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hoggy replied to the thread Australian Rugby / RA.So basically a group of Old Boys whining about another group of Old Boys, meanwhile. -
I played almost all of my rugby in Brisbane until a fateful tour to NZ where we played a game at 10am with frost still on the ground...
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hoggy replied to the thread Australian Rugby / RA.https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/15/scotty-stevenson-join-the-club-warriors-get-it-union-does-not/
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hoggy replied to the thread Melbourne Rebels 2024.I recall a time when the same thing was said about Foxtel and Rugby. Stan and rugby maybe somewhat co-dependent but the issue the game...
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hoggy replied to the thread Melbourne Rebels 2024.They are only the Golden Goose when enough people choose to support them. Australian rugby has had a Wallaby first strategy for 25 years...
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hoggy replied to the thread Melbourne Rebels 2024.It depends on what structure you are involved in, you could spend $20 Million on each Super rugby team and it will not make much...
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hoggy replied to the thread Melbourne Rebels 2024.Super Rugby has involved something like 6 countries over 5 or 6 continents, had 100' of $millions spent on it, arguably some of the best...
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NRC was a second string competition, it already had a higher-level competition in Super Rugby sitting above it. That is the key...
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I am not sure that the quality of the product is as big an issue as people think. The Rugby watching public in Australia is the diehards...
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hoggy replied to the thread Super Rugby 2024 General Chat.It does mirror Australia somewhat, in nz where an independent review showed the board not fit to run a professional sport and needed to...
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hoggy replied to the thread Super Rugby 2024 General Chat.https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/09/analysis-whats-going-on-with-rugby-in-new-zealand/
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hoggy replied to the thread Super Rugby 2024 General Chat.Not to mention the season here has to start early February that year, nothing like a February game of Rugby Suncorp in 100% humidity and...
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Doesn't European rugby already have one of those? Anyway, looking forward to the Reds having a bunch of 1am and 3am games, with the...
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hoggy replied to the thread Melbourne Rebels 2024.Agreed, but the whole psyche of RA and rugby is Global thinking & that pervades it. Super Rugby was all about taking over the world, we...
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PhilClinton RA hasn't been a Tier 1 sport for the best part of a decade.
