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Brett Oaten is a Sydney media & entertainment lawyer, a life-long rugby league fan and a Supercoach with the full support of the board.
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I have been intending to write this article for some years but other things – actual, important things – have always got in the way. This week, upon the retirement of the great Sia Soliola, the timing seems right.
It can’t be easy being a conspirator. I imagine the hours are long, the stakes are high and, given that one must work in secret and with the future of the world in one’s hands, the pressure must build frighteningly over time.
If I could win any major rugby league award – and there’s no danger of this happening, I might add – I’d want to win the Clive Churchill Medal.
Like all of us rugby league-loving civilians, I don’t actually know what happened in the breakdown of the Andrew Fifita contract negotiations.
If you want to be confused and/or bemused you will never be disappointed by closely following rugby league, as the events surrounding (possibly former) Newcastle Knights player Ryan Stig over the past couple of weeks showed.
When The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday that Channel Nine had decided (sorry “requested”) the first two NRL games it would televise in 2014, it was both good news and bad for me.
Every year we hear in rugby league (and maybe in other places, but I’m not listening) that contracts don’t work any more.
Thanks Paul – we loved it but it was our only sponsorship adventure
Sia Soliola and 'TRI': Adventures in rugby league sponsorship
Tony, you are now the CFO of TRI – congratulations
Sia Soliola and 'TRI': Adventures in rugby league sponsorship
Thanks for all your feedback. Appreciated. Personally, I’d like to hear more about the Burgesses
NRL: We need to talk about Channel Nine
Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
@Dr Yes, you are right. His last 6 weeks or so were great.
Rugby league contracts still work
Thanks!
Sia Soliola and 'TRI': Adventures in rugby league sponsorship