Forget the billion, I just want quality footy
Roar Rookie The newly installed NRL commission is deep in negotiations with media head honcho’s, trying to get the best television deal possible for the league.
Their aim is at least a billion dollars.
But is that it? Is that their only objective? A billion bucks and it’s on TV somewhere, some on this channel and some on that. There is some on your phone, some live, some delayed, some in really bad time slots, some stand alone, some on at the same time and all depending on what state you live in.
But hey, at least they got the billion bucks right? Right? Wrong!
NRL fans are sick of not knowing the details of when, where, what time their team is playing 6 weeks in advance. We are sick of seeing delayed football, watching football in bad time slots.
We are pretty much sick of Channel 9′s dictatorship and non promotion of the game, which has helped them become the station they are today.
Fans do not care if the NRL gets a billion dollar deal, they just need to get close. The priority should be quality footy.
We want football seven days a week, whether it’s a game, a panel show (and I mean a good one, not the crap on at the moment). It could be anything: a preview show or a magazine show. But it has to satisfy those of us who have an appetite for football all week round.
Some may say that quality footy is what the players have to produce, but I don’t think it is? Rugby league players just like every other sports athlete in the world respond to atmosphere, fans, attention, adoration. Saturation of the market place will bring in more fans, it will convert the occasional fans into passionate fans and members, and the non fans into occasional ones.
I would like the NRL to remember this ‘quality footy’ when negotiating, it’s time to reward the fans, players and Rugby League.
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June 25th 2012 @ 6:16am
Global said | June 25th 2012 @ 6:16am | Report comment
If Rugby League matches AFL’s TV deal than you would think Rugby League has already bettered the AFL as apparently RL is less expensive… So from a perspective of profit margin RL does RL even need to match the AFL’s total deal?
Also while RL obviously should at least get parity with the AFL deal, I do believe it shouldn’t be at the expense of other factors. Channel 9 have proved themselves to be completely incompetent, channel 10 ftw!
June 25th 2012 @ 11:37am
Maximus said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:37am | Report comment
AFL can show more ads but is more expensive to cover
June 25th 2012 @ 7:04am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 7:04am | Report comment
Thank you Eaglerock, i have been saying this for years. Give me rugby league 24/7, that is all i want.
And i would even be prepared for rugby league to take less money to have the game shown live and have a shedule.
Do you have to sell the game to the highest bidder and continue to get screwed? No.
I dont want to sink the boot into you Eaglerock, i also think we really need to be looking at moving a couple of Sydney teams. Take yesterday, 12 thousand at Mackay in the cold rain wind, all wearing raincoats. They still turned up to what might have been the game of the season. Thats passion.
Now look at our 2 glorious Sydney clubs, 1 a 100 year old orginisation, the other last years premiers. 10 thousand. Crikey.
Now take players like Barber, SBW, Kasiano and even Stewart.,,, Markee players who could be selling our expansion plans to Central Queensland, Perth, second Brisbane teams , you also have another Burgess boy running around in England and the Sensational Sam Tomkins who would be brilliant out here.
Mate, i think it is time the game made these hard calls, some teams will never grow, no mateer what you do. The area wont let them grow. We need teams in areas with unparrelled growth , big cities for a start.
Imagine a second Brisbane team signing Sam Tomkins and Kasinao, imagine Perth signing SBW. Imagine Central Queensland bringing home Ben Barba and Dave Taylor.
The game can explode , now we need to make sure the guys running the show know what they are doing. If we dont make changes in Sydney, the game will never grow.
Not to mention the sponsers, or the world wide exposure we would get for buying SBW adding him to a new expansion team.
This is the opportunity of a lifetime for rugby league, lets hope we dont blow it.
June 25th 2012 @ 8:29am
eagleJack said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:29am | Report comment
Come on oikee I know you aren’t one to let facts get in the way of a good story. But I think you will find the crowd at the SFS was 35% bigger than what you stated.
June 25th 2012 @ 8:44am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:44am | Report comment
And that still does not embarress you at all. Let’s say 14 thousand on a perfect Sunday afternoon.
Mate we are talking about a Sydney team and a Melbourne team playing in a Queensland Country town. Come on, this is the think9ing i keep talking about, wqe cant bury our heads in the sand forever.
Its just one excuse after the other. Like Gus said, i love my Sunday footy, apprently our top 2 Sydney teams dont seem to care.
