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I was expecting the usual crab-bucket naysayer video, but I was totally and completely wrong. Good content, well structured, concisely presented with enthusiasm and authority. Great job!

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This is so well presented, true, and sad as a mega rugby fan! Thanks for the video. I wish the RFU would watch this, sav and payinon g a consultant.

Leao.😂 What an ambassador 😂 man scored 3 goals his whole career

Nice job of the video. Interesting

Jordan, I'm SO glad you touch about rugby digital footprint. Cant imagine how much publicity and potential missed revenue RFU & Premiership have lost not showcasing their stars (a lot of times up and coming)

For all the people that call him a tax dodger, he’s not at all. He pays taxes in every country he races in during the F1 season, (just like all the other drivers on the grid do). He probably pays more in taxes every year, than the majority of you have ever had in your lifetime?

I watch a lot of UA-cam and wanted to say mate you stand out. Such good quality jounalism and to the point. Your format is great. Hope to see you succeed even more!

I’d like to see a breakdown of the taxes. But they’re helping other teams make money too. When Wrexham are away the games usually sell many more tickets and that also good for the local vendors and the taxes that come with that.

Do Marcus Rashford - his RE portfolio looks cool

With their most expensive players earning 3,000 pounds a week, which is roughly 150,000 a year, how on earth is that wages and salaries figure coming together? How much staff do they have and how much do they earn? That would be interesting.

I feel wrexham is on the right track. It just need to push for promotion and their supporter base will be increase due to wales celtic army. I am all for it. Come on,boyo's!!😂🎉

Really good video Well produced as always 😅

Americans would never let foreign investors into the nba or nfl

It feels like a long road back for rugby. It’s always felt like a more elitist sport, and representation in public schools is poor. Some great suggestions on how to turn it around 👏🏾

Rugby needs to market more like how the NFL does. Have you seen Nfl official on UA-cam its they give you alot of info on the sport, players, structure and the history.

Big mistake putting MKDons in there where they got smacked by Crawley 8-1 (agg) in the playoffs 🙄

I think the biggest problem with the English Premiership at the moment is the lack of teams. Two things they're doing well with this season: 1. Showing a live game on ITV each weekend, making it accessible to casual fans and people unable or unwilling to pay for TNT Sports. 2. Coverage by BBC Radio 5 Live on Saturday and Sunday. But with only 10 teams that's only 5 games spead across Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. When I'm listening to Radio 5 on a Saturday afternoon it's so stark the contrast between almost a hundred football teams playing games over the weekend vs only 10 rugby teams. There's no wonder the value of the broadcasting is so low with so few teams and so few games. The Premiership needs two or four more teams in my opinion.

Rugby Union had no business turning professional at all, its appeal will always be to players, ex-players and a few of their family members, that's it. Union in the UK is an upper class minority sport except in Wales (though Llandovery produces a lot!). This domestic market is and always was, too small to sustain a professional version of the game and it was foolish to try. A rudimentary competitive analysis using basic tools like the 5-forces model shows how ridiculous the notion is. The project never stood a chance and it should be abandoned unless the sport is widened out to every school with school leagues, town, county and country representation based on those leagues. Understanding the complexities of the game are essential to becoming a part of its market and to build that sort of knowledge and empathy for the game takes years and so it has to start young. Spending money on school rugby is the answer, scholarships, collegiate leagues etc. bind the game with learning attainment; this game percolates and does not trickle down. Trickling down is a spoof created by execs with snouts in the trough looking to their own vested interests and not those of the game.

They are top of league 1 so they looking good…

I think if your last movie breaks all the all-time box office records then this whole point is mute.

One thing that people always forget when comparing England with France is that, despite the support for both national teams is pretty much the same, the club support is vastly different. This is because english club sides only played friendlies up until the 80's (at the time "gentleman games"). Tis came from the idea of amateur sports that the important thing is the game itself, not the result. This happened also because the RFU feared that creating a league system would lead to professionalism. Compare that to France, where their clubs have been competing against eachother for more than a century, and it becomes obvious why France has almost 3 fully professional leagues and England does not. The clubs in France established rivalries and fanbases for decades and english clubs have only recently started to do that.

Promotion/relegation needs to be restored and Jeopardy/quality will happen/help, its unacceptable/abomination like the Attempted Football Super League whick thankfully won't ever happen.

