James Pettifer
Jim Clark (26)
Why would you feel malaise for Super Rugby? Just because it is quite possible that either you or I won't ever see our Super Rugby team play again.
Yeah it sucks. Massively.
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Why would you feel malaise for Super Rugby? Just because it is quite possible that either you or I won't ever see our Super Rugby team play again.
Yeah it sucks. Massively.
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Tim Horan (67)
I read the figures differently. Currently the League gets 12M pounds or 1M per team. This goes to 1.5M pounds with the SA deal. Call it $Aus2.6M.
I always understood that the Euro teams make much of their funding from gate receipts. The Cheetahs are not very strong on that point and it is hard to see massive improvements at the Kings - though time will tell.
Another agreement is that the Cheetahs/Kings improve their playing stocks. In which case SARU have may have agreed to self conflicting requirements of improving the average player stocks to both SANZAAR and Pro14.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
May as well.
Perhaps it should be random (lotto like), though: the Tahs routinely get flogged by players they either actively or ignorantly overlooked so they have no real clue who to recruit and their multiple marquee players underperform with, as Rex mossop would have said, "monotonous regularity".
The problem is that the force and brumbies would out select the rest if it wasn't done by lottery.
KevinO
Geoff Shaw (53)
I agree to this draft, but I vote we throw everyone in. Coaches and recruitment are done in a lottery 7 days before the draft.
1) Get a second night of beers in front of the TV.
2) Will really level the playing field giving them a week to work out there squad ideas. (We are Marshall kind of style, and if you have not seen "We are Marshall" get it now)
WorkingClassRugger
David Codey (61)
Thought this may be of interest.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11893008
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11893008
James Pettifer
Jim Clark (26)
But the result is still the same - basically the teams are going to get bugger all from the broadcasters. Expenses are going to be high and neither the Cheetahs or Kings have large crowds (and I doubt it is going to be any more than their current crowds). So basically, there will be an influx of $5.2 million into the coffers for a couple of years (less any extra expenses) until the SuperRugby broadcast rights are redone.
And then they need to work out how to improve the playing stocks in both competitions. I just can't see how it is going to work in practice.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
how about we throw in the administrators draft the week before?
KevinO
Geoff Shaw (53)
Seems the only way to rebuild Australian Rugby at the moment. 5 Capital Cities in a hat while where at it.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Hard to believe that would do anything but blow costs out of the water
KevinO
Geoff Shaw (53)
But would be the one away game a year I'd make sure I attend. Escape Melbourne winter for a week on the beach and a rugby game.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Dont get me wrong I think - subject to their European players being available - it would be great on almost all levels except travel and, therefore, costs.
WorkingClassRugger
David Codey (61)
Cheaper than traveling to SA and Arg.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Only for Aus and NZ - if its a plan post SA and ARG involvement then the only problem is Fiji's European players.
WorkingClassRugger
David Codey (61)
I think they could be operating on the assumption that SA (and potentially Arg as I tend to think the timezones are better for them) moving north on mass at the end of the current deal is a distinct possibility and are look at the alternatives in which Fiji could offer a reasonably strong one providing they have the time to prepare and hopefully attract much of their European based talent back to the Islands.
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Andrew Slack (58)
It'd basically be the Fiji Warriors with the ability to bring back a small handful of European based players who aren't on the mega deals I think.
Couldn't possibly see, for example, Ravai, Nakarawa, or Nayacalevu coming back with the sheer amounts they're raking in.
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Couldn't possibly see, for example, Ravai, Nakarawa, or Nayacalevu coming back with the sheer amounts they're raking in.
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WorkingClassRugger
David Codey (61)
Yeah, it's unlikely that the likes of the above would return. But you never know. The allure of being to live at home and earn good living might draw them back. But regardless even if you managed to get 50% of them back to the Islands mixed with newly professionalised Warriors players they'd be a solid addition.
Tex
Greg Davis (50)
Twiggy might be a bit short this year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-...ve-title-determination-twiggy-forrest/8727140
The Federal Court has recognised an exclusive native title claim over land on which Fortescue Metals Group's $280 billion Solomon mine sits in WA's ore-rich Pilbara region, potentially allowing the group to sue Andrew Forrest's company for millions of dollars in compensation.
Tbh it wouldn't touch the sides of his operation.
Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
I'm thinking something like this (I assume that Spetre is still in business). Take all NSWRU, QRU and ARU board members to ANZ Stadium and let spectre rip; exploding chairs, shark filled pools, trapdoors out of zepellins, the possiblities are endless. It would be far more entertaining that any super rugby game involving Australian sides.
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