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Looks like we'll just shuffle the deck and end up with the Argies at 9 doesn't it?

Page views through the roof though... Hatchet jobs do pay the bills.

Refs seem to be very generous with the defenders in the ruck. Seen plenty of guys with hands on the ground, not supporting their own weight getting the penalty

I'm on record as thinking Super Rugby is doomed, but think an A-League style comp would doom us quicker If we set up an Australia comp instead of Super Rugby and were as successful as the A-League after 12 years, able to afford a salary cap of <$3m for many more games and half the players per...

I think the implication there is that ten think they're going to be losing the FTA rights for BBL

Bad news for Uncle Rupert News Corp posts second quarter loss citing Australian newspaper impairments I wonder what the plan is in the ARU risk register if Foxtel stops being the cash cow?

Here's the World Rugby - Player Welfare - "Putting Players First" Heat Policy if anyone"s interested http://playerwelfare.worldrugby.org/?subsection=6

Is there any risk that the games through the middle of the day on Sunday get delayed or some other action taken because of the heat?

Seriously, how do they get away with it? Every year.....

Think the real threat will be that a couple of the leagues continue to grow and dominate all others, so England, France and (say) Japan become the place where elite rugby players compete with each other at huge salaries, and we become nothing more than a feeder to the dominant comps. As the...

Broke his arm on debut in Ireland on 31/10/2014 apparently. So maybe I was a bit enthusiatic with that "soon", and the "3" years ;) Have edited above

Was BP talking about what it costs the ARU to employee these guys including super, payroll tax, LAFHA, insurance, accommodation costs etc etc? That would bring the actual salary down to where most think it probably is.

Just reading about Ben Te'o. A great case study of some of the dilemmas facing the modern player Born in NZ Father is Samoan Mother is English Lived in Australia for 10 years Lived in Ireland for 3 years 2 years I imagine he travels on a NZ passport, but may also have Samoan, Australian and...

I haven't watched any cricket since the single wicket tournaments of the 1850s. I feel we really lost the individual nature of the sport when XIs took over. Of course, it was at least possible to watch when there were no artificial time restraints like the ridiculous 5 day limit. #Timelesstests...

Superbowl on 7 - 504k On ESPN - 147k (169k for extra-time)

Is there any significance to the public nuisance charge? If there was any betting or cheating etc going on surely they would have gone with a higher charge?

They do. It's just that for ~90k per player per year you get the best women's athletes out there playing touch, or the best hockey players or swimmers etc etc For that money you get the 1000th best footballers in Australia

1.8m over 4 games. Massive. NRL nines up a bit, decent cricket numbers, A-league about the same as last year (Ave 71k on both FTA & Fox)

Really? How are young fans being exposed to sevens? They aren't watching on TV if the ratings can be believed.

Vast majority comes for the taxpayer though doesn't it? And has to be spent on sevens That's not necessarily any better value, but it's not like we're taking money from XVs.