R&R have brought Wrexham to the world for ‘only’ 9million. That is an achievement. Plus it’s a great story, but better than that it’s brought back quality football to Wrexham. It’s win/win all the way for the town. These guys have bought business clout to, lets face it, a non entity football club and made a success of it, it’s such a good story. Everybody loves an underdog making their story into a success and boy haven’t they done good. And it’s made me into a supporter

I went to a meeting of England Athletics coaches (at UCL's student union on Malet Street near Euston) around 2015. It was awful. The UKA hosts expected a fractious meeting before it even started. The grumpy old white men, I'm in that demographic, did little but complain for two hours. I was a throws coach - discus, hammer, javelin & shot - I did not attend further meetings and stopped coaching in 2019.

Good video, and probably factually correct, but do you speak so quickly? I found it difficult to keep up with you.

I think having the 4 Welsh teams and revamping the Premiership would do the game a lot of good. Think they should increase their marketing when football has international breaks to try and seize the vacuum and gain viewers. My idea how to revamp: Conference 1(West): Gloucester Bath Exeter Scarlets Ospreys Dragons Cardiff Bristol Conference 2 (East): Harlequins Saracens Northampton Leicester Sale Newcastle Wasps? Ealing? Two conferences of 8. Teams play each team in their conference twice, then at end of season teams in other conference once. H/A divide alternates every other year like six nations to ensure fairness over uneven numbers. Teams that finish 1st get automatic bye to semi-finals of playoffs which take place at neutral venues. 2nd and 3rd advance to quarter finals, hosted by second place teams. Winners go to semi-finals and winners of them go onto grand final. The two 8th place teams enter relegation zones. The one with worse overall record is automatically relegated, 2nd worst enters a promotion/relegation playoff with 2nd place team from championship.

It would be interesting to see you do a video on Rugby League (Predominantly in the North of England) comparing it to Union. RL has been growing and doing a lot of stuff right recently in England, although it’s smaller, it is much more sustainable and has a great causal fan base. Much bigger than Union in Australia as well!

I’m glad you put sarri’s outside of London. 😂

Great video bro but take down the sancho shirt

we need a computer game that isnt shit tbh

Great video, well done!

look at french club rugby, it is thriving, why €15 to see toulon, sale sharks £30.....

Excellent video. As an ex player and someone who follows a championship club it would be great to see relegation and promotion come back

Whereas France and Ireland allowed and encouraged their leagues and teams to compete, grow and flourish, the ERFU and WRFU quite literally regulated their teams into relative mediocrity and the Premier League league into inferiority. We also have a ridiculous domestic cup format from which fans are massively disconnected. European rugby also suffers now from confusing and disengaging tournament formats.

new sub, so sorry if ive missed this. Wrexham climb has been meteoric, but Stockport has done the same without any of the hype. Any interesting news there?

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Jordan, new subscriber here - loved the video. Would love to see you explore the current state of Super League, the RFL and the direction they’re heading in.

Brilliant video bud

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Man I asked in the comments a few videos back. Now I was too anxious to press play 😂

Just copy the French system!🇿🇦

Another great video essay mate! The biggest issue with rugby union is that a lot of the unions want the same money as football, but they don't want the media exposure... funnily enough, every home nation except from Ireland are losing registered amateur players, because they refuse to evolve to modern markets. It's also worth mentioning that before covid lockdowns, the English premiership clubs were still running on annual losses (aside from Exeter). The Financial Times made a sobering article on the matter as soon as lockdowns became imminent

It can’t be turned around. The English with their wah wah mentality and red trousers, just don’t get it. So few actually go to prem games each weekend. For me, you have to tie me down to stop me going to castres or Toulouse at the weekend, and at worst I’ll trip down to Montpellier for some sun and a game. The galosh clubs are too stuck up their own arses, and the players think they’re gods. Here in the south west of France, you’re having a beer with the players and coaches after the game. In England the players stay away from the supporters. Owned first game was against castres and he got hell on the pitch but was loved afterwards, he’s a legend in France we love the legends, even if they’re English. I had a very quick chat with him, he loved the fan connection. The English are infected with woke bs, and constant false allegations of systematic racism, again total bullshit. Twickenham has been sanitised to the point of being no fun. Don’t need to go again.

