Recent content by Highlander35

I would have thought at espoirs level they'd be happy enough, presuming it doesn't impact JIFF. That would presumably go extra if it returned to being most frequently European based.

Is it Saudi Public Investment Fund backed? I can't see anyone else dumping that much money in this economic environment

Wait Seeds 1 & 2 don't have a first round bye?

Both Union and League would do well to actively disavow "fight club is aspirational" schtick whenever possible. Can't do too much about individuals not under any contract but I hope current players are kept very very far away from it.

I thought the squad size cap was 28, did they up the numbers in the last year or two?

Sensible decisions

In a way, it seems to be the opposite of the French thing (and to a much smaller extent what the Aus/NZ Schools are doing): 6 years in the Japanese Education system before high school suggests that a substantial portion of these changes are targeted at the Pacific Islanders (I think primarily...

Stan Sport already has Champions League right? Big step towards being the default streaming service for Football fans rather than Paramount or Disney etc.

Everything about Sevens feels exceptionally fumbled, from the original reduction to 12 teams to the stupid rebranding, to the loss of a couple of iconic tournaments along the way. idk if it ever had potential to be as big as they thought it might be, but it feels smaller and less significant...

It's slightly more understandable than the original. Still not good Also clearly still designed to obscure the fact that they're dropping to 8 teams in tier 1 for the majority of the events.

You've got to wonder if it's genuine naivety or willful ignorance sometimes.

Isn't that the same situation as it was pre-Stan? You couldn't just get Fox Sports, you had to buy Foxtel and then the sports package on top of that?

Saudi is everywhere, if they're serious, I can't see how they don't get something

Saudi on Tob

That's a big fixture