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Raelene C must have walked in front of a lot of black cats passing by. All this happening slap bang in the middle of her media rights negotiations.

The point re players’ salaries is indeed interesting. Any reduction to such could I would imagine only legally be done voluntarily by the players as cancelled games not attributable to them.

SANZAAR statement re Jags v Highlanders game: https://super.rugby/superrugby/news/statement-jaguares-versus-highlanders-rd-7/ States all other Super games this weekend will (at this stage) proceed as normal.

If so BH, it’ll be ‘interesting’ to see the impacts on our RUs’ financial state. There will be cost saving in travel etc, but gate and match day income is a major part of our RUs’ financial viability/survival. Insurances to cover? Typically ‘pandemics’ are excluded in the fine print, but who...

True BH. And I'd be interested to know what passionate Tahs fans think of the job yet another 'high profile banker' Roger Davis has done as Chairman of the NSWRU.

dru, fair enough in one sense for the reasons you state, but surely, at some imminent point, the Reds have to start really stringing wins together in order to begin rebuilding serious fan interest. We cannot keep focussing heavily just on 'future development' and 'building potential' or there...

@wamberal Re JO'N, the ex-banker you stated did a really good job for the ARU. I wonder, do you mean, JO'N Reign I or Reign II? Reign I - to me, this is quite hard to assess objectively. JO'N in I came in when all the stars for Australian rugby's emerging pro game were aligned positively...

If it is so that the Reds have to win 7 more games to enter the Super Rugby finals, then Thorn almost certainly must take no more risks with Campbell as lead place kicker. The damage is already done and I very much doubt there will be a magic transformation to quickly turn him into an 80% kicker...

Well, we may recall how N Jenkins as kicking coach pretty much did exactly this with L Halfpenny in the 2013 BIL series here......seemed to go well enough...

FWIW, I was amazed to read via Jim Tucker in the CM that apparently Alred has been away overseas doing golf swing coaching for at least the last 4 weeks or so and, as you say RR, has only just returned to Ballymore. How such a non-attendance with Reds' kickers in a crucial part of 2020 season...

As someone who has been fiercely critical of most RA directors and past RA boards, their inappropriate competencies and dubious motivations all leading to their disastrous oversight of the code in this country, I (cautiously) welcome these new directors. I have commented positively above...

He also held a senior exec role in the QRU in the 'post glory' much tougher years when Graham was Reds HC, etc. To me this is a net positive in that he would fully understand what is required to make a State RU successful and how they can quickly become unsuccessful and what that leads to. He...

R42 - a very good point. Of course you're right - any one bidder's bid must absorb total production costs as a deduction from their assumed gross revenues derived from buying the rights, they may try to share them (eg potentially FTA and Pay TV for overlapping matches) and in Foxtel's case there...

Whatever - his PR has been world class

Oh FFS! See the ‘Hahaha’ in my post, it was all merely lighthearted stuff and so intended. And more seriously - at no stage did I say Foxtel would def not bid and was out and that process over. The issue arose over keeping the process ‘open’ in some way for a longer period than perhaps...

Yep, I don’t think Optus will take any notice of News Corp emanations re this process. I still do think though - given the code’s current metrics and that they have to deal with production of at least all the non Test rugby - that they’ll bid cautiously if they finally do bid.

Btw all interested - I see in The Australian on Feb 28 Patrick Delaney of Foxtel states categorically that the ARU/RA did go to open market in the last 2 rugby media rights bidding cycles, indicating that reports this did not occur are wrong. He went on to say that this cycle Foxtel and RA had...

We need to keep in mind - R Castle is in London this very week listening to a possible PE pitch by CVC C to invest in SANZAAR and/or link SANZAAR in media rights terms to the 6N comp, that could well be the RA fall back option (in some odd form) if the broadcast deal for RA’s 2021-> media rights...

^^^ @adam84 was just a joke mate - enjoy the put down nonetheless, there’ll be plenty more opportunities

Nostradamus? Hahaha # 2553