Australian rugby/RA

[Adam84]

Some interesting tidbits coming out in relation to this WRU review of the number of teams, FWIW South Africa have 4 teams in the URC.. not 3

 

[Giulia]

Some interesting tidbits coming out in relation to this WRU review of the number of teams, FWIW South Africa have 4 teams in the URC.. not 3
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New Zealand has 6 not 5

 

[The Red Baron]

Some interesting tidbits coming out in relation to this WRU review of the number of teams, FWIW South Africa have 4 teams in the URC.. not 3
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Wait, is this graph saying that over 2 million people are playing rugby in England alone? Surely that can't be right. And noting the 4 teams in the URC for South Africa, aren't the Currie Cup squads that don't play URC also professional? That will affect the SA ratio significantly.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

I think it's one of those situations where "the data shows us that xyz" came before "here is the data, what does it show us?".

The NZ number looks close to the schools & community number collated by NZR fairly recently (last Annual Report I think).

 

[Strewthcobber]

Source of those participation numbers appears to be this World Rugby publication from 2020.

P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf

https://share.google/Tq1TFgfh9j3kfUnn8

Australia with 477,031 participants, we would slot in between Scotland and England on this graph

(And genuinely only 4 pro teams. To not include Pro D2, Currie Cup, English Championship etc seems like a very strange decision)

 

[Wilson]

Source of those participation numbers appears to be this World Rugby publication from 2020.

P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf

https://share.google/Tq1TFgfh9j3kfUnn8

Australia with 477,031 participants, we would slot in between Scotland and England on this graph

(And genuinely only 4 pro teams. To not include Pro D2, Currie Cup, English Championship etc seems like a very strange decision)

Even if you accepted only talking about the absolute top flight pro teams (ignoring Currie cup, pro d2, etc.) as reasonable, they appear to be only counting men's teams (or clubs with both a men's and women's program once) despite the slide very clearly stating the participation numbers are men and women combined.

 

[Adam84]

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Wait, is this graph saying that over 2 million people are playing rugby in England alone? Surely that can't be right. And noting the 4 teams in the URC for South Africa, aren't the Currie Cup squads that don't play URC also professional? That will affect the SA ratio significantly.

I dunno what message they’re trying to convey besides the fact they’re idiots

 

[Crashy]

yeah its a stupid graph.
Yeah I always laugh at that England participation stat. Apparently 1 in 22 English people play rugby between the ages of 0 - 100. That'll do me......

 

[The Red Baron]

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I dunno what message they’re trying to convey besides the fact they’re idiots

No wonder the WRU is in such trouble if this is the quality of their analysis!

 

[Adam84]

compare that to RA's analysis