Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
Resurrecting this thread. To remind of the purpose of the thread:
Summary of some responses:
Cheaper tickets for games. Plain and simple. Juniors under 12 who wear their club rugby jersey get in free.
commission to clubs for selling S15 and Test tickets, every club gets a %age for what tickets they sell through their club.
Have representative curtain raisers like in the old days, instead of boring warm up sessions...
Saturday afternoon S15 & test matches And the odd Sunday arvo match.
For the Tahs free buses from town to the SFS for Friday night matches, there are 350,000 working in the Sydney CBD, make it easier for them to get to the ground.
More financial incentive from the ARU to take some Tahs Games out west. Coincide it with a shute shield local derby between Penrith and Parramatta and make that the curtain raiser. Play on the rivalry between these two areas.
A mass injection of junior development programs into the public school system that is coordinated with all the clubs out that way.
Cheaper playing fees for junior players
Cheaper tickets for test matches with an emphasis on cheaper family tickets.
A bigger presence of high profile players in the promotional sense.
If Sookball can have a reality show about picking up an A league contract, what about one for a Rugby wannabe trying out to win a contract with one of the S15 franchises (academy contract for the younger types or S15 contract for a mature age unsigned talent).
Promote Barefoot Rugby until Under 10's.
Promote Beach Rugby competitions in the summer. Leverage of the Surf Clubs tribalism.
Seven aside Rugby is now an olympic sport. Sevens tournaments are easy to organise teams for and good money spinners for clubs. They are great for preseason 15's fitness. Bring Schools into rugby sevens fold with competitions.
Arrange barefoot sevens competitions for schools in poorer areas where parents may not want to buy boots for little johnny.
More coaching education programmes to be directed to Schools, mainly targetted at public schools.
Wallabies and S15 franchise players to be allocated to schools and hospitals. School visits to be coordinated with coaching skills days. These seem effective in late Jan during Daylight savings periods when there is very little else on.
Absolute effort in the first week back at school for the new starters. New kids (and new mums) at primary school in week 1 read EVERY last newsletter handed out with religious fervour.
You gotta make it easy for "The Australian Families" (Thanks Julia) to get involved in rugby. Doesn't matter if they are shit tickets on the corner or up high at the ends or sides, Mr/Mrs Average and their two kids should not need a mortgage to attend a decent game of rugby. Consider the whole package esp concessionaire prices for food, refreshments and merchandise. Fill the stadiums up.
Influence the media. Get better quality journalists writing articles in the heartland. Give decent writers proper access to the evolving stories and players. Dry up the flow of information to the miserable bastard journalists.
Take a leaf from the WWE and develop some real bad arse dudes that we can all love to hate. If there are none on the current playing roster, then direct one to become one. I am the boss of the ARU and I am your paymaster. You will do what you are told!!!
In terms of Brisbane, I'd love to see a match taken to Skilled Park on the Gold Coast, and a trial match on the Sunny Coast. Sunny Coast is where Rugby has a huge chance in, the success of the Stingrays this year shows that it really needs to be done. Embracing those areas more.
For Sydney, abandon the Homebush idea, and take it to Parra Stadium or CUA Stadium rather than Homebush.
Give Subiaco a Bledisloe, forget the $$$ for a few years. They are sick of the same old teams playing there.
-More rugby shows on tv (free to air) other than the rugby club
-In NSW multiple Shute shield matches televised each weekend, not just 'match of the round'
-Get oz tag in junior schools from a young age. I work at afterschool care a few days a week at a Syd primary school and we always play touch footy. Doing my bit to convert as many of them as i can to play rugby not sookball.
-Plain and simple better and more frequent advertising...
- Getting into the american market would be a huge plus for obvious reasons. 4th Bled should be in Denver...
- Rugby 11 for xbox/ps3 . Rugby 06/08 are awesome games so an updated version should get some new kids playing and loving the game!
Stop paying good money for shit ads. I'd rather watch the Rugby Club's plays of the week than Forged in Union.....
They could look at the fan generated advert - stick a bunch of good clips on the web and throw in some tools that allow users to put them all together into an advert. Let them add voice overs etc, pick a winner and run that as your ad. Kids will love it.
