Australian Rugby / RA

[wamberal]

Id buy the shit out of a ticket to watch a stress free rugby match with the B&I Lions which doesn't involve the Wallabies.

Watching the Wallabies is hard work.

Wait until you are my age!!!

 

[Dctarget]

Well it’s roughly half the population of Wellington

Apologies my kiwi friends, google lied, it returned 212,000 at first search.

 

[sendit]

There are roughly a million permanent british residents in Aus

We have a country full of aussies and still don’t manage to sell out a stadium sometimes

 

[Adam84]

Ok Sendit if you don’t think there is the demand, what kind of crowd do you think would attend a B&I Lions match vs South Africa if it were played in Sydney, Brisbane or Perth later this year?

 

[sendit]

Fucked if I know, hence why I said I’d be interested to see

 

[Derpus]

We have a country full of aussies and still don’t manage to sell out a stadium sometimes

Aussies don't like rugby - Brits do. They also just generally seem to attend sport more than we do. They sell out second and third division games of soccer over there.

 

[wamberal]

Aussies don't like rugby - Brits do. They also just generally seem to attend sport more than we do. They sell out second and third division games of soccer over there.

A much higher population, a much smaller country (meaning much shorter commutes to games).

 

[Derpus]

I'd be blown away if the B&I Lions couldnt sell out a stadium. I think two games in one city is the only risk.

 

[Mick The Munch]

If there was a travel bubble from Perth to Singapore by then, they'd fill the stadium easily - what is that 5 hour flight time?

 

[Ignoto]

Ok Sendit if you don’t think there is the demand, what kind of crowd do you think would attend a B&I Lions match vs South Africa if it were played in Sydney, Brisbane or Perth later this year?

Play a Bledisloe game or a Aus A vs Maori XV before each of the SA & Lions games. Would be an absolute amazing day out there. RA gets the cut of our game while SA & Lions gets the cut of their game.

Hell, I'll pay for 2 tickets if I have to, but that would be an absolute belter of a day.

 

[fatprop]

McLennan said that if the offer was accepted it would make sense to stage two of the three Lions Tests in Perth to take advantage of the huge number of South African ex-pats living there. “Perth would be a natural, you would think that,” McLennan said. “But we would hope to stage one Test on the east coast.”

Perth’s new Optus Stadium, which hosted the record Wallabies win over New Zealand in 2019, is regarded as state of the art and provides the capacity – around 60,000 – to accommodate the fans who traditionally follow Lions tours in great numbers. “I don’t see why they would not sell out the ground,” McLennan said.

Sounds like an excellent idea to me.

Great idea and an epic troll of the highest order

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Just found out 65% of all people in Australia live in Sydney.

Not sure what that has to do with anything but at this stage of the year I am desperate to begin the NSFW Waratahs pile-on.

 

[fatprop]

Just found out 65% of all people in Australia live in Sydney.

Not sure what that has to do with anything but at this stage of the year I am desperate to begin the NSFW Waratahs pile-on.

As one of out PMs said, "if your are not living in Sydney, you are camping"

 

[Pfitzy]

Just found out 65% of all people in Australia live in Sydney.

Not sure what that has to do with anything but at this stage of the year I am desperate to begin the NSFW Waratahs pile-on.

Less than three weeks until Operation Fucktahs!

 

[barbarian]

This sounds like a calculated play by RA here. Let's be honest, what are the chances of this actually happening - 10%? 5%?

We can talk ourselves up, be the knight in shining armour for the Home Nations, but when it comes to the crunch it's pretty likely we won't be doing anything.

It's smart by McLennan, who seems to have a knack with these sort of things. Gets people talking, positions RA as savvy and efficient, but in the end it all fizzles out a bit. And that's fine as we've already scored the brownie points for the bigger game - the RWC bid.
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[kiap]

As one of out PMs said, "if your are not living in Sydney, you are camping"

Ahem, the actual quote was,"Just because you swallowed a fucking dictionary when you were about 15 doesn't give you the right to pour a bucket of shit over the rest of us."

 

[Adam84]

This sounds like a calculated play by RA here. Let's be honest, what are the chances of this actually happening - 10%? 5%?

We can talk ourselves up, be the knight in shining armour for the Home Nations, but when it comes to the crunch it's pretty likely we won't be doing anything.

It's smart by McLennan, who seems to have a knack with these sort of things. Gets people talking, positions RA as savvy and efficient, but in the end it all fizzles out a bit. And that's fine as we've already scored the brownie points for the bigger game - the RWC bid.
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I think its smart, if only to keep rugby union in the headlines during a quiet time in the season, its an easy win and sounds very much like the old JON playbook. If it comes off, then even better.

Same with the Wallabies jersey last week, what purpose did it serve, could have been run any time this year but it did well to have people talking about rugby during the off-season.

 

[wamberal]

I think its smart, if only to keep rugby union in the headlines during a quiet time in the season, its an easy win and sounds very much like the old JON playbook. If it comes off, then even better.

Same with the Wallabies jersey last week, what purpose did it serve, could have been run any time this year but it did well to have people talking about rugby during the off-season.

Some posters around here do not accept the value of publicity.

 

[RebelYell]

Josephine Sukkar appointed Chair of Sports Australia.

Huge supporter of Australian Rugby, both Women's Rugby and Club Rugby in every state, through Buildcorp.

This can only be a good thing for Aus Rugby

 

[Dan54]

Some posters around here do not accept the value of publicity.

You are right Wamb, and Hamish is the king of it, knows how to use the press. I actually laugh at a lot of it because I remember my rugby club in the Mighty Nua in NZ had won the local comp in about 94 or 95, so just before Xmas we approahed the local union about going to play in a neighbouring bigger union, shit hit the fan in local paper, got called wankers etc by other clubs, then begiining of the next season as we looking for sponsors we took all cuttings from paper to show how often they could get in paper. We were only rank amateurs at it and don't know how well it worked, but it was a shrewd ploy we though!
WOB may even remember it!