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How so Europe has grown of the back of private equity. Scotland Wales and Ireland aren’t big markets at all. It comes down to what you do with the money

But the point is if they keep taking a loss they will end up like Australia. There will be no World Cup for a long time so all they have that deliver a profit under the current model is Lions tours the costs associated with the professional game will keep rising as well.

The thing for mine that will always hold NZ back is the small size of the domestic economy. This coupled with the rapid financial growth of the game overseas may help them. The West Indies use to have fans where ever they toured being the rockstar of world cricket but that doesn’t last too long

Key word here is versatility. He can cover the wing or 9.

But that has flow on effects. You lose 7.5m and that’s 7.5m less on development. If you keep losing money you have to keep cutting back and you end up undermining the foundations of the All Blacks and that is strong club rugby with good talent pathways

Does not matter if we lose the first game we just need to keep trying to win every game we play. Against the Tahs would have been the perfect opportunity to play him I just feel we should have already of got games into him it’s ridiculous having 2 9s on the bench and not giving him a crack

Mate I hate that mindset we have nothing to fear from the NZs sides. We beat the highlanders away in our only start against a kiwi side last year. While I don’t expect us to start favourites the notion that the games will be over with 15 to go is ridiculous. I would expect us to win at least 2...

But they don’t break even, 2018 they lost $1.9 million, 2019 they lost 7.4 million obviously that’s pre covid. It’s a misconception that not posting a profit means they are breaking even

Yeah we have a history of shitting the bed. We made Jack Deb look like Dan Carter one night in the final round and I think we only needed a losing bonus point for finals. I would have been picking him off the bench for the last few weeks that way you could give him a start against the Tahs. I...

Never said it was, the point was more broadly just because an investment firm or economist or anyone has said it’s a good deal they are not infallible and do get it wrong. They are playing a dangerous game if they want to target markets outside of NZ they risk losing interest back home and if...

Pretty sure it’s all on PTV all ready.

Look I was getting my information in that regard from oceans apart. Great documentary if you haven’t watched it. But even with these higher fees they don’t turn a profit

Who plays 12 then. We should have given Gordon minutes off the bench by now

No we don’t want to get too cute in that game. We could go in with a development mindset and risk losing or we could potentially hand them a winless season

But southern nations don’t get paid for the northern tours that’s why there are so many issues with in equality in rugby

Look the fact it’s a good game helps but the Irish fans rolled in to watch the Irish side

It really doesn’t seem that hard to me. Just have a private account for people you care about and a public account you put photos on and plug products on

I never get that just turn comments on and only allow those who you follow to message you it’s pretty easy

Can’t see the rebels having it in his contract he is guaranteed game time. I am bloody frustrated that we haven’t played him ultimately what happens now if To'omua gets injured? We will be forced to throw him in at the deep end. For the life of me I don’t know why we ran two 9s on the bench...

Also if you have to play finals there as well it could potentially be a huge boost for the game there if you won a championship playing out of Townsville. End of the day everyone loves a winner