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Anyone know the outcome of this meeting?

From the figures I could find the NZ deal is worth $334m and combined Aus and NZ brought in $619m of the nearly $1b quoted. Anyone know how much SA TV rights were sold for?

Another twist on my suggestion of going to 12 teams and 22 rounds. We could still encourage SA to send another team north reducing numbers to 13 but play a double round robin for 24 rounds. Could still meet our July test window obligations by moving games to mid week ala SoO. That would provide...

Early word is LA will soon be announced as the 14th MLR licence to be awarded. Likely entry in 2021.

The Times actually do cover Rugby a little bit.

Could be structured with SA focusing more on the Currie Cup and NZ on the ITM Cup with the top 3 from both qualifying or something like that.

Could go to 3 teams from SA, NZ and Aus plus the Jaguares. Two pools of 5 home and away for 8 games winner of each pool in the final. Domestic competitions in the first half of the season. Move the RC back and run Super Rugby after the July window. The RC leading into the November window. Could even...

That's a real possibility. Not having the finances to continue with 4.

I was only thinking out loud in regards to what Benaud had put up. I don't actually expect that to ever be a real option. RA have invested too much in the Rebels and won't want to admit defeat. I'd actually prefer we went down the 9 team TT route which could then sort out some kind of post...

I've been thinking about something similar. Encourage the SARU to send another team north (there are three who have expressed interest in doing so.) reducing their numbers in Super Rugby to 3. We cut the Rebels as they are a bit of a financial black hole in a market for anything outside the bigger events...

I don't blame them. Just question their reasoning. The resistant 6Ns Unions in mainly the Scots and Italians scuppered the proposal.

What do you think are the chances of Georgia ever being accepted even if they were capable? They unfortunately lack the commercial capacity to be an option for many of the T1 nations. At least in the NC model they would have seen increased funding and extra games against different opposition...

The ratings would suggest that this would be the better option. Even with just the 9 teams in Super Rugby it would work out better. Home and away for 16 games. If they were able to go to 10 - 12 we could get between 18 - 22 games which would be a big improvement.

Because the funding achieved via the deal would allow for greater local development which would have positive net benefits over the 3 RWC cycles where they would have a shot of proving their competitiveness and negating the old argument of their ability to stick with the big boys.

My issue is that none of the opponents seem to take into account the benefits the deals funding would have had down stream as opposed to the top end. Georgia seems to still hold hope that they'll one day become the 7th member of the cartel. Which is never gonna happen. Ever. I understand the...

As show-n-go suggests the money argument is a cop out. RA and the Unions have marketing departments who's job is among other things to develop strategies to promote the game but all them seem capable of is the stock standard game day programme. Same for the respective media departments. RA's...

Rugby's efforts in this department don't look embarrassingly poor. They are embarrassingly poor. So poor that they seem to be completely non-existent.

I think it's time we stop talking about centralising the pro game and it's operations in this country and just got on with it. Maintain HP centres and academies in each state but in terms of admin, marketing etc. look to cut as much duplication as possible from the model and operate out of a...

What really annoys me is that the solution was fairly simple. Expand the top division from 12 to 16. Two conferences of 8 teams split into two pools of 4 each. Everyone has to play everyone in their conference once for 7 games with the 6Ns counting toward five of those games. The rest could be...

In reality they had very little to do with the axing of the concept. Their opposition was to do with not being included in the original concepts 1st division and the issue of promotion/relegation. Most notably it not being on the table to start.