Originally Posted by
Ralto
I think I was answering a post about the oft quoted "free market system" "let the market decide" b/s that regularly gets spouted.
... if there was a free market operating...(happy to repeat), there are around 6 "financial" teams in AFL, and around the same number in ARL.
I didn't say the ARL or AFL will shrink - at any time, place or paragraph. Didn't say any players will go anywhere.
ARL and AFL pay "huge" subsidies, as long as you have a willing manangement and loads of $$$ coming from those "financial" teams
to the less able, then everything is tickety boo. SANZAR has decreed it is not, so has the ARU.
If a free market decided, most rugby would be metro comps, and if things continue we're edging our way there.