Saw a story in the west about the Boks coming next year.
Will try and get a copy to post.
Its behind the paywall.
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Saw a story in the west about the Boks coming next year.
Will try and get a copy to post.
Its behind the paywall.
I hope the WA State Government Isn't chipping in any money to get that here in Perth.
Having the World Cup winning Springboks playing the Wallabies, will be good for lots of pubs, hotels, restaurants in Perth etc and creates casual work. Lots of Saffers from Eastern States, RSA and elsewhere will turn up to watch. Hopefully, a full house again at Optus.
Good publicity for WA rugby and WA tourism.
So I dont have a problem with WA gov Tourism dept, paying the RA some money for the privilege. But dont get me wrong, I still think the current RA stinks. But we dont want to cut our nose off to spite our face.
Hopefully there will be a purge by then and I can buy tickets without feeling bad about it. After a couple of years only watching GRR and NRC, the RWC has rekindled the repressed half of my Rugby obsession.And I want to keep it that way.
I get it.
I just hate Rugby Australia, if they want to hold a game here in Perth good luck to them.
Just don't expect the State Government to subsidize the exercise after the damage they caused to the game here in WA.
Maybe a purge of the board like Shasta mentioned will make me less hostile.
Sure, I mean what's not to get...all WA is good for is paying so that other people's children can play rugby on the Eastern Seaboard. It isn't a hard concept, or one they have been shy about making plain. My personal opinion is that they pay for their own damn rugby, but if they can convince people to stick their hands in their pockets then good luck to them. I certainly don't think the state government should be kicking in though.
I'm sorry about the condescending bit- But I don't know how to have this discussion without it.
The State of Western Australia made great gains with the Bledisloe Cup Match earlier this year. Optus Stadium looked magnificent and it was the perfect advertisement for Sport in WA. A sell-out - if you host it they will come.
Unfortunately, it is the nature of professional sport in this country and probably around the world. Whether it is the Formula 1, the World Rally Championships, Wrestlemania, State of Origin or the freaking Superbowl. Someone is paying someone for the privilege.
I asked this question last year, I will ask it again - why would you not want a Rugby Union Test Match in Perth? Why wouldn't you want to watch the current World Champions? Live and only a train, car, bus ride away. Are you Rugby fans or not?
Jargs, Shasta - Do I understand you correctly - You don't want a Test Match in Perth because you don't want the WA Government to give RA money. Or you just don't want a Test Match in Perth because: RA kicked the Force out of Super Rugby?
Yes, I understand that RA took away the Western Force from SuperRugby. I don't like that either. But I still love the sport of Rugby Union. 3 Dickheads in Sydney aren't going to change that.
No X. Read it again. We are all Rugby lovers who desperately want to support the Wallabies and about time for the Springbucks to come back. But not at any cost.
You're a good mate. But the RA devils advocate is wearing thin. And it will not change our thinking.
There are way more than just 3 dickheads in postcode 2021, X :sarcastic:
I understand what you are saying X, but would still observe that your perspective is different. Perhaps you'd still be fine with it if RA eliminated all professional rugby in NSW, gave the state union $180k total to run all of the rugby in the state (cut the cloth to suit), then took $5-10M out of the state each year and openly gave it to Brisbane and Melbourne. But if so I bet you'd be an orphan.
But I have to wonder whether you know until you try. There is much moaning about deprivation at the grass roots, but most wouldn't really know what that actually looks like.
So now I know nothing about Grass Roots Rugby.
In the 1990's I was a Waterboy who graduated to Team Manager who graduated to a Property Manager who graduated to a Vice President and President of a Rugby Club in Katherine in the Nothern Territory.
This Comp had 4 Clubs, one team each. For 5 months they played each other on a Friday night. And then went to the final series. where we won the Grand Final for the First 5 years in a row. Our Team did not have a try scored against us until the 2nd Grand Final. After 12 of the first fifteen drove for 19 hours straight from Townsville to Katherine in a Coaster bus for the privilege of playing in the Grand Final arriving 40 minutes before kickoff.
In 2000 - 2001 I was the Assistant Team Manager of the Air Force National Side competiting the Australian Services Rugby Union.
Since 2010 I have been a Team Manager, Property Manager, Bar Manager and Canteen Manager of a Club in the Sydney Suburban Rugby Competition. in Third and Second Division.
Never once in almost 20 years of Rugby volunteering and administration have I seen an official from Rugby Australia, Sydney Rugby or Suburban Rugby.
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Fine, so tell us all about what it has been like at the grass roots in Western Australia over the last couple of years.
What I said is you are looking at it from a whole different set of grass roots, with a whole different funding profile, in a whole different state. You are telling everyone to get over it from a state that is still supported by RA, sits at the heart of "Australian Rugby", still has professional rugby, and gets millions of dollars a year in development funding and programs. Even if you don't see any of it directly, it can't help but define every thing around you. Are you really so lacking in self awareness that you can't see that you might be coming across a bit like Marie Antoinette?
But thanks for the kind wishes anyway.
Funding Profile? What Funding.
I may have no clue about Club Rugby in WA. And it is now very obvious that You have no clue about Rugby in NSW or anywhere else in Australia.
NSW Rugby is so broke it shares the offices with Subbies Rugby - that barely has its head above water. Club Rugby Registration this year in NSW included a NSW and a Rugby Australia "Levy". The only funding NSW Rugby looks at is Super Rugby. Shute Shield Television broadcast is funded by the Shute Shield Clubs. And all the Shute Shield Clubs care about is Shute Shield. Subbies Rugby is almost self-sufficient. It has to be.
My apologies for the bad language - it was an over-reaction. I will remove it from my previous post.
X. This discussion is getting unnecessarily heated. My initial comment was directed at your serming inability to accept that some of us can't and don't want to "get over it". How bout we just agree to disagree. "It" is what it is. End of story.