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Rugby breakaway league coming. (R360)

Ddanno said:
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So roughly 250 male players and 160 female players to be remotely viable. With the French leagues wanting absolutely nothing to do with the thing.

Then medical, physio, coaches, a TV station that's actually interested, insurers, places to play, referees, ball boys/girls, kit guys, transport and so on.

They're totally going to find all that in a year.

Yeah this will definitely work.

The bit about players keeping their image rights is so nakedly cynical. "We're just here to throw oil money at this thing to see what sticks. What is a rugby anyway? That guy with a testicle head... Tike Mindall? He tried to explain it but he's a stupid bugger"
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it will probably collapse within 5 years but not before potentially causing serious long term damage first.
 
Ddanno said:
Ha

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So roughly 250 male players and 160 female players to be remotely viable. With the French leagues wanting absolutely nothing to do with the thing.

Then medical, physio, coaches, a TV station that's actually interested, insurers, places to play, referees, ball boys/girls, kit guys, transport and so on.

They're totally going to find all that in a year.

Yeah this will definitely work.

The bit about players keeping their image rights is so nakedly cynical. "We're just here to throw oil money at this thing to see what sticks. What is a rugby anyway? That guy with a testicle head... Tike Mindall? He tried to explain it but he's a stupid bugger"
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So it would be a massive sports washing exercise, although I don't see how it will "wash" anything as any player who joins this league will be a pariah.

The franchise choices are bizarre. Only Cape Town, Tokyo and London are in established rugby markets. They will be playing in empty stadiums in front of a non-existent tv audience.

For the other reasons you say, only someone who wants to lose an absolute boat load of money would ever "invest" in this.

I have South African family and they always highlight to me how the Springboks are the one thing that pulls the country together. No South African player will join this, if he wants to play for the Boks, unless Rassie gives it his blessing. I can't see him doing this.

Also I don't see the money being that much better than what is on offer in France. So I don't see any French players going for it.

Japan Top League already pays massive salaries, so why would Japanese players go for it.

I don't see it ever happening.

If by some miracle is does, it will last less than a season and the players could end up stranded in a foreign country having to fund their own way home. They will then struggle to get teams to take them on as they will be seen as pariahs.
 
Kiwiwomble said:
how does it launch on October next year....thats after subsequent season will have finished ?
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I suppose that's what they are trying to go for. Premiership, URC and Top 14 will only just be starting up again so they can try to compete with that.

I still don't think this is going anywhere, whatever royal human thumb Mark Timesall says.
 
Rugbyfan564 said:
Mairo Itoje close to joining says the Telegraph of Australia.

If that happens then the RFU will be full blown crisis mode.
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....the media in general doesnt acre about rugby in Australia...and yet they have the scoop on and english player joining
 
Rugbyfan564 said:
Mairo Itoje close to joining says the Telegraph of Australia.

If that happens then the RFU will be full blown crisis mode.
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I'd sooner listen to the now empty baggy that my acid dealer gave me.

At least they're getting loads of clickbait out of it.
 
Rugbyfan564 said:
it will probably collapse within 5 years but not before potentially causing serious long term damage first.
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This is probably true.
I hope WR gets it act together soon and sorts out a proper calendar and player welfare issues.
Otherwise rugby will gave its 'Packer' moment, that cricket had in the late 1970s.
 
Let's pretend for arguments sake they get the players. That's not the hard part. It's the logistics of a running sports teams that seems impossible, especially if you want high quality rugby. Where are they going to train for example? Especially if players don't have to live in the same country? LIV used established golf courses and didn't need huge amounts of infrastructure that didn't already exist. This does and it seems bonkers to think it won't be an issue.
 
Ddanno said:
I'd sooner listen to the now empty baggy that my acid dealer gave me.

At least they're getting loads of clickbait out of it.
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Itoje already earns about £800,000 a year which is more than they are proposing to pay under R360.

However he would fit the type of player that could be interested, he is 31 this month, whilst not there yet, he he closer to the end than the beginning of his career.

I don't see R360 happening for the reasons I and many others have said on this thread. If by some miracle it does it will be a retirement league.
 
TRF_Olyy said:
Itoje is pretty clued up, I can't imagine him signing for a sportswashing league - especially as he can get proper proper money without needing to sell his soul
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Although he happily chested the cap at sarries a while. You find most people are 'moral' until they are faced with some cold hard cash.
 
Kiwiwomble said:
....the media in general doesnt acre about rugby in Australia...and yet they have the scoop on and english player joining
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They mostly talking about it's affect on NRL which they do care about. Union just gets a few mentions. .
 


'Telegraph Sport understands that a significant number of John Mitchell's squad have already signed pre-contract agreements with R360.'

'There is a growing acceptance within English rugby circles that R360 will get off the ground in some capacity next year. Yet while the RFU is relatively relaxed about the effect on the men's team, its chief executive Bill Sweeney is understood to be agitated by the impact on the women's game and fears R360 could destroy Premiership Women's Rugby, the RFU's flagship domestic competition.'

Looks like the Women's game is going to completely uprooted by this.
Wonder if John Mitchell has been targeted to become a coach?
 
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According to Aussie media reports the proposed start date is exactly one year from today.
 
Women's game is way more viable - as there's not much money in the game to be turning down in favour of R360
Them getting the men's is as much bullshit as it was on your first post here
 
Which Tyler said:
Women's game is way more viable - as there's not much money in the game to be turning down in favour of R360
Them getting the men's is as much bullshit as it was on your first post here
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But would still destroy its reputation as International Rugby is the only Rugby the masses care about in England at the moment.

The RFU fear that if half the team leave and then come 2027 they start playing badly the media will blame them not selecting splitters - pushed heavily by R360 media team.
 

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