Menu
Finance

Samoa Rugby To Request £160,000 From RFU For Test Against England

Samoa will ask the Rugby Football Union for a £160,000 ($212,920) cut of next month’s £10M ($13.3M) Test against England, according to Nik Simon of the London DAILY MAIL. Samoa Rugby Union CEO Vincent Fepuleai is "personally contacting" RFU CEO Steve Brown after it was revealed Samoa's players will earn £650 ($865) each for the week -- in contrast to a £22,000 ($29,276) match fee for England players. Samoa’s pay packet breaks down to just £95 ($126) per day for its "biggest game of the year," prompting World Rugby Vice-Chair Gus Pichot to call for "widespread financial reform." Pichot said, "The whole economic equation in rugby is wrong at the moment. I can’t bull**** you and say it’s all fine, because it is a massive issue. We need a long-term plan." World Rugby is "under pressure" to introduce a revenue-share model. There is currently "no onus" on the host to split the revenue with its opponents, which is "stunting the growth of cash-strapped tier two nations" that lack the infrastructure to stage major Test matches. Pichot: "The revenue share model has been discussed. But the tier-one countries decided that wouldn't sustain their economies. ... I'm not a great supporter of making the rich richer but I was in those meetings and it's tough. Someone has £200 million ($266M) and they want £220 million ($293M). I’m looking for a fair growth of the game" (DAILY MAIL, 10/14).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2017/10/16/Finance/RFU-Samoa.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2017/10/16/Finance/RFU-Samoa.aspx

CLOSE