The draw...so the ARU thunk!
http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/09...ugby-draw-drop
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The draw...so the ARU thunk!
http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/09...ugby-draw-drop
Tokyo is in australia. Perth is not. Apparently
Singapore must be in Australia as well.
What a very disappointing read, still mad as hell 😡
Won't b watching any!
How amateurish is this from Fox
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I can't even look at it! God this sucks. I hope memberships are down across the board and that all the teams suck. 😢
It's the complete cutting off of top tier competitive rugby in WA that gets me, without any obvious attempts to find a less drastic solution - the only acknowledgement from the ARU about what they have done has been Clyne's statement:Clyne and his ARU flunkies know that this is a terminal act - the "nuclear option" as Wayne Smith of The Australian called it.Quote:
“We accept that there will be anger and resentment over this decision and we sympathise with those fans. We sincerely hope that they are not lost to the game forever.”
There is (was) a lot of value in the Sea of Blue - what the accountants call "goodwill". But the ARU has trashed that value, and it's going to be a long time before anything like that value can be recreated in WA. If the Western Reds are an example of what lies ahead, then we will not see high tier rugby union in WA for another 20+ years, such has been the damage inflicted on the game in WA.
I suppose there's an outside chance that we may see something from Twiggyball, but I'm not confident enough to bet a good single malt on it.
Could not agree with you more FingerTips
I don't think it's possible for me to care less about super rugby or the wallabies.
didn:t take them long after culling us to come up with the 2018 timeline seems they knew in advance we were for the chop :westernforce:
Who the fuck are those wankers in clown costumes? Is one Hooper? What a joke.
Couldn't give a toss...nor the boys in canary yellow
Have to agree with that. This is soul destroying. They have ruined Western Australian rugby with absolutely no remorse, and worse they have alienated and incredibly lost a sizable chunk of their fan base and viewership.
What annoys me is Melbourne is almost 3x the size of Perth and still struggles to pull a crowd even remotely close to what the Force average, and they have only just begun their tenure too, The Force averaged up to 30k in their first few years and kept those crowd numbers well above 20k for some considerable time before the slide which will inevitably happen to any sporting team lacking success, the crowds were starting to come back for the Force and they had the passionate sea of blue which was a real fan base, and that includes this site, its a true fan site, how many other super rugby franchises have anything like the sea of blue or Thewholeforce fan club. They have cut their most passionate supporters off at the knees with no contingency plan in place, its sad, and truely shambolic, and with the whole damning senate inquiry it now seems to be corrupt. I could only imagine the Melbourne crowds will dwindle to as low as 4-5k a game 12 years into their existance, and for a population larger than New Zealand that is pathetic.
I am cancelling Foxtel like everyone else and wont watch this tripe anymore, I will be letting the operators know exactly the reasons why too. The whole ARU board need to go and the Australian Federal Police should launce an investigation into the sham contracts and money trail, anything less than this is pure injustice.
I'm beginning to buy the theory that WA rugby will recover more slowly than league. the whole burnt twice syndrome. It could be 30 years or more before this is forgotten. The Reds died largely as a result of poor business decision making of their own. The Force were cruelly slaughtered just as they entered the upswing. It could be much much worse than the Reds
20 years is a long time and a lot can happen in that time, but it is 20 years since the demise of the Western Reds in 1997.
Regular high tier Rugby League matches only returned to WA in 2009 (one NRL match per year 2009-2013 and 2015, 2 NRL matches per year 2014 and 2016-2018, and the first league international at nib in October 2016).
Unless something unexpected comes out of Twiggyball, WA faces having a whole generation who will never have seen a high tier rugby union match (including the Wallabies). That will be a generation for whom Rugby Union is that game played on the eastern side of Australia.
I think that this may be the real challenge which Rugby WA (and any of its successors) will face in the post Western Force years.
Cutting the Force really makes all the strides WA has made, pointless.
We need a bloody positive announcement soon.
Unless the IPRC succeeds, there will not be another Test here after 2019 Bled