Gary Flowers
Gary Flowers
abc audience countries deal existing hard huge markets million potential push rugby step viewing worked
SANZAR has worked hard to push rugby into new and existing markets and the ABC Asia-Pacific deal is a huge step into more than 40 countries with a potential viewing audience of 10 million households.
agreements complex individual issue looking players
The issue of third-party agreements for individual players is a complex issue and something we will be looking at very closely.
actual based cannot comment contract figure himself involved near nowhere offers proving
It is a contract based on incentive, and proving himself in rugby. We cannot comment on the actual numbers, but the $750,000 figure which has been bandied around is just nowhere near the mark. Third-party offers have also not been involved in any of the discussions, and is not part of any offer which has been made.
concern player
There was concern at the AGM (on Thursday) about player contracting.
details
We're after details for the identification of those sponsors.