Not sure what the Western clash got, Panthers Eels, but here is another exapmle of the game not selling itself to the public. I have more faith in Eels Bulldogs and Penrith.
The other 2 teams cant grow, they are in a geographic position where it is impossible.
Perth hase 2 million punters to grow a team, Melbourne has 4.5 million. Brisbane has 2 million.
Mackay has 80 thousand, they got 12 thousand on a wet cold soggy day. Sell the game to country towns if Sydbney does not want to turn up. We cant keep making excuses forever.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:07am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:07am | Report comment
bravo!!!!
Brilliant!!!!
Thankyou!!
“Some teams will never grow”
exactly.
Sydney city – merge them with cronulla, or some such. Souths get to stay. Manly play games at gosford more.
I’d start there.
June 25th 2012 @ 7:15am
Boomshanka said | June 25th 2012 @ 7:15am | Report comment
I’d say “forget the Billion, just get rid of Channel Nine”.
June 25th 2012 @ 2:27pm
dishes said | June 25th 2012 @ 2:27pm | Report comment
yep, enough said really
June 25th 2012 @ 7:23am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 7:23am | Report comment
Now i am not going to have you cry baby Sydney siders try to tell me or anyone else otherwise. It is time for you to listen to truth, not bullocks you you think is truth.
Queensland has unparrelled growth for rugby league. Only a few days ago some guys paid off a 5 million dept to be part of the Titans, now getting ready to be run by a board of 8 directors.
Forget that, we have a billionaire who cant even get a lookin the way this game is run. Clive Palmer, and we have billion dollar companies wanting to sponser the game. Queensland Rail. We have Central Queensland’s richest man wanting to buy into the game. Geoff Murphy, we have Chinese and Indian interntaional flooding into Queensland, owning and operating huge mines along with Australia’s largest coal mining Area, the Surat Basin.
On top of that we have Brisbane sponsers sitting and waiting to get involved as they cant nowq with only 1 Brisbane team, yes 1 Brisbane team.
I think it is time we started to open our eyes and realise. We are sitting on a goldmine in Queensland, just sitting their waiting to be discovered.
If we dont take advantage of this now, even while the world is in recession, our game could be booming, why , what are we waiting for, Santa Claus. There is no Santa Claus, live in the now, rugby league’s time is now. Grab it.
June 25th 2012 @ 8:03am
PLANKO said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:03am | Report comment
Oikee I don’t disagree with you but I think having a 1st and 2nd Division will help your call for less Sydney teams. If you allow for relegation and promotion it means you don’t “turn the light of off” for some of those olde clubs.I think the comp could expand to 20 teams easily at the top level…. I think Central QLD and and WA are the where we should be heading and a second brisbane team however Central Coast would be the cheapest expansion team for the NRL still. Not the best but the lowest cheapest fruit.
June 25th 2012 @ 8:37am
crip said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:37am | Report comment
The reason the game is in the state its in is because of Qld billionaires matey. They decimated the BRL to create one team and when that team became successful they thought they were bloody geniuses.
When people in Sydney were making decisions Qld had 4 teams. That’s one more than now nearly 20 years later. And a team in Perth.
Don’t believe everything you read in the Courier Codswallop mate. The NRL may have offices in Sydney but it’s controlled by News Ltd. in London.
And the reason Brisbane doesn’t have a second team is because of Brisbanes’ other team also controlled by your Qld friends at News Ltd.
June 25th 2012 @ 8:53am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:53am | Report comment
Brisbane city central has 1 million patrons. This covers the Broncos. They have Ipswich which is growing fast, they have Redcliffe/Cabolture and Logan. Any of these areas could support and sustain a NRL team.
This is not in the Broncos area. You cant stick another team in Brisbane Central like the bombers are trying to do and tell the supporters to support the team. It has to be another city near Brisbane, which i have mentioned, all are cities around Brisbane area.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:10am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:10am | Report comment
nonsense
I can’t say worse on here.
the broncos caused your ills?
Get real. The broncos raised the bar. You’d be dead via afl now if not for the professionalism the broncos brought.
THE. MERE. FACT that bringing that about caused the super league war and sydney traditionalists to dig their heels in, shows how far you old style people will go to keep your heads in the sand.
That you could not negotiate properly, or defend against richer people in the first place via the administration.
There’ 2 types of things in this world: that which makes it happen, a success; and that which fails.
