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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 615039" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>You could cast the PRL in the role of Kerry Packer. The <em>"its all about the money, power and control" </em>attitudes are remarkably similar. The Unions, of course, will play themselves, but I don't know where the Regions would come in.</p><p></p><p>Of course, we had a simple answer to Packer's rugby circus, and that was for the Unions to contract the players. The Rugby War was, in hindsight, the best thing that could have happened to us. It forced the NZRU, ARU and SARFU to confront the issue of professional rugby, and it made them realise that it was the players that were the all important key to winning it; get them and you get the whole game. The Unions realised what would happen if private individuals got to hold the contracts on the players; precisely what we see in Europe, constant bickering, back-stabbing and legal issues between Unions and Clubs over the use of players, and the erosion of the importance of the international game in favour of ego-boosting for individual owners. The RFU, FFR and the other European National Unions all decided to save themselves some cash and leave Professional rugby to private individuals. I'll bet they have regretted that short-sighted decision ever since!</p><p></p><p> Thank God for Jock Hobbs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 615039, member: 20605"] You could cast the PRL in the role of Kerry Packer. The [I]"its all about the money, power and control" [/I]attitudes are remarkably similar. The Unions, of course, will play themselves, but I don't know where the Regions would come in. Of course, we had a simple answer to Packer's rugby circus, and that was for the Unions to contract the players. The Rugby War was, in hindsight, the best thing that could have happened to us. It forced the NZRU, ARU and SARFU to confront the issue of professional rugby, and it made them realise that it was the players that were the all important key to winning it; get them and you get the whole game. The Unions realised what would happen if private individuals got to hold the contracts on the players; precisely what we see in Europe, constant bickering, back-stabbing and legal issues between Unions and Clubs over the use of players, and the erosion of the importance of the international game in favour of ego-boosting for individual owners. The RFU, FFR and the other European National Unions all decided to save themselves some cash and leave Professional rugby to private individuals. I'll bet they have regretted that short-sighted decision ever since! Thank God for Jock Hobbs. [/QUOTE]
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