Aussie Pro Rugby
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You gotta love the Murdochracy - the bidding war never materialised, yet let's ignore that Optus were interested before
A. Covid and
B. Micropenis measuring contest at RA
C. Complementary undermining from Fox employeesOh and let's ignore that Fox's offer was for SUPER RUGBY, not a domestic-only competition.
The fact that The Australian is writing this like Fox isn't part of its stable.
Solid.
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@Number-10 said in Aussie Rugby:
“The learning through the NRC and the ARC before that, it’s difficult to build fan tribalism with concocted teams. It would be great to have a competition where we liberate the top club rugby teams in the country and bring them into a competition where we are getting the best of the amateur game on show.
Cool cool. So the top clubs in the country are about... oh I dunno - 30,000 interested people?
I'm actually keen to see just how these clubs will piss away the money, given they've found almost every way to piss away money to day.
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@Bones I really do worry about you at times bro
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@Paekakboyz says the guy reading a thread titled "Aussie Rugby".
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oh look, another former player personality with another article long on "lets do it differently" and very short on just what that looks like
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Rugby:
oh look, another former player personality with another article long on "lets do it differently" and very short on just what that looks like
Kafer says:
"Looking at the first weeks of Super Rugby AU, people are watching and watching in similar numbers to previous years."And yet:
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@voodoo said in Aussie Rugby:
the thing is though it's not going to go UP from there, if this is the Covid dead-cat bounce figure when you have no live attendance, you're only going 1 way from here.
Unless of course the Reds become successful again, in which case they turn up in droves.
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Is Kafe wrong? Not entirely - in fact he's entirely right that things can't continue the way they are, because Super Rugby has run its race. We got fucking lazy with Super Rugby, and ignored the fact that a bunch of really good players came together at the same time to win things, or at least be competitive. That probably would have happened if Super Rugby didn't exist.
Nobody actually gave a flying fuck about the supporting systems, and here we are.
He is definitely wrong in thinking that Back To The Future will just work - the club system gave us a platform for great players to dominate the local scene, and then occasionally beat the ABs.
He, among others, suggests a national club competition as one option. And again: it isn't wrong, but it is hardly going to bring along people who didn't grow up with those clubs. As I've mentioned (many times) most of the Sydney Clubs aren't even as well-run as your average chook raffle, so how they're going to create a competitive national player pool running their clubs out of something you wouldn't house your dog in should be keenly watched.
I would love the concept to get up, just so it can fail miserably like those before it, and the Sydney Club cognescenti can shut the fuck up at last.
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... before blaming other parts of the club scene for getting it wrong and "they should have listened to me!"
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@mariner4life Lou Ransome on the FB Live feed for Shute Shield
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Putting the Fox in Aussie rugby
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Went and spent a beautiful tropical winters afternoon watching my old club play. Not bad, even if they did lose an unloseable game.
Nice reminder of just how many years I am past a first grade game.
