Originally Posted by
waratahjesus
i agree, but as a professional company, the ARU cant run at a loss, with this years tests losing money and next year having no big name countrys coming to play outside of the tri nations due to the lions tour, you can expect the forecast to be a bit gloomy!
i think we should go to a best of five bledisloe, two in NZ, two here and a fifth in a country we can extort for cash!
maybe they could even run an aus v aus a game at some stage! they used to do it for the soccer a few years back, it could probably make money!
the gulf between club and super rugby is always going to be large, but unfortunatly unlike many other countrys australia is two spread out, and our footy codes to dilluted by competition for a national rugby comp to run!
i agree with an earlier post that a shodow "a" series tri nations as curtain raisers to the actual games would be awesome!