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Friday’s Rugby Information – 16/6/23
Welcome, GAGRs, to the information day previously generally known as inferior journalism in comparison with Mondays by Thursdays Friday’s Goss with some Hass, Hess, Hiss, Huss bloke… possibly the previous Australian coach, Dean Rinny will know him? Or the native Justice of the Peace within the Hunter could let him out ‘on bail’…
At present we now have the Tasmanian Yelling at Clouds 2.0, a preview of the SRP semi-finals, Hammer pondering enlargement is a good suggestion amongst different ‘improvements’, and *gasp* Australian rugby union is run by elitist Sydney personal schoolboys… Who’da thunk it?
To keep away from the confusion of final week, I, Charlie, have written each other than the “Yelling at Clouds” half… until I stated one thing I shouldn’t have, through which case blame KARL. Filthy Hobbitses corrupting me… that stated, if it was good, you then’re welcome!
Any takers for a one off (or extra everlasting) Friday Rugby Information Day *cough Ally Oz cough* then let Sully know – sully@greenandgoldrugby.com
MEANDERINGS FROM THE TASWEGIAN CESSPOOL PONDEROSA
Nonetheless persevering with my function because the Outdated Man that Shouts at Clouds I provide one other piece of the demise of English skilled rugby as we all know it. It paints a determined image of golf equipment residing method past their means. Three have already gone to the wall however the large query is what number of extra will observe. I don’t know sufficient concerning the monetary constructions of our tremendous franchises however I can’t suppose that they strategy this degree of economic mismanagement. So let’s get into it.
It’s been kicking round for weeks and the inevitable has occurred, London Irish are toast. One other well-known membership gone to the wall £30m plus in debt.
The article makes very sombre studying and must be a get up name to one and all. You simply can’t, can’t reside past your means. I discover it barely ironic that membership benefactors/homeowners put hundreds of thousands in and but nonetheless go cap in hand to the RFU for more cash after which ppercent1s it up the wall spending silly cash on so referred to as marquee gamers ( exterior the wage cap ) who block the event of younger expertise. I’m speaking to you Tub (Finn Russell) and Leicester (Andre Pollard) . Each incomes over £1m. Within the case of the Irish they’ve one of many largest wage payments within the Premiership. You all keep in mind Adam Coleman. Left these shores 4 years in the past to make his fortune within the Premiership. Properly he’s achieved it in spades. Now I do know that it isn’t his fault however as a result of harm he’s appeared in simply 39 video games in 4 season not dangerous when it’s reported to be incomes £900k p.a. Worth for cash, I don’t suppose so.
So who’s in charge. Clearly the RFU should bear a shed load of duty for this debacle. Again in my taking part in days it was the bastion of English, higher class vanity and self entitlement. I suppose it was lucky that at the moment, the sport was strictly beginner however even because it developed into to 90s that sense of entitlement remained the identical. Will ‘Bum Chin’ Carling coined it superbly calling them 57 Outdated Farts. From the outset of professionalism it appears that evidently this epithet has not modified. As to the Golf equipment, for many years the Premiership tail has been wagging the RFU canine to the extent that the Premiership has change into the be all and finish all so far as the RFU is worried, funding for the third tier, the Championship is a pittance and beneath that junior golf equipment pondering they will observe their skilled cousins by shopping for success are sinking with out hint. The article beneath sums up the scenario properly and sure the PRL should take their share of the blame.
The English premierships Skilled Recreation Settlement is due for renegotiation in 2024. It is going to be attention-grabbing to see what the RFU and PRL give you however to cite the outdated Stranglers tune “One thing Higher Change”.
Keith “Cloud, Cloud, Go Away…. I informed ya to fuq off already, Cloudy ba$tard!” Butler
SUPER RUGBY SEMI FINALS 2023
Crusaders v Blues – We’ve the 2022 grand remaining rematch in Christchurch on Friday night. This shapes to be fairly the attention-grabbing battle. On the one hand, the Saders have by no means been overwhelmed in any Tremendous Rugby remaining at house. Then again (seemingly the one with an extra finger of two over there), they’ve a severely depleted squad. Now, that’s to not say that the Canterbury Manufacturing Line isn’t working… Rugby Gods know it’s… however will these gamers be sufficient to carry off the Blue Wave? I believe not with the Blues by three in an in depth tussle.