I'd start the season with a 1 day 7's tournament of 10-12 teams featuring our 5 super 15 teams, plus maybe one or two of the NZ sides, invitational pacific island sides, plus a rugby league club or two...the last is crucial and would bring a huge amount of publicity. Other potential teams could be an Australian Indigenous side and the NZ Maori. Sell it to an FTA channel as a separate 'product' and play on a Sunday at the SFS or Suncorp.
Get into the public schools. Teachers are too busy these days, so if ARU can rock up with everything to run a one Rugby comp, they will be very happy - pre-comp clinics, Wallaby/S15 stars, referees, coaches, ovals, comp rules, canteen, T Shirts & posters for participants. Run these clinics early in the year before Junior rugby starts.
Make top level games cheaper for families. You can screw the $ out of the punters in other ways after you have them hooked.
Reclaim the turf. After the game, let the kids get out on the oval to kick a footy, and mingle with the players.
More School Holiday rugby camps. I know that they are glorified babysitting and long day care services, but it is still an engagement with rugby, and a time to encourage kids and parents with the benefits of Heavensgame.
ARU needs affordable merchandise. What can you buy as stocking fillers for kids who are rugby fans? The NRL and AFL and now even soccer have so much to buy - shoe laces, lunch boxes, clocks, wallets, pencil cases and even big kids stuff wheelie bin pictures, car seat covers etc etc ARU needs to play catch up.
Beat the All Blacks.
More TV exposure. FTA or on Fox, I don't really care. NZ ITM is on fox. Do you really want the future kids to know more about NZ provincial players and their teams than our own homegrown stars? Then get our AUstralian games on the TV, FTA or Fox.
And give us QLD'ers Shute Shield on ABC instead of Arthur.
The next time the ARU wants to go and poach a league person, maybe they take a look at the administration. Simple fact is they know how to grow and promote a game. For a CEO, I would take Gallop over O'Neall any day of the week.
Imagine you are ARU CEO for a day.
Considering the threat GWS, the second Sydney AFL team has on rugby heartlands.
What things would you do to improve rugby in this city and country?
Post your ideas and discussions below.
Summary of some responses:
Cheaper tickets for games. Plain and simple. Juniors under 12 who wear their club rugby jersey get in free.
commission to clubs for selling S15 and Test tickets, every club gets a %age for what tickets they sell through their club.
Have representative curtain raisers like in the old days, instead of boring warm up sessions...
Saturday afternoon S15 & test matches And the odd Sunday arvo match.
For the Tahs free buses from town to the SFS for Friday night matches, there are 350,000 working in the Sydney CBD, make it easier for them to get to the ground.
More financial incentive from the ARU to take some Tahs Games out west. Coincide it with a shute shield local derby between Penrith and Parramatta and make that the curtain raiser. Play on the rivalry between these two areas.
A mass injection of junior development programs into the public school system that is coordinated with all the clubs out that way.
Cheaper playing fees for junior players
Cheaper tickets for test matches with an emphasis on cheaper family tickets.
A bigger presence of high profile players in the promotional sense.
If Sookball can have a reality show about picking up an A league contract, what about one for a Rugby wannabe trying out to win a contract with one of the S15 franchises (academy contract for the younger types or S15 contract for a mature age unsigned talent).
Promote Barefoot Rugby until Under 10's.
Promote Beach Rugby competitions in the summer. Leverage of the Surf Clubs tribalism.
Seven aside Rugby is now an olympic sport. Sevens tournaments are easy to organise teams for and good money spinners for clubs. They are great for preseason 15's fitness. Bring Schools into rugby sevens fold with competitions.
Arrange barefoot sevens competitions for schools in poorer areas where parents may not want to buy boots for little johnny.
More coaching education programmes to be directed to Schools, mainly targetted at public schools.
Wallabies and S15 franchise players to be allocated to schools and hospitals. School visits to be coordinated with coaching skills days. These seem effective in late Jan during Daylight savings periods when there is very little else on.
