S4 Ep41: LIV Rugby - Coming Soon?

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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Sports, Rugby

4.4 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show we are joined by Mark Foster, a former Gloucester and Exeter Chiefs winger. He is now Senior Vice President of Finance at LIV Golf - the tournament backed by one of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in the world. Golf is one of many sports that has seen significant investment from Saudi Arabia. Rugby is yet to have a big bite of the cherry but it feels like it may be a case of ‘when, not if’ this happens. So where is rugby in the queue? How desperately does it need a big cheque from somewhere? What could it look like? What are the implications? Season 4 is sponsored by Continental Tyres. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rugby talks a lot about its values and the spirit of the game. I mean can
0:04.4	rugby take money from Saudi Arabia?
0:06.3	Um, look...
0:07.3	That's a hot potato. If this is going to happen in rugby, Christ is going to be a
0:12.3	lot of thunder, lightning,
0:13.5	symbols, drums, etc.
0:16.3	The most extreme end there is nuclear bomb in the middle of the game, blow everything up,
0:20.6	start again. How on earth are you going to round up 300 players?
0:25.0	Easy, money.
0:26.0	Easy, yeah money.
0:28.0	Literally just cash.
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:30.0	You could build something above all the club leagues at the moment.
0:34.0	Super clubs.
0:36.0	For me, it kind of has to happen.
0:38.0	I think rugby as it stands now, you know, without some change, you know, it's's not the Rosie's future.
0:44.7	Do you think from the leafy spare bedroom at Shay Foster,
0:49.7	we have just built a new global enterprise. I would hope so. into the final moments Alex Payne trying to keep this side going forward
1:08.8	Haskell takes it on now.
1:10.1	Just relentless chat largely about himself and there's Tyndall to add the finishing touch
1:14.8	of glamour and World Cup winning stories and a slightly sideways nose.
1:19.4	That is how you podcast, a dominant display by the Good The Bad and the Rugby.
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