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Pocock chained himself to a tree he can’t really be captain, things don’t work like that no hard feelings on the ARU’s part.
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Bloody nail in the coffin for Rugby, but it’s unsurprising considering his World Cup form. Australia’s best or second best player.
Beale offered multi-million dollar English deal: Reports
Considering there’s 5 franchises and only two real junior production systems, NSW and Queensland’s, the youth have more than enough Super Rugby slots to develop themselves in, the number of NZ and Saffer journeymen playing for the franchises demonstrates that.
I’d argue that the Wallabies are already at the West Indies stage already, the gap between NZ and the rest of the Tri Nations has never been wider, even if the rankings look the same. The fact is the sport has been crushed by any lack of competitiveness in the Bledisloe cup, in a country with little to no sense of franchise loyalty where every sports fan has a few backup jerseys in the cupboard. We can probably only supply three players to a world 23, and one was bought from AFL/League, another is a Zimbabwean immigrant, and a third is the pride of Indigenous Australia after the sexting scandal sadly.
Let Richard Graham continue to coach the Reds
I object to Rob Simmons being named a world class red. He’s a provincial at best, doesn’t matter what the jersey says
Let Richard Graham continue to coach the Reds
The race doesn’t even start until Djokovic retires, article’s just filling space and saying nothing. Both of them have to show some shred or resemblance that they’re even in the second tier of Tennis performers like Raonic, by hitting a top 4. Getting into the 4th round once two years ago just means you’re a nobody in the scheme of things.
Kyrgios v Tomic: The race for a first Grand Slam title
Aww shucks
Life goes on
Hurling abuse at my television screen as my useless Australian teams drop the ball and generally make fools of themselves is a pleasure in itself however.
How long before Super Rugby's expansion teams win a match?
Sunwolves vs a South African team in Tokyo will be one of the highlights of the season tbh. Sunwolves will be hungry to win and the deck will be so stacked against the saffers after an obscenity of a travel time that they’ll have a good chance no matter who they face.
How long before Super Rugby's expansion teams win a match?
They set an A-League article to be visible in the Rugby Union section by mistake. I could make a joke about one eyed site editors trying to force people to embrace multiculturalism and play soccer, but I expect it’s just an error.
How can we grow the A-League? Look inside, then look outside
Not very likely. With the other unions all being obliged to stick money in the pot, there’s not much of a chance for funding the plane tickets of a 23 man squad from Mexico for a tier 2 American event. The other unions are only going to be willing to fund tier 1, tier 2 will have to come from ESPN or otherwise, which makes it very very unlikely to happen.
The Americans and Argies are just able to fund themselves, much less fund Mexico or Columbia.
Americas Rugby Championship reloaded
Why’s this visible in Rugby?
How can we grow the A-League? Look inside, then look outside
West Point is a military academy, not a sports ground. Pretty sure they just don’t want their facilities to be run like Levi’s stadium, they don’t want to sell tickets, run concession stands, etc etc
ProRugby update: Rugby goes from strength to strength in the USA
Puts Ross Taylor’s feelings into new light when it turns out he was replaced for a man with the batting average of an U19s player.
Word on the street is the reason he’s retiring is entirely related to injury anyway, bad back from years of squatting etc etc. There’s a lot riding on the Test Series so he needs to be there, but he would play the WT20 if he could.
McCullum should put things right against Australia at the World T20
Chiefs vs Toulon would be a slaughter.
Chiefs would murder them.
WATCH: Chiefs down Waratahs with last-gasp try
The ABs greatest loss isn’t the players going overseas, it’s their props not finding anything like form, despite Dane Coles playing out of his skin and saving them from what looked like a long term hooker drought.
Agree that Nonu is irreplaceable. Carter they can replace with Sopoaga, or possibly Cruden/Barret, McCaw they have Sam Cane this year and Ardie Savea long term, but for centers they’ll have to make do with merely good instead players this year instead of a G.O.A.T. superstar in Nonu. Not to mention Williams has chugged off.
Give Pocock a year off and develop Hooper, McMahon and Butler
The All Blacks made everyone else look like club teams at that world cup, Nonu/Carter/Scudder/Whitelock/Retallick were just as influential for the ABs as Pocock was for the Wallaroos, not to mention the Blacks having Kaino as an all time best in position player even if he didn’t find his best of all time form and Sonny Bill Williams.
Pocock was the most influential player of the competition by far, but that’s only because the All Blacks didn’t even have to get out of 3rd gear except in the semifinals on a soaking wet pitch vs the best wet pitch team in the history of Rugby. Wales and England were second rate opposition in the pool stages frankly, Pocock’s performance vs England/Wales/Argentina’s mediocre work at the breakdown, and his performance vs the best lock combination in the world at the breakdown, are not comparable.
