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' Why do you say 'attitude.' This is not about what I might like, desire, think re these matters. It's about hard facts - see the statement R Davis Chair of the NSWRU made, essentially 'with even less home games in the new 2021 + format, if we don't get the same level of RA $ income as we...

Yep All this talk of FTA priorities and ‘multi platforms’ and ‘great added value Shute Shield’.......... That ship has sailed RA need cash, they will take the highest cash bidder and forget everything else

The appointment of Simmons as Tahs Captain has to go down as one of the weirdest, oddest, most inexplicable decisions ever made in pro rugby And perhaps to cap it off, the stupidest

All these essential after the Tahs’ season openers

Hahaha - no one when in the mood dishes it out to others better than you mate. Have look at your own patronising signature dishing it out to Wamberal.

Obviously > 5,000 of those must have been ‘on the camera side’ .

Get that you're rightly quoting the offical figures but having watched the game and stands closely, I'd guess the true figure was < 4,000.

Promise last on this: my point re Foxtel vs Optus unit production and output costs was not ever "oh, there's a lot of in-house Fox Sports resources", my point was this: "when you procure a largest-in-country truckload of common sports production facilities, technologies, people, uplifts (whether...

Really? Maybe they're exaggerating but this is what they say of themselves and I think it's not too wrong in fact: "FOX SPORTS compiles and produces live content across seven dedicated high definition channels – FOX CRICKET, FOX LEAGUE, FOX SPORTS 3, FOX FOOTY, FOX SPORTS 5, FOX SPORTS 6 and...

I have to agree. I mean what does the recent Super Rugby and Wallaby-viewing (and related match-attending) Foxtel data imply re how may hard Foxtel subs would Foxtel defs lose if rugby went AWOL to Optus? Let's say it's, what, in the range of 60,000 - 80,000 subs that are only on Foxtel for rugby -...

T Thanks! Looks more like a (worrying for them) consolidation around c. 360,000-ish subs than a clear platform for continuing subs growth. And quite a chunk of this is self-cannibalisation from Foxtel STB cancellations.

I guess I meant and should have said '.............blame that's directed at them already for everything else that's gone wrong with the code before we even consider the 2021+ broadcasting outcomes......."

Sure. But whether it's outsourced or not, it's a really serious fixed cost undertaking/exposure if you're not in that domain already. Further, Fox Sports is today and gets all sorts of cost production origination and uplift efficiencies as it produces or co-produces TV or IP feeds for so many...

Yeah agree. But do we know this was a 'one off' RWC-induced termination phase? And not cross-compensated by February with cricket-induced summer uptake? The plus of course re your Kayo 'on and off and on again' point for Fox is that the cost of friggin' developing, testing, installing and...

As there is already

Well as maybe but what is often forgotten in the debate re Optus' interest in rugby is that if Optus takes on 'all-rugby' they have to get into the full-on production origination, feed uplifts, commentating, and all costs of such a domain, that is a whole different set of capabilities, risks and...

And Kayo is now shrinking subs quite materially, not growing them, that is big news in itself. As you say 370,000 Kayo subs as of February 5, 2020, 402,000 as of November 5, 2019 (see afr.com).

We have been poor/mediocre in men's 7s for years and of course that pre-dates Walsh. But you're entirely right, Walsh with the men's 7s has been a massive disappointment relative to (seemingly rational at the time) expectations when he started 2 years ago. They are today a roller coaster mess...

It's a glorious day when you and I agree on a rugby matter BH ;). But your first 2 paras are very good points, and inevitably given them, it's the women's rugby 7s program/RA's job to at least keep up or go one better than other women's competitive codes, there is no other way to sustain success...

Like your work S'cobber but NZ and Canada certainly had matured and fully staffed women's 7s programs by 2016 and these were the teams that prior to the last Olympics generally gave our team the most competition for 7s tournament victories (and still do today btw). (Side note: it was interesting...