Recent content by Wallaby Man

DAZN looking to become a one stop shop for all markets. So essentially removing the need to on sell your sports rights to other markets. BeIn sports is like this, they purchased some euro league rights and therefore can distribute these leagues into any market they exist in. With DAZN looking to...

Go back to women’s and men’s events separate. 16 men’s teams with 4 groups instead of the lucky loser system. Remove some ridiculous penalty decisions for seatbelt tackles and stop sending every minimal contact to the bin. Although think it might be cooked too much to return to where it was...

Crowds have been on the decline for a while and competitive tension for events plummeted. Might not be fashionable thing to say but combining the women’s into the men’s event hasn’t been great and the standards haven’t improved much with some core teams skill levels too poor for a serious tv...

It’s just a bunch of lads chatting, which is what I like. It makes the guys relatable and come across like they’d be great to have a beer with. Rugby has some dull content at times and other sports and markets thrive off some generic fluff with some of their sport involved. We need some...

Something like this could be the case of ATO suing both rebels and RA, then RA having the ability to go after the directors. Still think they will get caught out for failure to have appropriate checks and balances given this went for years on end. As for contract, all require RA sign off from...

I always thought this was a strong possibility. Also liable for any debts potentially owed to 3rd parties. Many people trying to do some mental gymnastics and distance RA but they can’t be. It’s a weird one but because they essentially control the revenue streams of the Super Rugby participants, they...

That’s heritage tho. I’m someone of Maori heritage but I’m not a kiwi. Kiwis have been pretty good with the islander thing, considering they have the most Tongans and Samoans in the world living in the country. Really haven’t had many squads outside 1-2 born in the islands. Prob more born in Aus...

Most these guys play in essentially semi professional MLR, which is basically a group of guys discarded by all major leagues as not good enough.

Might not be popular to some but I actually think our talent identification is okay and what goes on at school boy level is close to as good as it is anywhere in the world. Considering the Aus school boys team regularly doesn’t pick certain players because they are already 100% committed to...

Hadn’t really looked into RL in WA much. Turns out there is 30 clubs across the state. Now some of these could be single team clubs but that’s considerably more than I expected. My data from work only looks at participation and not actually looks at who’s signed to a club. But for say 14-17yr...

People often peddle out statements that union bigger than league in xyz state. It just simply isn’t the case. I work in data and literally have the figures sitting infront of me now, in fact the largest sample size in the country for such figures. The NRL is getting 1.5x the aidience rugby...

I don’t buy that argument. I’m not expected to pay back future earnings to my school, university or in other peoples case where they first applied their trade.

I actually have no issue with clubs behaving like this. Yes it’s not great for the wider game and in an ideal world it wouldn’t happen. But there isn’t anyone pointing a gun at anyone’s head, there is always a choice for players to take a contract elsewhere (probably for less money) and get the...

That’s the thing, I don’t think a casual supporter has the slightest clue of any international stars. There is almost zero penetration of overseas leagues or genuine global stars like cricket, basketball etc have. For instance I would be surprised if you interviewed 1000 on the streets of London...

Outside the super diehards I don’t think it’s a ticket seller to have the names or not. In fact I’d say one thing rugby struggles with is creating stars. We just had a 1.5 not quite a B team here for the Welsh series and nobody seemed to care. Boks have sent B squads to Aus and NZ in recent...