Seven are covering those four games. They were NEVER giving them away. Never. They wanted them for themselves and worked with Foxtel on it.

NRL's deals will go nowhere. $600 million. That's all the game is worth, and will ever be worth as long as the gate receipts are where they are.

Reasonable reason, Dave. Your wishing well is dry.

They might get the wooden spoon as most first season clubs do but I think they will win games.

No big deal.

But they will get more than 1/4 of Skoda filled once it opens. Big hold back at Blacktown given it's small capacity.

Raiderdave wrote:

not ONE VFL game will get those sorts of numbers in rnd 1.. maybe not one in the entire season

You're right. The VFL wouldn't.

The AFL however would.

For a pre season game it was good.

It should. That's how passionate AFL fans are. And there are a lot of us. And I'm lucky enough to be paid to be involved.

pussycat wrote:

Xman wrote:

pussycat wrote:

710k for leagues opening game Wow!

From an audience of 7million people

Hmmmmm

Isn't that better than what your mob usuall get ? Hmmmmmm

No. We usually break the million IIRC. That's a bad result for the NRL if they want a TV deal over $1 billion.

There's a difference between a pre season game and a proper season game, Cooee!! When March 24 arrives, the AFL will show it's true colours. Newcastle's crowd was good under the circumstances. Let's see what happens and whether or not that's their biggest crowd for the year. It's up the Knights to t...

Dunce is proving through Xman's quotes that he truly doesn't understand the point. A team's success is judged against it's competition in the same market. In the case of GWS, it's the Sydney based NRL clubs as well as the Swans, the Waratahs and Sydney United. In the case of the Storm, it's the Melb...

And yet AFL fans watch every team because it's such a great game!

Raiderdave wrote:

turnover is earnings you dipshit
the AFL can't balance theirs

goneskies is this silly little australian game

Corrected. You have no idea. Expenditure has NOTHING to do with turnover.

The earnings of AFL clubs way outweight that of the NRL clubs.

pussycat wrote:

NSWAFL wrote:

[I'll bet three of them were SOO and one other was the GF. That leaves one supported game in an entire season.

RL = ratings poison south of the Murray River.

Hows the iron chef going

WTF has that got to do with south of the Murray?

Dunce isn't sweeping. The NRL is.

Dave thinks the new TV rights deal will save the comp! Fat chance of that! The clubs need turnover and even a TV deal over $1 billion won't change that! The only club that has a good turnover IIRC is the Broncos! And even they pale against the strong AFL clubs! nothing to do with turnover you *****...

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