hard to believe this seeing Marcus smith in a new g wagon most mornings

Great video man, thank you

I know this is focussed on the English pro game, but from a grassroots perspective, the game isn't sustainable in its current form either. The big focus on the 3pm Saturday kickoff and a booze-up in the clubhouse afterwards doesn't fit in with the more sober Gen-Z or with Dads wanting to be more hands on with ther kids. When I became a new Dad it became depressing leaving my toddler at lunchtime and coming home to him already fast asleep. And I'm a referee! I can only imagine what it's like for the players who are getting beaten up every week as well. Every time I get a survey from the RFU I say that kickoff times are the main reason I haven't engaged with the game more. If matches started in late morning and were finished with a lunch at the clubhouse that's a massive barrier to engagement removed. And it gives more time for the people who do have the freedom to stay at the clubhouse to watch the Prem/International games and put more money into the club. Not a single club near me seems to have picked this up. And the thing is, most clubs still do really well at a junior level, and more and more women are playing. Rugby is just as much of a 'family' sport as it ever has been, but most clubs fail to adapt to modern living. And this doesn't even touch on the legit fears people hae over concussions.

Fuck rugby

As a Munster and Ireland supporter and player in a lower competition club side it is not up to the URC club teams to bail English clubs out. The problem is unlike the IRFU branches who had long established provincial teams which come from the four provinces which used to be higher kingdoms English clubs went from being owned and run by local branch types with committees to being owned like top soccer clubs. At least you have been fair and not said anything like no one cares about rugby (8 and a half million so registered players and high attendances and viewership at least with the URC, 6 nations and RWC disproves that), just that rugby union has always had its strongholds (Limerick, Cork, Suburban Dublin, Wicklow, Welsh Valleys, Southwest France, much of the English southwest, New Zealand, Western and Eastern Cape of South Africa etc and parts of the English midlands). The onus is on unions to grow the game and get it into places it never existed before places like the Liberties, Tallaght, Clondalkin Irish Gaeltachts and most of the Irish countryside. Appears to be working in Ireland with clubs in the Gaeltachtaí, Liberty Saints RFC in D8, Tallaght RFC and Clondalkin RFC, An Ghaeltacht Rugbaí etc. We are starting to see that with Tom Ahern, Edogbo brothers, Jamie Osborne, etc. More needs to be done but when the likes of those three grassroots Dublin clubs start providing most of the players to their local province then things will be definitely changing. Rugby union for me is an exciting sport to watch with the varying ways to score with last minute drop goals or penalty kicks in do or die matches are just as exciting as last minute tries. Also cross pitch kicks like the one Jack Crowley as outhalf kicked to Calvin Nash to score a clean running try adds to it. It is also the history with the 6 Nations having a lineage going back to 1884 and the likes of the Calcutta cup and Triple Crown being some of the oldest contests in sports history. The derby matches and their history no matter how old. The stadiums like Thomond Park with a fantastic atmospheric crowds or Landsdowne in the 2022-2023 URC semi final or 2021-2022 Munster vs Toulouse Heineken Cup quarter final. The summer test series Or when Ireland beat the All Blacks for the first time in 2017 and the first time in New Zealand in summer of 2022. For me the 2022-2023 Munster vs Stormers URC final is one of the greatest club matches, as you mentioned you are a Man United fan before Munster won that final Munster had won in an older format of that competition in 2011 that was the last time before that final that Munster won silverware and they entered their wilderness years bouncing coaching ticket to coaching ticket poor performance to poor performance. Things like how at least here in Ireland players names are kept off the jerseys. Speaking of jerseys rugby union teams have played in the same kits since their founding or for a very long time. Also who does not like hooped jerseys which are most common in rugby union. It is the fact that extra time is rare, that Munster vs Toulouse quarter final being an exception. The interesting points race and conceding penalties in your 22 on a torrent rainy night leaving you behind the opposition. At a regular club level the level of fun and the inclusivity regarding shapes and sizes (still rings true at top flight but to a lesser extent these days). If you are large, strong and heavy you can be a prop or hooker if a bit lighter and more of a runner then a lock if you are quite a good runner but still larger but not as large and strong a flanker if not that a 8 man. Good at concentrating and good with your feet an outhalf, if you are a very fast runner a wing etc. When it comes to grassroots rugby is quite simple you just needs socks, boots, shorts, gum shield and jersey. I agreed on the social media clips plenty of people have been posting them for years. 14,15,16 year old club and test clips. I think the RFU should invest and promote the lower leagues as the local team. For christ’s sake the standards there have come on leaps and bounds there.

Jordan in terms of lack of jeopardy how does the NFL get away with it? There’s no promotion or relegation. They just have that draft system which can reward teams for tanking (purposefully losing). American sports in general is geo fenced in the owners favour to take out jeopardy. How come their sports are growing through the roof? Last week there was a Jets game at Tottenham’s ground and the stadium was packed. What are they doing that we’re missing? If anyone would know you’ll have an idea