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With all due respect, do you know that to be absolutely true, have you met and had close-enough discussions with, eg, the relevant senior persons within CVC Capital dealing with their rugby investments? Just because a party has a prime economic motivation does not in any way necessarily mean...

Yes, this whole kicking for points area for the 2020 Reds is a complete mystery to me. We have arguably the best rugby kicking coach in the world in Alred yet Jock C, clearly still a poor kicker with a dangerously low kicking success rate (of a type that could one suspects worsen under severe...

Yeah sure. But to think that a party like CVC C if in taking an influential stake in, say, Super Rugby and RC and somehow linking same to their whole world game position and strategy will just sit there and let the status quo RA, NZRU and SARU bodies 'do it like they always did' is kidding themselves...

There will be Super matches that could be critical to the Reds season that, in the winning thereof, penalties and conversion kicks make the difference. (An aside but to point: was it not so that a crucial penalty kick by QC (Quade Cooper) at Suncorp late in the 2011 season secured the Reds a home Final?)

Whatever the merits of your observation above, A Jones did have elements of a successful coaching pedigree well prior to the Wallabies and so on. He head coached The King's School GPS rugby 1st XV to, as I recall, many NSW GPS comp wins in that role and when he was teacher at TKS.

Indelibly inked on my neurons Bobby. And, even worse to add insult to injury, it came after that ludicrous QRU charade 'following a serious global search for HC candidates'. This allegedly 'serious, rigorous global search' established that........Richard Graham was definitely the best possible...

Well maybe so, but you are a conservative fellow BH ;). CVC Capital is not stupid, they already have substantial stakes in pro rugby (see FT link above) and would absolutely understand the crucial role of 'unprofitable' grass roots etc components in sustaining the viability of the code as a...

Yep, and the seeming CVC main focus on SA Rugby with the NZRU tacitly admitting it is somewhere in the discussion. RA gets the least mention. WR (World Rugby) is smart enough to know - the big global sports will likely need additional capital in some form to compete for global market share and prosper in...

For those interested in the directly above, here is a link from the Financial Times of London a few days ago that gives more detail and coherence to the CVC Capital and related rugby matters as above. The link should work as I am subscriber and it's a 'gift link' (I hope)...

To the above Q from Barb I would also add is this: CVC Capital is one tough business and financial operator, if they gained whole or even indirect capital-based influence over RA, things would never be the same there again, they would not tolerate what has been the historical managerial MO and...

Could mean a number of things, as the huge CVC PE player is placing big global bets on live, global sports becoming more and more valuable in the next decade (in terms of both above-norm % growth rates and raw EBITDA cash flows if managed optimally). The article is light on specifics but the...

A response most notable above all for its total absence of factual content or factual response.

To me the essential and I think objective problem in assessing R Castle's CEO calibre for rugby's interests is that she inherited such a appallingly leaking bath tub that so much of her effort has had to go into merely trying to plug holes and pour more water in the top to stop the base level...

Really enjoyed looking through these links mst, so many thanks. (Not just re rugby, I do a lot of work in business strategy so it possessed an even broader interest for me.) Great example of how to reconstruct a niche sports brand (albeit in a huge market space), its media identity, reach...

True but in contrast Nine for FY19 produced an EBITDA of $350m on a revenue of $1.848 bn. Not too bad. The notion that well-run FTA and general news-driven and Pay TV channels will just be soon vaporised by streaming and such like pure IP-based services is not proven. Sky (Pay) TV was in late...

Why then would Optus not be cautious in the manner stated? You assess I assume they have the rational basis to bid big or bullishly for RA's rugby rights package despite rugby's niche status and its current viewer and crowd metrics trends and the relatively poor state of Aust's Super teams and...

Just an aside: why do we focus most singularly upon coach and player development etc failings (even if they are factual failings we can see and agree on as such), when the truly most culpable parties are the respective RU board of directors and RU CEOs whose fundamental responsibilities are to...

Lots of gung-ho 'Foxtel gets the arse, we like' and/or 'Optus/10 will bid big, all will be OK' and/or 'don't worry Foxtel will come back into the bidding' sentiments here. But, on objective grounds, an equally valid hypothesis is that this is a very dangerous time for Australian rugby in...

Whilst the Reds victory over the SWs was an enjoyable showcase of potential - hard to call it more than that objectively given how poor and disjointed that version of the SWs was - for Thorn and this 2020 team to begin to convince as finals contenders and to be validated as a far superior team...

Have to agree. And that win vs the Chiefs was also superb as an example of true ensemble, 'all skills in harmony at once' pro rugby the likes of which we have barely seen in Australian Super Rugby for 5 years or more. Though all too rare nowadays, it can still be done. Let's celebrate it as we...