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I see this as an everyone problem. RA needs to make a decision- does it use a top down model or a bottom up model. The fact they have reduced funding to Shute Shield clubs over the past few years (in favour of paying big money out to Wallabies to either break contract and return home or paying big money for two for the same position- Pocock and Hooper) suggests top down. This approach is clearly failing based on the ~25k going to Suncorp to watch the Wallabies play the Boks. A few years back that would be a bad crowd to get in Perth. Brisbane is supposed to be a heartland. Any less than 35k is dreadful. RA provides the strategic direction for Rugby in Australia. That strategic direction appears to be a nose dive at this point in time. Now it is up to everyone else not to whinge about their lot and try to make the best of it, but ultimately things are *&&%*&( up the chain.