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I have to declare I am part of a group known as Supporters of Australian Rugby Reform, SOARR. The objective of this group is to effect constitutional change in Rugby Australia. Any analysis of Australian rugby shows a depressing picture. On field performance of our… Read More »COMMENT: Australian rugby is a depressing picture – the RA board must be axed and the constitution changed

My old junior rugby coach, an intellectual man given to deep thoughts, was always at pains to emphasise that rugby was a violent game. If you weren’t willing to both withstand and commit acts of violence, he reminded us, this was not the game for… Read More »Finding the right kind of violence: Why rugby has never been harder to play

If you were paying attention in the first few weeks of the NRL season, you might have noticed two trends, one very overt and one a little more subtle. One would have had to have been deliberately ignored the rugby league world to miss major… Read More »Motion sickness: How the NRL’s best are crafting confusion and sending defences sideways

No team kicked more goals than Adelaide last season and only one team has kicked less this year – what the hell has happened? The city of Adelaide, for the second year in a row, has been a place of celebration for Gather Round, with… Read More »‘Suffering from paralysis-by-analysis’: Adelaide Crows have gone from box office sensation to under-performing turkeys