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Bill Pulver always sees those $ signs

It's true I think that a tipping point will be reached with the increase in rights value. Certainly a good bit of rights value comes from being able to promote other shows through your live events but at the end of the day there still will be a huge market for advertisement heavy mass audience...

Their audience is decline - except for sports As long as the advertisers are there (and they are more keen than ever for live events given their nature) then there will be people to move in there I agree with the above on incumbents advantages. You name Apple - Apple don't really deal in...

It's very healthy for the competition and whilst England going out in the group stages is bad for ITV in the short term, the very difficult group provided an early surge in ratings. If anything it gives credence to the competition and World Rugby's aims. People often criticise rugby for having...

Not at all. The NFL is on FTA in local markets i.e. if you're in New York all New York based team games are live on FTA as long as the game is sold out (which it always is in NY) Apart from that Fox (FTA) and CBS (FTA) have 3 live national games between them on Sunday afternoons. NBC (FTA)...

They're only terrible if they paid a good bit for the rights which I doubt they did given the timezones and them sharing with a subscription channel.

Golden point seems particularly odd in rugby league where it is so easy to make 30-40 metres and control posession on a set of six. It's not like the NFL at all which is where I believe they took the idea from, but even the NFL have got rid of it now.

I agree with this. World Rugby need to underwrite more T2 v T1 fixtures. They need to go in there and rent the Sydney Football Stadium/Aviva/Twickenham et al and take some of the risk from T1 who have shown themselves to be adverse to it and would rather have the Barbarians play.

Would it not make sense for say the Force and the Rebels to have a deal with a PI nation to play a game or two there a year. Agree to sign a couple of Island players Don't Fiji have a bit of cash now, I'm sure their union would like a bit of pro rugby to be played there and keep a few players...

I read it most weeks, not Jones because he's a troll who nobody who seriously watches rugby respects. It is not because Burgess is an ex rugby league player. It is the hype. Again, I don't think there is anything in it apart from people saying it was lunacy to pick a guy who had barely...

The talk of Union players and journalists lining up against Burgess because he's from League is nonsense. There was no such talk when Jason Robinson got into the England team in no time at - as he had proven himself to be good enough in a short period of time. Burgess simply hasn't proven...

He did actually! From 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/super_league/bradford/7960128.stm

Yes but the point is that the ARU's revenue is largely in line with the IRFUs.

The IRFU just released their annual report. You can't benchmark exactly and whilst the exchange rate is subject to change, the IRFU's 70 million euro turnover is roughly in line with the ARUs. A couple of key differences being obviously; - the ARU have to fund one more pro team - the ARU have...

From an outsider's perspective looking in with interest - blaming the rules is a load of nonsense. Rugby is not unique in having issues with rules and professionalism bringing in cynical acts like what happened to the scrum a few years ago. Soccer has had some dreadful periods with some shocking...