Rugby kept its own cricket-style cultural review secret in 2015

[sittingbison]

Thanks JSJ

Yup the lady in red ... Catherine Murphy?...was awesome, and right on the money. Loved her little anecdote about "a game for all.... except WA" haha

[Bakkies]

If anyone has time go on to Linked In or Facebook and search for Topo Rodriguez. He has gone postal at the RA particularly Teflon John.

[Bakkies]

I see the IRFU are selling Newlands Cross to plough the €27 million proceeds from the sale in to the game, particularly club infrastructure. What assets do the RA own apart from the Force IP and a big pile of bs in Moore Park?

[SPaRTAN]

I see the IRFU are selling Newlands Cross to plough the €27 million proceeds from the sale in to the game, particularly club infrastructure. What assets do the RA own apart from the Force IP and a big pile of bs in Moore Park?

They own Hooper and Folau's loyalty for the next half a decade thanks to the deal of the century, and even then we still have to listen to stupid immature homophobic remarks or just that annoying muppet Hooper speak about his constant inability to execute any type of gameplan.

[Bakkies]

They own Hooper and Folau's loyalty for the next half a decade thanks to the deal of the century, and even then we still have to listen to stupid immature homophobic remarks or just that annoying muppet Hooper speak about his constant inability to execute any type of gameplan.

Don’t worry there is a carrot at the end of the tunnel.

[sittingbison]

Mixed metaphors aside, it's interesting he mentioned the carrot, and not the stick

Entitled

[cedric rainwater]

Mixed metaphors aside, it's interesting he mentioned the carrot, and not the stick

Entitled

mixed myxomatosis aside, there is a rabbit eating a carrot, caught in the headlights, at the end of the tunnel

[The InnFORCEr]

The comparison of Australian Rugby to Australian Cricket is so close in so many ways

1. Board and HQ and Coaches need a complete a clean out.

2. Test Cricket is failing both with results and also attendances, sure there are a couple of games that get some good numbers, for Cricket it's Ashes and for Rugby it's Bledisloe's held in Perth and for both codes the results seem to only be when they play a lower ranked team.

3. One Day Cricket, I guess the Super Rugby equivalent. Like Test above, diminishing crowds and results.


4. T20, well now we have our own T20 of Rugby called Global Rapid Rugby. They said of T20 when it first started that nobody would be on board. Well now it is played all over the world, the players are paid handsomely and want to play, the crowds are massive, it has lured families back to the game, especially kids most matches are sold out and it has a fantastic party event feel to the whole shebang. The comparisons to T20 and GRR are so close it is not funny. It took a couple of years to hit it's straps, but now it has, there is not looking back and the other formats are failing badly, especially with crowds.


I am just so glad that we are lucky enough to be part of GRR and what I believe will be the complete rejuvenation of rugby world wide, I guess only time will tell and then we can all say.....I told ya so.

Onya Hodgo and Twiggy for MIH

[Alison]

Yep. In wonderful, glorious hindsight, us being kicked out of the fold last year is likely to be the best thing to ever happen not only for WA rugby but for the very game itself!!

Imagine that!!

[Alison]

While we’re on the subject of ‘culture’, it was pointed out to me yesterday that two former Tennis Australia board members, Harold Mitchell and Stephen Healy, have been charged for breaching the corporations act, s 181 - not passing on information to their board re the sale of broadcast rights to Seven.

Didn’t the failure to pass on information to the board also feature in the Senate Inquiry into the ARU, in the context of the offloading of the Rebels in 2015? Or is my memory failing me?

[lou]

is that the same Harold Mitchell that was one of the original Rebels owners? who got a $13 m paycheck when the ARU repaid his 'loans' to the club?

[Bakkies]

While we’re on the subject of ‘culture’, it was pointed out to me yesterday that two former Tennis Australia board members, Harold Mitchell and Stephen Healy, have been charged for breaching the corporations act, s 181 - not passing on information to their board re the sale of broadcast rights to Seven.

Didn’t the failure to pass on information to the board also feature in the Senate Inquiry into the ARU, in the context of the offloading of the Rebels in 2015? Or is my memory failing me?

Hansard has the whole shebang up from the Inquiry.

As for Tennis when were was those rights sold? Channel 9 just brought them recently.

[Bakkies]

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-...22?pfmredir=sm

[lou]

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-...22?pfmredir=sm

An interesting read

[Kalahard]

is that the same Harold Mitchell that was one of the original Rebels owners? who got a $13 m paycheck when the ARU repaid his 'loans' to the club?

Yep.