the coach
Bob Davidson (42)
The coach, I think you're overstating the tribal loyalties that club rugby has.
I say this mainly due to it's lack of progression and even slip from relevance over the years.
The reason News programs don't cover it at all and the papers give minimal coverage is because the vast majority of people don't seem give a shit. If enough people wanted to hear/read about it, there would be more coverage.
TWAS, I wasn't suggesting the tribes were large....I was just making the point that those who do follow club rugby (in Sydney anyway) are passionate about their club. IMO one of the problems the ARC had in attracting bums on seats was caused by the scattering of players from the same club side across multiple ARC teams. People who followed club rugby found it hard to identify with any passion to any particular team. This would probably have changed, of course, had the ARC lasted more than 1 year. As the NRC teams have to be self financing as far as ground hire, payments to players, admin, etc I think it would be financially more viable if SS supporters could see a clear relationship between their club and an NRC team. This will be easy if any of the stand-alone EOIs get up and also the joint ventures, but if some clubs get left out and their players are scattered it could be a problem for their supporters.