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Rugby Australia to target top NRL talent

taste2taste

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I saw Rugby Australia saying the signing of Suaali has given them $50million in publicity.
$50 million!?!
It hasn’t translated to ticket sales, horrendous crowd for the Tash’s season opening game. I saw a rugby scribe saying they hopeful of a ground record lol

and ch 9 seems to be oblivious to the $50 million in publicity, the Super Rugby is on GEM while the main channel is showing a doco on mammals lol
 

Wb1234

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It hasn’t translated to ticket sales, horrendous crowd for the Tash’s season opening game. I saw a rugby scribe saying they hopeful of a ground record lol

and ch 9 seems to be oblivious to the $50 million in publicity, the Super Rugby is on GEM while the main channel is showing a doco on mammals lol

Wow the season opener is going to be a tba
 
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It hasn’t translated to ticket sales, horrendous crowd for the Tash’s season opening game. I saw a rugby scribe saying they hopeful of a ground record lol

and ch 9 seems to be oblivious to the $50 million in publicity, the Super Rugby is on GEM while the main channel is showing a doco on mammals lol
More like 50million Roubles
 

Billythekid

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I saw Rugby Australia saying the signing of Suaali has given them $50million in publicity.
$50 million!?!
Marketing and publicity is one of those things that’s hardly to quantify. We’ll see how much of this free marketing translates to anything in the real world. Also I say free but they spent a lot of money on him so it’s hardly free.

Spot on and already is happening.
It’s a very hard transition male and as a sport it’s very hard to actually make it. This isn’t like players casually switching over to rugby. Will we lose players? Maybe but I don’t think it’s a major concern.

Also the NFL already has so many places to recruit from, it’s not like rugby who are desperate for talent and big names.
It hasn’t translated to ticket sales, horrendous crowd for the Tash’s season opening game. I saw a rugby scribe saying they hopeful of a ground record lol

and ch 9 seems to be oblivious to the $50 million in publicity, the Super Rugby is on GEM while the main channel is showing a doco on mammals lol
They mostly paid that because of the World Cup though right?
 

Saxon

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Practice squad ?

Burton wouldn’t need much training anyway for what a punt returner does in nfl

They have an international pathway

Didn’t some famous welsh union back get picked up by an nfl side ?
I think you mean "punter".
A punt returner is the guy who catches it and brings it back upfield - Burton is a lumbering ox by comparison to these guys.
And I don't think he'd even make a punter. Sure he can kick it long with good hang time. But the NFL punters are expected to drop it on a dime; Burton is sometimes lucky to get it in the postcode he's aiming for.
 

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