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Before Syd Barrett left Pink Floyd, Peter Green left Fleetwood Mac, Peter Gabriel left Genesis and SNL was good, you know the good old days, most games were played on Saturdays and teams would have their grounds for hosting games, pre Super Rugby. The word was spread, and league raided us.

Are you implying that Super Rugby does not get much of the 30 million, and that international matches bring in the bulk of the broadcast revenue. If you are correct, then the argument we need Super Rugby to fund rugby goes out the window. The follow up question must surely be, what is the best use for...

JB Agree very sad. I hope Phil & Co have the smarts and support to turn things around. The Rebels were reflective of all things wrong with Rugby poor management with RA equally poor at their management of a Melbourne based team. I can only assume our broadcast partners were aware and gave...

So long, Farewell, Goodbye, is this cruel or apt.

Hang with me on this. Ever heard of Sissel Kyrjebe, she is a Norwegian singer. She has sold over 10 million albums mostly in Norway. IMO she has close to the best female voice I have ever heard, yet outside Norway almost unknown, like Johnny Farnham almost unknown outside Australia. Maybe you...

+9999999999999 to the power of 99999999999 Just going to frame this as best as I can, but just maybe the guy in charge of Football Australia, read the room perfectly when he got together with Disney to make a doco about the Matilda's prior to the World Cup. He has played the benefits they...

That makes sense, and as I have posted more recently roughly 18 months ago now I said although we need a national domestic competition, there was no funding in place so we needed Super Rugby. However we need to use this period to determine how to move away from Super Rugby. The concern rather one of my key...

Strew Astute post, and in my mind opens up for debate the often asked question regarding what is the best system to develop future test players. In very nay overly simple terms do we fund Super Rugby or fund say 30+ club teams in various competitions. The marketing spread of 30+ clubs IMO is much...

Its been coming for years now, the competition for being the National team, once upon a time it was Cricket and then Rugby. Today, we have major Netball games , Basketball is getting more international recognition, the Matilda's have blow everything away, Rugby League Pacific nations...

Rugby made Offsiders today... and they panned the Rebels and supported RA...

I think thats right, again I could be wrong, but part of the approval process to build all the houses and shopping centre was to build the stadium.

Just on the statement re the investors by RA. My limited understanding is the """"" Tarneit"""" group was involved and they already owned an A-League team. I have copied below some key parts from a far longer article linked at the end. It does not look like its going to fall over. Copy some...

Question Need to make a number of assumptions for the question to be valid. Question at the end. First assumption, If what the forum is suggesting and maybe RA as well, that of the 30 million contract most is for the international matches. Meaning the lost of the Rebels will not hugely effect...

More modern sports analysis over the last say 15 years or so, has linked crowds with sponsors, and further on sold key details of the fan base. The estimate is somewhere between 70 & 80% of revenue should be non broadcast related, although the broadcast helps sell things like sponsorships.. Man...

Came across some ratings and growth that I believed was not possible. It confirms we should never ever never think News report the facts. Any reports written on Rugby by News should be totally ignored.

You probably right, maybe most of the broadcast revenue is for international matches. As an aside if international matches is the major revenue earner, then why play Super Rugby and move to a NDC.

Some years ago I watched an interview with the then head of the AFL. It was put to him the GWS[Great Waste of Space] was costing $$$$$$ that could be better spent. His answer was that GWS made money. Why because it gave the AFL 9 games to sell rather than 8. The revenue from the extra game was...

Does anyone have any information pertaining to the break up of Super Rugby crowds. Things like gender spilt, age of those attending etc.

Interesting article on sports broadcasting and the increasing cost of watching, from the US. For those interested in such things its a decent read. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/its-more-complicated-than-ever-to-watch-sports--heres-why-173847581.html

Read a long and detailed article about Baseball in the US. It seems Baseball is on decline with falling ratings and crowds. I don't think it's in any short or even medium term danger but the trend lines and forecast are not good. All sorts of things are being talked about speeding up the game...