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Huge nay Massive nay Mega Massive News. I follow sports management around the world and a huge new STREAMING players wants to enter the Australian market. They are called Danz and if you want to look at their track record have a look at what they paid for the J-League in Japan and fights in...

On the Optus streaming, Simon Hill who is a Soccer broadcast / journalist with Fox Sports wrote an article last week pertaining to the digital footprint of soccer. I will leave the link at the end if any ones wants to read it in detail. However the over riding metrics coming from his...

WCR Admire, your work and passion. However, I feel you and many others keep trying to solve our issues but in way to much detail and in arriving at the conclusion prior to identifying all current, past and future details. Whether or not building up the NRC will work or not, is impossible...

Yes less than a year in I said we need to move on from this model. My thoughts have never really changed . The secret was to have a plan. Meaning lots of planning. My suggestion was the Super Rugby could run until we established leagues underneath it. It went something like this. Super Rugby years 1 to 5...

The beyond sad thing for me is the lack of foresight and attention to changing media and cultural landscapes from the 90's and early 00's. Many on this site have questioned why I within months of Super Rugby starting was suggesting very loudly to change from Super Rugby, but only with a detailed and...

Agree I would also add that, Castle was given "Mission Impossible" in what was expected as against what was achievable. Me thinks the RA board, hhhmmm eeerrr cough cough, the RA is not well respected by many within rugby. In fact many consider the current board inept, lazy and out of their...

Dru The decision to exclude the Sunwolves is arguably [and in has a lot of competition] the dumbest decision ever made in the history of rugby. Its difficult to understand even where to start it was so short sighted, so dumb, so full of self interest, and so full of ego, so full of BEYOND...

Whether here or the RA thread is a moot point but the Where To thread is where [no pun intended] I landed. The no Fox, issue is big news, and even if Optus come in its hard to see a similar level of support as Optus don’t like paying for the broadcasting. Meaning if they hire in the broadcast...

Yes I have explained why many many many many many many times. In short all major world competitions and in Australia are based on local domestic competitions. WE needed to plan our exit from Super Rugby from around 2000 and as I said spent at least 5 years developing the new competition. To me its...

I have been advocating for the end of Super Rugby since just before 2000. Further replacing Super Rugby with a local domestic competition and I can include NZ in a local competition. I have always said that a caveat on that was a 4 to 5 year time frame where the first two years are spent in bringing folks...

Very astute Very true Very sad

In my post on the previous page I posted in part the following. """ To me it seems we have always demanded near certainty in outcome before we proceed. This combined with poor nay diabolical analysis of our position at every point. Total over execration and reading of our positions and...

With great fear I speak the unspeakable. The A-League if I posted and compared ratings and crowds, the general concusses would be they are worst than we are? So lets assume A-League crowds and ratings are worst than ours. Lets also acknowledge two things they are just out of a 3 year civil...

I think you miss my point, and many many many have in the past. Maybe its me being incapable of explaining myself. Let me start by saying IMO for any sport to work in Australia it needs a National Domestic Competition, to develop if nothing else a pathway for players and grassroots to aspire...

Then we will never change if every change has to be beyond doubt, in gilt edge, guaranteed to work, and be of benefit. We are on our knees dying and any change must satisfy a series of test that Super Rugby cannot guarantee long term. My humble suggestion, this idea of guaranteed success before we...

Go back and find my posts on using US franchise systems. I have written almost essays on how and why...

They would own the teams and the competition they play in

I think the NRC is a kinda starting point to build from. To go over my old ground, the NRC teams could be sold in a privatised league, similar to the US models I have often referred to. Separate the NRC from RA, and let RA run the national teams and the NRC be self governing and self funding...

That’s quite an astute post and hard to argue with, which I see as a problem in itself. The issue is there has never been a good time to move or create a workable Plan “B”. To me it seems we have always demanded near certainty in outcome before we proceed. This combined with poor nay...