A Third Team In Sydney - It's Only a Matter Of Time !!

[Colonial]

Off course it does.

Of course it doesn’t.

They never had an extended list to warrant an expanded cap. So it’s a mute.

They also tried to and almost successfully gave themselves an extended cap.


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[Aussie in exile]

Of course it doesn’t.

They never had an extended list to warrant an expanded cap. So it’s a mute.

They also tried to and almost successfully gave themselves an extended cap.


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You seem very addled.
I best leave it there otherwise i would end up embarrassing you with FACTS and your not a bad human being.

 

[le dominateur]

Imagine the Storm crowds if they were bottom 4 for most of their 20 years in the NRL instead of being close to the most successful team

 

[Aussie in exile]

Imagine the Storm crowds if they were bottom 4 for most of their 20 years in the NRL instead of being close to the most successful team

Imagine the GWS crowds if they didn't give out freebies LOL
Yes or no did the Giants sell all their tickets allocation for last years grand final?

 

[Colonial]

You seem very addled.
I best leave it there otherwise i would end up embarrassing you with FACTS and your not a bad human being.

Oh do tell.
Which facts are those?


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[Colonial]

Imagine the GWS crowds if they didn't give out freebies LOL
Yes or no did the Giants sell all their tickets allocation for last years grand final?

Melbourne could be asked that question to.(both the NRL and AFL version)

Neither did Freo when they made it.

Easy to talk it up when you get an automatic home Grand Final.


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[Aussie in exile]

Oh do tell.
Which facts are those?


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How much money to the giants and the Suns get compared to other AFL clubs?
If AF is growing so fast in Western Sydney how come the giants couldn't even sell out their ticket allocation?

 

[Aussie in exile]

Melbourne could be asked that question to.(both the NRL and AFL version)

Neither did Freo when they made it.

Easy to talk it up when you get an automatic home Grand Final.


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So you have admitted that the giants give out freebies and that they couldn't sell out their grand final ticket allocation.
That's game set and match to me. Bye bye.

 

[Colonial]

How much money to the giants and the Suns get compared to other AFL clubs?

Easily available.
Not that much more compared to a few heartland clubs who have had a 100year head start.

If AF is growing so fast in Western Sydney how come the giants couldn't even sell out their ticket allocation?

Started from a zero base.

Neither did Freo do you go after them?

So you have admitted that the giants give out freebies and that they couldn't sell out their grand final ticket allocation.
That's game set and match to me. Bye bye.

Free game tickets like every other club? Yep

Didn’t sellout our GF allocation like a few different clubs who don’t get gifted home ground advantage no matter what? Yep

When did we start playing tennis? Wait is Pippen your alt all along?


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[giggler99]

Oh do tell.
Which facts are those?


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How much money to the giants and the Suns get compared to other AFL clubs?
If AF is growing so fast in Western Sydney how come the giants couldn't even sell out their ticket allocation?

So you have admitted that the giants give out freebies and that they couldn't sell out their grand final ticket allocation.
That's game set and match to me. Bye bye.

Aussie in exile you can’t or won’t answer the facts General Giant is asking for just the usually GWS bashing so you then try and take the high ground by posting game, set match bye bye?

 

[Aussie in exile]

Easily available.
Not that much more compared to a few heartland clubs who have had a 100year head start.



Started from a zero base.

Neither did Freo do you go after them?



Free game tickets like every other club? Yep

Didn’t sellout our GF allocation like a few different clubs who don’t get gifted home ground advantage no matter what? Yep

When did we start playing tennis? Wait is Pippen your alt all along?


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like i say game set and match to me. Bye bye

 

[giggler99]

like i say game set and match to me. Bye bye

clearly you have no answers so you take the cowedly way out by trying to proclaim victory. There is a word for people like you “Troll”

 

[Aussie in exile]

clearly you have no answers so you take the cowedly way out by trying to proclaim victory. There is a word for people like you “Troll”

Not at all. He agreed with me, as would a vast majority of fans.

