1. Dunce is admitting that TV coverage is harming gate attendances for the NRL in effect. I call that a bad thing because that's what the NRL needs to survive. Fans at games! 2. Amen! 3 & 4. Involving the Bronco's (in effect) is a smoke screen. Concentrate on the Sydney clubs alone and their ave...

Value to Sydney is not relevant when it comes to making TV deals. Value to the five capital cities combined is relevant.

Result: NRL value = Low

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!

Yeah I want something to take apart from Dave and Cooee.

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Memberships are only half the job. They need gate receipts as well.

And what happened in Coffs was criminally liable. What the AFL blokes did was legal.

Oh it's on now! The FFA has kicked United out, and Palmer's formed his own Association in retaliation!

Game "ova"........ For the NRL if they don't stop the bleeding at the gate. If the average attendance in Sydney doesn't jump above 20,000 in season 2012 (and it won't unless the clubs start getting out there and calling for every RL fan to get to games) then the NRL is doomed. Accept it, D...

It'll come if you lot don't shape up. Stop laughing and start taking your game more seriously, and start at home and demand the Raiders get off their collective butts and get a major sponsor!

That's the threat right there, Dave. Apathy by your lot. "Oh it'll all blow over"

That's why you lot are in so much trouble. You don't give a real sh1t about your own game!

Raiderdave wrote:

the VFL copied OUR system & are the original ... copy cats

The VFL have only used the eight full stop since 2000 I'm told.

The AFL have used it since 1994.

Get the difference, Dave.

And it was the ARL that used it in 1995 and 1996. There was no NRL in those years IIRC.

Xman, the AFL ran the system that the NRL just dumped from 1994 to 1999. The AFL started the current system in 2000. The NRL actually have never used the actual eight that the AFL currently use. They used it partly in their finals in 1998 when they ran a top ten. I think that's why I got mixed up th...

Raiderdave wrote:

Xman wrote:

Copy copy copy

is what the AFL did with our finals system ?

yes

yes they did

Corrected again. You know what the AFL is, Dave.

And the AFL guys very quickly left the thing so no harm was done. NRL morons wouldn't have done that. They would have paraded it like a badge.