logo
episode-header-image
Mar 2022
46m 29s

UP232 Re-Thinking Sport: Club Rugby

UNOFFICIAL PARTNER
About this episode

This is an episode in our Re-Thinking Sport series in collaboration with Portas, the global strategy consultancy dedicated to sport and physical activity. Today, we're talking about the business of rugby union with our guest, Nick Garcia, the former City Football Group executive who is now CEO of Welsh club, Ospreys and Head of Team Sports at Y 11 sport and media, the Hong Kong based group that bought a 75.1% stake in the club in May, 2020. 
The other voice you'll hear is that Nick Rawlinson, senior consultant at Portas. 

If you're interested in sports business analysis and comment, follow @UnffclPrtnr on Twitter and join thousands of busy sports people who receive the Unofficial Partner newsletter every Thursday. Sign up via UnofficialPartner.com


Up next
Oct 7
UP508 What's Sport Selling? Hollingsworth on the state of the nation's health, flags, needles, government and the free market
This is the fourth and final episode of our series What's Sport Selling? Created in collaboration with the Redtorch research and creative agency. Today's guest is Tim Hollingsworth, who led Sport England for eight years, managing the £300m annual budget derived from government an ... Show More
52m 53s
Oct 3
UP507 The YouTube Arguments
Guests Jen Topping and Jo Redfern critique the arguments around sport’s relationship with the creator economy, the control v chaos philosophy divide inherent in digital IP monetisation and audience building, and the PR battles being waged for premium advertising among the big pla ... Show More
1h 12m
Sep 30
UP506 Chat_UP: LiveScore, Grok and how AI will disrupt sports betting
Our guest is Sam Sadi, CEO of LiveScore Group, and a regular visitor on Unofficial Partner. Last week he announced a groundbreaking new partnership between the LiveScore sports content and betting platform and xAI, the Elon Musk owned social media platform's artificial intelligen ... Show More
54m 20s
Recommended Episodes
Feb 2019
Sneakers Features (Woike) and LA Times Sports (Rodriguez)
Host Beto Duran welcomes NBA National Writer Dan Woike and Sports Editor Angel Rodriguez to the podcast. Capitalizing on the growing business of the sneaker industry, Woike (and other sports journalists) put together a special section this past weekend during the NBA All-Star Wee ... Show More
34m 43s
Sep 2021
Action Sports Network Senior Executive Producer Darren Rovell on Sports Memorabilia, Sports Wagering & More!
On today's episode, Action Sports Network Senior Executive Producer Darren Rovell joins Jason for an extended conversation in which the pair discuss the exploding market that is sports memorabilia and why some items are harder to come by (and thus more valuable) than others, why ... Show More
39m 25s
Aug 2022
Rugby league - the sport for all
02:20 John Hughes, the director of partnerships and communities for the charity, Community Integrated Care, explains how learning disability rugby league came about and the impact its had.06:50 We hear from Warrington’s Oliver Thomason who has become a star both of the sport and ... Show More
37m 50s
Jun 2021
La Punchline : Carlo Ancelotti – 01/06
« Top of the foot », c'est le show radio qui concentre le meilleur du football : les meilleures infos, les meilleurs invités et les meilleurs consultants de la Dream Team. Toujours plus de foot sur RMC ! Pendant trois heures, Mohamed Bouhafsi et Jean-Louis Tourre, entourés de leu ... Show More
10m 7s