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On weekdays, Xavier is a policy wonk for the public service. On weekends, he is a fanatical North Melbourne fan and terrible golfer. Views here are clearly his own, not his employer's.
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Aside from State of Origin football, Good Friday is one of the AFL’s great annual debates. According to media reports this week, the AFL…
Every winter, several weeknight games of football seem to involve sledging about cane toads and cockroaches, followed Victorians wanting their chance to stick it…
It’s been a “sleeping giant” for years. Whilst I enjoy the HAL, I think the term is used just as much by soccer fans who just hate the fact that other sports are larger and receive more coverage in this country.
Time for football to negotiate a bumper broadcast deal
Others have covered the basic economics of why soccer won’t be able to secure a “bumper” deal, but realistically, the focus needs to be getting on FTA.
The best thing Cricket Australia has done in recent years is secure FTA rights for the Big Bash League on Channel 10 – that competition has gone from strength to strength in a very short period of time, based on artificial, meaningless franchises. It could never realistically grow on Fox Sports.
If soccer really is the sleeping giant of Australian sport (as soccer fans keep breathlessly repeating), a similar sort of deal will provide the game with the boost that it needs and the support will follow. I think the HAL has done well enough to warrant that. The “bumper deals” will follow after that.
Time for football to negotiate a bumper broadcast deal
Two divisions of 10 teams may work in theory, though the AFL now has 2,500,000,000 reasons to not break with years of tradition. Who’d want to watch (scratch that, who would want to broadcast) the two bottom Division 2 teams anyway?
However, I think there would be merit in harmonising the state leagues into some sort of national competition at year’s end, instead of a Foxtel Cup played throughout the year in very random, barely attended venues.
The AFL should plan for a second division
I’d love to see a Netflix or Google pick up the NRL pay TV rights – just watch the NBN become an election issue in Western Sydney and South East Queensland.
MASCORD: What should NRL fans make of the AFL's broadcast deal?
I have to agree with this article, I thought the lack of attention on the front page of Mebourne’s Monday papers highlighted this.
Failure to acknowledge Australian victory a sad reality
“Editorial support” intrigues me given News Ltd’s awful coverage of politics in this country. I suppose it’s a chance to change some of the Tele’s past efforts gloating whenever the AFL’s expansion stumbled.
In Gill We Trust: AFL rights deal will change the game
I didn’t think you’d be proven correct on Marsh so soon!
Warner may have done his job, but given Rogers had only just fallen, surely it was the time to settle down and allow Smith to play into the game.
Smith has just fallen as I type this, so hopefully we can rely on Voges and Clarke…
[VIDEO] Ashes: England vs Australia 4th Test - Day 2 cricket highlights, scores, blog
That was absolutely disgraceful by Warner (and he knew it).
Question for Roarers: how do you address such a problem? He’s let the team down once again.
[VIDEO] Ashes: England vs Australia 4th Test - Day 2 cricket highlights, scores, blog
Good article, well considered.
As far as the COLA goes, I always found it odd that it was provided as an enlarged salary cap, enabling the Swans to afford a marquee player. Whilst I struggle to see how footballers paid $200k-300k really need assistance with “Cost of Living”, a fairer solution would have been a 9.8 per cent bonus on each contract to account for Sydney’s higher living costs.
Claims of AFL conspiracy should concern us all
Great description
Time for football to negotiate a bumper broadcast deal