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Peter FitzSimons Columnist and author November 1, 2025 — 5.30am

Wither R360? I certainly hope so!

For right up until the sudden release of Ryan Papenhuyzen by the Melbourne Storm this week – and we’ll get to that – things had gone very quiet from that direction. My guess was that when the serious people crunched the serious numbers, the all too obvious was apparent.

That is, while it is one thing for the likes of Mike Tindall to throw around the big numbers and maintain there is a fortune to be made by setting up rugby franchises in well-known rugby strongholds like Lisbon, Miami, and Boston, surely wiser heads have prevailed when the time came to write the cheques.

Other revolutions in sport, like World Series Cricket, and to a lesser extent Super League, w

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