign with an NRL club. Looking at other sports, it hasn't hurt Brazil or Argentina having all their top soccer players in Europe.

So he signs a 3 year deal at the end of a RWC cycle. Pretty smart it seems. Great money in a competition that will keep him fit enough and maybe not damage his body so it is still good to go next RWC.

at the end of the day his $$$ are nothing compared to this :D TOP 30 MOST EXPENSIVE FOOTBALL PLAYERS 1 - Kylian Mbappe (PSG) £223.8m 2 - Mohamed Salah (LIV) £195m 3 - Raheem Sterling (MCI) £184.6m 4 - Lionel Messi (BCN) £148.7m 5 - Jadon Sancho (BOR) £141.6m 6 - Sadio Mane (LIV) £140.2m 7 - Harry Kane (TOT) £137.9m 8 - Roberto Firmino (LIV) £128.13m 9 - Antoine Griezmann (ATL) £127.7m 10 - Leroy Sane (MCI) £121.8m 11 - Bernardo Silva (MCI) £121.6m 12 - Gabriel Jesus (MCI) £116m 13 - Trent Alexander-Arnold (LIV) £115.6m 14 - Philippe Coutinho (BCN) £114.9m 15 - Romelu Lukaku (MUN) £111.2m 16 - Paul Pogba (MUN) £111.1m 17 - Neymar (PSG) £110.8m 18 - Marcus Rashford (MUN) £109.7m 19 - Eden Hazard (RMA) £107.2m 20 - Cristiano Ronaldo (JUV) £104.94m 21 - Ousmane Dembele (BAR) £104m 22 - Virgil van Dijk (LIV) £99.6m 23 - Paulo Dybala (JUV) £96.1m 24 - Alisson Becker (LIV) £95.5m 25 - Aymeric Laporte (MCI) £93.6m 26 - Ederson (MCI) £91.5m 27 - Dele Alli (TOT) £91m 28 - Richarlison (EVE) £87.6m 29 - Son Heung-min (TOT) £86.3m 30 - Marc-Andre ter Stegen (BCN) £84.5m

i think most peeps are only focusing on the player and missing the CLUB gone are the days when NH and japan were happy taking on board SH guys looking to cash in before retirement. now they are willing to splash the cash and get hold of players in their prime and use them for more than just a couple of years. if u look at the players who have left recently and those booked to leave after the world cup - many are in that prime age of 24 - 28. only a few are over 28 and very few are nearing retirement ( naturally). this is going to be a big problem for super rugger. natural succession is necessary - but when the young leave there are not enuf players to replace them. in a few years super rugger will have lot of young players - like REDS cloned everywhere. with new money comming into the UK game - they are bound to throw some of that money on young guys.

So just give up. And then expect everybody to care once every 4 or 12 years... yeah right. Genius stuff...

So basically what you are saying is forget about everything between the World Cup? Great when ranking impact RWC seeding and the Wallabies are the primary revenue source for Australian rugby. Also no OS players have been able to attend any Wallaby camps in 2019 so far. None have had their loads managed. You refuse to accept that the Wallabies are an actual team in their own right with its own season playing against other developed squads. If one nation is parachuting players in all other the place while everybody else has long term stability, how do you expect that to go?

and Richard Kahui managed to go to a world cup - after being broken into 4 at Chiefs :D

TWAS more crap your talking regarding training camps.. For the wallaby world cup training camp in 2015, both Matt Giteau and drew mitchell attended the whole world cup pre-camp and didn't miss any thing with full permission from Toulon. Stop acting like the european clubs in 2019 and beyond won't let players go to the world cup training camp/and the world cup.. They allow all the players from all nations to attend the world cup training camp/and the world cup.. Give it up twas, and reward disloyalty not punish it by picking inferior locals for world cups, who stayed loyal to the cause for less money.

not sure about that - becoz japan will play two seasons together due to world cup. so actually his 3 year contract will be for 4 seasons. at least that is the way i understand it - AND the major reason everyone wants to go there for the next year.

they don't need to B, we play a B team vs all matches except, the World cup/lions series and bledisloes.. And who cares, we are playing a B team now as it is, as quite a few wallabies would make the wallaby 23 but aren't gonna be picked coz they took the money overseas(skelton/joc/joe tomane/sean mcmahon/and soon same kerevi and adam coleman). reward such mercenary money hungry behavior from these wallabies and let em have there cake and glory and only turn up for world cups and lions. basketball does that with the boomers, it allows it's best players to only turn up for world cups/olympics if it wants and turn up for nothing else..

So what you are saying is that every more successful national team that builds over a number of seasons leading to a RWC has got it wrong?

stop talking crap TWAS, all the aussie players will be released by there club for the world cup and lions series.. Will Skelton would be released for the world cup from saracens, it's rugby australia that won't.. stop acting like the clubs wouldn't in 2019 they will. let players abandon local aussie super rugby and only turn up for the world cup and lions series if that's all they wanna turn up for, stop acting like the clubs will stop em and hold em to ransom.. Regulation 9 will protect them, all the european players will be release to represent there european nations, as will the argentina and south africa players. Isa from Argentina the star no 8 for toulon is going to the world cup and has been named in argentina's playing squad as argentina is picking european argentina players again as is south africa.. They will be released, so let australian players overseas only turn up when it suits them(the world cup and a lions series, and the odd bledisloe).. and get over the fact that makes us weak for spring tour games vs italy or games vs the boks or games vs argentina in the rugby championship, the players don't care otherwise they would be staying.. open the floodgates and let wallaby players only turn up for the glory games, and use local players for non world cup/lions series games.. get over it TWAS, let the players have there cake and eat it to.. So stop acting like the european clubs will stop them from playing in a world cup, we aren't pacific island nations. And anyway, pacific island nations players are now almost 100% released and have been since the 2011 world cup squad and have formed a pacific islander union.. Samoa at 2011 world cup had there best squad possible.. Get over it TWAS, and reward disloyal aussie players who are better than local aussie players, and only wanna turn up when it suits them(glory stuff like the world cup/lions).. Get over it that our marquee wallabies don't care about spring tour games vs italy or one off tests vs fiji or games vs argentina or games vs scotland in newcastle. let players pick and choose and only turn up for world cups and take the big money overseas, let players have there cake and eat it to TWAS...

im sure the rugger managers are also learning from the footy managers and trying to " sell" their clients to the highest offers. after all the higher the player gets the higher commission the manager gets. some of the more famos footy managers make very big - just from commissions. for eg Ronaldo's agent Jorge Mendes is worth about USD 100 mio !!!

his contract is 3 years so he intends to come back for the next world cup he will be much better - most who go to japan come back looking pretty :D

Unlikely since he apparently agreed earlier in the year.

Yeah it would have been gambling