The Marketing Pigeon
Herbert Moran (7)
Really keen for this show, all part of the RE Engagement with the fans of Australian Rugby. All of the players can leverage their own profiles and like to hear the addition of The Professor as The Matty Johns show is the standard for a sports show.Looks like Mitchell, Gits and AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) (Adam Ashley-Cooper) are hosting a new rugby pod alongside ‘The Professor’ (ex-Matty John’s show segment/comedian who was pulled from the show because he’s shit).
The three former players are all genuinely good mates, so I expect the dialogue and banter to flow quite well. But I wonder how critically they’ll examine the state of the game. Their first promo for the poddy features Eddie so it looks like they might be tied in with Rugby Australia itself in some way i.e. is it just a marketing exercise.
Side note but I’m a huge NBA fan and I’m excited by the prospect of a free flowing “free agency” where all players in Super Rugby regardless of teams are eligible for their nations of choice (NZ included) - a “rookie draft” where players can enter and get assured salaries with two year deals with player options for a third, the worst teams getting the highest draft picks which gives a light at the end of the tunnel and reason to watch lesser teams and follow them as they develop.
Teams could protect retaining some local players by using a capped amount of priority tags prior to the draft if they choose too (if i’m The Reds I tag McReight and Wilson coming out of high school) If you want to stay in your home state, you don’t declare for the draft and miss out on an assured salary amount and can just be signed as an undrafted player for the minimum amount.
Ability to have trades in a window of time for teams to fill needs up until say 6 weeks into the year. More media products to sell for $$ and more ability to speak around the clock about rugby out of the regular season.