Super Rugby 2020
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
It costs the Highlanders ~$500,000 per month to run their team so $250,000 from NZR won't go too far.
Crusaders apparently even worse off.
The Crusaders are one of five $10 million-plus businesses in New Zealand Super Rugby effectively operating without income while sport pauses worldwide. It's creating a grim outlook for operations that still have hefty overheads to meet. Mansbridge said they had been "really rigorous" with all their contracted services, and had already had some difficult conversations with fulltime staff. The Highlanders on Thursday confirmed they had been forced to slash salaries by 30 per cent and the Crusaders boss said their trim would be even higher. "The Highlanders business is a little bit smaller than us in scale. For us 20-30 per cent probably isn't enough."Yes, there was that $250,000 from NZ Rugby this week. It's a help, says Mansbridge, but not a solution."When you think about having to deal with resourcing situations, the last thing we want is to go into 2021 and beyond losing intellectual property, chopping everything to the bone and throwing all the good bits out. "I'm nervous we'll have to go so hard to survive the next 6-12 months, or maybe even longer, that we might actually diminish the product. And if you diminish the product you diminish the All Blacks, and that's another conversation altogether." -
@Stargazer The Highlanders would be the smallest of the 5 franchises in terms of operating costs, and there is only so much fat you can trim to save money. The main sponsors of each team might have to dig deeper into their pockets.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Stargazer The Highlanders would be the smallest of the 5 franchises in terms of operating costs, and there is only so much fat you can trim to save money. The main sponsors of each team might have to dig deeper into their pockets.
Why would a sponsor pay more, for less product??
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@shark said in Super Rugby 2020:
Why would a sponsor pay more, for less product??
Common sense says they shouldn't, but if NZR has no more money to give the franchises then outside of a bank loan the only available source of money would be from the goodwill of their sponsors.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
@shark said in Super Rugby 2020:
Why would a sponsor pay more, for less product??
Common sense says they shouldn't, but if NZR has no more money to give the franchises then outside of a bank loan the only available source of money would be from the goodwill of their sponsors.
Which would be an awful look if those same sponsors had sent employees home without pay...
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@KiwiMurph I assume the camera operators receive the same rebuke .
"Acting on an anonymous tip, Newshub cameras caught Mo'unga and several unidentified players exercising together on a field next to the team's Rugby Park training ground."
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
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@Bones said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
who's balls?
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Bones said in Super Rugby 2020:
@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Ahh but did they touch the balls?
who's balls?
The ones Richie was fondling. Apparently everyone had a go.
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@antipodean A very good point. No amount of 'goodwill' defence could justify gifting a professional sporting outfit extra sponsorship dollars in lieu of paying the businesses' own employees.
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@KiwiMurph Muppets. But this isn't an uncommon sight at parks. We saw a group of girls the other day well distanced but passing around a netball. And no, it's not likely 4-5 young girls around the same age came from the same bubble.
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Club World Cup to be put forward as radical new rugby union competition
A radical proposal for an annual Club World Cup featuring 20 teams from around the globe will be put to leading unions this week
Laporte has suggested the involvement of one team each from the US and Japan – as well as four from the Premiership, the Top 14, the Pro14 and six from Super Rugby.
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@Machpants said in Super Rugby 2020:
Reporters are essential workers
Of course someone has to spew out the constant dribble we are receiving amongst the important messages.
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More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
If thats their thinking it will kill Rugby in Australia, no one will care not broadcasters they will keep NRL and AFL as strong as it is now.
It will drive all the decent athletes to those sports even more than now.
Big mistake if that is their thinking it will drive Rugby even more underground.From a NZ perspective the sad thing is Australia in Rugby circles is no longer what it was a fierce rivalry for a time,so fans in NZ will not really care.
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@Bovidae said in Super Rugby 2020:
More relevant in this thread.
So Aust wants a return to club rugby?
That would be an unmitigated disaster.
There's something fundamentally wrong with people who don't recognise two issues:
- The environment and circumstances that made Australian rugby world beaters does not exist now, and
- People complaining about the current malaise are (at least to me) grossly overestimating their ability to adjust and manage sports administration.
