New "LIV Style" Global Rugby League

[Strewthcobber]

I'm just not sure it's going to be a net benefit that they are being paid a lot of their salary by someone else.

Especially when R360 runs through TRC.

Which means we will probably have to move TRC to match 6 nations over the medium term, which probably results in less money/interest becuase test rugby in February

 

[Omar Comin']

Especially when R360 runs through TRC.

Which means we will probably have to move TRC to match 6 nations over the medium term, which probably results in less money/interest becuase test rugby in February

Maybe March/April would be possible (for both), but even if sticking to February I suspect we'd all get used to it. Super Rugby usually does pretty well in February because it starts a couple of weeks before the NRL (you'd see this in the ratings when rugby was still on Fox). Just avoid playing games in Brisbane until late in the tournament.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

I'm certainly not arguing that we shouldn't select these guys. We will probably have to.

I'm just not sure it's going to be a net benefit that they are being paid a lot of their salary by someone else.

It's definitely not.

Beauty of the sabbatical set up is Mum and Dad are the same you are just taking an offer to live with some extended family for a while.

Once the players are owned by someone else the close access is gone and RA are just another suitor competing with the market.

 

[Wilson]

Clinton Schifcofske has cut ties with R360:

Leading player agent severs ties with R360 to avoid 10-year ban

The manager acting for free agents Ryan Papenhuyzen and Zac Lomax says they will need new representation if they want to secure a deal with Rugby 360.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

Not sure how much this means overall (the players he represents can still talk with R360), but it seems to suggest he's putting a bit more stock in the NRL's threat of a ban. Probably because they (theoretically) have more room to ban or blacklist player agents than they do the players themselves.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

It's smart. He has a lot of players around the place and you don't want them getting worried about you.

He'll be handing them off to others in his circle.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Clinton Schifcofske has cut ties with R360:

Leading player agent severs ties with R360 to avoid 10-year ban

The manager acting for free agents Ryan Papenhuyzen and Zac Lomax says they will need new representation if they want to secure a deal with Rugby 360.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

Not sure how much this means overall (the players he represents can still talk with R360), but it seems to suggest he's putting a bit more stock in the NRL's threat of a ban. Probably because they (theoretically) have more room to ban or blacklist player agents than they do the players themselves.

I heard their new managers have a dark moustache, glasses and is named Sclinton Chifofske

 

[Braveheart81]

I heard their new managers have a dark moustache, glasses and is named Sclinton Chifofske

I was going to suggest that it's an incredible coincidence that his wife is now a player agent and has started poaching his clients.

 

[Giulia]

Especially when R360 runs through TRC.

Which means we will probably have to move TRC to match 6 nations over the medium term, which probably results in less money/interest becuase test rugby in February

Maybe March/April would be possible (for both), but even if sticking to February I suspect we'd all get used to it. Super Rugby usually does pretty well in February because it starts a couple of weeks before the NRL (you'd see this in the ratings when rugby was still on Fox). Just avoid playing games in Brisbane until late in the tournament.

I don't want to watch 5 tests in a weekend. Keep Six Nations and Rugby Championship separate.

 

[liquor box]

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/r360-offer-wests-tigers-team-huge-money-to-stay-in-the-nrl/

The rebel rugby competition that's rousing the rabble (look out Peter Fitzsimons), have today dropped another bombshell.

Fresh off the back of luring another NRL star out of their bumper multi-year contract, the murky and vague proposed new league have thrown a staggering offer at an entire NRL team.

R360 and it's international consortium of backers have dangled an eye-watering amount of money in front of the Wests Tigers NRL team.


However, shockingly, the offer isn't for the team to breakaway and relocate to West Madrid or Manhattan - but to actually just stay in the NRL.

With the proposed comp apparently set to start next October, R360 have offered the Wests Tigers a 15 million (US) dollar a year deal, to keep doing what they are doing.

As part of the conditional deal, the Wests Tigers will continue to field a team in the National Rugby League, and make sure that none of their players try to join R360.

Sensationally, the club won't be allowed to let any players leave, in an effort to force their way out of another club to 360.

The bumper payment is designed to allow the club to meet any salary demands of their players, who can't make finals, but always want to be paid more.

The Wests Tigers have yet to confirm or deny the approach.