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There is an article in today's SMH quoting JON as suggesting that Super Rugby franchises should be aligned with an NRL club. Sounds like a pipe dream to me.
This was the best post since the world cup tbhThis is good shit, we need to get some fire back in the interstate rivalries.
WA and ACT are freeloading states, let's do SOO between the non traditional states and Vic will clean up. The only thing more dismal than the cricket crowds in Perth will be the Force's. I don't wanna rag on ACT too much because their supporters have to live in Canberra and that's tough enough as is.
QLD need to grow up about their players being poached by Victoria constantly. I'm sorry that we have more than two bars and I can actually walk to work and grab a coffee without having to jump across freeways, sweating 4 litres and being accosted by a monitor lizard. Tupou isn't even a QLDer, you just poached him earlier. Develop some of your own players for once.
I wish the Waratahs weren't so shit that they scared away our best young star to go play for the roosters on a lower salary. You're going to lose even more players when they go 0-2 to the mighty Rebels. Can't wait to see Melburnian Josh Kemeny and coffee sipping Fitzroy lad Kellaway carve up you pretenders. #VicciesgettheBiccies.
yes 5 days ago & every day at least once you have had a whining post at least once
lol, what does this have to do with Sydney test crowd?
why are you getting upset when people call out directors who have put the club and livelihood of staff and players at risk by poor governance? It’s your club they’ve damaged..
https://www.afr.com/technology/melb...ital-faces-cascading-failures-20231213-p5er56BRC Capital, a major investor in technology companies and real estate, is facing questions about its solvency after four subsidiaries were wound up in the last month, adding to financial pressure dogging the Melbourne Rebels.
The investment company is a key sponsor of the Super Rugby club, one of five in the league, and its chairman, Paul Docherty, also chairs the Rebels
Four of BRC Capital’s investments – 3DMediTech, Hiro Brands, Aware Environmental, and HoodAI – have been placed into administration or issued with wind-up orders over the last four weeks
Rebels insiders are questioning the solvency of the football club, which The Australian Financial Reviewrevealed last week was struggling to pay its tax bills and was behind on stadium fees. Sources said the ATO had also issued penalty notices to the club’s directors over failures to make payments – a move that could later lead to administration https://www.afr.com/technology/melb...ital-faces-cascading-failures-20231213-p5er56
sadly, it’s a valid question at this point in time..What a truly golden era we enter. Does Australia host the '27 World Cup if RA become insolvent before then?
All dependent on how much propping is required. If it's just what's been reported then it's a no-brainer to keep them chugging. If they become a complete black hole then yeah, maybe it's curtains.sadly, it’s a valid question at this point in time..
i agree with what others have said earlier that having a team in Melbourne is important, but if this BRC issue goes further south and Paul Docherty drags the club down, i really don't see how RA can prop them up to survive.
sadly, it’s a valid question at this point in time..
i agree with what others have said earlier that having a team in Melbourne is important, but if this BRC issue goes further south and Paul Docherty drags the club down, i really don't see how RA can prop them up to survive. That’s confronting for some, but there’s no way to sugarcoat the financial issues that Australia Rugby faces.
I think there may be a basketball club who has an issue with that.Declare bankruptcy, come back as the Melbourne Phoenixes with no debt, easy.
A combined basketball and rugby club wouldn't be the worst idea for as city like Melbourne.I think there may be a basketball club who has an issue with that.
So our Super Rugby teams become NRL feeder clubs.There is an article in today's SMH quoting JON as suggesting that Super Rugby franchises should be aligned with an NRL club. Sounds like a pipe dream to me.
I think it’s an almost certainty that the Brumbies will fall to centralizing under RA. Economies of scale principle will dictate it just makes sense, plus they like the Rebels and Tahs are essentially insolvent in the long term at current funding levels, even if it increases to $5m it’s only a short term balancing the books act, which under current inflationary pressures and wage spiraling in the game caused by the NRL and overseas rugby it will quickly mean the $5m won’t be sustainable. It’s all going to eventually happen, it’s just how much kicking and screaming will be involved and how much leverage they can get in the process.I think that’s the point of centralization
RA now basically has two franchises in Sydney and Melbourne that it can achieve operating efficiencies with and provide better scale to sponsors etc.
Brumbies should come on board. There’s a greater chance they fold as is than get relocated by RA.
Chickens coming home to roost a fair bit this year after long mid management in aus rugby.
Personally if force don’t centralize it’s not a huge issue. So far away the economies of having them centralized probably aren’t amazing. Really need the “southern” three sharing costs at RA levels think each of them could fold absent centralization. All in rude health