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Rugby Australia to target top NRL talent

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Gobsmacked

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So , please someone correct me if I get any of this wrong:
R360
* all players and I'm assuming coaching staff will be solely bought and distributed by r360
* need to sign 200 players by September
* play magic round Esk events all over the world in the biggest cities

I think pickleball presents a bigger threat to Rugby league- seriously.

This sounds like possibly the dumbest shit I've ever heard of, well it actually is the dumbest shit. It can't be this stupid surely?

Team A: randomly selected group of players and coach
Vs
Team B: randomly selected group of players and coaches
Playing for nobody- EVERYWHERE!

can't wait to see my team A kick the shit out of team B !!! I f**king hate those guys!

Bahahaha

I might have to watch these last 2 Wallabies games.. might be extinct sooooon.
 
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titoelcolombiano

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Gobsmacked said:
So , please someone correct me if I get any of this wrong:
R360
* all players and I'm assuming coaching staff will be solely bought and distributed by r360
* need to sign 200 players by September
* play magic round Esk events all over the world in the biggest cities

I think pickleball presents a bigger threat to Rugby league- seriously.

This sounds like possibly the dumbest shit I've ever heard of, well it actually is the dumbest shit. It can't be this stupid surely?

Team A: randomly selected group of players and coach
Vs
Team B: randomly selected group of players and coaches
Playing for nobody- EVERYWHERE!

can't wait to see my team A kick the shit out of team B !!! I f**king hate those guys!

Bahahaha

I might have to watch these last 2 Wallabies games.. might be extinct sooooon.
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But mate, one group of random players from all over the world will represent Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. It will absolutely work because there is no difference in the sporting or cultural identity in all of the countries the team will represent. Australians, New Zealanders, Fijians, Tongans and Samoans are all exactly the same.
 
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Wb1234

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Gobsmacked said:
So , please someone correct me if I get any of this wrong:
R360
* all players and I'm assuming coaching staff will be solely bought and distributed by r360
* need to sign 200 players by September
* play magic round Esk events all over the world in the biggest cities

I think pickleball presents a bigger threat to Rugby league- seriously.

This sounds like possibly the dumbest shit I've ever heard of, well it actually is the dumbest shit. It can't be this stupid surely?

Team A: randomly selected group of players and coach
Vs
Team B: randomly selected group of players and coaches
Playing for nobody- EVERYWHERE!

can't wait to see my team A kick the shit out of team B !!! I f**king hate those guys!

Bahahaha

I might have to watch these last 2 Wallabies games.. might be extinct sooooon.
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Even if it fails after a year the damage it will wreak on union globally will be beautiful

If it goes head to head with the World Cup in Australia it will be a massive failure

I’m cheering it on

Go you good thing
 
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taste2taste

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Gobsmacked said:
So , please someone correct me if I get any of this wrong:
R360
* all players and I'm assuming coaching staff will be solely bought and distributed by r360
* need to sign 200 players by September
* play magic round Esk events all over the world in the biggest cities

I think pickleball presents a bigger threat to Rugby league- seriously.

This sounds like possibly the dumbest shit I've ever heard of, well it actually is the dumbest shit. It can't be this stupid surely?

Team A: randomly selected group of players and coach
Vs
Team B: randomly selected group of players and coaches
Playing for nobody- EVERYWHERE!

can't wait to see my team A kick the shit out of team B !!! I f**king hate those guys!

Bahahaha

I might have to watch these last 2 Wallabies games.. might be extinct sooooon.
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But what you’re forgetting is that Union is a globally popular sport with over 1.4 billion fans and is the fastest growing sport on earth.

They shouldn’t have any problems filling stadiums or getting a lucrative TV deal :laughing::laughing::laughing:
 
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Gobsmacked

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titoelcolombiano said:
But mate, one group of random players from all over the world will represent Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. It will absolutely work because there is no difference in the sporting or cultural identity in all of the countries the team will represent. Australians, New Zealanders, Fijians, Tongans and Samoans are all exactly the same.
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The best part of this man bear pig is...they'll be playing yawnion...
 
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Warrimoo3 said:
Turned it on at halftime of the Manly/Storm match. British Lions right winger “caught” a kick and then kicked it out on the full from outside his 20. Replays showed he knocked it on. The ball was jammed into the ground , the bottom of the ball touching the ground with his hands only touching the top of the ball. So 2 mistakes in a row , the first being ignored by the referee for the sake of the “spectacle”. Camera cut to the gold contingent in the crowd going berserk like they’d just won lotto. Turned it back after that. Would prefer to watch the sweet Caroline ad on loop. Well not really.
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Don’t forget too that the Wallabies have an incentivised contract. Meaning the more they win the better the broadcast deal becomes. How sad is that? Looks like they’ll be falling short of their KPIs.
 
