Melbourne Rebels 2024

[Rebel man]

I park along the river and just walk across the bridge, normally cost about $4. Completely agree regarding food vendors, the one outside my seats is normally closed.

The food offerings use to be better than the MCG. Now it’s far worse. If I had time to eat before a game I’d never eat there.

I may look into that but being on the Hursty line I can get the train. It’s just a pain at times as they don’t run trains for the rugby. So after some games you get to the train and it’s 40 minutes for a Hurstbridge service and next thing you know you’re at the pub

 

[Rebelsfan]

Does anyone have a copy of the Melbourne Rebels annual report ? The one with the financials. I'd love to take a look at the liabilities and notes to accounts in them

 

[Rebel man]

The Australian is reporting the Brumbies are batting not to go into VA and the Tahs debt was north of 5m and RA was shocked when they took them over

 

[SouthernX]

The game might need to crawl back to daddy Murdoch.

If it means our game is saved, I’d happily sign back up to foxtel.

 

[Members Section]

The game might need to crawl back to daddy Murdoch.

If it means our game is saved, I’d happily sign back up to foxtel.

Foxtel/Kayo is a sinking ship atm outside AFL/NRL they are loosing everything. Its certainly not the golden ticket it used to be

 

[Rebel man]

The game might need to crawl back to daddy Murdoch.

If it means our game is saved, I’d happily sign back up to foxtel.

Who ever offers the most money for the rights

 

[Adam84]

Does anyone have a copy of the Melbourne Rebels annual report ? The one with the financials. I'd love to take a look at the liabilities and notes to accounts in them

I’ve done a short of a state of the unions analysis on the financial reports released every year or two. Rebels and Force don’t make there’s available as far as I could find in my short googling at the time, Force is understandable as they’re privately owned but I never understood why Rebels annual annual report wasn’t available.

 

[Highlander35]

I’ve done a short of a state of the unions analysis on the financial reports released every year or two. Rebels and Force don’t make there’s available as far as I could find in my short googling at the time, Force is understandable as they’re privately owned but I never understood why Rebels annual annual report wasn’t available.

Might be some weird holdover from when we were privately owned, like the MRRU (Melbourne Rebels Rugby Union) would still be a privately traded company owned and operated by a Public Entity (Rugby Victoria) and there's weird corporate veiling stuff. IDK business or law well enough to comment.

 

[oztimmay]

The game might need to crawl back to daddy Murdoch.

If it means our game is saved, I’d happily sign back up to foxtel.

This is the whole play going on right now IMO.

Foxtel needs content with HBO / Warner bros moving on from them. Sports is the obvious choice as you get great control. The constant white wanting is an effort to drive down the price of any media deal.

 

[PhilClinton]

Foxtel/Kayo is a sinking ship atm outside AFL/NRL they are loosing everything. Its certainly not the golden ticket it used to be

Cricket, NFL, NBA, NBL, Golf, MMA just off the top of my head are all pretty much tied to Foxtel (a lot of that via ESPN) and have big followings. From what I understand it's those subscriptions that make having Foxtel/Kayo a year round package. Whereas I know lots of people who happily cull Stan Sports for several months.

If ESPN decide to roll out their streaming service here in Australia it would definitely change things, but I don't think that has been floated yet.

 

[Dctarget]

Fuck that. Stan is so much better than Kayo. Stan has Super, UK premiership, 7s, Six Nations, QPR, Shute. Such a better app to use too.

 

[oztimmay]

All valid points, but we also need a fantastic broadcast deal that's going to put money in our pockets. At least with another bidder we can get some competitive tension.

 

[PhilClinton]

Yeh I'm not disagreeing that Stan is better for rugby content.

I'm just not sure there's a narrative that Foxtel/Kayo as a sports streaming service are a sinking ship per MS post.

 

[Members Section]

Cricket, NFL, NBA, NBL, Golf, MMA just off the top of my head are all pretty much tied to Foxtel (a lot of that via ESPN) and have big followings. From what I understand it's those subscriptions that make having Foxtel/Kayo a year round package. Whereas I know lots of people who happily cull Stan Sports for several months.

If ESPN decide to roll out their streaming service here in Australia it would definitely change things, but I don't think that has been floated yet.

Foxtel has just lost all ICC events, NBA/MMA is as you say apart of the ESPN deal. In recent times they have lost all soccer & even dropped Bein sports last yr. They are offering pennies on the dollar compared to past deal for sports other than the main stream. Rugby's savior is not going back to foxtel

Also on top of that foxtel used covid as an excuse to commentate games from a studio rather than at the ground & have kept doing it as cost saving while I know stan do it as well, its utter trash to sit through especially cricket where they cant even see the ball.

 

[PhilClinton]

We are getting off rebels topic obviously but if ESPN were to enter the sporting market alone here in the next few years, would that be a good result for rugby?

I'm not fully across what's happening with USA Rugby but there potentially looks like some good press and money heading that way and they've got a future RWC. Could ESPN potentially look to make an exclusive rugby deal? They've got the money and production ability to really shake things up.

The flow on effect of course would be if ESPN remove their content from Foxtel, suddenly Fox might bring some more money to the table to grab rugby as they'd lose half their catalogue.

 

[Wallaby Man]

I think we are itching towards Fox by the day. Stan does a good job but it’s so hidden on Stan and then again especially on StanSport.

 

[Slim 293]

I think we are itching towards Fox by the day. Stan does a good job but it’s so hidden on Stan and then again especially on StanSport.

Not in my experience...

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Kayo is popular with 1.4m subscribers. I like the fact it has a live channel option as well. I tend to leave it on in the background at times with back to back NFL games and NRL games as well as watching cricket when they are overseas. Don't they have the cricket until 2031?

We are getting off rebels topic obviously but if ESPN were to enter the sporting market alone here in the next few years, would that be a good result for rugby?

I'm not fully across what's happening with USA Rugby but there potentially looks like some good press and money heading that way and they've got a future RWC. Could ESPN potentially look to make an exclusive rugby deal? They've got the money and production ability to really shake things up.

The flow on effect of course would be if ESPN remove their content from Foxtel, suddenly Fox might bring some more money to the table to grab rugby as they'd lose half their catalogue.

I know at the moment they use "The Rugby Network" app and local Fox stations for finals and some matches. Struggle to even follow who still exists. It's 1 team gone this year and 3 in then next year 4 will go and 1 new one.

 

[Wallaby Man]

Not in my experience...

Nobody outside hardcore rugby fans pay for stansport. There isn’t anything on it worth subscribing to for regular sports fans

 

[Slim 293]

Nobody outside hardcore rugby fans pay for stansport. There isn’t anything on it worth subscribing to for regular sports fans

I think we've been through this before, and it's simply not true... highlighted by UEFA and every major tennis tournament.

I mean, if there wasn't anything else on it how could rugby be hidden within Stan Sport?