The Roar Podcast (debut episode!) – Money In Sport

Love this - well done chaps

The league known as the AFL started in 1990. In other delineation is silly.

AD, from what I understand, it wasn't "technical difficulties" that prevented full screen, but rather the broadcasting agreement. Basically, Telstra was only allowed to stream at mobile phone sized dimensions.

Maybe after 2000?1990 would be including the Eagles who had a pretty handy advantage with their state side. Or maybe just start now because it has taken a long time but I think we are finally seeing the draft/salary cap do what it was designed for.I remember one round last year where there was a game or less difference between the teams in all 9 games. But that would take away the Hawks,Dog,Tiges flags. Its tricky,Maybe the best solution is to just roll your eyes when you hear some Essendon supporter going on about how many flags they have won despite being one of the poorer performing teams in the new age.

Totally agree.Dont want to take the flags away from them successful clubs but would like flags won after 1990(im sure they is plenty of debate on when the cut off point would be) recognised as being won in more level playing field. A good example would be the Bulldogs who hadn't won a flag in 50 years.During the first 30 years they didn't really stand a chance because the bigger clubs were buying all the flags.Without salary cap this drought may have gone on for another 50 years while the big money clubs kept filling their trophy cabinets.

Australia will still be rolling out the already dated NBN

Once again to make myself perfectly clear on my viewpoint surrounding the broadcasting rights. I am not talking about tomorrow or next season. In ten years time I highly doubt we will be watching 'footy apps' using the same technology we will be using today,we will be using quantum computing or something far more advanced than even that. This is probably a scientific discussion more so than sport so its probably not the place although I personally think they're somewhat inclusive to one another when discussing the broadcasting rights. Id consider much of this interesting rather than debatable but it's always interesting which angle people choose to go.

well if Telstra keep giving live passes away I guess the demand will go through the roof....speaking to someone who has been at Telstra for 25 years, he thinks the NBN aint going to solve it all...I'm stoked the way it worked for me ATM...all live games and all qtr by qtr replays basically whenever I want from my Telstra bundle so all for free...then set up the mirroring to a bigger screen if you are at home

The point is what is being streamed today (and Telstra isn't the only provider who has struggled when demand is high, GoT caused quite a few nightmares for HBO services) is only a fraction of the bandwidth that would be necessary for a true VR broadcast, especially one that is good enough to get people to stay home instead of going to the game.

Oh, for sure. You absolutely make some intriguing points! I was really just trying to introduce the interesting participation news into the forum, to be honest. I didn't explain my segue very well, my mistake!

Oh, don't get me wrong Peter it works well most of the time. It's just, when watching on the AFL app in the iPad, full-screen capabilities were/are unavailable for live games. The live broadcast would show in the top left corner of the screen, and you weren't able to make it full screen. Incredibly annoying, to say the least. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/fans-furious-as-telstra-and-afl-live-pass-app-broadcast-shrinks-on-ipad-20170216-guf19n.html

Good point regarding AFLX Matty....plus I believe it will open opportunities for lighter framed kids to play at a high level....at the moment kids under 70KG's are very rarely given a chance at AFL level....

Ummm, AD am I the only one who watched AFL live on my Ipad (as past of my Bigpond bundle for free) without issues? Whether home, coming back from the game, even at the footy in the breaks I can watch games live pretty much as I like? If you have a decent Boigpond bundle you can watch all AFL games free and live and then watch replays to whenever you want?

Ha! God, it was worse on iPads. Absolutely pathetic how you couldn't get a full screen display on the iPads, due to "broadcasting issues" or something. As someone who doesn't have Foxtel, trying to broadcast games that weren't on free to air was very, very hard for me. I legit had to be live-blogging games through the stream on my phone, once or twice.

He think’s VR is gonna take over soon. Meanwhile Telstra can barely manage to stream a tiny picture to a mobile phone without it a myriad of issues such as stuttering, failing to go full screen etc. And that is only a small number of people attempting to do so at the same time. Imagine Australian internet trying to handle 500,000 people VRing into a game at the same time, let alone multiple games and multiple sports at the same time.

AD,I agree participation is going very well but have concerns that the legal situation could effect this long term rather than short term,sorry if I wasn't clearer. With attendance I did say my view was from a theoretical viewpoint,in this I was more talking from a scientific viewpoint rather than very recent attendance figures.I certainly think people will still follow sport, just not in the same way they do today,they will use technology.I did say 10-20 years time so it's a little way off yet but not that far. Again,it seems I should have been clearer that this is my viewpoint on the future of sport rather than what I think will happen next year.

You do make a good point regarding the concussion legal cases, but for the mean time the League's attendance is doing very well. Participation at all levels increased by 10% this year, over 2016, and females made 30% of those. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-11-30/football-participation-hits-record-numbers

Recent trends have AFL attendances actually increasing! Genuine supporters and footy enthusiasts will continue to watch games 'live', at the venue. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. Do you mean to tell me Perth's new stadium, which you've been such a huge advocate for, 'Will change the way people view football', will be catering for diminishing crowds over the next two decades? What a waste!

The biggest financial issues facing the AFL is all the upcoming legal cases regarding concussion and how many more cases will go to court if the upcoming cases are successful. Then we will also have participation issues in accordance to this which will make topics like AFLX important. Broadcast deals will certainly have a major impact on all sport moving into the future. From a theoretical viewpoint I could easily see very few people attending sport live in 10-20 years time as technology is improving at such a rate,meaning revenue will need to multiply through the use of this technology.