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The results are in. Once again, State of Origin Game 1 is the biggest sporting and television event of 2019 to date. The match…
When you consider the international fixtures announced recently by rugby league and rugby union, I couldn’t help but notice some fascinating clashes of the…
We’re certainly living in unfamiliar times. So unfamiliar that you could be forgiven for thinking that rugby league finally has a sunny disposition. It…
In 2015, I drew upon some tenuous family links in Yorkshire to organise a short stay. Just a few short months later, I arrived…
Here in the great southern land of Australia, we seem to have a fascination with making it in America. Everyone from actors of stage…
Amongst all the noise in recent weeks about expansion versus relocation in the NRL, an epic announcement has been made on the other side…
Rugby league fans, commentators and officials have an amazing ability to find a negative position on almost any aspect of the game while at…
Planning an international rugby league calendar must feel akin to taking the Titanic for a quick dash across the Atlantic. It all looks smooth…
It seems that around this time of the year certain factions of the rugby league media make all manner of assertions that the grim…
At this time of the year, the English and Australian flavours of rugby league seem to be worlds apart. The freezing, boggy pitches along the…
I’ve never been part of an AFL grand final week but I’ve been told it’s a thing to behold. The whole city of Melbourne…
Some really grat thinking here, would be great to see the NRL expand their assett base into a new sport, much like the AFL do with Netball. Turn NRL clubs into diversified businesses.
Fantasy footy: How a Rugby Australia and NRL partnership could actually work
He’s a Concord Burwood Boy so bring him home!
In saying that he won’t go to the Chooks, but it’s classic negotiating by his management. Leverage off East’s and maybe a Japanese club and RA will have to offer 7 figures.
The high profile chase of league stars and happily paying them overs is going to bankrupt the code.
NRL powerhouse target Wallabies young gun as replacement for Suaalii
There will be no players left by then, the NRLW will have signed them all. Look at this year.
Cattle class-flying Wallaroos blow up at RA's double standards, question big money Suaalii move
The article was about collobaration, so i am not really sure aht your point is?
Ada and Canada show peace can exist between the rugby codes
That makes far too much sense Jane.
Ada and Canada show peace can exist between the rugby codes
And ther lies the problem with Super Rugby, there is no burning desire to win the thing so audiences do not care. It is great that the Rebels are developing Victorian players, I wish the Storm would do more of it. But the fact that they don’t care aboput winning the thing is the issue with Rugby as a whole here. Australians love a team that wins championships, that week in week out pushes for glory and takes the fans with them. Until the Rebels realise this, they will keep losing fans. Creating Wallabies is great but if you do not aim to win championships, no one cares.
The Wrap: How the Rebels are trying to bridge the chasm between club and Super rugby
Anyone from West of Homebush bay drive should not be allowed to talkm about Rugby Union ever I reckon terry!
‘Absolutely nothing to worry about’: League shouldn’t fear union’s player raids
Fair point but I would still argue that 55k is not enough top be full time on these days.
And i do not want to get lost in the weeds but she did mention the Sevens program being “full Time”
‘It says something to me that players like Pelite and Tonegato are coming across to play in a competition that is not full-time professional from a program that is full-time professional’
Direct quote, so it was hardly omitted. All sports in Oz (with maybe the exception of tennis and golf) do not pay females enough especially Rugby Union.
‘Absolutely nothing to worry about’: League shouldn’t fear union’s player raids
Mate the women in the sevens program earn on average 40k a year, it is hardly full time?
‘Absolutely nothing to worry about’: League shouldn’t fear union’s player raids
Well said mick, I know for a fact the author is a fan of Women’s rugby and a massive advocate for the athletes who play it.
Rugby should spend their money sorting out western Sydney, paying women’s players and improving indigenous representation not paying overs for League players.
‘Absolutely nothing to worry about’: League shouldn’t fear union’s player raids
I was at the NRLW double header semi final and the amount of Wallaroos players in the crowd was telling. I think Rugby is going to see an exodus with the amount of top level players leaving the game.
I asked some of the players about Super W and they said that they have been told that there is no money to pay them so they are looking at other options.
How come they did not budget the payment of players into the Broadcast Deal?
What we learnt from Super W this season
Lets use North Queensland as an example for a moment. Queensland have their own second tier competition, Not Harvey Norman a huge amount of the worlds beating Brisbane broncos once played in that comp so we know the standard is good. It is the closest team to PNG which is a gold mine for talent and interest and they already have a funded bid and competition for spots. Exactly how do you not think that the competition cannot sustain 2 new clubs in OVER 12 months?
NRLW, Origin expansion exciting steps in move toward full-time professionalism
The Storms majority of players will come from areas like the Sunshine Coast, It is a very similar expansion model to the NHL – do you think areas like Texas and Southern Florida are full of gun Ice hockey players? – and it works really well. So i say expand into Melbourne.
NRLW, Origin expansion exciting steps in move toward full-time professionalism
This is a fairly accurate take from what i can see. I am a fairly casual unengaged fan of SFC but I did live in Liverpool for a time and I can understand why people get drawn into being an engaged fan of the big clubs over there.
The brands of these mega clubs are built around a model of no matter how far away you are, you are part of something special, even Liverpool’s YNWA mantra immediately makes people feel part of something, the turn their stadiums into cathedrals spoken about with reverence and their former players are held in such high esteem they are only mentioned in hush tones.
I am not an LFC fan by any stretch but I am just saying they are an extremely slick operation and it is not as simple as people choosing a club like them over their local Football team in the suburbs, people are desperate to be part of something epic, almost mythic and these organizations fill that void, Aussie Football teams do not from my experience unfortunately.
The A-Leagues' brand managers deserve to be sacked
Mary the mob has spoken, Parra red hot favourites, enjoy that.
Want to criticise NRLW players' performances? Great, but don't ignore their wider context
Well Said Toa, Union folk don’t even realise how much they look down on those outside of traditional circles. Look at their mouthpieces like Peter Fitzsimons and Geoff Parkes. They absolutely hammer the NRL and its fans but preface it by saying “but I like League”.
Great article by the way.
Could the Panthers be key in rugby union's future in Penrith?
It is mate, everyone wears that on site 😂
The Wrap: Player welfare no concern as All Blacks take it up a notch in Auckland
Don’t give up Mike,
“Because sometimes you fight and you win, stand up and fight to give in”
I'm not sure how much more of the A-League I can take
I read your article, just made an honest mistake, and you chose to belittle and your echo chamber piled on me instead of either ignoring me or kindly correcting me, and you wonder why Union is losing fans in the thousands, because you as media alienate instead of educate.
Force ready for Super Rugby AU scalps, but Sunwolves won’t make the trip
Thank you Pinetree.
Force ready for Super Rugby AU scalps, but Sunwolves won’t make the trip
Someone reading your article and interacting with it (albeit carelessly and perhaps a touch foolishly) without being insulting or denigrating is infuriatingly annoying? And if my ignorance is so infuriating couldn’t you have just ignored instead trying to denigrate me ?
Force ready for Super Rugby AU scalps, but Sunwolves won’t make the trip
I’m suitably belittled, not sure what else I can do for you Brett,
Force ready for Super Rugby AU scalps, but Sunwolves won’t make the trip
I read your article, acknowledged I was wrong and have since apologised and you’re still giving me a beat down, I apologise again and will no longer interact with you in the future.
Force ready for Super Rugby AU scalps, but Sunwolves won’t make the trip
The more female voices in the room the better the culture. Great Artcle Mary.
V'landys may as well be executive chair because he's doing both jobs but league needs to fix lack of female leadership