Give Pocock a year off and develop Hooper, McMahon and Butler
Did you read the article?
He’s not saying they’re better than him on the 13th of February 2016
He’s saying that in 4 years time they could easily have eclipsed him. Which is eminently true, particularly for Mcmahon who is on the right side of the age equation, and could easily improve out of sight in the next two seasons as he builds up his experience in first grade.
Give Pocock a year off and develop Hooper, McMahon and Butler
Terry what the athletes are getting paid at 18 has zero impact on their decision about whether to play League or AFL though. Most professional athletes commit to a sport at 12-14 because it’s skills based, Sydney Swan’s academy starts at 11 for example, and nobody is code swapping at 17-18 years of age. The barriers are such that once AFL athletes start to skill up there’s no competition from the other codes anyway, there’s not enough of a skills overlap with the AFL for them to jump boat and no 17 y/o in the NRL program could make the jump to the 17 y/o AFL program because they wouldn’t be competitive for their place.
The battle is solely to capture the superfreaks at 8-14, after that the race has finished.
There’s the overlap between the NRL and the ARU obviously, but the NRL shouldn’t even be taking the ARU seriously. The basic contract for an Australia Super Rugby team is five figures with a 3 in front of it if I remember correctly, maybe just scraping into the 4 bracket, and the minimum wage for the NRL going into 2016 is $82,500 with 5-10 grand less for reserve players. They blow the ARU out of the park completely.
NRL pushes to stamp out 17-year-olds
Matt the thing is they have to work for the lowest common denominator here.
Yes the QLD kids will have a year kicking their heels, but it’s better than having kids drop out of their HSC year in high school to go into full time work on NRL reserve squads, instead of part time squads in the NRL U20s which have all sorts of restrictions like no training before 5PM to make sure they stay in school/other forms of employment for when their dreams get crushed and first grade doesn’t work out for them.
Arguably what should change is that the QLD government reforms the schools so kids stay in until they’re 18, not the NRL change its policies to allow the one in a hundred Greg Inglis types play footy at 17 and get smashed.
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The NRL’s policies are knife’s edge here. I see on one side the argument that players should be finishing school, on the other a reminder of the NBA’s protectionist policies which means that kids can’t be signed before the year they turn 20, which is purely to save owners from having to pay salaries to 18 y/o prospects.
Yes they should finish school, but they shouldn’t be stopped from making a wage in the NRL as soon as they have finished school.
NRL pushes to stamp out 17-year-olds
If Chris Mcqueen is their money signing then they’re cemented in the player union’s mind as guaranteed wooden spooners, lets face it. Players will expect to be paid like they’re playing for a wooden spoon club, which is a hundred miles from the way players at the Roosters/Broncos/Souths take unders to play at winning clubs in the big city (with a lot of help from TPAs, which apparently give the Broncos half again on the salary cap and let them sign Milford).
Titans have acres of salary cap space but players don’t want to move outside of Sydney and don’t want to play at a losing club, so the club has zero chance of getting quality cattle on the park. It’s the old Canberra Raiders/Penrith story. Until the new broadcast deal, or maybe the 2022 one, when the cap catches up to TPAs and players get paid big enough money that moving to what they see as the boonies and losing clubs outweighs the quality of life benefit from sticking at a big city club, the NRL’s going to remain as tilted as it has always been.
McQueen signs NRL deal with Gold Coast
Boks also had the rainy weather tbf. On a dry pitch it would have been a lot closer, but they had the best of conditions in their favour and altho they got a lot closer than people credit them, they didn’t get the esp with the loose play in the last 10
Heyneke Meyer to end tenure as South Africa coach
As an Australian who’s watched the Brumbies, thank god it’s not Jake White
Though I suppose that comes under the banner of needing to transform the side to a slightly more running oriented style to match the direction teams like ABs/Wales/Scotland/Ireland have developed
Heyneke Meyer to end tenure as South Africa coach
Coulda slept through it. Game had no urgency and the All blacks fell asleep at half time, still got across the line
All Blacks vs Wallabies highlights: New Zealand claim 2015 Rugby World Cup final
This is legit. He’s made millions in fashion apparently
Australia 'reveal' World Cup final tactics
An enormously intelligent article that’s probably found out the single most critical change in Australian cricket in the last 15 years.
Can’t agree enough with the conclusions, however unlikely it is that the administrators will compromise Australia’s international earnings potential to put its star players in Sheffield Shield matches nobody will watch. It’d certainly be the single best thing you could possibly do to improve the quality of Australia’s test side.
Why Rod Marsh was not the problem with Australian cricket