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Super 15 just a smokescreen for Wallaby woes

September 3 2009

The Super 15 sideshow is just a diversionary tactic to take the heat off the fact that the Wallabies are not winning.

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• You can’t please ‘em all – on the whole, it was reasonably well received…..even if I did write it late at night over a few reds .. and I still like the “flat lining” concept.

  I did not mean to imply that SA and NZ Rugby was on the decline – only a fool would postulate that, but I did mean to imply that, at this point in Australian Rugby’s journey, things are positive relative to those two countries, and that is based on logistic considerations.

  With the 7’s about to be included in the Olympics, the game of Rugby will gain a lot more visibility, so where we go from here is anyone’s guess. Another good debate looming.

  Three simple facts say Australian rugby is on the up (31)
  August 19th, 2009

• Spot on, John,

  As you can see from the knockers above, the good old Aussie mentality of not wanting to try something new is alive and well. As a Brumbies fan, I am highly frustrated that I can’t even get a one minute highlight of their French tour on the evening news.

  Australian Rugby suffers from the mentality that if you are going to do something new, you have to get it perfect from the outset. Look at the debate on the National competition as an example. We seem to want an all or nothing approach. Why not just start with some sort of hybrid ( a club challenge comp or something) on a small scale and let it grow and evolve naturally?

  Back to TV – the same principle applies – I believe in the “build it and they will come” approach. It just takes some bravery by one of our TV networks, who is prepared to step away from the “tried and true” (or should that be “tired and true”) approach.

  Rugby can only grow in popularity if you expand its reach. I wonder how many of our readers actually go looking for interesting content on the web re other parts of the world, and how many just read the newspaper to get their Rugby content, from the “usual suspect” journos who push out the same rubbish every day. There is a lot going on in the wide world of Rugby, and it would be nice to see in on mainstream TV. One of the comments was that you can see international Rugby on Setanta. I gave up my subscription to Setanta, because 95% of it was soccer and sports that I’m not interested in.

  Those of you Roarers with any influence in the media should push this as hard as possible.

  More rugby should be on Aussie free to air TV (119)
  August 5th, 2009

• I’d hate to be the promoters of the Gold Coast franchise right at the moment…The Reds haven’t exactly engendered any confidence that Qld could support two franchises…. then again, I suppose it would be just one more franchise to pillage the Reds – maybe that’s the answer!!

  Barnes loss another painful blow for Reds fans (145)
  July 30th, 2009

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