Aussie Pro Rugby
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Melbourne Rebels to share Tarneit with Western United as part of consortium rescue plan
A private equity-backed consortium led by business heavyweight Leigh Clifford is working on a deal to save the Rebels and move the club to Melbourne’s west.
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will wait for it to trickle down to free media, heading out to the suburbs isn't going to save them surely...theyre just making it harder for the few fans they have to go to games
Rugby Vic has just built a new home up at La Trobe uni...not exactly close but at least there is a base of people to attract, the pitch is going to be up to scratch so stick some temp seating around and bobs your uncle
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The Waratahs, self-inflicted pressure, and the crippling weight of expectation
With the winds of change blowing through Australian rugby, the current fortunes of the Waratahs are causing furrowed brows
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When has that ever NOT been the case, outside the Cheika era?
It's funny because I was reading some old Annual Reports from our Union (Subbies) and the Chairman's reports were saying "hard times ahead" etc. back in 2007 and several times since.
About time we pulled our fucking heads out and stopped thinking we can get different results doing the same stupid shit
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DC’s a good man. Done it tough and come good at every level after finding his feet. You’d have thought the Tahs would’ve planned on some mediocre seasons while DC adapted to the step up & they fixed their obvious organizational/talent ID & development issues.
So it makes sense they’d give him the chop before they could see a return on their investment in his development. Doesn’t help that he’s far from a political animal, probably doesn’t even own a tie, let alone one from the right old school.
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Former Wallaby Kurtley Beale inks short-term deal with the Western Force
Former Wallaby Kurtley Beale is a Super Rugby player once again with the Western Force announcing that they’ve signed the 95-Test veteran until the end of the current season.
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Based on last night, as much as they could benefit from a player of his talent and experience, the problem was in the forwards.
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@Smuts said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
DC’s a good man. Done it tough and come good at every level after finding his feet. You’d have thought the Tahs would’ve planned on some mediocre seasons while DC adapted to the step up & they fixed their obvious organizational/talent ID & development issues.
So it makes sense they’d give him the chop before they could see a return on their investment in his development. Doesn’t help that he’s far from a political animal, probably doesn’t even own a tie, let alone one from the right old school.
https://x.com/kickoffskickons/status/1773251619213148228?s=46
All of this
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@Smuts said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
You’d have thought the Tahs would’ve planned on some mediocre seasons while DC adapted to the step up & they fixed their obvious organizational/talent ID & development issues.
You give them waaaaay too much credit.
Some of the back office want the game to improve. Some of them are even working toward that.
However there are a bunch of people who just assume a lack of success is down to the right coach and the rest of it doesn't matter.
And, after Cheika won a decade ago with much the same shitty system, who can blame them for thinking that way? They're lazy, bloated minds, fat on imagined glory; they think that their school/club/etc is fine so why can't NSW just "be like that?"
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This could go in the Aus Community Rugby thread as well, but:
As we transition into the new central model, there won't even be anything meaningful in terms of change at NSW, I predict. What they've not looked ahead to is the changes required to the financial model.
Without what little TV money they had, who funds community rugby? Because it can barely fund itself.
My club is looking at around the following per team we field as line items:
$2000 - New playing kit (jerseys, shorts, socks assumes 25 players)
$ 550 - Regisration fee with Suburban Rugby
$1000 - Rugby Australia "Participation Fee" paid to NSW Rugby
$2700 - Insurance
$1400 - physio
$ 900 - consumables
$1000 - post-match costs
$1250 - live streaming platform$10,800 - we try to get 2-year deals for jersey sponsors to limit that cost, but doesn't always happen.
If I was to fund that purely through player payments (ha!) it would be over $400 per player. We charge $150, so have to find the other ~$300 per player ($7k) through a combination of grants, sponsors, and public generosity.
How sustainable is that? We don't have rich benefactors who throw a pile of cash at us, no questions asked. It is local businesses who are also feeling the cost-of-living pinch.
Private schools who play rugby will continue to get squillions in government grants to build hyperbaric chambers for their athletes to recover in.
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@NTA said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
If I was to fund that purely through player payments (ha!) it would be over $400 per player. We charge $150
Reading and chatting on a Facebook post about NZ club rugby and a guy from Melbourne pays fees of $450!
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@mikedogz said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
@NTA said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
If I was to fund that purely through player payments (ha!) it would be over $400 per player. We charge $150
Reading and chatting on a Facebook post about NZ club rugby and a guy from Melbourne pays fees of $450!
Yep - imagine how hard it is to find sponsors in AFL land?
But then, I know people who are paying $500 for kids soccer, so...
A lot of Kiwi guys who come over here look offended at the mere thought of paying to play amateur footy.
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@NTA said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
$2000 - New playing kit (jerseys, shorts, socks assumes 25 players)
the club pays for socks and shorts? our player have to buy them, this allows for the guys that have played before and dont need yet another pair of shorts or socks
who does your jerseys? 25 jerseys was about $1500 for us last year, that was BLK and we've just gone to some small company id never heard of (S-Trend) so hoping even cheaper
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@mikedogz said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
@NTA said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
If I was to fund that purely through player payments (ha!) it would be over $400 per player. We charge $150
Reading and chatting on a Facebook post about NZ club rugby and a guy from Melbourne pays fees of $450!
ours in melbourne were about $400 but that included shorts, socks, training tshirt or polo. but then we had guys that had played for years and already had that stuff so we cut it out, let people buy what they needed and brought the fees down to $300 and i think its $275 earlybird
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@Kiwiwomble said in Aussie Pro Rugby:
the club pays for socks and shorts? our player have to buy them, this allows for the guys that have played before and dont need yet another pair of shorts or socks
We charge $150 for rego and assume a guy will need a pair of shorts and socks in that. Doesn't always happen but then you have some guys who need replacements a couple of times a year.
It evens out.
