NRL gets 925 mill for 4 games per week .

[pussycat]

Struggling to think what's left for Foxtel. Looks like the dregs. What are the dregs worth?

Smith certainly doesn't rule expansion out. The contract is structured for that option . Gyngell has already said he will pay big money for a 2nd Brisbane team. Any powder channel 9 has left will be kept dry in case that option becomes available. So your dreaming there. And if Fox sports CEO loses rugby league Rupert will make a tobacco pouch of his scrotum.

[leeroy*NRL*]

VERY TRUE
FOX WILL GO ALL OUT FOR THE NRL TV DEAL!

Still stoked about the deal and more good news to come.

(they are keeping expansion really close to there chest
not letting anything out)

by them putting it in the contract means maybe they are undecided
in what year to expand. let alone "not expanding"

in my opinion if they didn't expand in 2018 / 2020

this would be a big mistake.

[AFLcrap1]

We have no idea what is going to happen yet esp with expansion.

Expansion clearly off the agenda. How would the NRL fund it when virtually all present clubs run at a loss and will want more money along with greedy players and neglected bush footy?

No money left in kitty to fund expensive expansion dreams.

Smell the fear .

[pussycat]

VERY TRUE
FOX WILL GO ALL OUT FOR THE NRL TV DEAL!

Still stoked about the deal and more good news to come.

(they are keeping expansion really close to there chest
not letting anything out)

by them putting it in the contract means maybe they are undecided
in what year to expand. let alone "not expanding"

in my opinion if they didn't expand in 2018 / 2020

this would be a big mistake.

I don't think we need expansion just for expansion sake. We don't want to fall into the same mess as the AFL. ten's of of millions each year its costing them just so they can brag about being national - What a joke they are :_<> :_<>

[leeroy*NRL*]

I don't think we need expansion just for expansion sake. We don't want to fall into the same mess as the AFL. ten's of of millions each year its costing them just so they can brag about being national - What a joke they are :_<> :_<> [/quote]


Agree, with that point. THE AFL


But I do think another Brisbane team / Ipswich Team is Needed.
and will only be a winner

[ParraEelsNRL]

Give the PNG Hunters another decade and they'll be knocking the NRL's door down to get into the comp.

[AFLcrap1]

Give the PNG Hunters another decade and they'll be knocking the NRL's door down to get into the comp.

Mate, my main wish/fantasy at the moment is for them to win the Intrust GF, then be on show At ANZ on GF day .
Would be an enormous boost for them & the exposure would be unreal .
The way they are playing at the moment .....it's a definite possibility .

Very very entertaining side to watch .

[ParraEelsNRL]

Ya I was having a few bets on the Dishlickers last week and thought I'd put some money on the PNG team to win the comp thinking I'd be smart and get them at around 12-1 10-1, TAB had them at $5 already

[AFLcrap1]

They have toughness ,agility, play very hard ,not scared to take risks .

Only thing against them is the size of the forwards .
They don't have real big men for up front .
PNG men tend to be short stocky barrel chested .

Still they don't shirk it ..they play hard .

[ParraEelsNRL]

Yeah they don't mind the rough stuff.

They'll get a few big boppers soon you'd think. But atm, they don't seem to care really, just give them the ball or have someone run at them, it's all the same

[AFLcrap1]

Struggling to think what's left for Foxtel. Looks like the dregs. What are the dregs worth?

Lol .
RL drove pay TV .
Without RL Fox will be out of business in Aust .
Subscriptions will be cancelled & news ltd know it .
They are fucked without RL ...so tell me Bea ,what leverage do they have .




Dave Smith has lunch with the men he said no to - including Rupert Murdoch


A day after getting right up the nose of Rupert Murdoch, NRL boss Dave Smith ended up having lunch with him.
Oh to have been a fly on the wall at posh Rose Bay restaurant Catalina on Tuesday afternoon when Smith joined the 84-year-old News Corp supremo and about 100 other heavy hitters.
Also in the room were Murdoch's son, Lachlan, and Fox Sports boss Patrick Delaney, who was said to be furious with Smith about the stunning $925 million broadcast deal between Channel Nine and the NRL announced on Monday morning.

Murdoch snr's not-so-secret soiree for News executives, key advertisers and media buyers had been organised well in advance of the Nine deal. But the timing of the lunch could not have been more intriguing.

Uncle Rupert arrived in Sydney on Monday to learn of the NRL's deal with Nine, which now places News' Fox Sports in an invidious position as it will now have to "pay through the nose" to ensure all eight league matches are broadcast live on the network from 2018.
"No, Dave wasn't the most popular person in the room," revealed one source who was present. "But they were all very professional."

Smith's counterparts from the other major codes – David Gallop from FFA, Gillon McLachlan from the AFL and Bill Pulver of the ARU – were also in attendance, no doubt shaking their heads in disbelief at Smith's stunning coup with Nine boss David Gyngell.
There was some speculation floating around that Nine's deal had been turbo-charged by Souths co-owner James Packer, whose late father Kerry knew better than anyone about the gold to be found in live sport.
Gyngell and Packer famously fell out a year ago, brawling before stunned onlookers at Bondi, but they have recently patched things up. Both Gyngell and Packer's representatives scoffed at the suggestion.
There is also much finger pointing happening at News Corp's Holt Street bunker, with most of them directed at former chief executive Kim Williams, who relinquished the media company's "first and last rights" to the NRL until 2027 when the last broadcast deal was struck.
He was being branded by some within News on Tuesday as "the man who just lost us rugby league".








http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/dave ... z3iXjJLsVa

[pussycat]

So, this much is correct yeah... if Fox simulcast games, the NRL must pay Channel 9, $30 million annually right? Yeah, sounds like a great deal. >

It still almost $800m from 9, fox would be forced to double its last deal for 8 matches . So not only have you lost c9 as a bidder but your also pretty much farked as far as Fox goes :_<> :_<>

[ParraEelsNRL]

Uncle Rupes will be offering Dave a job if he has any brains

What's that old saying .... if you can't beat them, buy them?

[AFLcrap1]

This says it all .

[Beaussie]

So, this much is correct yeah... if Fox simulcast games, the NRL must pay Channel 9, $30 million annually right? Yeah, sounds like a great deal. >

It still almost $800m from 9, fox would be forced to double its last deal for 8 matches . So not only have you lost c9 as a bidder but your also pretty much farked as far as Fox goes :_<> :_<>

As reported, Nine can use the $30 million it gets from Fox in a bid for AFL.

As far as Fox goes, there is little doubt they will pay big for the AFL. One just needs to appreciate the fact that Fox Footy is the number 1 channel on Foxtel. Number 1 you hear.