This reset might be just the thing to make rugby great again

The first burst of professional rugby in Australia, basically until just a bit after the Eales era was over, went better than anyone could have imagined: the Wallabies started winning Bledisloes; lifted the 1999 World Cup; beat the British and Irish Lions; and crowds swelled as never before. The Waratahs regularly played before crowds of 40,000 at the Sydney Football Stadium and everyone in the wider rugby community felt a deep connection to their representative teams.I know it, and you know it.

Ambassadors for the game? Not really. Raelene Castle had to threaten her own holy hell to get some of the 2019 Wallabies to turn up for a function at the Australian embassy in Tokyo during that year’s World Cup.

The coronavirus pause, however, is going to allow a massive reset of the game in this country. It's a time to recognise what has gone wrong and how we can come together as rugby people of good will to fix it, make it better. While it is one thing for you to make a good living from it, if you don’t have a sense of privilege in wearing the jersey, you needn’t bother putting the boots on in the first place, and good luck in rugby league, or France, or wherever.In the new age to come, we must build slowly. Cutting back players' salaries to rather more humble levels will be easy – the new cake to split up is going to be a lot smaller anyway.

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Peter_Fitz Good article Peter. However, I can't let it go without digging out this wonderful letter to the UK Daily Telegraph back in 2015.......

Peter_Fitz dreamin’...

Peter_Fitz Lost cause

Peter_Fitz Totally untrue on the Tokyo embassy - the players were happy to go - Cheika had the problem!

Peter_Fitz Dreamin’

Peter_Fitz Raelene Boils and bs Rugby Australia have completely destroyed Rugby is Aus!!!! It is now Harvey Norman Rugby!!!! Zeeero interest until 2080!!!!!

Peter_Fitz But the game is crap to watch. Too many stoppages and the ball-in-hand time is getting worse. Make it watchable or let it die..

Peter_Fitz He calls himself an atheist but believes in a bigger lie

Peter_Fitz Great rugby article! Cooler heads prevail

drdavebond Peter_Fitz Point very well made!

Peter_Fitz Great article mate. I agree with a lot of the things you said. As an Argie, I believe The Pumas are going in the same direction. But I guess is a matter of the sport becoming professional, in countries where these sports have a very important amateur component..pride & belonging

Peter_Fitz Hear hear Fitz. There are plenty of people, at all levels of the game, doing great work for the right reasons. We’ll come through this. Looking forward to when the theshuteshield kicks off again when we’re through all of this.

Peter_Fitz Less woke bellends like Peter running the game in australia would be a good start

Peter_Fitz Bring back the Amateurs. Yes. The gane played in hell

Peter_Fitz Need to change the rules back to 90s style to make it better again. Kick, scrum, scrum, kick is boring as

Peter_Fitz More grass roots and less rock stars please.

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Peter_Fitz Doubt it - it’s a mugs game

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