From Christy in the Oz.
"The Australian understands the penny has at long last dropped that tinkering around the edges won't be enough to turn the Super Rugby Pacific competition around and that opening the rugby borders on either side of the Tasman is now moving forward."
Plus some Waratahs recruitment & retention news. It’s not great.
@WSWanderingEels "The Guardian has seen details of an alternative vision produced by Rugby League Commercial in a document entitled Project Magic" Delusional.
@footyindustryAU "The regular AFL Premiership Season, which wrapped on Sunday, reached 15.5 Australians, up from 14.6 million in 2025. The audience reach on 7plus Sport alone jumped from 2.5 million to 4.7 million."
@DavidMason93@M_Shaw1 Learn the lessons of the past, breakaway league is a very bad idea. A breakaway league would be astronomical to run and would destroy the NRL finances and the SL.
The fact that everyone is so up in arms about property price having fallen 2.0% from their peak but still being 27.9% higher over the past five years and 70.7% higher over the past decade indicates to me something is deeply wrong with us as a society.
The market appears to have completely lost touch with reality and their seems to be an expectation that no matter how unaffordable it gets prices should just continue to rise.
@footyindustryAU@WSWanderingEels And furthermore, estimates based of data released the previous year is not the same as making things up. It's the best thing we have when all the data is not available.
@footyindustryAU@WSWanderingEels I am sure the broadcasters know all the data hence why they payed the NRL 5.3b. So every time you leave out data it makes what your posting look questionable.
Let me tell you a statistic that will genuinely shock you.
Messi completed 9 successful dribbles against England alone.
(Nothing unusual, of course—we’re talking about Messi.)
Cristiano Ronaldo, across his last 4 World Cups (Brazil, Russia, Qatar, and the United States), completed 8 successful dribbles in total.
Let me say that again in case it didn’t sink in:
Messi completed more successful dribbles in 1 game than Cristiano did across 4 World Cups.
This comparison had to be made. It’s a comparison between a player who creates the game and dictates its rhythm, and another who depends far more on his team’s play and the system around him.
Whoever started comparing these 2 in the first place should be put on trial. 😅
At the end of the journey, Messi keeps proving that he exists on a completely different level—one that nobody has reached in the past, the present, or the future.
El empeño en defender las contradicciones de Cristiano Ronaldo roza el fanatismo ciego. Sus declaraciones solo exponen la frustración de quien sabe perfectamente que el debate con Messi se cerró hace años en la cancha. Seguir buscando excusas y discursos vacíos para esquivar la realidad es un ejercicio inútil, la historia ya dictó sentencia y a él solo le queda el papel de un segundón resentido que se niega a aceptar su lugar.