Australian Rugby / RA

[Slim 293]

Being a one eyed rebel supporter, I find it interesting that these centralised contracts conversations are coming out now that it’s the tahs and brumbies who are in a pickle

 

[Mr Pilfer]

I’ll keep saying it until it happens. Get rid of Super Rugby and start again. Everything, from zero. Just copy the NRL/AFL. Fuck sake it ain’t hard.

Yeah or just keep going with super rugby but everyone plays each other twice so 22 game season, and if test players need to go play tests during it then so be it, that is when the other players step up

 

[qwerty51]

It's still not enough teams though.

The brands (mainly the Aus ones) are so destroyed from years of shittness and barely have any dieheard fans anyway, would anyone care if they're gone?

We need more rivalry, East v West Sydney etc.

And ffs FREE MOVEMENT

 

[Members Section]

I don't think our Rebs are exactly tickety boo either...

We are in the same situation as the force, they have the richest person in the country holding them up we have the state govt & any short fall after that a bloke whose really good at selling denchers chips in

 

[Wilson]

We are in the same situation as the force, they have the richest person in the country holding them up we have the state govt & any short fall after that a bloke whose really good at selling denchers chips in

A state government famous for sticking to their commitments around sports funding/events....

 

[Members Section]

A state government famous for sticking to their commitments around sports funding/events....

take it to the political board mate

 

[Wilson]

take it to the political board mate

Not a comment on the specific politics, more a comment on the dependency upon a third party with their own own goals and motivations (the charity of a billionaire is not really much different in my mind).

Unless the actual operations are offering a sound foundation it can all disappear in moment and the rebels are well aware of that, which is why they're probably the side most keen for this centralisation after the tahs.

 

[Dctarget]

A state government famous for sticking to their commitments around sports funding/events....

$7 billion is a little different from the Rebels budget of three KFC buckets and a pack of smokes

 

[Highlander35]

Pennies on the dollar supporting the rebs in exchange for Bledisloes and BILs tests at the G is quite different from the sheer scale of short term infrastructure improvements required to host a Comm games.

 

[Caputo]

After the last process which included the demise of the Western Force, I find it hard to have any faith in Rugby Australia. This seems to be thrown out there under the cover of the World Cup.

 

[RugbyReg]

After the last process which included the demise of the Western Force, I find it hard to have any faith in Rugby Australia. This seems to be thrown out there under the cover of the World Cup.

Different RA set up though. Not perfect but some absolute dead weight back then.

 

[Slayer!]

$7 billion is a little different from the Rebels budget of three KFC buckets and a pack of smokes

The Rebels have literally had more than $30m in support (pre-Covid) from RA - loans written off, Government funding diverted...
Every other club lives within their means more often than not. The Rebels are consistently rewarded for breaching the salary cap and going broke.

 

[Dctarget]

The Rebels have literally had more than $30m in support (pre-Covid) from Rugby Australia - loans written off, Government funding diverted...
Every other club lives within their means more often than not. The Rebels are consistently rewarded for breaching the salary cap and going broke.

yeah point proven, $30 million is a little easier to digest than $7 billion.

also a pretty paltry sum to invest in Australia’s biggest city, the risk compared to the potential pay off is worth it.

 

[Slayer!]

yeah point proven, $30 million is a little easier to digest than $7 billion.

also a pretty paltry sum to invest in Australia’s biggest city, the risk compared to the potential pay off is worth it.

Rebels are not Victorian Rugby - privately owned franchise.

 

[Members Section]

Rebels are not Victorian Rugby - privately owned franchise.

i’m pretty sure the license got handed back to RV about 4 or 5 years ago

 

[Slayer!]

i’m pretty sure the license got handed back to RV about 4 or 5 years ago

About the same time the $15m debt to RA was wiped.

 

[Members Section]

About the same time the $15m debt to Rugby Australia was wiped.

I’m not sure what you m.o. is here but I’m just pointing out that the rebels are not privately owned anymore.

 

[hoggy]

I’ll keep saying it until it happens. Get rid of Super Rugby and start again. Everything, from zero. Just copy the NRL/AFL. Fuck sake it ain’t hard.

F_______G Amen to that

 

[hoggy]

Brumbies and Waratahs are broke…

there were warning signs for Brumbies last year when they cashed out a large chunk of their long term lease to cover operating costs.

Waratahs I’d assume would be financially better off now having secured a new training and administration facility long term through government grant, surprising they’re still facing financial strain

EXCLUSIVE: Alarming reality for Australian rugby with two Super Rugby clubs 'virtually broke' — Wide World of Sports

Tim Horan believes two Australian clubs are "nearly broke" while Stephen Hoiles says the Super Rugby model is "broken" as the national body begins a "strategic reset" of the game.

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The two clubs are basically broke because the whole Super Rugby Structure over 20 years has pretty much sent them that way. The whole RA centralization thing is just waffle. It doesn't change the fact that Super Rugby is a death knell to the game here.

 

[RugbyReg]

Could it be RA agree and that’s why they are pushing a national club comp with the plan for that to become main comp with state sides to play after that?