RL= FAIL in many regards. But don’t let that dent your enthusiasm for the game.
Life is continual trying. Seeing 11k in makay for 2 out of town teams was really good to see.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:29am
PLANKO said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:29am | Report comment
“Get real. The broncos raised the bar. You’d be dead via afl now if not for the professionalism the broncos brought.”
I like the Broncos but this is drivel…. Broncos and there owners tried to kill the League. It was not Sydney digging it’s heals in that created the Super League war it was NEWS Corp and their greed. You are not remembering that NSWRL brought Brisbane into the comp. You are forgeting that the QRL/NSWRL would not sought out their differences to place a QRL side in the NSWRL so the NSWRL had to establish the Broncos from scratch. The NSWRL brought in the Auckland Warriors , Melbourne Storm was the idea of the ARL but you keep reading courier mail and their drivel.
They set some standards NOW but the real money in league moving forward is using a modern digital platform to deliver the game via a “ARLC Digital Channel” I am of the belief that the ARLC should say “table something huge to FOXTEL or we will send it all to FTA” On a year by year basis and set up their own channel. This where the money is it will be worth more than attendance sad but true.
June 25th 2012 @ 12:25pm
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 12:25pm | Report comment
Its not drivel, and i have been waiting the day the Sydney team or teams turned up to the Broncos and look at how a real orginisation is run, finally Gus Gould bite the Bullet the other day and caved in.
He seen the light and Paul White showed him everything to make your team successful, Gus said as much on TV the other day.
Like i said, Sydney is so far up its own backside it has no idea how outsiders are veiwing them. a bit Like New York thinks of itself, the world revolves around them. ?
The last time i looked, i was not buying my greens from Grenish village, and i dont have a townhouse in Harlem.
The simple fact is, you are not voted the most popular Australia team, or most supported by doing nothing. This club is a powerhouse, it would be nice to be supported by a few Sydney teams doing well, most get 2 men and a dog turn up.
June 25th 2012 @ 12:49pm
PLANKO said | June 25th 2012 @ 12:49pm | Report comment
NRL/NSWRL would not be dead without them …. The NSWRL created them ! There would be no Broncos without the NSWRL ! He was talking drivel …. I am happy for the Broncos and in some things they are setting the startard but the League started the broncos period with the help Power Brewing remember them … The 80′s ? Got to love the 80′s…. Oikee dont stick up for others he was talking rubbish… Lockjaw I just came back from fiji I enjoyed the first week and a half but all of sudden I just got sick of 2 things Sunsceen and Sweating ! Mate I love the different temperatures in the Canberra Region in winter it is cold and and summer it is hot but a dry heat …
June 25th 2012 @ 3:03pm
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 3:03pm | Report comment
Planko, i live in Toowoomba , i have the fire on now.
June 25th 2012 @ 3:04pm
MemberforDobell said | June 25th 2012 @ 3:04pm | Report comment
When are you guys going to get a team !
June 25th 2012 @ 11:09am
Meesta Cool said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:09am | Report comment
Try telling Myers, Big W or Target that their is no Santa Clause… they will sue you rotten for loss of earnings, not to mention what my grandkis wpuld do to you… c’mon Oiks, ya overstepped the mark mate!…
June 25th 2012 @ 12:29pm
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 12:29pm | Report comment
June 25th 2012 @ 7:29am
James said | June 25th 2012 @ 7:29am | Report comment
So far I think the commission has acted in the beat interest of the fans with the removal of gallop and the finals system. Very hopeful that they are listening to the fans regarding the amateurness of nine. So tired of Gus and rabs with the old man arguments.
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June 25th 2012 @ 8:19am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:19am | Report comment
If you think we have better than these 2 muppets, you had better think again. The Fox Sports callers for the dogs storm game , Gary Belcher and Ray smith had me about to commit hurry curry everytime i hear them calling. Thjey have no idea about the game. They try to argue the wrong decisions to the listeners and i am ready to explode because they are that bad.
Then you have the other Fox teams, all with their own personal agenda’s, it makes you nearly want to be fisically sick.
Be careful what you wish for, at least with Rabs and Gus they funny. These other guys are not even that.
June 25th 2012 @ 9:50am
mushi said | June 25th 2012 @ 9:50am | Report comment
Hurry curry? Were you about to open a takeaway shop
Pauline Hanson style given your views on race and home values I take it?
