Australian rugby has been playing Super Rugby musical chairs with four chairs and five guests for about a decade, and now the music has stopped it’s the Melbourne Rebels who are left standing.
Player salaries at the Rebels over the same period totalled more than $22m, and the administrator stated that the franchise has been spending an average of $7.37m on players a year. It does not take into consideration that Rugby Australia would have to keep funding the Rebels with money it doesn’t have – to the tune of about $5m a year – despite knowing that the very same organisation has been bleeding at least $5m a year for the past three years, regardless of the RA funding.There can’t be any RA director with any sense of whole-of-game responsibility and even a basic grasp of mathematics who can conceivably believe that five Super Rugby franchises are sustainable.
But, while such statements might appeal to the sense of Australian pride, the details laid out in the administrator’s report make clear that they haven’t been supported by what’s happening in the real world, and that has been the case for years.
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