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Interesting watching the Egg Chaser and Joe Worsley, they were saying that it could happen for one season. They also said that in order to get a player like Dupont who already earns about 1,000,000 euros a year they would have to probably pay 5,000,000 euros just for Dupont to even consider it.

Still don't see the market for it. I certainly won't watch it if it happens.
 
mdaclarke said:
So it would be a massive sports washing exercise, although I don't see how it will "wash" anything as any player who joins this league will be a pariah.

The franchise choices are bizarre. Only Cape Town, Tokyo and London are in established rugby markets. They will be playing in empty stadiums in front of a non-existent tv audience.

For the other reasons you say, only someone who wants to lose an absolute boat load of money would ever "invest" in this.

I have South African family and they always highlight to me how the Springboks are the one thing that pulls the country together. No South African player will join this, if he wants to play for the Boks, unless Rassie gives it his blessing. I can't see him doing this.

Also I don't see the money being that much better than what is on offer in France. So I don't see any French players going for it.

Japan Top League already pays massive salaries, so why would Japanese players go for it.

I don't see it ever happening.

If by some miracle is does, it will last less than a season and the players could end up stranded in a foreign country having to fund their own way home. They will then struggle to get teams to take them on as they will be seen as pariahs.
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This is probably the best take. Some talk of NRL players going too but most likely players have signed release clauses so (if ) it happens they can go. I don't see it going anywhere tbh. The travelling road show doesn't work for 7's even with catch of nations playing. It's main role is probably agents using it to try and get players a bump
 
50% or more chance professional women rugby doesn't exist in 10 years if this takes off. The sport hasn't got the safety net to bounce back from what could happen if it all goes wrong.
 
If they quietly dropped any plans for a men's competition and put all their deep pockets and media contacts to work selling the women's competition as the main event... How does that stack up?
If they're somehow able to market it as more then just "the women's version of a popular men's competition" and reach a new audience, and if they're happy to run a loss for the sake of sportswashing and muddying the waters.

Is the geographic spread of the 4 proposed women's teams logistically crazy? Might 4 teams be viable?

Would World Rugby oppose it, if they settled for a women's competition only?
 
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SéniorHuevo said:
This is probably the best take. Some talk of NRL players going too but most likely players have signed release clauses so (if ) it happens they can go. I don't see it going anywhere tbh. The travelling road show doesn't work for 7's even with catch of nations playing. It's main role is probably agents using it to try and get players a bump
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I would add a caveat that if, and it is a big if, Rassie did give his approval, I could see some of the older South African players going for it as an alternative to Japan. However it still doesn't change the fundamentals as to there is no foreseeable way I can think of that it would ever make any money.
 
Rugbyfan564 said:
Bet R360 leak the list of players who have signed up next week for maximum drama. They will love the idea of the RFU having to sack players on central contracts. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...who-joins-r360-league-from-international-duty
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breach of contract is a thing "you must be playing in the Premiership" =/= "play R360, officially based on UAE, but playing wherever they can"

Rugbyfan564 said:
If the rumours are true
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Hint - they're not
 

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