June 25th 2012 @ 10:10am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 10:10am | Report comment
You strayed a little far left for me , i am a Howard man. Plus i use to collect Antique Pots , so me opening a takeaway shop seems extreme to me.
Plus alot of my veiws are from my better half, that also ups the anti on what i write, Sorry Mushi.
I thought the hint of me enjoying seeing the Mummies the other day at the Queensland Museum might have been a giveawy. I mentioned it twice.
I also are going back end of July for another look, and they will have the Spainish masters on show at GOMA. (gallery of modern art).
June 25th 2012 @ 11:33am
PLANKO said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:33am | Report comment
Canberra has nice Museums …. The raiders needs supporters a match made in heaven plus Liberals needs voters in the Captial !
June 25th 2012 @ 12:42pm
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 12:42pm | Report comment
I went to Canberra once, around 28 years ago, just got married and on holidays, Mate, OMG.
You see i get lockjaw from the cold. I loved the place, went to all the museums and was impressed, but gee whiz. Cold.
Where i am now is cold enough for me thanks. The Mrs and me wants me to move back to England, i get lockjaw just thinking about it.
I seized up in the water and turned blue with lockjaw once, never recovered.
June 25th 2012 @ 1:58pm
Dayer said | June 25th 2012 @ 1:58pm | Report comment
Sorry Oiks but Gould is worst, he is full of it … he should retire as he scares the women and kids. He is like a parrot or a broken record, repeats, repeats, etc.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:14am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:14am | Report comment
Commission – agree.
I was watching nine the other night, and I hate the footy, like to see fox as much as I can.
I hope they get new commentators. Sterlo is the best of them, but HE IS TIRED. OLD. YESTERDAYS MAN.
I actually got annoyed listening to him start the game. And RABS is tired too. His mind is going. And I think he is a dottering old man now, who I like, I just don’t like him commentating. I can’t stand it.
Gould is a fool. Locky should never be on the coverage – seriously! its amateur hour, and I am qlder.
Fitler is ok, nothing special. Johns, ok nothing special, better than sterlo – if only johns could commentate properly.
9= ameteur hour.
please leave
F K I am hard, hey, but its the truth – they need a whole new and fresh approach.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:18am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:18am | Report comment
In fact, I would listen to fitler over rabs, I like fitler’s commentating, its just nothing special.
And johns over sterlo.
But thats the conflicting problem! Its all wrong. I can’t begin to explain the commentators. Its just wrong. Nuff said.
Start again.
June 25th 2012 @ 1:02pm
MemberforDobell said | June 25th 2012 @ 1:02pm | Report comment
Say’s get rid of the Broncos and bring back the North Sydney Bears !
June 25th 2012 @ 2:02pm
Dayer said | June 25th 2012 @ 2:02pm | Report comment
Agree!!! get rid of all of them, can not stand GUS. . Mixed it with some professional comentators and some ex – footy players (1 or 2) bring in some female commentators on the side lines to report on the game.
June 25th 2012 @ 2:29pm
MemberforDobell said | June 25th 2012 @ 2:29pm | Report comment
LOL chicks are good for dancing ! Lap dancing etc etc
June 25th 2012 @ 8:21am
RFFU said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:21am | Report comment
Good read mate but I think fans do care that Rugby League gets its Billion + deal. Just because it’s the toughest sport going around and the players deserve it.
Rugby League needs to believe in its own awesomeness and control its’ own destiny. Which means taking all control of the game back from the media scumbags who don’t give a crap about fans.
June 25th 2012 @ 8:39am
EagleRock said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:39am | Report comment
Even if RL doesn’t get it’s $1b, it doesn’t mean players won’t be rewarded. It’s going to be a bigger pay day than the last rights, and we now have a smarter administration who will allocate and invest these funds in a way that will reward everyone. I agree that the players need a bigger wallet share, but the game as a whole needs to prosper also. No one is bigger than the game.
June 25th 2012 @ 8:21am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:21am | Report comment
I would be happy with Ray Hadley calling the Queensland games. I think him Freddie and Johns seem to make a good team. Sydney people probably dont like him.
June 25th 2012 @ 8:51am
PLANKO said | June 25th 2012 @ 8:51am | Report comment
I dont particularly like Ray’s style would prefer Voss but Freddie is the best and Johns is great as well. I I think someone needs to take the leash of them… Everyone of the commentators are affraid of becoming the next Steve Roach ! Who apparently is making a come back.
