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Major League Rugby's docuseries on the 2021 Austin Gilgronis is a six part weekly serial on FS2 and available to stream on The Rugby Network after a 24 hour delay. We'll be providing a weekly recap of our key takeaways. The first episode of Major League Rugby’s Inside the Scrum came and went like many … Continue reading Inside the Scrum: Episode 1
Major League Rugby dropped an early Christmas present on Tuesday, announcing that a docuseries about the 2021 Austin Gilgronis will air on FS2 over the next six Sundays. (The MLR continues to thrive at media timing.) You can take a peak at the trailer below. https://youtu.be/28ACWFd515A The series will also be available on TRN following … Continue reading 10 Things We’d Like to See on ‘Inside the Scrum’
Major League Rugby continues to get a lot right. However, the league continues to get everything wrong with transaction transparency. Most teams in MLR have been trickling out signing announcements over the last several weeks. And most of those signings aren't new developments. Take the Chance Wengliewski trade to RUNY. He announced he was moving … Continue reading All I Want For Christmas Is An MLR Transaction Wire
Sam Windsor's four years in Houston may constitute the most successful MLR career to date. Year five will see him start a new chapter. https://twitter.com/rugbynewyork/status/1468988817461981193 Sam Windsor moving from Houston to RUNY has largely been discussed from the SaberCats' angle. How he fits with the Roosters is far more interesting. The RUNY back line is … Continue reading Sam Windsor’s Fit in New York
No MLR side is ready to compete with a Super Rugby side on the pitch. However, the competition is heating up off the field. With Major League Rugby gaining traction in the global rugby ecosystem, American sides are pilfering more talent from New Zealand. In addition to aged stars looking for one more adventure, the … Continue reading Major League Rugby’s Growth is Impacting Super Rugby Recruitment
Update: RFT is actively tracking a bid by the Saint Louis Knights to join Major League Rugby. The 2022 MLR season will see Dallas field the league's 13th team. 2023 could see even more growth. Somewhat overlooked in the mess around schedule dropping was a piece in the Sports Business Journal concerning the MLR's growth. … Continue reading How Many Teams Will Join MLR 2023?
We've reached the tiny part of the year where there's a lot happening off the field in American rugby, but there isn't too much happening on it. While MLR signings are starting to heat up, Major League Rugby plays little role in the top stories this weekend. After all, not much could be bigger news … Continue reading 3 Things: Return of International 7s… and Covid
Nice screen ya got here! Every watch rugby on it? Major League Rugby is expected to announce new broadcast deals before the end of the year. With the original deals wrapped at the end of the 2021 season, it's worth thinking about the value of broadcast deals. Last week, the English Premier League signed a … Continue reading MLR, EPL, and the Importance of Broadcast Deals
Adriaan Carelse was a key piece of launching Rugby ATL into the MLR Championship Final. His trade to the Dallas Jackals is the quintessential MLR trade. https://twitter.com/DallasJackals/status/1460291336825937924 The move sees Carelse join the Jackals in exchange for an undisclosed amount of salary cap relief (HT: AmericasRurgbyNews). To be clear, that's a starting caliber 10 moving … Continue reading Understanding the MLR Trade Market
The inevitability of some teams receiving useless, and potentially detrimental, byes isn't the only negative scheduling consequence of having an odd number of teams. Since the two conference format was established in 2020, each teams schedule has featured a home-and-away series against each conference rival and a match up against each team of the 6 … Continue reading No MLR Team Sees Every Other Team in 2022
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