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Or when your domestic season is finished by the 14th June.

Yeah you would think so, but we're talking Super Rugby, getting basic things right has been a challenge.

Pretty good summation Half. that relationship with Fox from the early years was telling, it was the golden child there for a while. But it didn't adapt or head the warning signs which were there from day one, as the other codes evolved with the landscape and changed, rugby didn't, or couldn't...

No, that money was pissed away on Super Rugby which was supposed to have Asian & American conferences by now. After 2003 they thought they were going to take over the world remember and crush the NRL & AFL with Global pots of rugby money. Just hasn't quite worked out that way.

They should be discussing it. For the last 20 years it has pretty much been the main center of discussion, hardly a week (actually every 2/3rd day) goes by without the subject being raised. Its forever ignoring the bloody big elephant in the room.

The only demographic you could market that to would be NRL scouts, another tier to fix the tier above to fix the tier above that and so on.

The only constant in the game of rugby in this country is about every 3-4 days an article bemoaning the structural set up of the game here turns up and off we go, endlessly debating it until bingo! the next article turns up and we start again. It’s been rinse and repeat for 20 years now. The...

Surely you know the drill by now, any change is either a return to the Victorian days or moving to a North Korean Eutopia.

Rugby is a football code it should operate a league that most of those football codes operate, Soccer/AFL/NRL/NFL/Basketball. I didn't say we would be overnight millionaires, reality is a bummer. We should have done this 25 years ago, but now we are flat broke, and living of a credit card to pay...

Its not Fantasizing, you are doing it the way 99% of successful sporting competitions are operated around the world, the money comes from the exact same place it does now, maybe less or maybe more if it proves popular and you can generate real & dedicated followers for the competition & fans...

Oops, sorry I get a bit confused with all the suitors running around who are gonna save our Rugby. Japan, Saudi, USA, Qatar it seems to change weekly.

I'm with you a 1000% I've argued that for 10 years now, but made to feel like some outcast family every time its mentioned. a 2nd NSW team NEVER in a thousand years but hell yeah a Saudi backed nations cup, that will save us FFS.

And I'd bet my house on it they'll still be broke at the end of that, here we come a Saudi backed RWC every year, promise we'll fund the grassroots just need a few more $dollars. The more they chase those global pots of gold I guarantee you one thing the less people back home that will give a shit.

Now that takes me back. I do remember fearing for my life at the top of the Millard Stand in a good southerly, but geez you could not get a better view of the game. And to top it of also remember Bernie's corner, not sure the game think it was Canterbury, but in the 80's but we were only 2/3...

They may not have much choice soon. The Wallabies & All Blacks are sporting teams competing in an entertainment market. really they are no different than an AFL or NRL team, and right now they are pretty much getting there arses kicked. The business model the game has chosen is simply...

Must be a hard pill to swallow for Geoff Parkes. Who every Monday for the last 10 years on the roar has defended Super Rugby to the hilt, the only option ever available to Rugby Union in this country. Any hint of another structure and heaven help if you ever mentioned a domestic competition...

The problem is Half, the minute you mention any sort of domestic competition, you are immediately accused of turning the game into North Korea and if we are not playing NZ teams on a weekly basis the game will turn overnight into a neighborhood park, kick along. Sadly the game here would prefer...

Both NZ & AUS need to get rid of Super Rugby, it is the common factor in the decline of the code in BOTH countries now, just have a read of the stuff coming out of NZ today. How the F---K did they let it get to this stage. Sustainable domestic competitions at an economic level that can be...

Vogel Bread, can't beat it and shoved a jar of Jed's coffee in my bag coming back from the last trip. As a rep I travel a fair bit in both NZ and Aus food is similar but I reckon NZ has better bakeries, some of the morning smoko shops are just awesome with good choices, they kick arse on filled...

I think it is an engagement/perception issue and with the other codes AFL/NRL there competitions engage more of the public, they have a greater spread across the country. Those competitions create the interest for people to become involved. Rugby Union has a top down mentality whereby it thinks...