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Gobsmacked said:
So , please someone correct me if I get any of this wrong:
R360
* all players and I'm assuming coaching staff will be solely bought and distributed by r360
* need to sign 200 players by September
* play magic round Esk events all over the world in the biggest cities

I think pickleball presents a bigger threat to Rugby league- seriously.

This sounds like possibly the dumbest shit I've ever heard of, well it actually is the dumbest shit. It can't be this stupid surely?

Team A: randomly selected group of players and coach
Vs
Team B: randomly selected group of players and coaches
Playing for nobody- EVERYWHERE!

can't wait to see my team A kick the shit out of team B !!! I f**king hate those guys!

Bahahaha

I might have to watch these last 2 Wallabies games.. might be extinct sooooon.
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Pretty much nailed it.

The only correction I would make is that the town of Esk has nothing to do with this.
 
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Gobsmacked said:
So , please someone correct me if I get any of this wrong:
R360
* all players and I'm assuming coaching staff will be solely bought and distributed by r360
* need to sign 200 players by September
* play magic round Esk events all over the world in the biggest cities

I think pickleball presents a bigger threat to Rugby league- seriously.

This sounds like possibly the dumbest shit I've ever heard of, well it actually is the dumbest shit. It can't be this stupid surely?

Team A: randomly selected group of players and coach
Vs
Team B: randomly selected group of players and coaches
Playing for nobody- EVERYWHERE!

can't wait to see my team A kick the shit out of team B !!! I f**king hate those guys!

Bahahaha

I might have to watch these last 2 Wallabies games.. might be extinct sooooon.
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There's a globalisation of sport happening, largely off the back of the, relatively new, global streaming services now available
No longer are codes happy with a national level. F1 has gone through the roof. Soccer is moving to more focus on global comps. LIV golf seems to be going ok. Some sports like Tennis have always done it. Sport follows the media money and the future media money is global companies looking for content they can sell globally. National, or regional, comps will still remain relevant for those sports that dont have a global appeal.

I very much doubt Union has the global appeal or awareness to do it but Saudis love washing money so if they throw a few hundred mill at it then it will happen, and be gone in a few years in all likelihood. The world 7's started off strong but soon petered out.
 
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I won’t completely rule out rugby 360, the saudis seem willing to burn cash on these things. It certainly doesn’t sound like a winner at this stage.
 
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Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield’s highlights and lowlights: Wallabies-Lions free-to-air ratings dwarfed by Origin figures
Rugby union’s TV ratings on Channel 9 for the opening Test match of the Wallabies v British and Irish Lions series were annihilated by State of Origin.
Rugby union’s TV ratings on Channel 9 were a disaster for the opening Test match of the Wallabies v British and Irish Lions series on Saturday night, annihilated by State of Origin.

Despite a full house at Suncorp Stadium, the game attracted an average audience of only 861,000 on Channel Nine’s free to air and streaming service 9Now, while the figures from Stan are unavailable.

This compares to rugby league’s recent State of Origin decider that rated 4.8 million – almost four million more viewers.
The poor rugby union audience was also less than all three women’s State of Origin games rated on Channel 9 this year.

It is a huge setback for Rugby Australia, an organisation that was hoping not just for a financial windfall from the British and Irish Lions tour but that it would be a series to attract record TV eyeballs to support their corporate partners.

It didn’t help that the Wallabies were never in the game.

The British and Irish Lions led 17-5 at halftime and were never under any scoreboard pressure.
Ball-in-play times didn’t help the rugby game as a spectacle.

The Wallabies had the football for 19.5 minutes and the Lions 16.5 minutes.

In this year’s men’s State of Origin series, the ball-in-play time averaged 58.1 minutes.

Earlier this year Channel Nine signed a $240 million deal with Rugby Australian through until 2030.

It included all Wallabies and Wallaroos Test matches outside of the Rugby World Cup.

“The future of Australian rugby is bright and our growth trajectory is strong,” said rugby chief executive Phil Waugh when he signed the new broadcast contract.

Yet they are outrated by the women’s State of Origin which got Game 1 – Nine 927k, Game 2 – 1.067m and Game 3 – 995k.

The poor figures give rugby league bosses Peter V’landys and Andrew Abdo more ammunition for their negotiations for the next NRL broadcast deal.
The pair have just returned home from a trip to the United States where they met with executives from global streaming giants DAZN and Amazon Prime.
They also spoke to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about the sport’s $110 billion 10-year deal that is shared by four major American networks.

The NRL will have more content available to broadcasters in the next deal with nine games each weekend with the addition of expansion teams the Perth Bears and PNG.
V’landys has frequently highlighted the fact rugby union has the ball in play for only around 35 minutes compared to the NRL’s average time of 56.1 minutes per game.
HIGHLIGHT
Every single Wallaby player sang our national anthem loud and proud at Suncorp Stadium at the rugby union Test on Saturday night. It’s the one thing the rah-rahs do better than rugby league.
 
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