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Isn't Victoria rugby the owner of the Rebels and none of the BoD are "owners"? The Chair appears to be the owner of their main sponsor
Not sure of the ownership structure but the chairman (who seems dodgy as f**k), seems to be the one that 'loaned' them money.
As I speculated, but I haven't seen the breakdown of it - is there an article with a breakdown you've seen? He may or may not be dodgy but he's a crappy Chair.
All his companies are in all sorts of strife! No but he was financially backing them through the shirt sponsorship and probably the only one with the cash on hand, even if it was meant for other things, to be propping them up. Its not unusual in sport for Directors to 'loan' clubs money. I'm not sure what the benefits are but clearly there are some to the individual as it isnt uncommon.
But Super Rugby has killed off the interest Currie Cup and NPC and crowds are bad for both NZ Super clubs and South African URC clubs.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the NZRU going it alone and reverting back to a domestic competition with maybe the Fijian Drua included.
They could well be better having NZ, pacific and Japan and one day america in a comp but they wont cut Australia loose in reality.
Agreed but its a foreign market, not serviced by NRL regularly, and a trial not an actual home game, so not bad, i remember the Hamilton game wests took last season, packed out another win for NZ to achieve more RL content and show that they could fill a 2nd teams stadium if they had another licence
Well something has to give and if the NZRU don’t at least allow their players to sign for Aussie based super rugby teams I don’t see how this competition can survive and even then I think the super rugby competition is living on borrowed time.
You’re assuming it would actually get buy-in from the Japanese rugby scene but that didn’t really happen. A lot of the best players stayed with their existing clubs.
Absolutely.
Why would you have a comp with the same number of teams in Aus as for NZ and the pacific when you consider the player depth? The Australian sides would get slaughtered every time they played inter conference finals
Thast interesting, obviously not planning to bid themselves.
