You got a point, but alas I came to the conclusion about 2 or 3 years ago to many people have their heads in the trough and earn a good living out of the existing system.
Radical change would see most out of a job. Maybe they can hang on to retirement or build a nice nest egg and get a good position on their CV.
What is so so so so so incredibly frustrating is the answer is all around us in Australia, and world over similar models work, its works in Europe, it works in the Americas, it works in Asia, it works across Africa.
You and I have often posted on the need for a NDC.
The key to what the new F1 [former AFL] guy said for me was, what worked in the pass will not work in the future and you need to continuedly update, change and adopt. Rugby in Australia has always fallen back to what worked in the past,.
Anyway, I posted I some time ago, we had passed the point where we can stop the fall. IMO as I originally posted roughly 10 months ago is we need Super Rugby today, as its the only revenue source we have that can fund the development of a NDC. But I think the powers have no intention of doing this, they simply hope it turns around.
The often not talked about in discussion pertaining to rugby, as most centres around national and Super Rugby teams performance is hhhhmmmm gggrrrr big call by me but the near elimination of Rugby heartland areas. My oldest son lives in Eastlakes and when we go visit its obvious the galloping greens nor Tha's have nowhere near the influence they once had and that the Swans and Easts, and Souths do. Equally in Epping / Eastwood / Ryde / Beecroft, yes a population demographic change but as a rugby heartland tis no more.
Over reliance on GPS schools, which themselves are under pressure to maintain Rugby at its current status for junior development, adds further to the stress. The fading of Rugby heartland areas further decreases GPS schools ability to find high quality players, and maintain Rugby at its current status.
Whereas once Rugby players were the pick of the crop in the Epping/ Eastwood area, they struggle today at junior level for players and often get the players rejected by other codes.
Hog, many many many many moons ago, I was working in NZ for an Australia / US corporation, we where losing money. Over comes this old hard head from Australia to help, he took me the lunch the first day he arrived, and set out his plan. His first and only lesson was you need to ask the right question, and identify the cause before you can fix things, because if you ask the wrong question you will won't get to the real problem. For years almost everybody on this site blamed not being on FTA as the big problem. Whereas the big problem was the competition structure, and the make up of those in charge of the competition structure.
We have spent years stressing, over the lack of coverage, when compared to all other codes besides League and AFL we got heaps of coverage and media. The issue was always the structure and if we changed the structure and those running lets say a NDC, then those people running the NDC would have got us on FTA anyway.
Anyway another day in the mad house.
For some on the forum [who for years argued against a NDC] .... Football, Football, Football, Football, Football, should make you happy now.
