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Top rugby ended in December. Mafi played a couple of games for NTT but not finals. Last named in a team on 1/12 Is there any pro rugby on in Japan at the moment?

The 75th minute try for England was something. Check out the rush defense line speed still there in the last couple of minutes of a test match. They are just about playing a different game to the pre-pro old days

Massive result in Dunlin overnight as well. What a tournament

Its in the Olympic park down the road from the old Stadium Australia. Half an hour on the train or so west of the city.

Saw a couple of teams training on the way home yesterday on Lidcombe Oval. My phone said it was 42 degrees at the time. They were all blowing pretty hard. Red training jerseys?

There's no story. There's me hoping the players/coaches are getting paid. Someone's taking a hit

A note on Kayo given that it's (probably) a bit of a game changer. I have no doubt that lots of people are now streaming sport where they previously weren't. Kayo streaming numbers haven't been released so far. However, I don't think it should impact on the ratings numbers too much though...

With the sevens starting it's time to kick off this year's thread Based on the last few years, focused on rugby numbers with other sports included to give context. Usual sources for the numbers https://twitter.com/MediaweekAUS https://tvtonight.com.au/category/ratings...

No idea on finances for each team, or even salaries - but without some heavy investment from owners/twiggy I wouldn't have thought there is any chance that these teams could pay their players/coaches/staff without a pro comp and revenue to play in for a year. No Super rugby team as an example...

Hopefully contracts for players, coaches etc can be honoured across the comp for those that have signed up even without any regular games. Some tough conversations if not.

SANZAAR includes Argentina in the JV these days, so not sure how hard it would be to exclude them from any TRC competition. Think we will see 4 team h&a TRC + 2 additional games against Japan and Fiiji outside of TRC (but maybe during). I reckon we will still see 3 Bleds too. Neither NZ or...

BBL has the same problem Aus rugby has, salary cap is too low meaning the quality of players and hence the games is not what it was in previous years. CA have the luxury of investing additional resources into the franchises if they want to get the marquee players back. Of all places they are...

Fair bit of promotion for Sydney up around the trains and buses so far this year. Will be interesting to see what crowd they can draw at the Olympic Park venue. Forecast is OK at this stage with the really hot weather set to finish on Thursday

In 2020, RA's problem will be finding 25 odd players worth giving a top-up to. We will be overpaying some ordinary players

I wonder if they didn't take to kindly to the research us mug punters were able to do into the historical finances during the Senate inquiry. I agree with you though, the finances are the least interesting bit of the old annual reports. They're historical documents which could and should be...

Until pretty recently, the ARU were pretty tansperant as far as these things go. Lots of docs available on the website, they split their budgets out in the finance section far more than the NZRU as an example. You could get even more off the https://www.clearinghouseforsport.gov.au/ website...

Think you are right, he'll get a decent top-up which will probably be enough to match any OS offers, but he'd want to not replicate 2018 too often else there won't be too many more big money offers

Was a recommendation of the 2012 Arbib review, sports commision requirements were around the same time https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/rugby-union/aru-to-announce-corporate-governance-review/news-story/1bc65b19c4d93575bcc3171e91a420a7

Speaking of reviews. Looks like the Arbib review as well as all of the pre-2015 annual reports have been taken down off the RA website. Unless it's been moved somewhere new?