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Its time for a change! We need to get rid of the idiots running the RLIF before they damage the sport beyond repair!
Go the Tigers, Blues and Roos!: |
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| Quote: The Glorious League Freak "Can we all stop saying how everyone else's posts are ironic...
Look, right now Rugby League in Australia is in a bit of a tough position because of how the game is run.
The NRL (Meaning the 16 team competition and Toyota Cup) is owned by the ARL and News Ltd.
News Ltd is also the games biggest media partner (Conflict of interest!).
Meanwhile the ARL is a shambolic organization of blazer wearers who do nothing positive at all.
The NSWRL hold the power in the ARL. The QRL however are trying to get that power.
Meanwhile the NRL can't really make concrete decisions on...well...anything because the are just an administration set on running the 16 team competition.
Plans for expansion....that all is ARL/News Ltd.
Confused yet?
I don't mince words when it comes to where the game is going, but I have to say, the NRL is in rude health.
Crowds and TV figures are up.
The under 20's competition has made other sports crap themselves at how it draw in so many talented athletes who can pick many different sports but enter this televised, high profile feeder competition.
The game overall in Queensland is just booming. They could handle a team in Brissy and further north easily.
Crowds got much higher after Origin when games started to matter again. Hell even in Sydney games are selling out all over the place.
Facilities are being upgraded which is needed.
The Storm is about to move into an incredible stadium that will boost their attendance.
Its all going in the right direction.
The good news is, there is still room for expansion.
Perth and Adelaide are a must for a national footprint. This will boost the TV money and sponsorships league wide.
Once you have those two teams in place....well now you're looking at exciting possibilities.
New Zealand needs another team. PNG is putting together a bid. I think Brisbane will get a second team.....I actually think we might see a second Victorian side in the competition within the next 15 years.
Other sports?
Well the ARU is screwed.
The A League is expanding, but no teams are anywhere close to breaking even, their new clubs are well under crowd expectations and the momentum for it over all is waning.
The AFL is doing very well and really, over the last 18 months, the NRL and AFL have become so dominant over sport in this country that everything else is struggling to get a look in.
The problem the AFL has is, once they put a second Sydney team and one on the Gold Coast....then what?
You have 18 teams...then say you add Tazzy....and thats pretty much it!
So dont worry about the NRL. yes there are problems, but this game, geez, you couldn't kill it with a baseball bat!'"
sometimes you post some dribble, but that is a great post! |
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| Quote: hutch "sometimes you post some dribble, but that is a great post!'"
P*ss off.  |
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| Quote: JB Down Under "
Only code not to have a team in at least 4 of the 5 major capital cities
Australia's Largest Urban s by population
Places on BOLD text have NRL representation.
1 Sydney, New South Wales 3,641,422
2 Melbourne, Victoria 3,371,888
3 Brisbane, Queensland 1,676,389
4 Perth, Western Australia 1,256,035
5 Adelaide, South Australia 1,040,719
6 Gold Coast-Tweed Heads, Queensland/New South Wales 454,436
7 Canberra-Queanbeyan, ACT/NewSouthWales 356,120
8 Newcastle, New South Wales 288,732
9 Central Coast, New South Wales 282,726
10 Wollongong, New South Wales 234,482
11 Sunshine Coast, Queensland 184,662
12 Geelong, Victoria 137,220
13 Townsville-Thuringowa, Queensland
Not bad, especially when you consider Perth, Adelaide and Geelong are complete sh*tholes.
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| Quote: The Glorious League Freak "Australia's Largest Urban centres by population
Places on BOLD text have NRL representation.
1 Sydney, New South Wales 3,641,422
2 Melbourne, Victoria 3,371,888
3 Brisbane, Queensland 1,676,389
4 Perth, Western Australia 1,256,035
5 Adelaide, South Australia 1,040,719
6 Gold Coast-Tweed Heads, Queensland/New South Wales 454,436
7 Canberra-Queanbeyan, ACT/NewSouthWales 356,120
8 Newcastle, New South Wales 288,732
9 Central Coast, New South Wales 282,726
10 Wollongong, New South Wales 234,482
11 Sunshine Coast, Queensland 184,662
12 Geelong, Victoria 137,220
13 Townsville-Thuringowa, Queensland
Not bad, especially when you consider Perth, Adelaide and Geelong are complete sh*tholes.'"
As i said "the ONLY code not to have a team in 4 of the 5 major capital cities".
ps where are those figures from? Perth's population was that over 12 years ago and is now nearly 1/2million more! |
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| Quote: dally messenger "about as guaranteed as wire choking every year.'"
Your attempt to evade the comment at hand by making a bizarre and inaccurate post about the team I support has been duly noted. |
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| See your problem JB is that you are stupid. Now, I make allowances for this, but when you start to misrepresent the game, I need to step in.
The NRL has blanket coverage of the Eastern Seaboard of Australia. Some marks on the map that are capital cities actually have a population less than areas of other cities that have an NRL team.
For instance Adelaide doesn't have the same population as say the area between Parramatta and Penrith. Or when you take in the combined population from the area of South East Queensland that is serviced by the Broncos and Titans....you see that all but a few of the major population are well catered for by the NRL.
Now lets look at the sports we have in Australia that have any profile.
The AFL does well but in NSW and QLD they have nothing. For a country of just 20 million to not have market share in the first and third biggest media markets is devastating. Thats why they are burning money to even make a ripple.
A league soccer has teams in a few different places, but they get 5,000 to most matches, they are so badly in the red that its just unbelievable, and their profile has dropped like a stone in just 12 months.
Basketball in Australia is just about dead. No Sydney or Brisbane teams....they might as well not exist.
Rugby Union has a grand total of four professional teams, one of which is financially viable, four of which are non factors on the field and two of which (Including their last expansion team) are thinking of relocation.
Cricket, yeah, its played everywhere. But they are lucky to get 100 people to Shield games.
So that leaves the NRL is its dire position.
Saturation coverage across the Eastern Seaboard and with a team in NZ. A marketable sport to overseas buyers, the biggest TV sport in Australia....
Yeah, the NRL is screwed!  |
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as I said the ONLY code ........
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| I just named two others that arent.
What a deadset drop kick! |
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I have only been wrong once and thats because I thought I was wrong but I was wrong I was right!
Petty authoritarians aren’t man enough to challenge the actions of a person face to face; instead they incite a forum of rumour, innuendo and half truths, and impose rude sanctions to discourage those who dare question fairness.
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Thats what everyone's been trying to tell you
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| Quote: The Glorious League Freak "I just named two others that arent.
What a deadset drop kick! ![]()
really Basketball and ???
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| Quote: JB Down Under "really Basketball and ???'"
rugby union you tard! |
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| Quote: Dreamer "Thats what everyone's been trying to tell you ![]()
I've....I've just never seen it before.
My god, he's right.
Or...not!
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| Quote: JB Down Under "As i said "the ONLY code not to have a team in 4 of the 5 major capital cities".
ps where are those figures from? Perth's population was that over 12 years ago and is now nearly 1/2million more!'"
Quote: JB Down Under "What are the rugby union sides in Melbourne and Adelaide?'"
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| Quote: WireFanatic II "Your attempt to evade the comment at hand by making a bizarre and inaccurate post about the team I support has been duly noted.'"
well done
did you write it in your little black book |
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theres a report showing that advertising on TV in RL areas comprises 2/3rds of all ad revenue generated
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