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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 189804"><p>The rugby system where the club game was put behind the interests of the national unions is going to come to an end sooner or later because quite frankly its unsustainable... You can look at Ice Hockey as a prime example of this. The major international ice hockey competitions have largely taken a backdoor to the major competitions. There is absolutely no way for the unions to compete with the clubs because unlike a club which only has to pay for the players and staff under its umbrella the union has to pay for everyone and everyone involved with rugby.... Nw Zealand got a 100 mil from adidas over 10 years now you take that money and think of all the stuff a union would have to spend money on.... from the All Blacks right down to the development of grass roots rugby and u realise that there isn't a whole lot of cash around for these unions to get their hands on. Eventually you are going to end up with a situation like we have in Ice Hockey where the national unions have to cater to the clubs.... Lets take the Montreal Canadiens as an example because they are a very rich club:</p><p></p><p>100$ to see a game on avg 21,000 seat arena 82 games a season and that rink is packed every night</p><p>that is $86 million a season just from gate revenue... add in corporate boxes and sponsorship to that equation.... tv revenue.... merchandising etc and you are talking in the hundreds of millions of dollars of annual revenue. The NHL salary cap this season is 50.3 million dollars with the top players earning around 9 to 10 million dollars just in salary... factor in endorsements etc and u are talking about a shitload of cash.... the national unions will never be able to compete its a fact of life. The unions need to get on board with the clubs if they wanna keep the international game viable because the clubs can exist without the unions but without the clubs the unions will loose out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 189804"] The rugby system where the club game was put behind the interests of the national unions is going to come to an end sooner or later because quite frankly its unsustainable... You can look at Ice Hockey as a prime example of this. The major international ice hockey competitions have largely taken a backdoor to the major competitions. There is absolutely no way for the unions to compete with the clubs because unlike a club which only has to pay for the players and staff under its umbrella the union has to pay for everyone and everyone involved with rugby.... Nw Zealand got a 100 mil from adidas over 10 years now you take that money and think of all the stuff a union would have to spend money on.... from the All Blacks right down to the development of grass roots rugby and u realise that there isn't a whole lot of cash around for these unions to get their hands on. Eventually you are going to end up with a situation like we have in Ice Hockey where the national unions have to cater to the clubs.... Lets take the Montreal Canadiens as an example because they are a very rich club: 100$ to see a game on avg 21,000 seat arena 82 games a season and that rink is packed every night that is $86 million a season just from gate revenue... add in corporate boxes and sponsorship to that equation.... tv revenue.... merchandising etc and you are talking in the hundreds of millions of dollars of annual revenue. The NHL salary cap this season is 50.3 million dollars with the top players earning around 9 to 10 million dollars just in salary... factor in endorsements etc and u are talking about a shitload of cash.... the national unions will never be able to compete its a fact of life. The unions need to get on board with the clubs if they wanna keep the international game viable because the clubs can exist without the unions but without the clubs the unions will loose out. [/QUOTE]
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