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Who the fuck is buying this? They have club rugby on TV now and (shocker) it's not exactly the silver bullet saving the game. And who are these private owners. I assume you're talking about similar consortiums to what the rebels nearly had, who couldn't provide costings, names, or any detail at...

Ah yeah - replace one unmitigated disaster of competition with another, weaker one. Less games a week than we currently have and 2 extra teams we need to find funding for (not including the rebels...)

At some point we're inevitably going to need a viable 3rd tier at which point this NCC probably ceases to exist. I don't see the point in introducing this as a stop gap beyond giving us more rugby (which I'm not against). I can't see the logic behind it being of value to the wallabies or super...

We'd need to be playing outside of the NRL and AFL seasons for this happen on a Saturday arvo

"We understand the theory but have absolutely no idea how it works in practice."

What's the tangible difference (that can be identified by match officials) between this and running back towards where the ball will land - but blocking? Players are allowed to retreat backwards towards where the ball is - and they are not offside. Running backwards on the same line is not...

I'm a big fan of Lord Laurie but I can't help but feel his job will start to come under significant pressure soon. I'm not suggesting to throw the baby out with the bath water here and radically shift to a rush D - but his 'connected line speed' system isn't just conceding metres but points...

This is a given for every single thing to happen on a rugby field.

There is no offside until the moment someone takes possession of the ball. The players are allowed to retreat in any direction they want and at any speed provided they don't impede any other player from also competing for possession.

They do - RC is covered under Reg 9 - but it's been reported that players are either pressured ("if you go - we won't offer you another contract") or feel like they owe their club loyalty.

My guess is that if the Reds are allowing him to TnT with other teams - they won't be offering him a new contract. Remaining in QLD likely means club land/ real life. Good luck to him, but lets hopefully he's doesn't have any Irish heritage so he can't run away and get immeasurably better like...

Around in circles on this forum thread, currently

Unless there is some revenue share arrangement us touring RSA (or anywhere overseas for that matter) doesn't do a lot for us. Great fun for the players no doubt but it's outside of our timezone and we can't sell tickets.

yeeww! Wrongaz Wre-signs!

I'll let my brother know.

Considering the cowards don't seperate out their Stan only vs Stan Sport numbers - this could be +50% on fuck all. but most likely they're doing ok...

Our next deal is most likely going to involve us re-signing with 9/Stan I feel - even with a bit of change at the adult table. I genuinely don't see many other options for us that either we would want or want us. Completely agree @Wilson re ad-supported models - although Kayo have that and...

Probably more for the wallabies thread - but we are being bashed off the park right now at test level and while 10 may be an issue for us, we could probably start Jesus Christ as our pivot and still lose. All the hype of the new SA 10 is probably warranted by I'd hypothesize that if he was...

Sorry - I realised I'd made an error in the post

It was only last year Stan was reporting growth: https://www.adnews.com.au/news/stan-in-profit-with-2-2-million-paying-users And they seem to be one of the fastest growing capturing the most new subs. (this is share of new subs, not total subs - which is why netflix is so low despite being...