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<blockquote data-quote="galumay" data-source="post: 869146" data-attributes="member: 74590"><p>The demise of Australian Rugby is deeply disturbing for the future of the game we love, its offset a little by the growth of new countries becoming more competitive, and the popularity of spin off games like 7's, but the near death of what was one of the powerhouses of world rugby will have wider ramifications than many have realised.</p><p></p><p>There are some seismic shifts going on, the logical move of SA moving to play in European leagues, the almost total irrelevance of Australian Super Rugby teams, and the utter mismanagement of Super Rugby by SANZAR are all factors that provide a massive threat to the game in the SH and NZ rugby in particular. NZ rugby needs a strong and competitive Super Rugby comp, and it needs healthy competition from other SH national sides - if there is a vacuum between provincial and international rugby then surely the AB's will suffer.</p><p></p><p>I know we have had this discussion before and the Kiwi view in the main seems to be "ARU created the mess, not our problem, dont care" - so we will have to agree to disagree about that, but this latest decision does show that the ARU are in no way competent to run our sport in this country, I dont believe they even spent any time or effort considering the 'harder' but 'wiser' options for rationalising the teams in Australia. They were like rabbits in headlights, it had to be the Rebels or the Force that went because they were the 2 franchises with the least political influence in the ARU, and it couldn't be the Rebels because of the legal issues with ownership, so the worst possible decision for the future of the game was made in the interests of expediency and politics.</p><p></p><p>From the little info I got out of my contacts in the heirachy of the ARU, no consideration at all was given to merging because the franchises with the political control of the ARU flat out refused to discuss it. At the risk of sounding like a broken record this meant the option of merging the Brumbies & Tah's and retaining both the Force and Rebels, an option that would have been the best possible for the future of our game, was not even on the table.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="galumay, post: 869146, member: 74590"] The demise of Australian Rugby is deeply disturbing for the future of the game we love, its offset a little by the growth of new countries becoming more competitive, and the popularity of spin off games like 7's, but the near death of what was one of the powerhouses of world rugby will have wider ramifications than many have realised. There are some seismic shifts going on, the logical move of SA moving to play in European leagues, the almost total irrelevance of Australian Super Rugby teams, and the utter mismanagement of Super Rugby by SANZAR are all factors that provide a massive threat to the game in the SH and NZ rugby in particular. NZ rugby needs a strong and competitive Super Rugby comp, and it needs healthy competition from other SH national sides - if there is a vacuum between provincial and international rugby then surely the AB's will suffer. I know we have had this discussion before and the Kiwi view in the main seems to be "ARU created the mess, not our problem, dont care" - so we will have to agree to disagree about that, but this latest decision does show that the ARU are in no way competent to run our sport in this country, I dont believe they even spent any time or effort considering the 'harder' but 'wiser' options for rationalising the teams in Australia. They were like rabbits in headlights, it had to be the Rebels or the Force that went because they were the 2 franchises with the least political influence in the ARU, and it couldn't be the Rebels because of the legal issues with ownership, so the worst possible decision for the future of the game was made in the interests of expediency and politics. From the little info I got out of my contacts in the heirachy of the ARU, no consideration at all was given to merging because the franchises with the political control of the ARU flat out refused to discuss it. At the risk of sounding like a broken record this meant the option of merging the Brumbies & Tah's and retaining both the Force and Rebels, an option that would have been the best possible for the future of our game, was not even on the table. [/QUOTE]
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