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Newscorp I believe have made their only rugby journo redundant in the tabloids section. But quite frankly, who gives a shit, who reads the tabloids anymore anyway. Most of their news' audience growth is in the Australian which still covers rugby via decent writers like Wayne Smith.

decent ratings, also, with 2 games of finals guaranteed with Australian teams in them we'll see strong ratings

The olympic bid is a golden opportunity to expand on the ballymore plan, for example to get the busway extended to the stadium which could make it a longer term viable option. The feds will spend a lot of money on the olympics and it's a once in a generation opportunity for Ballymore

Uru has a great running game which is a big benefit late in the game. But against teams with formidable tight work Salakai-Loto is crucial

Betoota constantly ragging on the game was actually toxic for its engagement among 18-30 year olds. This deal if nothing else will stem the bad headlines they give us. The podcast won't be any good - they aren't much chop on their other podcast either. Their real strength is writing satire...

Is it just me or are player interviews somehow getting worse? it feels like every player has been labotomised when they speak. I think it's the effect of being media trained etc- who cares about media training you're not a politician, go and say what you thought happened

Cheers Brumbies, enjoyable game. When the brumbies scored that try i thought ten points down seven minutes to go reds had fought hard but couldn't do it. Imo, a great decision by O'Connor to take a penalty. It was a high probability of 3 points versus a medium probability of a try which would...

Rewatch the footage- wilson actually retreats to the try line then comes forward. there is a camera angle briefly shown when gordon starts his run showing his feet on the tryline

The situation will change by the time the trans tasman games begin - 40% of aus population will have been vaccinated reducing the risk of isolated cases causing large outbreaks. I'd suggest the Gov will adopt a different strategy to the bubble by then if there's a couple of cases than now -...

Every up and coming referee from amateur to semi pro needs to be taught to focus intensely on offsides for the first ten minutes of a game in my view. I do it at schoolboy level and it's the best way to create time and space for attacking sides

who else noticed that refs have clearly been given some guidance stemming straight from HQ about the spirit in which to interpret the laws. For example, offsides being very strictly policed - few penalties early and then a more spacious game. Smart

The news article steers away from implying V’landys (the horse racing guy) and his dirty tricks are involved, giving him the veneer of plausible deniability, but it's clearly bullshit. He jammed the deal, has invented bogus reasoning for the move being in Tabcorps interest (would reduce betting?? bullshit?? Wouldn't...

Also, the V’landys (the horse racing guy) intervention is just outrageous. It should be a question for the Minister for Sport in NSW - Rugby AU should be backgrounding journalists this week to ask it. In particular, i think V’landys (the horse racing guy)' involvement in the decision as a Tabcorp executive is a massive conflict of interest...

97k is actually a decent result, considering most hardcore rugby fans would have watched on stan sport. It's already an increase on last year's reds v tahs ratings on FOX (without the Stan numbers too). I'd be pretty happy with it as Rugby AU and as Nine. The real momentum will come when the...

Let's hope if teams get momentum they'll consider putting it on the main channel

Super Rugby will be on GEM this weekend, not 9's main channel, with the Australian Open on. Wonder if it will be shown on the main once the Aus Open is done

Completely disagree. a lot of NFL commentary is like listening to a droning accountant read out analysis. sure, NFL is all about the playbook and tactics, but i'm not looking for a hyper objective anti fun account of an emotional sporting fixture. Ray Warren, in my view, combines the best of...

Surely Nine goes for the option of giving existing Stan subs the option of a free 3 month trial before it starts automatically billing their card. Would put a huge amount of latent subs on there

For me this game is shaping up like the Iran Iraq war, ideally they'd both lose, but one will sadly claim victory

I suppose you can argue any which way - my overall point is that it's a very lazy stereotype to just lump in people who wear RM's as a rich, arrogant ignoramus from the North Shore of Sydney. I myself earn below the median income in Australia and love RM's