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[2014 TRC] Argentina v Australia in Mendoza (04/10/2014)
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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 676705" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>Not really mate - even during our "golden era" when the Wallabies held every single trophy we were contesting and League had just emerged battered from the Super League war, more people were tuning in to watch the State of Origin and NRL GFs than they were the Bledisloe Cup. Back then you'd see about 1.5 million people tune in for the Bledisloe, whilst about 2 million watched Origin.</p><p></p><p>Since then the administration of Rugby in this country has gone massively backwards to the point that they're facing bankruptcy, whilst League has improved its position literally 10 fold (in TV dollar terms). As a business Rugby League just has massively stronger fundamentals in this country (not reliant on a clutch of prissy boys at private schools for development for instance) and has increasingly been run in a far smarter way.</p><p></p><p>The biggest problem has from the get go been Rugby's "exclusiveness" here - something the decision to give the TV contract to fox for everything but Wallaby tests, has done untold damage (only 30% of the population have cable TV). That's something that Wallaby success only manages to temporarily hide, but has never disappeared. </p><p></p><p>It's got nothing to do with fair weather support and the proof for that again is in Origin - 8 years of disappointment for NSW didn't hurt it at all... in fact it's gotten stronger each year and all three games this year attracted 4 million plus viewers. The Bledisloe? In spite of massive optimism after the Waratahs Super Rugby success, it couldn't manage to crack a million viewers.</p><p></p><p>This translates into national strength too - the Wallabies can't handle a few injuries before they really struggle. The Kangaroos? They can handle twice as many injuries and still field a scary looking team. In fact they will this year.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">I posted this elsewhere, but have a look yourself. Currently, this is who is out of the Roos:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Justin Hodges (Broncos), Matt Gillett (Broncos), Brett Morris (Dragons), Josh Dugan (Dragons), Trent Merrin (Dragons), Will Hopoate (Eels), Andrew Fifita (Sharks), Michael Gordon (Sharks), Billy Slater (Storm), Dave Taylor (***ans), Brent Tate (Cowboys - career ending injury), Paul Gallen (ASADA ban), Darius Boyd (Knights), Luke Lewis (Sharks). </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">That's a pretty massive list of rep players out on a scale worse than what was suffered by the Wallabies. But the Roos have so much depth that we could still field a side that looked like this:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Cronk </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Thurston </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Morris (Brett) </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Jennings </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Hayne </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Stewart </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Inglis </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Meanwhile, we could still field a forward pack of: </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Thaiday </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Smith </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Scott </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Bird </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Tamou</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">So it's still going to be a powerful side and Matt Scott has to be one of the best props running around right now.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 676705, member: 12207"] Not really mate - even during our "golden era" when the Wallabies held every single trophy we were contesting and League had just emerged battered from the Super League war, more people were tuning in to watch the State of Origin and NRL GFs than they were the Bledisloe Cup. Back then you'd see about 1.5 million people tune in for the Bledisloe, whilst about 2 million watched Origin. Since then the administration of Rugby in this country has gone massively backwards to the point that they're facing bankruptcy, whilst League has improved its position literally 10 fold (in TV dollar terms). As a business Rugby League just has massively stronger fundamentals in this country (not reliant on a clutch of prissy boys at private schools for development for instance) and has increasingly been run in a far smarter way. The biggest problem has from the get go been Rugby's "exclusiveness" here - something the decision to give the TV contract to fox for everything but Wallaby tests, has done untold damage (only 30% of the population have cable TV). That's something that Wallaby success only manages to temporarily hide, but has never disappeared. It's got nothing to do with fair weather support and the proof for that again is in Origin - 8 years of disappointment for NSW didn't hurt it at all... in fact it's gotten stronger each year and all three games this year attracted 4 million plus viewers. The Bledisloe? In spite of massive optimism after the Waratahs Super Rugby success, it couldn't manage to crack a million viewers. This translates into national strength too - the Wallabies can't handle a few injuries before they really struggle. The Kangaroos? They can handle twice as many injuries and still field a scary looking team. In fact they will this year. [COLOR=#000000]I posted this elsewhere, but have a look yourself. Currently, this is who is out of the Roos:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Justin Hodges (Broncos), Matt Gillett (Broncos), Brett Morris (Dragons), Josh Dugan (Dragons), Trent Merrin (Dragons), Will Hopoate (Eels), Andrew Fifita (Sharks), Michael Gordon (Sharks), Billy Slater (Storm), Dave Taylor (***ans), Brent Tate (Cowboys - career ending injury), Paul Gallen (ASADA ban), Darius Boyd (Knights), Luke Lewis (Sharks). [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]That's a pretty massive list of rep players out on a scale worse than what was suffered by the Wallabies. But the Roos have so much depth that we could still field a side that looked like this:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Cronk [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Thurston [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Morris (Brett) [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Jennings [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Hayne [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Stewart [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Inglis [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Meanwhile, we could still field a forward pack of: [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Thaiday [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Smith [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Scott [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Bird [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Tamou[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]So it's still going to be a powerful side and Matt Scott has to be one of the best props running around right now.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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