www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/b ... 5994502803 most of the increased money will come from Foxsports. this is as the 2nd rated sport, a long way behind NRL. that is our benchmark now cant believe fox pay so much for something which doesnt rate. they better give us what we deserve includes internet which is probably $20 million pa basically an extra $45 million pa we currently get around $90 million pa and are also looking for $200 million pa ie an increase of $110 million

www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/b ... 5994502803 most of the increased money will come from Foxsports. this is as the 2nd rated sport, a long way behind NRL. that is our benchmark now cant believe fox pay so much for something which doesnt rate. they better give us what we deserve includes internet which is probably $20 million pa basically an extra $45 million pa we currently get around $90 million pa and are also looking for $200 million pa ie an increase of $110 million

Whilst I admire your passion.....I'd leave the TV negotiations to those that know what they are doing. I fear for your sanity if the NRL don't get what you believe they deserve.....

I'll be happy if we get around $750mill a year all up. I simply can't see them doubling TV rights in one hit, even though we deserve it if comparing to AFL.

true but it depends on the new ic

last time we didnt know what AFL got, we thought we got a good deal

now we know what AFL will get first and we wont accept foxtel underpaying us to overpay them

foxtel will have to pay us around 50% more than what they pay the AFL per game

well have an extra game for fox too so foxtel should be looking at a minimum $50, $70 million increase

then the rest is FTA and origin,

i think were a good chance to get $200 million now weve seen what afl gets

I be well and truly over the moon if we managed to get 750 mill a year, we'd crush every code out here by year 3 of a 5 year contract

Hello, hello, JB said 750 mill a year guys.

I could def live with that

why does the afl get so much?

i can't stand the game.

because they have decent management and no conflict of interest ownership. Look at Ch9, Telstra, Fox. The 3 big players in NRL are all in bed with one another one way or another. Throw in News ownership and ARL's spineless yes men and you have a recipe for some serious rorting.

Also AFL have teams in, or representing, every capital city. The perception is that AFL is a bigger more national sport amongst joe public, perception leads to reality of $'s in deals.

I don;t think the IC is going to be in long enough to have a massive impact on the next TV deal, hopefully the 2018 one will see us move ahead of AFL.

Because it attracts fans to games in massive numbers.......it is uniquely Australian and advertisers will pay top dollar to be associated with it.......

me niether........it's just terrible with very little skill involved.

when the SL tore RL apart AFL got lucky, having its major competitor decimated and they went from a distant second to having a lot of money

in the end of the day, more money doesnt mean a better game

every person in NSW has had AFL shoved down their throat, yet the NRL continues its growth

the cream always rises to the top

we destroyed RU, AFL is next

even with the damage of the SL war the nrl will become the number 1 sport by a long way again

if AFL had a SL war it wouldnt recover

only RL couldve have a SL war and recover

always had doubts about using that term........I think you'll find that unless you've been eating iron, 5hit floats as well

TV deals aren't based solely on ratings. The NRL doesn't have the right following to demand 1 billion. A working class sport will always have that problem.

The AFL gets more money because it's a middle class sport. Advertisers, and therefore networks, are willing to pay more.

^^^ Do you have any evidence of the above? What AFL does have is capital city covg, a longer game and more add breaks. Not sure that the demographics for the two codes are that different anymore. Is there such a thing as a poor working class in Australia anymore? In WA the tradies earn more than the professionals!