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I use credit cards although it does accept some debit cards. Credit cards and debit cards get the exact same benefits that opal card users get. The Transport NSW website has additional information. https://transportnsw.info/ This includes caps on daily fares: Monday to Thursday (excluding public holidays) Travel all day and pay no more than: Adult: $17.80 Child/Youth and Concession: $8.90 Gold Senior/Pensioner: $2.50 Friday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays Travel all day and pay no more than: Adult: $8.90 Child/Youth and Concession: $4.45 Gold Senior/Pensioner: $2.50

I’ve never used an Opal Card on Sydney public transport. I simply tap on and tap off with my credit card. It works really well.

True. I think this about Dave Taylor went too far.

Dom Young will definitely miss a few games after that “tackle”.

During the build up I could see people vaping in the crowd and I thought what a pain to have that next to you in the stadium…. and then I saw the kick off and thought vapes weren’t really a problem at all!

Many US citizens I know in Australia report Australians constantly telling them how bad the US is compared to Australia. It can become quite frustrating for them.

I’m originally from the central coast and can tell you people there don’t identify with Sydney at all.

You also need to add SE Asian, Korean, Japanese etc. plenty of them around too.

Nope. Australia has 6 states and 3 mainland territories (although one of those territories only has a population of a few hundred people)

I think you missed someone..

It’s multicultural round. It shouldn’t be a surprise for an indigenous Australian to proudly show the Aboriginal flag. More power to him.

Coaches and administrators in amateur sports who overlook their grass roots in an attempt to go for glory poison sports at all age groups all over the world. It’s a mindset they have and they don’t change. It’s infuriated me when I’ve come across it in junior sports in my community. So many junior athletes just leave because of one or two of these personalities take over a team or a club. I get the feeling Lebanon will sort themselves out eventually but the others will be overtaken by other countries that are starting to develop quite nicely. It’s a correction we had to have and it’s a sign of progress.

They’ll be selling 3 and 6 match memberships well into the season.

Have a look: https://am.ticketmaster.com/brisbanebroncos/#/

An older spectacular try

It’s impressive… but we’ve all probably forgotten any other equally or more spectacular tries over the last 20 years.

Thanks for all the work you do to create, and maintain, this wonderful online rugby league community. I really appreciate what you guys do.

An amusing thing to come out from the matter is that Leniu had never heard of one of the most high profile AFL players ever, Adam Goodes, who played in Sydney. Manly player, Haumole Olakau’atu, has also come out and said he’s also never heard of Adam Goodes.

AFL are very good at getting the few fans they have in RL states to actually attend a game. For a very long time their stadium attendance figures have not been accompanied by similarly impressive TV viewing figure from the same state. The NRL can learn a lot from the AFL regarding how to get fans to attend in person.

Thousands of regular Australian tourists go to PNG each year to walk PNG’s famous trails. The Kokoda Track alone gets 3000 to 5000 Australian tourists annually. If the right PNG government licensed package tour organisers are involved, then I’m convinced away fans could have a wonderful trip. They’d just have to stay within the “cocoon”.

She’s showing her Western Australian roots. Western Australia makes Queensland look like a case study in racial harmony. In some parts of Australia many people can be very “casual” with their language and are remarkably naive regarding how that can be viewed in other countries.

Some comments from the NRL https://amp.nine.com.au/article/595275bd-3359-4d96-95f2-50af12971c1c “We had a 61,000 average viewership on Fox Sports 1 for the first game, which was more than one third of the marquee college basketball clash between Xavier and Georgetown which preceded our games. That figure also compares to some US Major League Soccer games on Fox Sports 1," NRL boss Andrew Abdo said. "The second game attracted an average audience of 44,000. These are the two most watched NRL matches in the US on record. "The audience of the first game was three times higher than the most watched NRL games on Fox Sports in the past three seasons and over 280 per cent higher than the most recent Saturday games on Fox Sports 1.”

The college basketball game that went into overtime and caused the NRL to be briefly bumped to FS2 rated 162,000 ( see Xavier v Georgetown https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2024/03/saturday-3-3-sports-ratings-lakers-nuggets-college-basketball-pga-liv-f1-nascar/ )

I remember being in the US in the 80s and someone said “how was that Collingwood game?” when they heard my accent. They had watched it on TV. It’s been broadcast in the US for a long time.

This article ( https://usafl.com/blogs/brian-barrish/20160524/examining-american-afl-tv-ratings ) has AFL getting 34,000 per game on Fox sports 1 a few years back and they’re still on Fox sports US with occasional Fox Sports 1 broadcasts ( https://www.afana.com/tvsched ). This article has MLS as 343,000 per game in 2022 which is similar to the NHL and in better time slots. https://fortune.com/2023/09/29/soccer-taking-over-america-apple-win-sports-streaming-wars-mls-deal-aden-ikram/amp/ In 2022, MLS regular season matches averaged 343,000 TV viewers, nearly the same as an NHL game. ……. Given this extra context I suspect the NRL had done more than enough to justify being solid filler content.