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You tell others to move on yet exhibit the behaviour of a coward. Glad it makes you feel tough

The wallabies sell the game to Australians super rugby keeps people engaged. The lions will keep coming. When the wallabies were strong the tri nations and super rugby were strong as well A strong domestic product and a strong wallabies goes hand in hand

Reds to the region’s. Give more people an opportunity to go. Move a game to Townsville and it sells out you know in the future you have options to play games up there and engage more Queenslanders. If nobody goes you haven’t lost anything better than playing away

We have no backline depth

Righto champ. It’s not my fault you don’t understand. But let’s make this really simple if they came on Saturday or Sunday they wouldn’t be desperately trying to get approval as like the Lions they would be here. The conditions are for new arrivals.

That’s why we need to follow the AFL’s lead one of AFL commissions (first the Australasian Football council that was founded in 1906) key responsibilities is to grow the game nation wide. Now I have said this before but with the federated model it makes QLD and NSW hopelessly conflicted

But it takes money to grow a product. We went backwards as there was never a plan for the future or to grow the game we thought we would just keep being successful. We should of been putting in the ground work for the Rebels and force in the 90s. When private equity bought into the northern...

But all this is great for the game but doesn’t help NZ at all. The biggest ground used in MLR is 10k they are a long way off selling out a major stadium for USA to NZ. And I don’t want this to sound disrespectful as I have nothing but respect for all the Americans working tirelessly to grow the...

Bit of mayo on that they went to an area with a massive Irish community and played Ireland. The ABs aren’t selling out a stadium playing the USA

Look I agree but unfortunately it will happen

Wallabies is a better proportion for an investor. As they say buy the worst house on the best street. But in all seriousness we are set to add 11m to our population by 2050. The wallabies in their glory years out rated the AFL and NRL GF. You saw when the soccer side started to win how much more...

I agree buying into the rugby championship is the way to go. We need to include Japan in the rugby championship for financial reasons as well. At the moment you get revenue from home tests and that’s it but if Japan come into the rugby championship all nations get an even cut of the entire deal

Japan and the US are fiercely patriotic they aren’t going to support another nation.

I just don’t see it the rise of Japan and the US will se a rise in the interest of their national sides not NZs. Yes it will open more secondary markets to sell their games into and the Japanese will be a good match with the time zone so that will deliver some more money to NZ. But I think of NZ...

Just think if you were considering buying into Aus or NZ you pick Aus over NZ. NZ has little growth potential. Nobody invests not hoping to get a return at some point and with a market that has next to no growth potential and a business model that is only profitable when the lions come out I...

I just feel NZ is a very risky investment with the small size of the economy. They may make it work but it could also fail

Best on gets a Bunnings snag

The thing is where does this growth come from? Silverlake isn’t going to get the RFU to share the rights when NZ tour there. The target of Japan and the USA well it’s not going to generate much support for the ABs especially when they have such a small population. It’s not like when that Indian...

But NZ does not make money the last two years they posted a profit was when the Lions were out and the World Cup year. Their is little potential for growth within NZ as well and as mentioned there tests are in a terrible timezone for international markets

Mate they could of come here just like the Lions once they pass a test they would face no other restrictions. Doesn’t matter if tests are always accurate or not. Once they had done it they would just be like any other member of the community. Rugby struggles to attract new fans as their is a...