Aussie Pro Rugby
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World Rugby has refused to extend the residency window for international qualification from a ridiculous three years, with the result that Southern Hemisphere players are able to have their cake and eat it too: head to Europe and end up playing international rugby.¹ Notes: 1. We hear that the residency requirement will be extended to five years in 2021, but sceptics abound that this will actually happen. Why introduce the measure then, and not now?The author has clearly missed the news that WR has already decided to extend the residency rule from 3 to 5 years with effect from 31 December, 2020.
With his last question about 'why ... not now', he also doesn't seem to understand that a player is no longer covered by the 3-year residency rule (and needs to have resided in a country for 5 years to be eligible for that country) if that player started their residency after 31 December, 2017.
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@barbarian said in Aussie Rugby in general:
This is probably the best article I've read on Australian rugby. It's a long one but well worth it.
A lot of the points re NH transfers applies to NZ as well...
Australian Rugby: How To Stop It Failing Upwards - Green & Gold Rugby
It is 5 May 2018. Brookvale Oval is packed. The fans are on the hill, downing beers, excited to see their Waratahs play their favourite sport: rugby union. The scene looks great on tv again. This is Sydney’s north shore, one of the hot-beds of global rugby. Matt Burke is from here, so too Michael
Hell of a long read , but well thought out and written.
Ultimately, rugby is going the football model where all players are centralised in Europe on ridiculous money. And thats the way it's wanted by the power brokers, which are all basically in, Europe.
Even though I don't like the Sunwolves, it's why they are in the comp. Richer nations need to be involved. I'm not really bothered if SA go up north to Europe myself, yes it will create a huge hole in the balance sheet that is going to be tough to fill, but it will create other opportunities in an exciting comp which will work over time.
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Folau setting homosexuals alight and Slipper selling illicit substances to children - what culture is Chieka driving in the Wallabies?
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Disclaimer for the litigious: The above claims are clearly parody.
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That is seriously impressive to test positive twice to a drug that leaves your system so quickly. You have more of a chance being caught in possession (Kiwis incident, Andrew Johns, JOC/Ali etc) than flunking a drug test.
@antipodean said in Aussie Rugby in general:
what culture is Chieka driving in the Wallabies?In hindsight having Bomber Thompson in for a cross-code consultancy gig last year looks to have backfired.
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@stargazer said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Poor bugger and bullshit PR having to jump through bullshit hoops for something that is akin to a few shots of tequila
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I couldn't give a rats if players do cocaine. It's a matter between him, the police and his employer.
Some people in NZ were whinging that Ali Williams was on the telly the other day. FFS, the guy seems like an absolute spanner, but he has a right to carry on with his life. it's different to someone like Veitch as well. Doing coke is basically harming yourself, but Veitch harmed someone else.
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@louis said in Aussie Rugby in general:
I couldn't give a rats if players do cocaine. It's a matter between him, the police and his employer.
Some people in NZ were whinging that Ali Williams was on the telly the other day. FFS, the guy seems like an absolute spanner, but he has a right to carry on with his life. it's different to someone like Veitch as well. Doing coke is basically harming yourself, but Veitch harmed someone else.
Which high profile players have been caught on coke? Ali Williams, James O'Conner, James Harrison, Wendell Sailor...
Trying to find a common thread here.
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Most importantly: our First Grade had their first win of the season a couple of weeks back, and the Club donated $6500 to the Kids Hospital in memory of a club member's little girl, who died of neuroblastoma earlier in the year. Not even 2, poor little mite.
On Saturday we got done on the bell by a dropgoal. Fuck.
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@nta said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Cracking game between The Reds and Tahs. Bit of inexperience from the Reds outside backs probably the difference. Well, that and Folau.
Nice to see our handing skills and speed of execution have risen above "retarded water buffalo".
good to see some points scored in the Aussie conference
I did enjoy hearing Horan calling the 'tahs "clinical" completely ignoring the number of points they gave up.
Brumbies scored a few as well, and the Rebels had a win in NZ, so Wallabies should have some players bouncing in to camp this week.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Brumbies scored a few as well, and the Rebels had a win in NZ, so Wallabies should have some players bouncing in to camp this week.
Right before Ireland fist them into next season.
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Doesn't need it's own thread so this is probably the best spot. Our club had its old boys day, and 40th anniversary over the weekend. Sportsmans lunch on the friday had some interesting guests, including one of the judicial officers responsible for the two significant suspensions/non-suspensions, and one Michael Cheika.
Cheika was super impressive. Voluntarily gave his time to fly to the middle of nowhere for the afternoon, and talk passionately about rugby. Hearing him speak about the team away from a media trying to goad and lead him places they want to go was great. Pretty open and honest about the state of the team, particularly their fitness. Apparently this was the first year they have turned up for camp in the right shape, thanks to improvements in standards with the super team.
His chat was not long, but did have a quick chat to him one on one later and i have to say, my opinion has changed.
I think my favourite story was to do with the jersey. Because he never played test footy, he was at a disadvantage when he came in. He didn't know why they got two jerseys for each test, one for playing, one for swapping. He canned that, dropping it to one. Idea being you have to cherish every test jersey. You want to swap it? Fine, but it's your only one. Just thought it was interesting psychological decision
