Do you have even the vaguest concept of what criminal charges are?

Have you noticed how utterly incapable you are of putting forward a cohesive argument that doesn’t contradict on every second post.

You say people from Harvard (for the record I not me) are both poor negotiators and incapable of performing their job. Yet the jobs you believe they are incapable of performing are exceptionally well paid.

So either you are:
- full of it because they must be good negotiators to be well paid for something they are incapable of doing or
- full of it because they are poor negotiators but are well paid because they are so good at the roles?

Of course the most likely result is you are a full of it because it’s something in between but end results – Mick = full of it.

Better off the way we are, selling sports to the highest bidder, and not having de-acated channels. The sports channels probably already realise this problem. Besides, 1 code 24/7 would soon become boring. Dont want to bore us fans.

The main reason it didnt work was that all AFL games were replays, free to air had all the live games so their was no need to subscribe.

I had Foxtel anyway and loved the footy channel but as a stand alone for most AFL fans you did not need Foxtel.

No doubt for rugby fans (both codes) a dedicated channel would be great but realisticially what do you miss out on now with Fox Sports 1,2, 3. ?

Free to air generates more dollars.

Redb

The AFL did try and fail but an exclusive Rugby Channel featuring both codes could be more successful due plainly to the accessibility of more content from both here and abroad. You could have the NRL, ESL and possibly the French Elite Comp alongside maybe both the NSW and QLD Cups and Super Rugby, NPC, Currie Cup, well there’s alot of Rugby content. But you’d always have a good variety regardless of which code you support.

As for Barry Hall, repeat offender, would have got at least 12 weeks.

But hey your right, you’re much smarter than those “dills” that attend Harvard, but one has to ask if they are so stupid and such bad negotiators how come they managed to get obscenely paid for such a screw up? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

That should have read: the evil Melbourne Government.

First mover sets the price, it is because of people like yourself that this actually works. Go in with your best case scenario price rather than wishing upon a fallen eyelash that they are incompetent and will name a better price for you.

This is a process taught by both Scotwork and workshops at Harvard Business School

Even if the NRL does take up to a $50 million hit to get a fixed schedule it could be $50 million from $900 million which would make the NRL stronger than it has ever been.

I know we’re a tiny market compared to the US, but there you have the choice of top line NFL, NBA, MLB, Ice Hockey and now the MLS – and the sorts of discussions we have here in Australia do not appear to arise in the US at all.

It’s all these little things that AFL have done, which has seen the gap widen between the codes, but NRL can do the same things, and very quickly this gap will close.

More than enough room and variety with the 2 footy codes that we should consider ourselves lucky to have a choice.

I know Mortimer is a rugby league diehard, but comments like his and Matty Johns, “we’re doomed, Doomed i tell ya” are not what we need to be hearing at the moment. That is why Gallop is good, he sits back and is just getting on with it, until someone else says, “we’re doomed, doomed i tell ya” We were doomed 100 years ago, ? …… I just looked, we are still here.