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Without getting into a debate about semantics that's incorrect, the Reds pulled 19K to their regular season game against the Brumbies. My point hasn't been to dismiss the BBL as a competition. It's to point out that while it pulls substantial crowds I believe it's in structural decline, and...

No one is denying people watch it in a substantial way at the moment. The argument is that it has no narrative, isn't memorable and is more about casual entertainment than a legitimate sporting battle

The big bash is a comp that appeals more to ultra casual cricket fans that are looking for a socially acceptable night out with family / date and want some 'atmosphere'. It has minimal appeal to bona fide cricket fans and as a result will have almost no longevity, because people will move onto...

Fair enough but given you can only be a close contact if you live with someone now, if they've given it to who they've lived with, they're now very unlikely to test positive too. So it will still have an effect I reckon

It might be a controversial view but I'm pretty happy they've got Covid now. It essentially lowers the probability they get Covid during the season to something just above 0, and means they almost certainly don't miss any games for the Reds during the season. I can't remember the exact rules for...

It hurts reading that

I take your point but I think that the behaviours wouldn't quite go this way - for example, if a team just continuously contests for the sake of it, they'd expose themselves to a maul without defenders ready to stop it getting momentum. Teams also know they can't just aim for outside shoulder...

TMO Guidelines: Cannot alert the referee to stop play for anything except foul play. The referee may ask the TMO to check something in the in goal as a try is scored, but the TMO may not request it. Cannot rule on anything in the main field of play except possible red card offences. Can't...

Great example. Play immediately resumes

Agree that the Australian crop atm are pretty bloody good. Maybe some QLD bias but I rate Berry the highest out of all them. Personally I think Rugby goes too far down the line of having Referees as talking heads and I actually prefer refs that talk a bit less. Sure a polite explanation is...

Absolutely need a three setter but not a four setter that goes too late because it'll be based off the program average. It'd be a shoe in if the game was on a Sunday afternoon like the Hewitt final (assuming Barty makes the final). I reckon Barty's broad appeal to 25-50 Y.o. women who don't...

Good analysis, thanks for that. Similar situation with the Rabbitohs in the NRL making more money out of ANZ stadium home games, makes sense. Hopefully our crowds build again this year so that we're regularly exceeding capacity at Ballymore and it's all a moot point. Bring on the season

Put $30 on when it was at $41! She's favourite to win, do me a favour and turn on the TV on Sat night!!!

I can't be the only person that finds the BBL to be a dopamine-draining no narrative wank

Absolutely. IMO going forward the three test series should be a wednesday-wednesday-saturday proposition, two midweek games on TV that let you know the rugby test season is on then a Saturday finale. The Wallabies got significant momentum out of the visibility of a mid-week start to the season...

Most of the time referees / tournament organisers have publicly concede that a decision was incorrect has been to calm feral media, typically from New Zealand or the UK. The treatment of Wayne Barnes in 2007 comes to mind. Australian teams have had heaps of calls go against them in crucial games...

Fair enough. The biggest benefit of the upgrade is financial security for the QRU, and by extension Rugby AU no longer having to spend resources shoring up a core rugby state, hopefully anyway. How are membership numbers looking this year?

Is there a final decision on whether the Reds will plan any games at Ballymore once the redevelopment is complete? Surely it would be an ideal facility to host some of the smaller games at? Get some school bands playing and some food trucks with good beer and it would be absolutely fantastic.

If they're based at Lennox Head Lake Ainsworth I hope they stay off the piss. I went to a uni function there a few years back which my liver is still recovering from. Hell fun though