Good to see the game receiving proper remuneration after the long period of News Limited obstruction.

What's the break down of the deal, I've only read $1.8b.

Initial 1.8 billion with potential to be over 2 billion. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 7623926408 Correct me if I am wrong but isn't that [size=1505 Times[/size the Superleague deal.

Initial 1.8 billion with potential to be over 2 billion. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 7623926408 Correct me if I am wrong but isn't that [size=1505 Times[/size the Superleague deal.

Quote Judder Man="Judder Man"Initial 1.8 billion with potential to be over 2 billion. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 7623926408 Correct me if I am wrong but isn't that [size=1505 Times[/size the Superleague deal.'" So, $1.8bn over 5 years is $360m per year (2018-2022) The SL deal was for £200m over 5 years (that includes Internationals and what not too), so £40m per year (2017-2021) Current exchange rate is £0.48 to $, so $360m comes in at £172.4m. Taking into account our deal includes Internationals and other bits, 5 times higher just for league games (SL v NRL) is about right.

Quote Judder Man="Judder Man"Initial 1.8 billion with potential to be over 2 billion. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 7623926408 Correct me if I am wrong but isn't that [size=1505 Times[/size the Superleague deal.'" So, $1.8bn over 5 years is $360m per year (2018-2022) The SL deal was for £200m over 5 years (that includes Internationals and what not too), so £40m per year (2017-2021) Current exchange rate is £0.48 to $, so $360m comes in at £172.4m. Taking into account our deal includes Internationals and other bits, 5 times higher just for league games (SL v NRL) is about right.

Are you sure that's the exchange rate for Aussie dollars, or USD?

The thing is, RL in Austrialia is a much bigger deal than it is in the UK.

It's a mainstream sport over there the way that football is over here. That's why they're such a gap between the deals. It would be better to compare this deal to the one struck for Premier League rights rather than to what SL gets.

Money is the root of the issue and even before this new deal there was more of it in the Aussie game than the British one. More coming in, more to be made

Quote Charlie Sheen="Charlie Sheen"Are you sure that's the exchange rate for Aussie dollars, or USD?'" www.xe.com/currencyconverter/con ... AUD&To=GBP Have a look.

Quote Charlie Sheen="Charlie Sheen"Are you sure that's the exchange rate for Aussie dollars, or USD?'" www.xe.com/currencyconverter/con ... AUD&To=GBP Have a look.

Why are people so surprised that the NRL gets a lot more tv money than SL?

Given the salary cap disparity between NRL and SL, it was smart for the RFL to allow the marquee player exemption. However by 2018 the only really good Antipodeans playing in Super League will be the few marquee players.

How many 'really good' Antipodeans play here now though? It's not like we have all the big names clamouring to get over, it's normally top players in their twilight of their careers after one last big pay day that they can't find in the NRL, the bad boy brigade who are banished, or journeymen that have gone on to prove better players in SL than the NRL and have got better money over here. Don't see too much change TBH.

As of 2015 season, I would specify off the top of my head some really good Antipodeans in SL as:

Todd Carney
John Zebolon Ta'ia
Albert Kelly
Terence Campese
Kenneth Sio
Adam Cuthbertson
Paul Aiton
Joel Monaghan
Luke Walsh

Of those I would argue that only Todd Carney and Joel Monaghan fit into the "bad boy" category, and only Terence Campese came over in his "career twilight." The others came to Super League mid career as top players from NRL teams (esp. Sio from Parramatta and Walsh from Penrith). Kelly was an NRL star for Gold Coast when not injured, a tendency replicated at Hull KR.