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Gold Coast United withstand the Fury

25 Jun 2009

Gold Coast United scored two late goals against the North Queensland Fury in the second half to keep the glamour club undefeated.

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Its simple. The various media's are just protecting their investments. Little respect is given to football because it does little benefit to the investments media has made in buying rights to NRL or AFL. If tomorrow we woke up and News Limited and the FFA agreed to a record rights deal greater than AFL and League than all of sudden everything would be flipped on its head. Dailly telegraph would have 8 pages of A-league and Socceroos and 1 page each to AFL and NRL grand final. Channel nine would have live games all weekend supported by football game show and analysis shows.

Media not to blame for A-League’s struggles

1 Oct 2010

If FTA was possible - The FFA should immediatley add something to the A-league to rebuild excitment. I would like to see goal-line technology. THe publicity nationally and world wide would be huge and the A-league would go down in history as being the first to use this innovation.

Is free-to-air best for the A-League?

22 Sep 2010

FTA would only work if the package was right. That is A-league etc becomes part of the total focus of the whole channel like NRL is for channel 9. SBS and maybe One are the only two channels that could be trusted with the rights. SBS has the football culture already and this would only improve.

Is free-to-air best for the A-League?

22 Sep 2010

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