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This is why the rest of Australia is enjoying the demise of Australian rugby. The sheer arrogance of rugby supporters who denigrate all other codes and truly think that their game is the game played in heaven…I am an afl fan but follow Teams in nrl, epl, nfl nhl, mlb and nba and nbl, oh and I also follow the rebels. All of these games have their own skills and are just as complex as rugby if you bother to understand them. Have you ever contemplated the fact that in the modern era of all sport being available at the touch of a button that rugby is just not that good a game compared to other codes….the vast majority of Australians have already made that comparison and found rugby wanting.
This is the brutal reality: There are Aussies desperate to see Wallabies fail, and many want to see the sport's complete demise
Rugby just has to accept that it is the 4th choice code in Australia, and it is not there because of the shortcomings of the administration, (although they have certainly not helped). The Australian sporting public have looked at all codes and decided that they like rugby the least, (it isn’t actually the game they play in heaven), it is slow, messy,stop start and generally played by guys who couldn’t get a game in other codes. If you are small, fit and fast play soccer, if you are average sized and fit and fast, play afl, if you are big and fit, not so fast, play nrl. What’s left play rugby, unless you have a cultural connection but that won’t last more than a couple of generations. Rugby needs to adopt the soccer model instead of trying to compete with afl/nrl. Run a grass roots model with semi professional teams at the top and allow the best players to go overseas and then bring them back for the national team.
It's not just the Wallabies - Australasian rugby is withering on the vine as self-interest, arrogance and denial take hold