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Average for the year being 521,600 which is great for them. Canal+ has an audience of ~ 34M so only getting 7-800K seems tiny. Hard to compare though - not exactly apples and apples as mentioned

Would help if either party came out and told us what the plan is. Pretty normal for journos to keep asking questions if they haven't gotten clear answers yet.

Reds have publicly spoken on Petaia now in the Brisbane Times - not likely in the 2025 plans

Based on last year would predict this is the way it'll go - with Frankie to drop out if by some miracle JP stays - or potentially Henry. Can't see us offloading Richie if we only have 2 hookers (same with Louie at 9), and we've developed Massimo to fill JTA's shoes when he leaves at years end -...

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/rugby-union/a-massive-day-kiwis-confirm-support-for-anzac-day-bledisloe-clash-20240927-p5kdx4.html Initial support but no timeline. Good start I guess?

I'd love nothing more than some shiny PI money but it's fanciful and fraught with danger. Member owned clubs at least need to accountable to their members. If a private owner decides they're over it the is nothing stopping them from turning off the tap. As strewth mentioned earlier we currently...

Outside of the 2021 final I'm still trying to work out what parts of it were any more successful than Super Rugby in any of the immediate preceding or following years. All of the available data on crowds, audiences and memberships say it was all much of a muchness. The SRAU final was awesome...

Super Rugby sucks - just not as much as something that would likely tank the game does. And brother please - you just need to scroll back like 2 days at most to see the arguments I've made, it's not that hard... This... What is this based on? The private equity we failed to secure last year...

I doing drawing with my nephew the other week and he drew me his dream house. It was a mansion with cookies for walls and a jelly bean bed with lasers from the roof. He was adamant that he was going to build it one day. You have no idea how similar this situation is... And to be clear I'm not...

We're trying to get an uplift on our deal and I can't see there being any interest in a weakened 6 team (3 games per week down from 6) or even more weakened 8-10 team (4-5 games per week down from 6). I don't know why people keep looking to COVID super au as this amazing thing. We did that...

Agree here re eligibility but financially we aren't better off on our own and this is really just simple math. I get that having to work with other unions is annoying and means we can't just make quick changes when we want to but we also benefit from that relationship - massively - and this is...

Man that is a wild guess. Every squad player basically has their own personal staff member in that scenario

I don't know for sure but this seems exaggerated. Where is the number of wallabies support staff published? I know there would be more than what's listed on the website (like physio, dieticians, etc) but I have no idea where this number has come from, or (why if it were true) it would need to...

Hey, broadcasters! We killed super rugby and replaced it with a lower standard of rugby played out of council parks - pay us big money for it!

Yeah maybe? Kinda like how the A-League copied the NRL and AFL and is now just as successful as them (I think anyway, I didn't look).

We can't have our cake and eat it too. The NBL knows it's a second rate competition compared to the NBA. A-league is the same. They are feeder competition to better domestic leagues overseas where our best talent aspire to be playing. If Australia started it's own domestic competition we...

Huge. Kid looks made for the big time

You're literally proving my point. You're going from 'idea' to 'successful outcome' without thinking about any of the things that needs to happen in the middle, and just assuming that it'll all work out. You're saying it works for them so it'll work for us, because...........? Well - just...

I don't think it's NZ pushing us anymore than us pushing them. To me it sounded like it's been a reciprocal, good faith agreement to protect the standard of Super Rugby rather than schmidty needing razors sign off on more overseas players.

You can't host regular, profitable professional fixtures at suburban grounds. The occasional game you can make it work but the moment needs to be a regular thing to support a professional outfit your cooked. There is a reason that the Rabbitohs would rather play in front of 15000 at a seemingly...