June 25th 2012 @ 9:37am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 9:37am | Report comment
Oh NO, not Roach.
The panels are too NSW top heavy.
I think one day that Queensland will just go it alone, have their own show. They have their own Origin radio call team.
People are sick of it, they are growing tied of Sydney. Honest, the only guys who cant see this is Sydney, they have the blinkers on. If they are not careful they will stuff origin up as well.
The game needs to find some balance. Its all NSW heavy and everyone can see this outside Sydney.
Stuart now cant stay at Manly, we all know he is worth 3.5 million.
If they try to make excuses to keep him under the cap, you will have yourself another super league war. The game is on a knife edge and we need someone to lead the game. The Oricle.
Manly let low paid players go, and had to fork out big money for foran and Cherry, plus the overpaid Lyons and Matai, T-Rex and Hoppa were on paupers wage, now getting big money at other clubs. Plus Manly have all the overs on watmough and Glen Stewart.
Now they have got themselves in a pickle and want the game to help them keep stewart, it does not work like that, the Broncos lost Petro and Falou, plus Inglis because of the cap. Yes life sucks.
June 25th 2012 @ 9:48am
PLANKO said | June 25th 2012 @ 9:48am | Report comment
I love your passion mate but the Stewart’s are staying buddy bad luck. If you think Manly are over their salary cap you dont understand Manly’s financial situation. Wattmough has never earnt would he earn elsewhere he would go to england if manly pulled out of the comp.
June 25th 2012 @ 10:05am
eagleJack said | June 25th 2012 @ 10:05am | Report comment
oikee I love how you alter figures and your own thoughts to promote your argument. Before you were saying T-Rex and Hoppa were on big money. Part of the “$10m team”. But now they “were on paupers wage”. Just like Lockyer always being on next to nothing. But once he left you said it freed up “a million dollars”. Please make up your mind.
And the only one who believes that London Irish tabled a $3.5m “offer” is you. I find it hilarious that a Broncos fans seems to have such a vested interest in another teams salary cap structure. When the only info he seems to get is from the Daily Telegraph.
Keep fighting your one man crusade in getting Sydney teams removed from the comp. It keeps the rest of us amused.
June 25th 2012 @ 10:28am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 10:28am | Report comment
The point is,
if his manager tried to talk his price up, bad luck. now everyone thinks he is worth this much. Look Manly have brought all this on themselves, i dont know why your trying to blame me. They lost fans, (women and kids) because of a massive brawl. They also paraded in public the famous nobody likes us we dont care image.
As for Lovkley, i have nothing to hide, the Courier Mail has nothing to hide, they produced the whole Broncos wages in the paper, The whole world could see what every player was on, nothing to hide, not a thing.
Now we all know we could not afford to keep Petro, so he moved to penrith on a good deal. Falou we begged to keep by paying him olutside the cap, Gallop said no, which is the right thing to do, You cant have a cap if you dont stick to it. We were going to buy Inglis, he got a bigger offer at Souths, so we could not afford him.
I also said, which was in the paper for everyone to read, that Lockyer was on 700 thousand, Cap Money, and was getting around 500 thousand sponsership money.
So he was on around 1.2-3 million a year. He was the Captain, plus the captain of the Queensland teasm, Plus the captain of the Australian team.
His last year with the broncos he took a 200 thousand salary cut, so that was off the cap, Not his sponser money. So he was getting 1 million his last year.
That is freeing up 1 million, because the sponser money can now go to another or other players.
Anything else you need to know. ?
June 25th 2012 @ 10:38am
PLANKO said | June 25th 2012 @ 10:38am | Report comment
“Stewarts are going nowhere” I say this loosely … England is probably the only place that could offer them the kind of mind bending cash that could get them. eg Gary A Jnr leaving Geelong kinda cash. The only other place that holds anything for them is the “Illawarra Steeler/Dragons”….. I think playing in Wollongong for Wollongong could but the money would have to be right.
June 25th 2012 @ 10:50am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 10:50am | Report comment
I can tell you now he wont go to the Dragons. They bought Gerald Beale from the Broncos, and this kid is going to be really good. I rate him a future rep, i think he has already played for NZ.
He signed on to be fullback.