Crusaders (1-15): Tamaiti Williams, Codie Taylor, Oliver Jager, Scott Barrett (c), Quinten Unusual, Sione Havili Talitui, Tom Christie, Christian Lio-Willie, Mitchell Drummond, Richie Mo’unga, Leicester Fainga’anuku, Jack Goodhue, Braydon Ennor, Dallas McLeod, Will Jordan
Replacements: Brodie McAlister, Kershawl Sykes-Martin, Reuben O’Neill, Dominic Gardiner, Corey Kellow, Willi Heinz, Fergus Burke, Chay Fihaki
Blues (1-15): Ofa Tu’ungafasi, Ricky Riccitelli, Nepo Laulala, Tom Robinson, James Tucker, Akira Ioane, Dalton Papalii (c), Hoskins Sotutu, Finlay Christie, Beauden Barrett, Caleb Clarke, Bryce Heem, Rieko Ioane, Mark Telea, Zarn Sullivan
Replacements: Kurt Eklund, Jordan Lay, Marcel Renata, Cameron Suafoa, Adrian Choat, Sam Nock, Harry Plummer, Stephen Perofeta
Referee: Angus Gardner (RA)
Chiefs v Brumbies – in one other attention-grabbing match-up, the undefeated Chiefs A Workforce (their “B” Workforce suffered their solely loss…) come up a Brumbies aspect that’s rediscovering their groove post-resting coverage insanity price them momentum and kind. The Chiefs have high quality all around the park, with anticipated large video games from Retallick, Taukei’aho, Jacobson and Stevenson. If the Ponies coaches are sensible (properly, they’ve a bloke with a PhD… no, that doesn’t imply a fairly enormous d1ck, Yowie), they’ll have seemed on the blueprint that the Reds arrange final week. Beating the Chiefs is achievable in case you can pin them down of their half and ensure DMac doesn’t have room to run sideways. Accordingly, they’ve chosen a monster pack, together with the higher Hooper at 6, Pawn Star Pistol at 7 and Bobby at 8 and JDeb to seemingly kick the pigskin again from whence it got here. As I’ve the journalistic liberty… Ponies by 5 with Luke Reimer scoring below the posts with Sam Cane’s hand not holding the ball up 😁
Chiefs (1-15): Aidan Ross, Samisoni Taukei’aho, George Dyer, Brodie Retallick, Tupou Vaai, Samipeni Finau, Sam Cane (co-c), Luke Jacobson, Brad Weber (co-c), Damian McKenzie, Etene Nanai-Seturo, Anton Lienert-Brown, Alex Nankivell, Emoni Narawa, Shaun Stevenson
Replacements: Tyrone Thompson, Ollie Norris, John Ryan, Naitoa Ah Kuoi, Pita Gus Sowakula, Cortez Ratima, Josh Ioane, Rameka Poihipi
Brumbies (1-15): James Slipper, Lachlan Lonergan, Sefo Kautai, Nick Frost, Cadeyrn Neville, Tom Hooper, Pete Samu, Rob Valetini, Nic White (c), Jack Debreczeni, Ollie Sapsford, Tamati Tua, Len Ikitau, Andy Muirhead, Tom Wright
Replacements : Connal McInerney, Blake Schoupp, Rhys Van Nek, Darcy Swain, Luke Reimer, Ryan Lonergan, Noah Lolesio, Corey Toole
Referee: Nic Berry (RA)
AUSTRALIAN RUGBY RUN BY PRIVATE SCHOOL ELITES
In breaking information that may shock each single particular person to their core, Luke Pentony has uncovered RA, and rugby basically, for being an elitist white boys membership based mostly in Sydney’s East-Japanese Suburbs. Certainly, RA has been infiltrated by the Shore College oligarchy, with an obvious hereditary ceremony of passage from the Shore Prep College to the RA Boardroom for “The Chosen One”. Apparently, Pentony believes in such blasphemous concepts equivalent to public college ‘kids’ taking part in rugby, a wider unfold of cultures within the sport (i.e., west of Victoria Rd in Drummoyne), bettering the depth of the participant pool in each males’s and *gasp* girls’s rugby, and introducing names that sounds extra ‘regular’ than “Stirling Mortlock”.
How very properly dare he?!
