The Fitz Files: Hold the last rites: Rugby and Fox union will take some breaking | Peter_Fitz
A little less than 25 years ago, the television impresario advising the Australian Rugby Union, Ian Frykberg, flew to London to meet with Rupert Murdoch’s head of television, another Australian by the name of Sam Chisholm.
Chisholm was given the written proposal in his office at BSkyB and the three men waited, watching carefully to see just how he would react. Chisholm – a charismatic chainsaw of a man – skimmed the first few pages, his eyes moving restlessly over the words, obviously looking for something, until bingo! He found it.There was the final price the three national unions were asking at the bottom of the fifth page: $US650 million .
Just a month later, however, Chisholm did commit to $US550 million and ended up throwing in an extra $5 million if Luyt would agree to leave his steak lunch and sign within the hour the offer was made.Is it, as reports have it, all about to fall over, at least in Australia? Will Rugby Australia go one way and Fox Sports the other.
As to Folau promising he won’t make any more posts, sorry, what? All those arguments about how you’ll sacrifice your career, Israel, to speak God’s truth – as a matter of fact because “God spoke to me” – and you say what? At the first whiff of a contract you do an about-face on that and make the same promise you did to Rugby Australia?Oh, and one last thing. Where are you, Martyn Iles of the Australian Christian Lobby.
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