Allora Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Fairfax Media has been told the NRL hopes to get between $1.5 billion and $2 billion from the next deal but other sources say $1.3 billion might be a more realistic figure. Nine boss David Gyngell recently acknowledged the network would have to pay more to retain the NRL rights and said he would do everything possible to ensure that they did. "I wouldn't on my watch say we'd ever give up on sports rights and they will go up again like last time and people will try and talk it down in the meantime, and they won't go up as much as the sports bodies want, but they go more than the incumbents like us want them to go up," Gyngell told Media Watch. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/nrl-to-begin-broadcast-negotiations-within-weeks-20150424-1msrrk.html Talent is secondary to whether players are confident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copa Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Show me the money!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allora Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 Good to see the game getting top dollar downunder. I suspect the NRL may be the lifeline that we need down the track. Talent is secondary to whether players are confident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Good to see the game getting top dollar downunder. I suspect the NRL may be the lifeline that we need down the track. By "we" I guess you mean RFL or Brit RL. Maybe you've forgotten the last time the ARL needed the help of the RFL and British clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allora Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 By "we" I guess you mean RFL or Brit RL. Maybe you've forgotten the last time the ARL needed the help of the RFL and British clubs. When was that Farmduck? Talent is secondary to whether players are confident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluded pom? Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 1995. What! You needed little old England's help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DlEHARD Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I'm sure us Aussies wont carry a grudge when it comes to a take over of the RFL. DIEHARD / TITAN / MAROON / KANGAROO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 If the RFL or clubs need help why don't they just sell out to Murdoch. It worked last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwis 13 6 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 aussie, aussie, aussie, oi,oi,oi... hold up a tad there jingo, 1995 the arl was run by a cigarette company & pokie machine money, treated origin with more respect than test matches, did next to nothing for the sport anywhere but in oz.... basically both sides of split in 95 did some wrong... lets move on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave T Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The RFL were always 'in bed' with Murdoch, we had been with Sky for a while. You aim anger at the RFL when it was half of your teams and top players who betrayed the ARL. What counter offer did the RFL have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 aussie, aussie, aussie, oi,oi,oi... hold up a tad there jingo, 1995 the arl was run by a cigarette company & pokie machine money, treated origin with more respect than test matches, did next to nothing for the sport anywhere but in oz.... basically both sides of split in 95 did some wrong... lets move on Who brought Perth and Auckland into the ARL? It wasn't SL. Tobacco sponsorship in sport was banned in OZ in 1992 but pre-existing deals were allowed to run their course. In the case of the ARL, this expired in 1994. The ARL, like the NRL, follows a very sound business principle: give the punters what they want. Packed grounds at every Origin makes it pretty clear to me that people want Origin. "did next to nothing for the sport anywhere but in oz" Maybe because they were the Australian Rugby League, not the World Rugby League. How much did the RFL or NZRL do for global RL back then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 1995. Why? Just because Union went "open"? What's that got to do with anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The RFL were always 'in bed' with Murdoch, we had been with Sky for a while. You aim anger at the RFL when it was half of your teams and top players who betrayed the ARL. What counter offer did the RFL have? I'm not angry at thr RFL. I see them, commercially, as contributing nothing to the NRL as a business other than some obligation to keep a shipload of village pub teams alive. Counter offer? I thought Englishers were all about the history and tradition? Should the ARL have paid them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwis 13 6 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 NZRL an organisation with very little revenue actually set up & ran the pacific cup in the 80 & 90's...Rfl sent teams to russia to develop the game there amongst other places, didnt see ARL do anything for pacific or anywheres development then 1995 all of a sudden the ARL with no one to play pays a couple villages in fiji to set up a rival league to the countries official league organisation and sets up a test match with half of fiji! Also dont know if your aware but rugby union went professional that year... what was england, nz, france etc supposed to do cease existing professionally out of solidarity with north sydney and balmain... thats one heck of a lot to ask! Christopher Columbus only discovery was that the america's were already discovered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Also dont know if your aware but rugby union went professional that year... what was england, nz, france etc supposed to do cease existing professionally out of solidarity with north sydney and balmain... thats one heck of a lot to ask! Auckland Warriors players were already getting paid. OZ SL didn't have any additional NZ teams so how did joining SL change the financial conditions for N players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave T Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I'm not angry at thr RFL. I see them, commercially, as contributing nothing to the NRL as a business other than some obligation to keep a shipload of village pub teams alive. Counter offer? I thought Englishers were all about the history and tradition? Should the ARL have paid them? i cant even attempt to make sense of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwis 13 6 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 ok rugby union went professional 1995 in nz rugby union is the biggest sport in country so rugby league in nz now has to compete with union in nz for sponsorship dollars as unions pro they can now openly have sponsors from the all blacks all the way down to local club rugby union. Murdoch offers nzrl couple of million per year..what else is there? its take that or be left behind with union going pro less sponsorship avaliable, super 12 started up, even nz npc provincial union players now getting paid.. what else were nzrl supposed to? ( footnote to that is money got embezzled by graham carden nzrl ceo at the time, little if any of it ever got to grassroots were it was much needed) not sure about the warriors think they were part owned by nzrl or auckland rugby league at the time and opted to join super league, along with brisbane, canterbury, cronulla... i dont like murdoch or his empire not much to like about the guy, 1995 i think was the 1st i ever heard of the guy. ARL old timers were no saints either. My point is In 1995 there was a lot more going on in rugby league world outside oz than the australian view of arl vs super league war anyway the same clowns still on the scene who caused it all in the from of packers son, murdoch's son etc and will be bidding for nrl rights... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabbitRhinoovOZ Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I pray another channel gets the TV rites! The Channel 9 commentary is shocking I truly believe they aren't even watching at times with some of the dribble they come out with. If another channel cant do better than Fittler, Warren & that hate merchant who does the 2nd Friday night games that will do me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.