SUPER RUGBY TO BE ‘INNOVATIVE’
RugbyPass’ Ned Lester reviews about potential SRP Fee modifications”
“The fee’s official objective is to “drive business income, oversee guidelines and laws, form the long run strategic path and generate fan-first initiatives”. So what avenues will the fee discover? Concepts being floated equivalent to a draft, a wage cap, a participant switch or a commerce system all have their deserves however, whether or not they serve the most effective pursuits of the competitors and the game total will seemingly be investigated and dominated upon by the fee. “I believe there can be increasingly work because the fee stands as much as examine these areas, with urgency,” Robinson informed Paddy Gower Has Points. “We’re extremely open-minded to all these prospects. Nothing is off the desk because it pertains to the best way we’re viewing the way forward for the competitors.”
Whereas membership registrations are down, Blues CEO Andrew Hore informed Paddy Gower Has Points that digital engagement and broadcast numbers are trending upward. “Individuals are following,” he stated. “They’re there. It’s getting them again to the bottom. “This sport must be handled like every other world-class worldwide competitors, and really have individuals engaged on it on a regular basis. “Figuring out what the fan desires, making it much more fan-centric doesn’t take rather a lot, and you then begin to get the tribalism constructing once more and folks travelling once more which is improbable.” Some progressive improvements could be anticipated over the approaching Tremendous Rugby seasons, for now Robinson is no doubt “the sport remains to be actually sturdy by way of its connection to individuals’s hearts and minds.”
Now, don’t get me unsuitable, it’s wonderful that the heads of respective unions are even speaking contemplating the frosty exchanges over the previous two season. Moreover, they’re proper that ‘one thing’ must be executed. That stated, I’m unsure that following what different sports activities are doing is essentially the proper factor for rugby to do. I’ve made it fairly clear elsewhere that the idea of a draft is bloody foolish (certainly, I believe inconceivable anyway with the CBA signed till 2026) and myopic to suppose that this received’t profit the Kiwi gamers, amongst different ‘fan-centric’ concepts. I can recall cringing when watching the IPL cricket public sale in passing earlier this yr and noting how overly excitable the entire thing was. What bosses appear to be failing to recognise is that, while trying to diversify, it can’t be on the expense of what the rusted on supporter i.e., the individuals we have already got, need to see.
Additional, Hammer oddly going out on some bizarre junket (should be too many Cadbury Caramilk Wallabies) concerning the Rugby Championship probably transferring to considerably earlier within the calendar yr, solely to be rebuffed nearly instantly from the organisation that he chairs was one more instance of Hammer going full “Horsey Man”. Apparently, it seems that enlargement is as soon as once more on the desk… as a result of that clearly labored final time… and the US markets are being sourced as one other strategy to seize a greenback a brand new viewers of rugby followers. Personally, I believe this can be a dreadful transfer. Trans-Atlantic/Continental journey is what killed Tremendous Rugby for good final time. Why are we in such a rush to try this once more? Certainly the introduction of, you understand, a correct third tier is of extra significance, too… I nonetheless suppose the provincial “A” sides, the Islander “A” groups and probably inviting a Chairman’s XV from the Shite Defend and Hospital Go Cup, is the easiest way to go.
Now, removed from me to be detrimental, as a result of clearly issues do have to alter. Australia merely can’t afford to be the one nation the place rugby union goes backwards by way of curiosity and participation. However we do should suppose properly exterior the field, and I applaud the highest canine for at the very least beginning the ball rolling and throwing concepts on the market. Issues could possibly be solved by:
- cheaper pies and chips
- full-strength beer
- a brand new stadium in Canberra
- rugby on a foremost FTA channel
- merging the Reds and the Tahs to change into the Reta…. by no means thoughts
- not permitting the Saders to play finals regardless of ladder place
- accepting Twiggy’s cash as a substitute of PE
- Australian referees for all matches and KARL within the TMO field for ‘stability’.
- No SDs or Saffas allowed
- Australia not having the ability to lose the Bledisloe Cup regardless of consequence
- David Pocock turns into RA CEO, Chairman, Aus cricket captain and PM in a single go.
Is it that a lot to ask?!
Have a rip-snorter weekend, people. I’m heading to Geelong to referump this weekend… so if there’s no information on Monday, it’s seemingly that had one thing to do with it…!
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