Jesse Kriel insists Springboks are ‘definitely’ better than last year

A lack of cohesion at the top is easily fixed, and appears to be done so already👍

Myself, I'd not be too confident Waugh makes the right calls on some of those 50/50 calls, not dissimilar to NZR with their extremely cohesive outlook coming up against reality (NZRPA and their unions lol).

Simply though I just think like the principle that because Aussie weren't as lucky as Ireland and missed the boat then you need to throw the towel in.

I think that sort of mentality is completely wrong. Not that throwing the towel in such can't be reversed, it will just make a tough task immeasurably tougher your way.

Remember, this is how you opened;

Yes, it's an interesting issue.

As it stands, Europe is effectively stripping NZ and Oz of much of their mid-tier talent.

And then closed with;

The challenge for the Sth Unions is that their ability to match salaries for their mid-tier players is getting increasingly pressured.

Apologies if you were indeed instead just refering to general history, I had read something more into you thinking these are recent problems and know all those questions are a bit tough to answer. I wasn't suggesting I disagree with those views necessarily.

And I agree that Aussie might be losing the battle in that regard, they obviously don't have the same sort of infrastructure requirement responsibilities that NZ does (government bodies have enough money for that in Aus that RA can piggyback off everybody) but they will still be biting from recent revenue reductions. Personally I believe the country had the depth of players for 5 teams, they just got too many decisions (and unforseen/unlucky circumstances) wrong and it ended up being a bit of a burden, and the elephant in the room is that maybe they tried to jump the gun and didn't have the sorts of practices in place that could have seen players like Mumm obtain spots in some of the other teams.

Can certainly understand your doom and gloom giving your working predicament but as I've said you should try and be much more upbeat and just enjoy the prospect of returning home and making sure things are right and in place for you. Encouraging for me that you're not sure how those contracts work either! I was being facetious before of course, they have durations where the money needs to be spent on players, percentages over and under certain amounts get shifted from one pool component (say NPC) to another. Come 2027, or sooner if they already have predictions of using up the required amount of the payment 'pool', they can chose to offer lesser contracts, but that will be down to how they see other revenue like sponsorship and their global rights trend whether they actually only use up the required amount, or whether they continue with existing values given an optimistic outlook in the near future. But this has been on temporary hold/extension with the governance reviews I think, NZR had wanting change, why at this point when you're going to be losing money I don't know.

Whats there to go back to? It sounds like he's getting first team football. Though in those clips he looks like he should be a center and I think NSW are after those.

I was just confused why you said he could do it in the South. You mean he couldn't do it in the south so he had to chose the North. Players can still move even if they have the option to remain here. Just looking at his rugby I just she he was only here around covid so didn't know what his deal was.

You're as bad as NB GS👍

Outside of Sydney uni and uni of Queensland do unis care about rugby in Oz? Genuine question. I know most have teams but they aren't strong aside from those too

A body can cut funding on all sorts of incentives to soldier on, obviously will have an effect but as a not for profit organization they need to be spending everything was more my point (that's why they've had a deficit).

Making successes out of things like Super Rugby should certainly still be focus etc, as not being a money person it seems very scary to me how they rely so much on sponsors.

I think he'd be better than Havili anyway, maybe not Carter level.

Mais peut-être il parle un peu mais pas au niveau de conversation et il est trop gêné a parler devant la caméra?