Brumby Runner
David Wilson (68)
Sounds like Rennie is impressed with the coaching and development of the Brumbies forwards. Can't see a place for any 'powder puffs' in a Rennie/McKellar crew.
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Sounds like Rennie is impressed with the coaching and development of the Brumbies forwards. Can't see a place for any 'powder puffs' in a Rennie/McKellar crew.
Forcefield
Ken Catchpole (46)
Part of me agrees, but another part thinks that too much shit happens within RA behind closed doors and it is slowly screwing the sport we love. We could use a few more insiders telling it like it is, but you know, maybe before the train wreck occurs.
Slim 293
Stirling Mortlock (74)
KOB1987
Rod McCall (65)
Some snippets from this morning’s Oz:
- Broncos CEO Paul White is off contract this year and has been approached for the RA gig. Saracens are also chasing him
- today’s Zoom meeting with all the super franchises has been canned after the media got wind of it. A TT comp is not off the table but it’s now morphed into discussions between RA and NZR. My read is that’s where it was at anyway.
- Daugunu has knocked back a $2m offer from Japan.
- Lyon are paying Rodda less than the Reds. I’m guessing he’ll go there for the season then turn up at the Tahs or Brumbies
It’s good just to be reading about rugby again!
- Broncos CEO Paul White is off contract this year and has been approached for the RA gig. Saracens are also chasing him
- today’s Zoom meeting with all the super franchises has been canned after the media got wind of it. A TT comp is not off the table but it’s now morphed into discussions between RA and NZR. My read is that’s where it was at anyway.
- Daugunu has knocked back a $2m offer from Japan.
- Lyon are paying Rodda less than the Reds. I’m guessing he’ll go there for the season then turn up at the Tahs or Brumbies
It’s good just to be reading about rugby again!
Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
Can you point out any of these articles which contain materially false information?
RA in significant debt - acknowledged by the interim CEO $9.4 million
RA on verge of bankruptcy - acknowledged by the interim CEO - reliant on WR (World Rugby) loans/advances
RA board losing confidence in Castle - board said it had and then moved her on
RA board divided over Wiggs - confirmed by events
Wiggs threatening to resign - confirmed by events
Wiggs wanted to appoint own CEO - confirmed by events
Wiggs wanted Carroll - confirmed by Carroll
As for backgrounding by "key figures" this is how the world of journalism works - they receive information from insiders and write the story.
If she is "Chief Sports Editor" then the way it works is that she overseas and writes articles on a range of sports, but concentrates on the bigger stories in the range of sports - such as the governing bodies going broke, sacking CEOs, etc. The run of the the mill journos are on particular sports and write the run of the mill articles about day to day events and the editors or senior journos or even sometimes hard news journos come in for the big stories.
Just because you don't like the message, it doesn't make it the fault of the messenger.
If RA wasn't millions in debt, or there wasn't board infighting, or there wasn't the prospect of the CEO being sacked then there would have been no stories to write.
If you had done some research, you would have discovered that she wrote a similar sequence of articles about the funding of Olympic sports pointing out issues in how Sport Australia funds different sports between November and February.
She's not on a rugby beat, she's the sports editor so she moves on to other stories and lets the rugby journos write about the rugby.
Slim 293
Stirling Mortlock (74)
You would have to be pretty naive to suggest that News Corp were not using their news arm to strengthen their bargaining position during the broadcast negotiation............
It's a tactic they're quite well known for...........
That's not to say that RA were not without problems, and that there wasn't any truth in everything they reported - but the unrelenting rhetoric in News' articles immediately following Castle's rejection of Fox Sports' offer, particularly by Halloran who was assigned one obvious task, was not the work of an impartial news organisation without an agenda.
It's a tactic they're quite well known for...........
That's not to say that RA were not without problems, and that there wasn't any truth in everything they reported - but the unrelenting rhetoric in News' articles immediately following Castle's rejection of Fox Sports' offer, particularly by Halloran who was assigned one obvious task, was not the work of an impartial news organisation without an agenda.
Jimmy_Crouch
Ken Catchpole (46)
Look at what they are doing with FFA and the negotiations with the A-League. They pulled all their content.
As a business they are in the sh*t so they are bulling anyone they can to stay alive.
The Nomad
Bob Davidson (42)
Was surprised by the report that Rodda getting less than he was here.
Smith makes a point of him being the highest paid player at the Reds and now taking less to play OS . Makes you think he thought he would just move franchises within Aus , which RA vetoed, and the Lyon deal an afterthought.
Nice comparison piece with Daugunu saying the goal of attaining a Wallabies cap more important than OS money .
Rebels3
Jim Lenehan (48)
Potential movements are happening at Fox atm which will see them potentially abandon their A-League deal, unless the A-League swallows their pride and takes a massive reduction. I have heard murmurs that Rugby could be in line to benefit as fox have decided to prioritize Rugby over domestic football.
wamberal
Phil Kearns (64)
Oh, cut to the chase. It's all about the rolling maul, innit???
wamberal
Phil Kearns (64)
Bein seems to have European football all tied up, so I assume that Foxtel would be happy to piggyback on the viewership that this brings to the table.
wamberal
Phil Kearns (64)
And, magically, it all suits Uncle Rupert's interests. This is not how journalism is supposed to work.
Her only beat is Rupert's drum.
Slim 293
Stirling Mortlock (74)
I would not be unhappy to watch the Wallabies win a game against England off the back of four rolling maul tries........
In fact, it would be beautiful.
dru
Tim Horan (67)
Derpus
George Gregan (70)
It's petty but man, i hope they tell him to go fuck himself with a sharp and pointy object.
Ignoto
John Thornett (49)
Makes you wonder why RA and the A-League don't have a chat about sharing the costs of standing up their own production company. There's a couple of months where you have some cross over of the previous Super competition and A-League, but, the company would be busy close to 12 months of the year.
Derpus
George Gregan (70)
That's actually a falsehood Wamb. Sorry.
Rebels3
Jim Lenehan (48)
It’s almost certain to be Fox. I don’t think the deal will be as bad as many think as well. It’ll be a reduction but something that could be mitigated through the reduction in travel, a small player wage decrease and reduction in head office costs at both RA and Super Rugby sides.
KOB1987
Rod McCall (65)
And hopefully there will be incentives in there if the new improved format leads to a significant increase in viewer numbers.