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Rugby Australia to target top NRL talent

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newc18 said:
I believe they have overestimated the interest from the Australian public but 40,000 Lions fans coming to Australia is always good for the economy.
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It is only good for the local economy if the 40,000 RU supporters don't keep out normal people from tourist destinations
 
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I’m sure Rugby Australia will get a decent sugar hit from the Lions tour. You will get a battalion of cashed up UK bogans with a mixture of the Aussie private school set wanting to be able to tell their mates they were at the Lions game. RA will think they are the number one sport for a brief second and then when all the money is spent and no one can be farked watching Super Rugby in 2026 they will be sitting around wondering where it all went wrong again.
 
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Jetka100 said:
I’m sure Rugby Australia will get a decent sugar hit from the Lions tour. You will get a battalion of cashed up UK bogans with a mixture of the Aussie private school set wanting to be able to tell their mates they were at the Lions game. RA will think they are the number one sport for a brief second and then when all the money is spent and no one can be farked watching Super Rugby in 2026 they will be sitting around wondering where it all went wrong again.
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They are like a gambler when they get a rare win...

Blow it all on Cleary or pay off our debt?.. Cleary it is!
 
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Kurt Angle said:
So when you post "Friday game just gone", or last tense....

And I post a game with a future date...

You're just outwitting me?
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Yes Friday night just gone is pretty clear for those with basic English comprehension.

Listen I know you got a bit excited on the initial read, but put a bit more work in next time.
 
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BODISGOD said:
2005 wants its narrative back. The Lions makes an absolute fortune, it is not changing. The minimum ticket price for the Friday night fixture just gone was $320 AUD with 30,000 travelling for it and Sky with wall to wall coverage. Keep on giving lads here what they want to hear though...
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That's a lie. I've literally just gone on TicketMaster and the lowest cost is still AU$39 which is £18.59 in GBP, f**k all. No question ARU will make coin from this tour but don't need to be a Billy Bullshit. The Lions Tour is running head first into an Origin decider (which has worked out very well for the NRL) as well which will drown out the noise/coverage.

Back to the Fight Club you go :thumbup:
 
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T to the T said:
That's a lie. I've literally just gone on TicketMaster and the lowest cost is still AU$39 which is £18.59 in GBP, f**k all. No question ARU will make coin from this tour but don't need to be a Billy Bullshit. The Lions Tour is running head first into an Origin decider (which has worked out very well for the NRL) as well which will drown out the noise/coverage.

Back to the Fight Club you go :thumbup:
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I literally posted "Friday game just gone". I don't know this is so challenging for some of you.
 
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BODISGOD said:
I literally posted "Friday game just gone". I don't know this is so challenging for some of you.
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I thought this thread was Rugby Australia targeting the best talent of which the means to acquire such talent, such as profits made from the Lions Tour is relevant to topic.

How is the Lions fixture in Dublin where the only recipients of funds were the Home Nations and Argentina, going to help Rugby Australia and is relevant to the topic?
 
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BODISGOD said:
The minimum ticket price for the Friday night fixture just gone was $320 AUD with 30,000 travelling for it and Sky with wall to wall coverage.
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I had to google what game was played on the ‘Friday just gone’, you’re talking about a game in Dublin ?
Who’s Sky ? Sky UK ? The subscription channel that has paid for the broadcast rights is giving it “wall to wall coverage” ? Unbelievable!!

The Lions arrived yesterday and had a press conference, the story is buried behind the NRL, AFL, NBA, cricket and horse racing.

Everyone in the UK with a Sky subscription might glued to thier TVs watching but they won’t get any cut through in Oz.
 
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ROOSTERS POACH RUGBY PRODIGY

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The gentlemen’s agreement between the private school rugby juggernauts of Queensland and NSW against poaching talent from each other’s back yards has been broken.
The Sydney Roosters’ signing of The Southport School’s Australian under-16 rugby union representative Agapetos Lote-Felo has triggered an unprecedented cross-border transfer, with the No.8 swapping schools to complete year 11 and 12 as a boarder at Scots College in Sydney. It is understood to be the first time in memory an active First XV star from Queensland’s prestigious GPS competition has defected to NSW’s premier schoolboy competition for reasons other than a family relocation.
Scots now field two-thirds of the 2024 Australian under-16 backrow with blindside flanker Aston Weir alongside Lote-Felo. Queensland GPS rugby doyen Ron Cochrane said he had never encountered a case like it in nearly 50 years as a coach and administrator.
But sources with knowledge of the situation said it was not the first time the Roosters had attempted to relocate a current First XV ace south of the border. Queensland State of Origin debutant Robert Toia was approached to leave Nudgee College early, while Ipswich Grammar School alumni Sam Walker and Ethan King are both understood to have declined offers to relocate.
The club flew all three down weekly to play in the Harold Matthews under-17 competition instead.
That commute did not appeal to Lote-Felo, who accepted the Roosters’ invitation to relocate to a rugby school in Sydney to continue his development in both codes.
“It was a pretty tough decision to leave,” the 16-year-old said. “I really liked my last year at TSS playing Firsts footy and I ended making some good mates. I was contemplating not saying I was going because it was pretty hard to say goodbye.”
 
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taste2taste said:
I had to google what game was played on the ‘Friday just gone’, you’re talking about a game in Dublin ?
Who’s Sky ? Sky UK ? The subscription channel that has paid for the broadcast rights is giving it “wall to wall coverage” ? Unbelievable!!

The Lions arrived yesterday and had a press conference, the story is buried behind the NRL, AFL, NBA, cricket and horse racing.

Everyone in the UK with a Sky subscription might glued to thier TVs watching but they won’t get any cut through in Oz.
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A couple of interesting points - I’m in the U.K, and didn’t have a clue the Lions were playing on Friday night until I was scrolling through the sports channels to find Saints V Leeds Rhinos and saw a Lions game being shown on one of the channels - only from reading this thread do I now know that was a live match - I’d just assumed it was an old match as I know there is a Lions tour at some point soon.
I guess what I’m saying is that is far from ‘wall to wall’, infact, I’ve not had or heard 1 conversation about the Lions tour with either blokes at work or my group of mates, who generally chat about sport non-stop.
Whilst rugby union still has its ‘old boys’ and it’s dyed in the wool toff community, it has no cut through anywhere else in England. Sure people might watch the odd Lions or 6 nations match, but it’s certainly not high on the sports calendar for general folk. Both rugby Union and rugby league are being left way behind.
 
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shadowformz said:
Nawaqanitawase will be back with the Wallabies for the world cup for sure.

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He was never sticking around, come to the NRL, become a household name then get as much as you can out of Union to return. It’s the same path Suallii took.

The Rabbitohs knew what he was doing and cut him. The roosters are going to get burned for a second time lol
 
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