Beaussie wrote:pussycat wrote:No they were desperate to get it. They wanted to start up a pay TV netword and they realised to do that they needed the most best sporting product to spearhead there subsriptions. A Three year struggle, almost $1b spent, a number of appeals to the high court....Certainly does'nt sound like a couting ritual to me.
No your code was desperate to whore itself out to any bidder in this case News Ltd. The AFL told News Ltd to **** off, we run our own competition not some tv network. I still think it's hilarious that you seem to suggest News Ltd's acquisition of the NRL was somehow a good thing. You're a deluded as the Rugby League administrators at the time of sellout of their fans.
I certainly don't think it was a good idea! I don't know what would give you that ******* idea. That pond scum are worse than you AFL mushrooms.
As I said, spending hundreds of millions and going through numerous court cases trying to fight the bastards off can hardly be regarded as whoreing yourself out. Though this only prove(to any non brain dead person) that league must be streets ahead of the AFL. If News Ltd were prepared to go through what they did to gain control of it.
