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This, they have a league with a good foundation that they should be focusing on improving, instead of throwing it all away for the sake of one single Super Rugby team.

Players are going to leave in greater numbers, it is inevitable. No Super Rugby change or Wallabies in Australia policy is going to stop a player from wanting to double his wages with half the travel. It's time the ARU stop wasting money on trying to keep players here and just let foreign clubs...

This, it's an utterly niche sport there behind Basketball and Football with expat dominated clubs. Yet some people on here won't be happy until Super Rugby is played from Timbuktu to Tennessee and Tianjin.

That's just looking at it very simplistically. The increased figures can be explained by the fact that games at ANZ are fixtures against teams that draw more (QLD and Brumbies). Playing the other Australian or foreign teams at ANZ would result in crowds similar or worse to what the Waratahs...

There is no avenue to turn this scenario into a win, the "opportunity" was lost the second the contract was signed to play games at ANZ Stadium. How can people actually defend this? The statistics don't lie, over recent years there is insufficient demand from the Sydney public to watch Rugby...

It's not just empty seats above the top tier, these games rarely even fill out the lower bowl ffs. As usual people on here, people like to stick their head out and and repeat "she'll be right attitude" over and over again rather than criticise the actions of the ARU and it's Franchises while...

Good game ruined, the second the fixture game out. People can talk crap about how the public transport is better and more accessible to west blah blah blah but 15k in a 84k stadium is unwatchable on tv and just grim at the ground.

Good to see a full stadium again, makes all the difference to a game imo. Saturday arvo tests are clearly a winner with the fans, why can't we get more of this during the year like in Europe?

South Melbourne fought tooth and nail for that clause as part of the agreement to change their once rectangular ground into an athletics venue. They would no longer manage the venue as the SSCT would take over so they wanted to make sure they would be protected against this very thing happening...

The problem with relying on Vic schools and clubs to produce talent is the end product is never good enough, particularly with VSRU schools (that aren't St Kevins). A lot of kids who play through their schools have only limited exposure to the game and most of that is through some random teacher...

Well that's going to do a lot of good for the green and gold cash cow when players keep leaving and the national team just loses even more depth. Let them go ffs, the ARU is broke enough without having to pay these wages.

The lack of real facilities in Victorian Rugby has finally bitten the game in the arse here. The reason Melbourne Rising will not be playing at Lakeside is because South Melbourne FC have full control of the ground during their season, which starts in March and can go all the way through to...

I'm sorry what? In what universe was that game even close to selling out?

Lol at people booing, wins a win and they just won the series.

This, being half empty so far back from the pitch makes for terrible atmosphere.

This is what the ARU get for charging premium prices to watch rugby at that dump of a ground. AAMI Park is Melbournes Rugby ground and maybe people would pay more to go there, but certainly no one wants to watch the game at fecking etihad.

They nearly got the new Champions Cup right, it will mostly only feature the strongest teams, shame the Pro 12 teams had to whinge about merit selection. It should be top six from each league getting automatic entry with no exceptions for nationality. The Italians getting in when they both...

Rugby fans probably would be willing to pay more to see the game there. Plus a full AAMI Park would be far more interesting than a half empty Etihad. Kinda ridiculous how the Socceroos with their far bigger pull in Melbourne are willing to play some games there than the Wallabies.

Please, you're kidding yourself, the second tier is ok if you have a bit money to spend because it's not too high or too far, but down on the first tier it is dreadful. I've been to enough Rugby, Football and League games at Etihad and been left frustrated with my seats to have a good moan about...

If this game is anywhere near sold out i will eat my own hat. I've seen the same seating plan but i have also used ticketmaster for that ground plenty of times and basing attendance of that is totally unreliable because they restrict the areas where you can buy tickets, probably so they can...