"LIV Rugby"?
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Well.
Lets look at NZ rugby.
NZR has $300 mil annual revenue.
36% of that goes to the pro rugby players (200 full time, another 500 part time/full time)
That’s $108 mil to the pro players every year.
A very nice chunk.Now the PUs who look after the rest of the players (1,000s of amateurs and juniors) get 17% or $40 mil. of that $300 mil.
A much smaller chunk.
The PUs generate about another $40 mil; and the clubs do what they can, of course.I’m not saying that any of that is wrong.
But just trying to point out that what you are concerned about, is already happening now.
At present the pro players are already taking a large slice of money completely out of the game, every year.
That’s just how it is.What needs to happen is the rugby pie needs to grow.
And if Tindall thinks he can grow the rugby pie, I say go for it.
Because, since the game went pro a generation ago, the current establishment have proved themselves entirely incapable of doing it.The game remains a novelty.
A novelty for aficionados, and nationists who jump on board at international time.
Nationists who’d watch tiddlywinks if it was the national team.I believe there is gap in the world sports/football market for a full contact field football code.
It’s just waiting to be filled, and rugby (union) is best placed to do it.Not NZ though.
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i fundamentally disagree with just about everything you have said.
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The game is constantly evoluting.
I watched a game of elite international rugby a few days ago.
New Zealand v Australia at U18 level.
129 points were scored in the match.
If you take that the ball was only "live" for about 37 minutes (about the mean at present).
That means that a point was scored approximately every 17 seconds.Incredible, to me at least.
Used to be you'd only see something like that in a lopsided under U13s game.
But there we have it in an elite match up.
Now that is rugby evoluting!Not sayin that's a good thing, but looks like that might be the direction we are goin.
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New Zealanders have a fundamentally different view of rugby to the rest of the world for reasons that are very obvious.
You only have to look at the state of the game of rugby in the West Island to realise that.
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@mohikamo said in "LIV Rugby"?:
The game is constantly evoluting.
I watched a game of elite international rugby a few days ago.
New Zealand v Australia at U18 level.
129 points were scored in the match.
If you take that the ball was only "live" for about 37 minutes (about the mean at present).
That means that a point was scored approximately every 17 seconds.Incredible, to me at least.
Used to be you'd only see something like that in a lopsided under U13s game.
But there we have it in an elite match up.
Now that is rugby evoluting!Not sayin that's a good thing, but looks like that might be the direction we are goin.
Or both defence coaches should be jettisoned
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@MiketheSnow said in "LIV Rugby"?:
@mohikamo said in "LIV Rugby"?:
The game is constantly evoluting.
I watched a game of elite international rugby a few days ago.
New Zealand v Australia at U18 level.
129 points were scored in the match.
If you take that the ball was only "live" for about 37 minutes (about the mean at present).
That means that a point was scored approximately every 17 seconds.Incredible, to me at least.
Used to be you'd only see something like that in a lopsided under U13s game.
But there we have it in an elite match up.
Now that is rugby evoluting!Not sayin that's a good thing, but looks like that might be the direction we are goin.
Or both defence coaches should be jettisoned
Or ejecoluted.
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Nailed it
The coffin that is
