Rugby on its knees after broadcaster walks away

[facepalmer]

Melbourne should go after Koroibete so they can release JAC. Seems a no brainer to me. Marika has been in Melbourne for many years and probably would rather stay there. Melbourne need a winger to replace JAC. JAC wants to leave Melbourne.

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

Korobete, Cooper, Beal, O'Connor on mates rates, they need a better employer. Minimum wage each in Tigers

Would certainly take Koro back but a pass on the others

They'll get heaps overseas

Not as appealing as it once was

 

[dazza65]

Regardless of what they are trying to spin - Qantas and in particular Joyce had a HUGE say in the Folau debacle.
A relative works in Qantas marketing and it was an absolute shite fight in there during this time
Reap what you sow.

 

[mike]

Would think Qantas ending their sponsorship might have more to do with COVID than anything else.

Yep, multi billion dollar loss. Hard to justify a Rugby sponsorship.

 

[Holman Barnes #1 Fan]

lol rugby. I was quite into rugby as a kid. Then I found out rugby league existed and I haven't looked back. In hindsight, Super Rugby started to decline once they expanded from 12 teams.

The biggest problem with rugby is games can take forever to flow. I watched a game recently and it took until the 20th minute for the game to start flowing. Penalties, scrums, scrum resets...you name it, rugby has a huge list of things which are extremely frustrating, even more so if you go to watch it live.

In contrast, unless there are lots of errors to start the game, it begins flowing immediately. The 40-second scrum clock (or whatever it is) is a big factor in this. You also get to watch it from both ends, so if you go to a live game, you should get to see a decent amount of action no matter where you sit.

 

[jirskyr]

Agree Qantas and covid hit which has hammered them however the wat Qantas and Joyce put the pressure on ARU with Falau they get what they deserve

Don't start all that again.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Joyce did me demands for ARU to sack Falau we can't rewrite history on that

 

[Magpie1969]

Never liked or understood Rugby Union which appears to be dying a slow death in Australia. RIP Rugby Union Australia.

 

[mike]

After a disastrous record breaking 43-5 defeat in the third game of the Bledisloe Cup, Rugby Union Australia is on life support. Someone please turn it off as an act of mercy.

 

[BalmainJnr]

After a disastrous record breaking 43-5 defeat in the third game of the Bledisloe Cup, Rugby Union Australia is on life support. Someone please turn it off as act of mercy.

The Wallabies are consistently horrendous at just about every basic fundamental of the game. Has been a problem for well over a decade. Pretty much the opposite of the All Blacks.

 

[Moh]

Such a one sided sport.

Come back Koro!

 

[tiger05premier]

After a disastrous record breaking 43-5 defeat in the third game of the Bledisloe Cup, Rugby Union Australia is on life support. Someone please turn it off as act of mercy.

The Wallabies are consistently horrendous at just about every basic fundamental of the game. Has been a problem for well over a decade. Pretty much the opposite of the All Blacks.

Similar to the tigers?

 

[Tim Sheens]

After a disastrous record breaking 43-5 defeat in the third game of the Bledisloe Cup, Rugby Union Australia is on life support. Someone please turn it off as an act of mercy.

The game was lost when it sold out it's solid club rugby base for the bonus point fuelled Murdoch super circus.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

Remember the early 90's campo Michael Lynagh Farr Jones even mid 90' Greg's Larkham Matt Bourke Phill Kearns
you could name some players in the team
Rugby is a joke now, and almost the third sport behind soccer.
They got the leather patch brigade in at RA and without due diligence signed Raelene the rest is history. People may not like Izzy Falau but he would walk in to this side at the moment
They need a free to air deal or something, Shute shiod is better viewing than test matches these days

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

After a disastrous record breaking 43-5 defeat in the third game of the Bledisloe Cup, Rugby Union Australia is on life support. Someone please turn it off as an act of mercy.

The game was lost when it sold out it's solid club rugby base for the bonus point fuelled Murdoch super circus.

More Murdoch bashing
Super Rugby pushed it into professionalism they just failed to push money down to grass roots and Schute shield etc they tried that provincial rugby championship but nobody wants to watch combined Randick Gordon East's side play combined Parramatta Penrith and eastwood side hence it didnt work.
Have a go at Murdoch for super league absolutely but you can't criticise him for Super Rugby surely