This is irrelevant to this thread but looks like the best spot to ask-where did the Sydney media thread go? Did Fred give it the arse?
Looks like it
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This is irrelevant to this thread but looks like the best spot to ask-where did the Sydney media thread go? Did Fred give it the arse?
Damn! I was really hoping to rag on fishy there. Oh well. In relevant news-its a good sign the AFL seems committed to the 10 Vic clubs.Looks like it
Damn! I was really hoping to rag on fishy there. Oh well. In relevant news-its a good sign the AFL seems committed to the 10 Vic clubs.
Funny that ay.4 couldn't do the same job. When clubs fold, people lose interest in the sport.
How many ex-Roy's supporters watch a game every week? Not that many
How many University Supporters watch a game every week? Most of those supporters are dead to the game now.. no interest at all
ahhh sorry mate, but what he said was victorian interest has been the main part of the value, not interest in north. interest in north and hence value to the rights is and will most likely always be the lowest of all clubs. quite simply if we had to lose a club, from an AFL revenue point of view you would hope that it would be north.On the eve of the first all-Victorian grand final since 2000, Demetriou has pointed out that the most recent $750 million broadcast rights deal was underpinned by the massive interest in the game generated from Victoria.
Demetriou, who has pledged to attract a fairer deal for all the MCG and Telstra Dome home teams, also reminded the wealthier and non-Victorian clubs that the annual AFL special assistance fund of $6 million ploughed into poorer Melbourne teams was a small price to pay.
After literally years spent on this board and the main board arguing with anti Vic trolls like DoctorJolly and many others, who claimed, time and time again, that clubs like mine were a drain, and that TV rights money came from Sydney and Qld, it is nice for the very man who should know to come out and say what we've been saying for years.
4 couldn't do the same job. When clubs fold, people lose interest in the sport.
How many ex-Roy's supporters watch a game every week? Not that many
How many University Supporters watch a game every week? Most of those supporters are dead to the game now.. no interest at all
We are talking about television here, not whether people go to games. If you had Collingwood, Richmond, Essendon, and Carlton on TV every weekend, would the overall national ratings be higher than a 10-team-blend that includes the Westerns and the Kangaroos.
Stop your crying.
Again, weak leadership from the ex-North Melbourne player now AFL CEO.
Facts are victoria generates less revenue per team than the other states, and this victorian dominated years finals series and grand final will be the lowest TV rating series for the last 10 years by a long, long way.
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agree wholeheartedly ... but thats not going to happen with the current telstra dome deal or even the mcg one.
Indeed the 10 Victorian clubs prop up the value of the national television rights. The question is whether 4 could do the same job as well as, if not better, than 10.
just be happy with what you've got, l'm bloody happy that l know my mob won't be pushed out anywhere
Good luck convincing a dye in wool North Melbourne supporter to switch alligences too Essendon
That's the beauty of this expansion plan - our game can grow its presence in the Gold Coast and West Sydney while retaining the tradition that SweetLeftFoot and others like him/her hold so dear.Indeed. If North had gone to the GC, me and my family would have been lost to footy. That's people who year in year out buy memberships, watch games, talk the game up etc etc, all in the HOPE of snaring less people who'd do that in 20 years time.
That's the beauty of this expansion plan - our game can grow its presence in the Gold Coast and West Sydney while retaining the tradition that SweetLeftFoot and others like him/her hold so dear.
Ideally, yet having fewer clubs split across more borders would be ideal, but in terms of influencing the fabric of the competition, no.
Why 4, why not just have Melbourne and Geelong?
Look at the GF Parade today as an example, support for clubs is blood line and deeply passionate, much like European football, in order to get the existing market to switch to 4 standardised teams, you'd have to destroy the existing make up of clubs and start again
North, South, East and West.
Good luck convincing a dye in wool North Melbourne supporter to switch alligences too Essendon
Ultimately, expansion is about maximising the value of television rights
if 10 teams in Melbourne lower the value national television rights then consideration needs to be given to cutting them.
A very logical statement .
If ? That's the most ludricous and waste of space "if" I've ever heard .
have you ever bothered to look at the ratings breakdown.
Yes, I know Melbourne ratings are higher than everywhere else, but I am considering the opportunity cost. Would ratings in Sydney be higher if every the televised games from Melbourne never included the Kangaroos or Western?
Sure if you want to fiddle with the arrangement of games shown, but that has absolutely no connection with what you were saying regards the number of victorian teams.
I was always talking about what type of games would maximise a television audience, which is why I was saying whether four clubs (Essendon, Collingwood, Carlton, Richmond) could do a better job than the 10 combined. I would guess that if the four clubs were always on TV, television ratings outside of Victoria would be higher than if Western or the Kangaroos were involved.