Monday’s Rugby Information – 3/7/23

Greetings, GAGRs, and welcome to a different Monday. It’ll be a fast one immediately with one piece of massive information and a few smaller articles from happenings world wide.

WORLD LEAGUE UNVEILED

In keeping with rugby.com.au, new rugby union competitors between tier one nations from the northern and southern hemisphere will likely be performed each alternate 12 months from 2026 so as to add a aggressive edge to the July and November worldwide home windows, officers have confirmed.

A ‘World League’ has been mooted for a while searching for to extract extra income from the worldwide home windows and produce “context” to what have been pleasant fixtures performed historically within the southern hemisphere in July and within the north in November. Though no format has been confirmed by organisers for the brand new competitors, studies counsel Six Nations sides England, France, Eire, Italy, Scotland and Wales will likely be in a single pool, and groups that make up the Rugby Championship – Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa – will likely be within the different together with two invited company, certainly one of which is prone to be Japan. Groups from the north would journey south for 3 Assessments in July after which host three extra video games in November. The Six Nations will stay in its present February-March place on the calendar and the Rugby Championship will nonetheless be performed in August-September.

To me, this looks like a load of full bollocks. There’s a World Cup for a cause, and this appears to be making a pseudo-Invoice each different 12 months. Why is it rugby is the one main sport that thinks that ring-fencing any competitors is a good suggestion? Other than selfishness and the lure of the outdated dollarydoo, it’s a full and utter killer of growth for rising nations.

JUNIOR WALLABIES AT RWC u20 BILL

The staff to face the SDs in a winner-takes-all match (properly, for a shot at profitable anyway) has been named:

Junior Wallabies vs. England U20

Athlone Sports activities Stadium, Cape City, 2pm SAST (10pm AEST) Tuesday

1. Jack Barrett (NSW Waratahs, Randwick)

2. Max Craig (QLD Reds, Easts Tigers)

3. Nick Bloomfield (QLD Reds, Easts Tigers)

4. Toby Macpherson (ACT Brumbies, Uni-Norths Owls)

5. Daniel Maiava-Tapusoa (Melbourne Rebels, Wests Bulldogs)

6. Lachlan Hooper (ACT Brumbies, Vikings Rugby)

7. Nick Baker (QLD Reds, GPS Rugby Membership)

8. Leafi Heka Talataina (Melbourne Rebels, Endeavour Hills)

9. Teddy Wilson (c) (NSW Waratahs, Jap Suburbs)

10. Jack Bowen (NSW Waratahs, Jap Suburbs)

11. Ronan Leahy (Western Drive, Sydney College)

12. Taj Annan (QLD Reds, Souths Magpies)

13. Henry O’Donnell (NSW Waratahs, Northern Suburbs)

14. Tim Ryan (QLD Reds, Brothers Rugby Membership)

15. Mason Gordon (Melbourne Rebels, Wests Bulldogs)

Reserves

16. Liam Bowron (ACT Brumbies, Canberra Royals)

17. Harrison Usher (QLD Reds, Bond College)

18. Trevor King (QLD Reds, Souths Magpies)

19. Ollie McCrea (NSW Waratahs, Jap Suburbs)

20. John Bryant (QLD Reds, Souths Magpies)

21. Klayton Thorn (ACT Brumbies, Gungahlin Eagles)

22. Harry McLaughlin-Phillips (QLD Reds, Souths Magpies)

23. David Vaihu (Melbourne Rebels, Wests Bulldogs)

In different information, Australia’s most inept skilled coach, Nathan Gray, has had one other meltdown.

RA’S INABILITY TO GET WITH THE TIMES EXPOSED YET AGAIN

Have a very good have a look at the image above, people…

Sure, that’s proper. You’ll be able to see the Australian Males’s facet having fun with their enterprise class seats to South Africa. Conversely, you may see the Australian Ladies’s facet hitting up Ottawa, Canada of their economic system class seats.

Come on, RA. Get your shit collectively. Just a few much less mungo ballers should cowl the prices…

THAT’S ALL HE WROTE

Nicely, people, I’m positive you’ve all seen that I’m the one one left on these hallowed pages. The TL;DR model is that Juswal’s suspicions from final week have been appropriate. “When this many producers depart, they’re beginning their very own enterprise”. Nicely, that’s largely true. It’s appropriate that you could be discover a new ‘Rugby Down Below’ web page to get your weekday information. And it’s appropriate that you simply’ll discover most of your Monday to Friday writers on this new web page as an alternative of on GAGR.

A message within the group chat got here as fairly the shock to me final week that the 2020 GAGR writing squad have unionised and will likely be forming their very own website. Sadly for me, I’ve been given the craparazzi model of ‘The Vino’ and suggested that I’m now not wished. There have been causes for his or her departure which aren’t mine to share, however nonetheless, their leaving me excessive and dry lower deep.

Ever because the clarion name was raised in Might of 2021 for writers for GAGR, I’ve been lucky sufficient to carry you Monday’s Rugby Information. Like refereeing is to many, it was very a lot a case of ‘put up or shut up’. Two months later, in July 2021, the writing for this website, in addition to the engagement with you fantastic readers, was my saving grace from a three-month Covid lockdown in a metropolis the place I knew few folks, had no rugby to referee, and had restricted entry to something and every part else. What was constructed from that was, what I assumed, a strong friendship, albeit through trendy expertise, with some rugby lovers from across the nation and the hope that, little by little, we may very well be the constructive mild that rugby union wants desperately. That each one got here crashing down final week. The sentiments of unhappiness, grief and utter devastation to match these of each Wallabies loss over the previous decade plus some have been, truthfully, soul destroying. I liked writing the Monday Information and being an energetic participant, in a roundabout way past refereeing, within the good will undertaking of grassroots rugby in Australia.

So, with that mentioned, that is doubtless the GAGR day by day information website signing off for good.

Go Wallabies, go Brumbies, and go referees!

Charlie Mackay.