Plus he is famous, he is the guy who took out Locky in his last game.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:21am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:21am | Report comment
I like none of the commentators. Sorry.
I dont like rabs. I dont like ray, hes a radio commentator, doing radio on tv. I don’t like voss
I like fitler, I like johns. If only they were the main ones maybe, and rabs and sterlo and fatty GONE!
kEEP fitler and johns, and lockyer even. Give him a chance to improve. Maybe his voice would scare kids away?
Start again.
Channel 9 are clueless or caught between a rock and a hard place. Gould is a flaming fool.
June 25th 2012 @ 9:28am
turbodewd said | June 25th 2012 @ 9:28am | Report comment
Eagle,
u make it sound like the ARLC goals are mutually exclusive. Why cant we have a billion dollar TV deal AND fixed season scheduling?
I also would like to see the sunday arvo game be live! It should kick off at 330 or 4pm.
June 25th 2012 @ 9:51am
Australian Rules said | June 25th 2012 @ 9:51am | Report comment
turbo, I agree with that fixed scheduling is a must…it’s crazy to have the tv network calling shots on that.
But whilst $1B should be aggressively sought, it shouldn’t be the sole focus. I think the ARLC needs to decide: does it want the absolute maximum cash value (which could be $1B) or does it want a guarantee on other things, like all games broadcast live, including into Vic, SA and WA. If it wants the latter, I’d say it would have to take a reduced figure.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:22am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:22am | Report comment
lol
and you dont think they have decided, or was that just the way you wrote it?
June 25th 2012 @ 9:55am
oikee said | June 25th 2012 @ 9:55am | Report comment
It’s amazing really. We only get 1 live game each week on FTA, plus the game was not televised into other states, only Queensland and NSW. Yes they show them now on a side channel, but they never did before this year.
So 1 game live, only shown in 2 states yet look at where we are as a game. ?
I think it is up to the TV stations to seel the game for free, like they are trying to do AFL.
Our game is a monster, waiting to explode. We have a team in Melbourne, i think it is time to tackle the 2 or 3 other states where we could really start making a impact. Ladies and Gents, it is time to take the gloves off.
I love this one, a oldie but a goodie.
Open a can of whoopass.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:40am
Maximus said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:40am | Report comment
Oikee,
When did Qld stop having their own footy show which I quite liked because it covered 3 codes at least occasionally??
June 25th 2012 @ 10:21am
EagleRock said | June 25th 2012 @ 10:21am | Report comment
Turboewd – I was more commenting on the obsession of the $1b mark. Why not sacrifice a little money to demand more out of the broadcasters, instead of going for the cash bonanza and in turn handing over a majority of control in what we see on TV.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:24am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:24am | Report comment
obsession?
in the papers maybe.
People just need to wait.
June 25th 2012 @ 12:50pm
Australian Rules said | June 25th 2012 @ 12:50pm | Report comment
That’s the point I was trying to make Eagle.
A lot of league commentators seem obsessed with this $1B figure, simply cos that’s what the AFL got. Guaranteed live games into every state – that should be the focus.
June 25th 2012 @ 3:59pm
Crosscoder said | June 25th 2012 @ 3:59pm | Report comment
And a growing number of media people are mentioning the figure.It’s not just commentators.They have the least to benefit,.Again I repeat Simon Manning (Australian media sport) 11/6/12.
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“Analysts believe the tV rights(that is not commenators) are worth about $950m,but bids could top $1bn if the competition between Nine,Ten and seven becomes heated.”
.Colin Smith of Lek is no a commentator but the adviser to the ARLC,he has been giving a range of figures,none under $1bn.
Grant has already stated maximising income is a priority(he mentions income time after time).Fixed scheduling and a national exposure,which is already in place via HD.Income is the focus,simply because clubs depend on it.
It was Gyngell that pumped up the argument that having a 2nd Brisbane side,would be worth $100m (5 years) to the Tv contract.
June 25th 2012 @ 9:52am
mushi said | June 25th 2012 @ 9:52am | Report comment
They aren’t mutually exclusive but they are counter intuitive.
June 25th 2012 @ 11:25am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 11:25am | Report comment
i mean what you said. You can have both, but seems like one will be worse for it.
BUt then, I am sure there is a happy medium.
June 25th 2012 @ 10:49am
Von Neumann said | June 25th 2012 @ 10:49am | Report comment
I hear ya mate but the billion and quality footy are mutually exclusive.