Absolute effort in the first week back at school for the new starters. New kids (and new mums) at primary school in week 1 read EVERY last newsletter handed out with religious fervour.
You gotta make it easy for "The Australian Families" (Thanks Julia) to get involved in rugby. Doesn't matter if they are shit tickets on the corner or up high at the ends or sides, Mr/Mrs Average and their two kids should not need a mortgage to attend a decent game of rugby. Consider the whole package esp concessionaire prices for food, refreshments and merchandise. Fill the stadiums up.
Influence the media. Get better quality journalists writing articles in the heartland. Give decent writers proper access to the evolving stories and players. Dry up the flow of information to the miserable bastard journalists.
Take a leaf from the WWE and develop some real bad arse dudes that we can all love to hate. If there are none on the current playing roster, then direct one to become one. I am the boss of the ARU and I am your paymaster. You will do what you are told!!!
In terms of Brisbane, I'd love to see a match taken to Skilled Park on the Gold Coast, and a trial match on the Sunny Coast. Sunny Coast is where Rugby has a huge chance in, the success of the Stingrays this year shows that it really needs to be done. Embracing those areas more.
For Sydney, abandon the Homebush idea, and take it to Parra Stadium or CUA Stadium rather than Homebush.
Give Subiaco a Bledisloe, forget the $$$ for a few years. They are sick of the same old teams playing there.
-More rugby shows on tv (free to air) other than the rugby club
-In NSW multiple Shute shield matches televised each weekend, not just 'match of the round'
-Get oz tag in junior schools from a young age. I work at afterschool care a few days a week at a Syd primary school and we always play touch footy. Doing my bit to convert as many of them as i can to play rugby not sookball.
-Plain and simple better and more frequent advertising...
- Getting into the american market would be a huge plus for obvious reasons. 4th Bled should be in Denver...
- Rugby 11 for xbox/ps3 . Rugby 06/08 are awesome games so an updated version should get some new kids playing and loving the game!
Stop paying good money for shit ads. I'd rather watch the Rugby Club's plays of the week than Forged in Union.....
They could look at the fan generated advert - stick a bunch of good clips on the web and throw in some tools that allow users to put them all together into an advert. Let them add voice overs etc, pick a winner and run that as your ad. Kids will love it.
I'd start the season with a 1 day 7's tournament of 10-12 teams featuring our 5 super 15 teams, plus maybe one or two of the NZ sides, invitational pacific island sides, plus a rugby league club or two...the last is crucial and would bring a huge amount of publicity. Other potential teams could be an Australian Indigenous side and the NZ Maori. Sell it to an FTA channel as a separate 'product' and play on a Sunday at the SFS or Suncorp.
Get into the public schools. Teachers are too busy these days, so if ARU can rock up with everything to run a one Rugby comp, they will be very happy - pre-comp clinics, Wallaby/S15 stars, referees, coaches, ovals, comp rules, canteen, T Shirts & posters for participants. Run these clinics early in the year before Junior rugby starts.
Make top level games cheaper for families. You can screw the $ out of the punters in other ways after you have them hooked.
Reclaim the turf. After the game, let the kids get out on the oval to kick a footy, and mingle with the players.
More School Holiday rugby camps. I know that they are glorified babysitting and long day care services, but it is still an engagement with rugby, and a time to encourage kids and parents with the benefits of Heavensgame.
ARU needs affordable merchandise. What can you buy as stocking fillers for kids who are rugby fans? The NRL and AFL and now even soccer have so much to buy - shoe laces, lunch boxes, clocks, wallets, pencil cases and even big kids stuff wheelie bin pictures, car seat covers etc etc ARU needs to play catch up.
Beat the All Blacks.
More TV exposure. FTA or on Fox, I don't really care. NZ ITM is on fox. Do you really want the future kids to know more about NZ provincial players and their teams than our own homegrown stars? Then get our AUstralian games on the TV, FTA or Fox.
And give us QLD'ers Shute Shield on ABC instead of Arthur.
The next time the ARU wants to go and poach a league person, maybe they take a look at the administration. Simple fact is they know how to grow and promote a game. For a CEO, I would take Gallop over O'Neall any day of the week.