Recent content by Omar Comin'

This is true, but if rugby is laser focused on being a concentrated, big event sport with the best against the best then the NRL could become a feeder into top tier rugby. It would only ever be for a small number, like a few Joseph Sua'ali'i's every year, but it could happen because the rugby...

One risk the AFL and NRL take with their continued expansion is dilution of talent, you wonder at what point they spread it too thin. Their domination of the week to week, domestic sporting market is pretty absolute at this point though. But the more they expand, the bigger rugby's point of...

You just have to find an EPL loving friend or extended family member (or 2) to share an account with. You'll end up paying less than before, even with the increased sub cost and having to move up a tier to allow multiple screens to watch at the same time.

I think there's a pretty high chance of this too, but don't discount the possibility that they could keep contracting the number of professional teams so they can continue to hang onto most of the top players domestically.

Can we purchase the next tour off NZ? RA could offer NZR half our portion of the profits, and the All Blacks could still play the Lions in a couple of the mid week games.

Fair enough. So do you think it's implausible this could ever be listed on the ASX? There's so many of these ETFs now I assumed a lot of the administration must be fairly automated and cheaper than it used to be. And there's some listed investment companies (like Hearts and Minds) that have been...

Can players remain JIFF qualified if they start playing for another country?

25 investors for $20 million is fewer people than I would have thought, but a significantly higher average investment. This has huge potential, way above $100 million. Would be great if they could lower the minimum investment or get it as an option into some of the super funds. Even without that...

Yeah doesn't look great, that league really needs some stability. The latest reports out of R360 land is that there's at least 2 American teams in the mix - one from Boston, backed by Fenway Sports (owners of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC), and the other from Miami. Given the MLR team...

I think it's just because the dive try was so early in the game that if it hadn't been awarded the whole match would have been different - who's to know what the result would have been. Whereas the Tizzano clear out was in the final minute, so there's a clearer sense that if you cancel that try...

Yeah I think it helps build interest going into the 3rd test. If WR (World Rugby) clarify that the Lions were essentially awarded 5 or 10 points by mistake then our media can go absolutely feral about it and go toe to toe with the British media. Talk it up as a hollow victory, call for the Lions to do the...

It's not about his entry, or arms it's about the shoulder contact to the back of the head/neck. Tizzano arrives first and is in a perfect position to pilfer the ball, he can't be hit above the shoulders. If it was on the back or shoulder his neck wouldn't fold in dangerously like that. The...

Why do you think those images show it's fine? You can see a frame later than that last image that the first impact is to the back of the head/top of the neck. If you watch it through, focusing on his face you see how much his neck gets folded. I'm not able to embed this video unfortunately but...

It would definitely happen more than it gets pulled up, but it's not like it's never penalised either. There's been plenty of TMO interventions for foul play during clean outs leading to penalties and cards over the last couple of years. Anyone saying Tizzano's reaction was a dive needs to watch...

Any ramifications if World Rugby go onto clarify it should have been a penalty at the end, given the enormous consequences? The ref justifed it as a dynamic incident (and therefore ignoring the head/neck contact) because both players 'arrived at the same time.' Which, as Joe Schmidt said is...