Gnostic
Mark Ella (57)
My very last post on this thread - you neatly sidestepped what I stated WJ, play decent RUGBY including good skills and the fans will come. You comments about age groupsshows you have no idea about business at all. Why do you want to alienate perhaps the largest and fastest growing group in Oz? They also have the disposable income to spend on games as they are the empty nesters who no longer have other competing responsibilities to take their income.
In any event the Tahs have no hope, zero, none at all of stealing market share from the other codes while they play such dire skillless Rugby. So your pze dream of a younger audience is not practicle if the issues are not dealt with. Then you have the problem of the FACT that your target audience of with upper limit of 35 will be moving out of your demographic by the time we get the needed turn around if the issues are allowed to develope into a full financial collapse QRU style.
Your belief that the Force was responsible for the Reds problems is also erroneous in that the players were leaving before then except for a hardened core and players unlikely to get a start elsewhere. The true fact is also the culture and systems at the QRU at the time was so toxic few wanzted to stay. Have a talk to some who have been involved at the QRU since then and they can confirm this.
I am happy to see some debate on the underlying issues it was the whole purpose behind the thread I started a few weeks ago. Stop and think about the fact that you are largely alone in your effusive support for the Tahs WJ. Ask youself why are long term fans, probably longer term than you have been alive, are leaving in droves, not leaving the game, just the Tahs? Just here the fans I reagrd as the feral Rugby tragics like myself qnd scarfie et al are saying they won't be watching the Tahs after 30 years of support, and your response if f*&%# em they are a waste. Are you sure your surname isn't hickey?
In any event the Tahs have no hope, zero, none at all of stealing market share from the other codes while they play such dire skillless Rugby. So your pze dream of a younger audience is not practicle if the issues are not dealt with. Then you have the problem of the FACT that your target audience of with upper limit of 35 will be moving out of your demographic by the time we get the needed turn around if the issues are allowed to develope into a full financial collapse QRU style.
Your belief that the Force was responsible for the Reds problems is also erroneous in that the players were leaving before then except for a hardened core and players unlikely to get a start elsewhere. The true fact is also the culture and systems at the QRU at the time was so toxic few wanzted to stay. Have a talk to some who have been involved at the QRU since then and they can confirm this.
I am happy to see some debate on the underlying issues it was the whole purpose behind the thread I started a few weeks ago. Stop and think about the fact that you are largely alone in your effusive support for the Tahs WJ. Ask youself why are long term fans, probably longer term than you have been alive, are leaving in droves, not leaving the game, just the Tahs? Just here the fans I reagrd as the feral Rugby tragics like myself qnd scarfie et al are saying they won't be watching the Tahs after 30 years of support, and your response if f*&%# em they are a waste. Are you sure your surname isn't hickey?
