The ARU trying to kill rugby in Western Australia once and for all.
thewest.com.au/sport/rugby-union/wa-rugby-cou...
thewest.com.auPosted Oct 18, 2017, 12:56 PM UTC
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thewest.com.auThis is a fucking bitter pill to swallow. Fuck the ARU. I honestly don't think I can support any other team associated with them. Rugby is going to well and truly die in Western Australia and we're the ones suffering from it. I hope twiggy pulls through with this new league because I don't even want to support the spirit anymore if it makes the ARU money.
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I don't even want to support the spirit anymore
I couldn't or wouldn't blame anyone for not even supporting their NRC team after the bullshit the ARU's pulled. As a tahs supporter, I'd be right with you, if I thought it would make an ounce of difference in the end.
The fact is, the ARU, Super Rugby and the NRC is all about corporate stakeholders and profit generators. The fans don't even factor in any of it.
That said, I'm not giving the ARU any more of my money, I'll just stream the games online. I'll save my hardearned dollars for tickets to see my local club and maybe a sausy or two.
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Mate spirit games are free?
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I know. Just pretty furious after reading that and feeling spiteful
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Wrong hill to die on ARU. Wrong hill.
They are never going to recover from this for at least a generation, if no more.
Right when rugby is on the rose globally.
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RugbyWA publicly sought to put a “retrospective lens” on the circumstances leading up to the entry into the Alliance Agreement in 2016, including allegations of misleading and deceptive conduct by ARU which contributed to further reputational damage suffered by ARU.
Holy shit, this must be really galling. The ARU offloaded the Rebels to private owners in 2015, took control of the Force in 2016 and only a year later can them. To any reasonable outsider that looks shady as fuck. These vermin horrible people had planned this well in advance, and are using any suggestion of that as a "justification" for pursuing legal costs. Utterly mind boggling. I think I need to lie down for a while!
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These vermin
Hey now, let's not insult vermin. Some people like rats, the same can't be said for the ARU.
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Sorry, you're right of course.
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If the ARU go after costs I will not be renewing my reds membership. Yeah I'll watch tests on FTA and streams but won't be going to any more games (super and tests) until the whole board resigns.
Yeah they might have the legal right, but what a kick in the guts. Absolutely unnecessary.
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These ARU cunts needs to be shot
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this whole things looks petty in the extreme, but the ARU are really in the right here. The legal proceedings were started by the RugbyWA, the courts found they had no case, so the costs fall on them.
But publicly putting out a "where are your financial backers now that the bill needs to be paid" and fucking naming them all is pretty damn petty. But again, those people did promise to back the costs of the legal proceedings, even if they probably expected to pay only their own side. It's just ridiculous to be sniping about it in the media.