South Island NRL Bid
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@African-Monkey Any idea who these South Island based equity investors who are fronting up with this $60m are?
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@Kiwiwomble said in South Island NRL Bid:
@African-Monkey i dont know how much weight i put on numbers coming off events like those though, Mrs Womble will go to "an event"....but shes not going to turn up for a mid season / mid table game in the middle of winter
Warriors do though. They miss the playoffs and sell out all season.
Warriors have had consistently good crowds since the Eric Watson years of 2001 despite some up and down results.
Whilst I don't think rugby will die in NZ - it's going nowhere with the dinosaurs from NZR at the wheel.
In some ways it might be a good thing for NZR - it might finally kick them into action.
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@KiwiMurph said in South Island NRL Bid:
@Kiwiwomble said in South Island NRL Bid:
@African-Monkey i dont know how much weight i put on numbers coming off events like those though, Mrs Womble will go to "an event"....but shes not going to turn up for a mid season / mid table game in the middle of winter
Warriors do though. They miss the playoffs and sell out all season.
Warriors have had consistently good crowds since the Eric Watson years of 2001 despite some up and down results.
Whilst I don't think rugby will die in NZ - it's going nowhere with the dinosaurs from NZR at the wheel.
In some ways it might be a good thing for NZR - it might finally kick them into action.
dunno, I think thier heads are so far up thier arses they are still looking down at league and clearly dont think they need to do anything
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@KiwiMurph said in South Island NRL Bid:
@Kiwiwomble said in South Island NRL Bid:
@African-Monkey i dont know how much weight i put on numbers coming off events like those though, Mrs Womble will go to "an event"....but shes not going to turn up for a mid season / mid table game in the middle of winter
Warriors do though. They miss the playoffs and sell out all season.
Warriors have had consistently good crowds since the Eric Watson years of 2001 despite some up and down results.
Whilst I don't think rugby will die in NZ - it's going nowhere with the dinosaurs from NZR at the wheel.
In some ways it might be a good thing for NZR - it might finally kick them into action.
I don't know if that is strictly true, the Warriors have a pretty decent core crowd who always turn up, but aside from the last two hype years crowds haven't always been that good. They averaged 13k in 2019 the last year before the pandemic. 17k in 18 (made the 8), 12k in 17, 14k in 16, 14k in 15 etc. I guess it depends on how we define good.
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@KiwiMurph said in South Island NRL Bid:
@Kiwiwomble said in South Island NRL Bid:
@African-Monkey i dont know how much weight i put on numbers coming off events like those though, Mrs Womble will go to "an event"....but shes not going to turn up for a mid season / mid table game in the middle of winter
Warriors do though. They miss the playoffs and sell out all season.
Warriors have had consistently good crowds since the Eric Watson years of 2001 despite some up and down results.
Whilst I don't think rugby will die in NZ - it's going nowhere with the dinosaurs from NZR at the wheel.
In some ways it might be a good thing for NZR - it might finally kick them into action.
Look at Melbourne. A few guys on this very thread live there, hardly what you would call a rugby league hub, certainly wasn't in 1998, and yet they've missed 2 finals series in their history with the limited resources they started off with. It was laughed at as a destination, certainly isn't now.
Chch has always had a respectable rugby league scene. Yes, Union is the bigger code down here, but some big clubs down here will always be rugby league territory (Hornby, Halswell, Linwood, Aranui to name a few), and many Kiwi internationals have come from this part of the world with as I have mentioned plenty of times already, with very limited to zero pathways.
And yes, I agree with you fully in regards to the dinosaurs from NZR.
@Nepia No idea sorry, would like to know though out of interest haha.
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@KiwiMurph said in South Island NRL Bid:
@Kiwiwomble said in South Island NRL Bid:
@African-Monkey i dont know how much weight i put on numbers coming off events like those though, Mrs Womble will go to "an event"....but shes not going to turn up for a mid season / mid table game in the middle of winter
Warriors do though. They miss the playoffs and sell out all season.
Warriors have had consistently good crowds since the Eric Watson years of 2001 despite some up and down results.
Whilst I don't think rugby will die in NZ - it's going nowhere with the dinosaurs from NZR at the wheel.
In some ways it might be a good thing for NZR - it might finally kick them into action.
the warriors give away thousands of tickets dont they?
any, my feeling was league in auckland is a bigger deal than chch, so im just curious what reseach theyve done other than "it kind of worked in auckland"
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You don’t actually need a grassroots system to get a sport going
Japan is a classic example of that
In the 1970’s rugby was by far the dominant football code and soccer football was virtually non-existent
In the early 80’s a professional soccer league was established and the sport in Japan was built from the top down, with tremendous success you’d have to sayThere is going to be a new NRL team in NZ next season, an NRLW team
Now this is very small beer in the scheme of things, but it might show us what might happen going forward
Be interesting to see the player roster the warriors NRLW eventually put together
Not the particularly the individual players, but where they have been recruited from
Watched a bit of NRLW this year (very entertaining) and a large number of players had come across from rugby union (both 7’s and 15’s)The ABs are always going to be an absolute weapon (on and off field), and AB players have nice contracts
Not sure what a SR/NPC only player is on, but average NRL pay is well over 400K now
The next NRL casting deal is going to be huge, so they are heading for a 500k+ average (20 teams)The players might take the lead (ladies first)
I’d say in the end it’ll be “show me the money”
