'Super Rugby' 2021
-
This from the article below gives some numbers but not specific to SA.
New Zealand Rugby finalised its own five year deal with Sky in June after signing a conditional agreement in October 2014, which also covers the All Blacks inbound June test series and the national provincial championship.
Details of the deal have not been made public, but the way it works is the Sanzar partners get a pre-agreed share of the income they collectively receive for Super Rugby and the Rugby Championship with NZ Rugby pocketing the money attributed to its provincial competition and the inbound June test series.
It is understood the new deal, which runs from 2016 to 2020, represents an increase on the previous contract which ran through to the end of this year's World Cup.
That deal was reportedly worth $615 million, a 35 per cent increase on the preceding deal.
[link text](link url)https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/75201467/super-rugby-tv-rights-australia-deal-worth-293-million
-
@Machpants said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@shark said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Godder said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@shark said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Godder said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
For 2021, I think start with an ANZ tournament. Less likely to be disrupted by travel and pandemic issues, so there's more certainty that the competition will be completed.
Either 5 NZ & 3 Oz teams, or perhaps 6 & 4. Too many Oz teams just means they get stomped, which I enjoy but probably isn't conducive to garnering a following in Oz given their love of winners.
Double round robin, home and away, semis and a final. If the playoffs need to be bigger in a 10 team competition, go top 5, with the old league system.
Where does the money come from to pay the players with this model? Without the African TV money, we need something to fill the breach.
TV rights and probably a pared back cost structure for everyone.
Without SA, or Japan, the TV rights money is peanuts.
Can we have some proof of that? I cannot find the amount of the SA deal, NZR newest from sky has been guessed at. But nothing from SA. I'm not sure that they still bring in the biggest amount. The SA economy is fucked, maybe they used too, but it's it still the case?
SA has a population of 59m. Straight away that's an imposing number vs our 5m and Australia's 25m; give or take, it's double the combined tally.
Even if you impose some racial stereotyping and consider the 'keen on rugby' population is the white portion, that's still 5.9m or there-abouts (9-10% of the population, depending on the source). But then add in a quantity of the coloured and black populations and you might get to a third of the population. That's a large potential TV viewership compared to rugby-mad NZ and the AFL/NRL/A League but far from rugby union mad Australian populace.
Don't try and tell me in any seriousness whatsover that losing SA doesn't create a massive money vacuum in SH TV rights. And don't try to bring the value of the rand into it because there's no way the deal would be done in the rand
-
-
@shark I am not doubting there will be a loss in revenue, but there is no proof it will be a giant's portion of it. We just don't know and are re-hashing what used to be the case. Looking at the cost of air travel to/from SA, in the current climate, that is going to make a massive -prohibitive?- difference. Argentina is right out. I've said before a lot of the value is selling to international, non SANZAAR, nations - and there the NZ teams are a big draw. Everyone I know in the UK as rugby fans knows and likes watching SR - and normally the NZ teams esp the derbies.
-
I don't think potential difficulties in air travel would diminish the value of a TV rights deal. But whether or not that's an issue with SA is probably irelevent as we're assumimg they're goooone anyway. Argentina? Yeah sure, not as straightforward as it was when Air NZ flew into BA, but I don't think that's going to preclude the Jaguares from playing in SR.
It'd be great to see the actual numbers re which broadcasters globally pay what for the rights to Sanzaar competitions. But I wouldn't think whoever broadcasts it in the UK pays anything like as much as Super Sport SA.
-
-
The key for me is to make it an even competition. Not one team winning year after year. It gets boring.
NZR's main focus has always been the AB's. This must change otherwise the next level down will continue to die
So the financial structure must be such so that every team has a chance to succeed and win it.One way to do this (inNZ) is for every team must pick up all the cost paid to AB players. In this way it will stop one team stacking their side with high paid AB players as they will run out of money (or exceed a salary cap).
For Aust they will need to drop down to 3 teams
-
Some NZ viewership (sample) data.
Motherfuckers called me a Millennial. I'm Gen X you shitheads.
-
-
@Winger said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
The key for me is to make it an even competition. Not one team winning year after year. It gets boring.
NZR's main focus has always been the AB's. This must change otherwise the next level down will continue to die
So the financial structure must be such so that every team has a chance to succeed and win it.One way to do this (inNZ) is for every team must pick up all the cost paid to AB players. In this way it will stop one team stacking their side with high paid AB players as they will run out of money (or exceed a salary cap).
For Aust they will need to drop down to 3 teams
Can you further explain how the franchises will pay all these salaries directly?
-
NZR will pay the same amount to each SR team, then they are responsible for the ABs wage. Instead of contracting with NZR they contract with each SR team. So most of the money the ABs get paid is from SR team, under salary cap. I guess plus appearance fees/match fees?
Won't work but I guess that's the idea
-
@Machpants so AB's get paid by the SR team for playing for the AB's?
-
-
@shark said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
And why would the franchises suffer a guy being managed by the All Blacks if they've chosen to pay him top dollar to be there.
Yeah this (plus a million other issues). Why would you pay a guy an AB salary if he's going to be off with the AB's and not worth as much to your SR team? We could potentially get the ridiculous situation of guys in NZ declaring themselves ineligible for AB selection (or playing for other countries to top up their salary).
Rugby viewership more than double Rugby League in NZ - Roy Morgan Research
