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Of course not, but Victoria does have the highest percentage of disposable income in the country by state and also we aren't talking about that many different sports here, relative to what is still working in QLD, NSW (both support professional clubs across AFL, NRL and SRP (Super Rugby Pacific)) and to a lesser...

Ever heard of nuance?

Well considering people have the demonstrable capacity to support multiple teams across different sports - you can just as easily say that at the time the market was untapped, rather than oversaturated. And then the rest is the fault of the business - not the market. A professional team in...

Perfect analogy. RA are by no means blameless here, but I don't think anyone who is claiming that the directors of Rugby Australia or the ARU are solely responsible for the issues the sport faces domestically has a grasp on reality. A lot of the issues around the growth of the game, declining...

I would suspect that most sporting organisations would look at an area that has a global reputation for being sports mad and be able to make the claim that there would be a half decent business case - even if there is saturation by the AFL. Point I'm trying to make is arguing that the Super 12...

Super 12 last existed 20 years ago, worlds changed a bit since then. It's a fair argument to make that having a presence in a densely populated area is a reasonable move to make to scale up any business honestly.

Hence the mostly

There is no reason to not accept them until they've been successfully challenged in court, and even if they knew - I'm not sure how knowing changes anything when the club put itself in $23M in debt with assets that amounted to the trade in value of a used Toyota Camry. And again - I agree with...

I understand this - I'm just saying his argument isn't non-sensical.

I completely agree with the sentiment but again, getting upset about this ignore the reality of the situation. The report came out today - but when Sua'ali'i's contract was signed, the Rebels we're a functioning franchise (at least outwardly anyway) and the decision to fund the women's team OR...

I get your point - and while I don't know for sure, my guess is he's trying differentiate between incidents that occur as a part of the game (a high tackle) and extraordinary incidents like punching, biting, stomping, shoulder charge etc. An example to me that comes to mind is the SBW tackle...

I suppose his argument is that we define what reality is in respect to what is and what isn't a red card offence.

There is a clear difference between operating at a loss and trading while insolvent.

Other than the NPC - all of those competitions follow the northern calendar so understandable that they are on. They also factor in weeks to play challenge and european cup games - easy to do when you have 70% of the globes rugby playing population living within a 4 hour flight of each other...

The difference being here that the Storm have an avenue to make money to fund these programs whereas Rugby Vic is a community organisation and the Rebels bled money, spent more than they had and lied to RA and ASX about it. All well and good to look over the fence at your neighbour and be angry...

I read a lot of positivity in these numbers. Considering Rugby is almost exclusively behind a paywall on Stan - there would be a lot of fans who would still use Stan to watch tests out of pure habit and artificially reducing these numbers.

Considering the team tours the UK in late jan/ early feb and then Super starts mid feb you'd think it would have to be a team of second stringers. But I doubt this is true. Why would they all send all there players away on the eve of the season and leave no injury cover?

The biggest * over Duponts career will be he never plays outside of Europe.

https://www.theroar.com.au/2024/10/02/wallabies-veteran-set-for-shock-super-rugby-move-across-the-ditch-three-years-after-being-stopped-by-ra/ James O'Crusader

They also always come from other professional sports and bring their own fan base with them to whatever team gets them.