All unions will take a hit. That hit will eventually see wages reduced for a few years. Some players who just signed new contracts got lucky. That's my take on it. I think the club teams might be hit more than the unions.
You do.Aussies have stood down 75% of their staff until June 30th and is projecting a loss of $120 million revenue with the entire international season wiped out. Not unexpected, but you'd worry about the sport when this is all said and done.
USA Rugby filing for bankruptcy. First of many?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...-bankruptcy-as-coronavirus-takes-toll-on-game
Do you think rugby will be okay over there, or is this a major blow to the growth of the game?Coronavirus was just the nail in the coffin. USA rugby would have gone bankrupt years ago if it wasn't for world rugby. They probably would have declared after nationals this spring as they couldn't afford to host them.
If you're Union was strong before this it will be fine. Nothing was saving USA rugby.
MLR is fine. It's only relationship with USA Rugby is that USA Rugby sanctions it.
The most likely solution is that a bare-boned national governing body will run the national teams while competitions will begin to run themselves. Frankly, large national structures are unamerican and regional/state based associations make the most sense. Colleges have been doing their own thing for awhile and the club game will become more local based. USA Rugby would just need to sanction all the events and let the rugby sort itself out. There's enough people here who love rugby enough to volunteer their time to make sure there is rugby every Saturday and that each Saturday the rugby gets better.
Honestly, not having as much of our dues go to the national body can only be good for USA Rugby. We need local leadership (I swear to god I'm not a Republican) with money who can do more to grow the game.
Aus Rugby, for those few paying attention, is currently undergoing a 'make Rugby great again' moment where the playing generation from the early 90s are trying to 'take back over' despite being unqualified and inexperienced. If you know who Phil Kearns is, he's posited to take over as CEO of RA despite having no sports admin experience.Yeah it's hard to see Australia coming back from that considering how bad things have gotten over there for Union in general recently
All unions will take a hit. That hit will eventually see wages reduced for a few years. Some players who just signed new contracts got lucky. That's my take on it. I think the club teams might be hit more than the unions.
Yes. I agree with this. Rugby as a sport has been it's own worst enemy. In the pursuit of trying to 'grow' (i.e. commercialise) the game, they've tried to behave like football clubs with a fraction of the fan base, infrastructure and money.You do.
When this is all done and dusted I hope rugby and many other sports take a long hard look in the mirror and take the opportunity to reset as behind the glitz of the showcase events they largely seem to be built on foundations of sand. Of course these are exceptional times but we all knew the fault lines were there.
Aren't the English and French clubs the only ones with salary caps?A domestic salary cap should be a condition on participation in international rugby