 

[giggler99]

Not at all. He agreed with me, as would a vast majority of fans.

How did he agree with you?
Answer the facts he asked about the Storm?

 

[Aussie in exile]

How did he agree with you?
Answer the facts he asked about the Storm?

I did. The storm asked for help and didn't get it.
The storm sold out their Ticket allocation for their grand finals the giants didn't, and this is despite the claims from AFL house the AF is spreading like wild fire in Western Sydney.

 

[giggler99]

I did. The storm asked for help and didn't get it
The storm sold out their Ticket allocation for their grand finals the giants didn't, and this is despite the claims from AFL house the AF is spreading like wild fire in Western Sydney.

You didn’t! You just blabbed on about GF allocations!
I don’t care about GF allocations.

You seem very addled.
I best leave it there otherwise i would end up embarrassing you with FACTS and your not a bad human being.

your quote

Embarrass him with the FACTS please?

 

[Colonial]

like i say game set and match to me. Bye bye

So you are just trolling.


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[Colonial]

I thought according to “sources” 7 Was after the league rights and were angry over the northern AFL clubs.

Appears 7 and 10 want nothing to do with them and haven’t contacted them.

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D-Day for NRL to strike revised TV deal with Channel 9 and Fox Sports
Nick Walshaw and Brent Read, The Daily Telegraph
April 16, 2020 9:56pm
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Nine under pump as Fox recommits to NRL
NRL clubs growing doubtful of May return
Channel 9 executives have been urged to stop delaying organisation of the 2020 NRL season, with free-to-air rival Channel 7 understood not to have made any approach about taking games.

Rugby league’s D-Day arrives on Friday morning when ARLC chairman Peter V’landys finally sits down for his highly-anticipated meeting with Nine CEO Hugh Marks and Fox Sports boss Patrick Delany.

While Nine is said to be hesitant about showing NRL games this season — having already stated publicly it will save $310 million with a cancelled competition — neither Channel 7 or Network Ten appear interested in bailing out their free-to-air rival.

ARLC chairman Peter V’landys will meet Nine CEO Hugh Marks and Fox Sports boss Patrick Delaney to nut out a TV deal for the remainder of the season. Picture: Jonathan Ng
ARLC chairman Peter V’landys will meet Nine CEO Hugh Marks and Fox Sports boss Patrick Delaney to nut out a TV deal for the remainder of the season. Picture: Jonathan Ng
It comes as NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg emailed all 16 club bosses on Thursday to re-confirm that a May 28 return remained the league’s priority. Some of the code’s biggest hitters at club level are becoming increasingly concerned by the ongoing broadcast negotiations, which have to be sorted before the competition format can be finalised.

What is known, however, is that a scheduled Friday meeting of Project Apollo — the committee charged with getting the game back within seven weeks — has been delayed.

It is also increasingly unlikely that the Warriors will fly out of Auckland on Sunday as initially planned, with some concern the season may now be resumed without the Kiwis.

Regardless, the meeting between V’landys, Fox and Nine shapes as crucial in determining not only when the season restarts, but what shape it takes in both stadiums and on TV.

Late Thursday, Seven insiders said they had not contacted the NRL about acquiring content should Nine look to offload one of its three free-to-air matches this year.

It was a similar story at Network Ten who, despite being owned by US television giant CBS, is said to be uninterested in taking rugby league games unwanted by Nine amid the COVID-19 crisis.

If Nine intends to change any part of the broadcast deal it must do so with Fox Sports, who currently has a commitment to show all eight matches live. The Thursday, one Friday game and a Sunday match are simulcast with Nine but Fox Sports retain exclusive rights for their trademark Super Saturday.

It has been reported that Nine wants to attain some exclusive matches, including the Friday 6pm slot, in exchange for Fox League showing Thursday night games alone.

Fox, however, is not keen to relinquish any matches.

Speculation about Nine stalling have not gone down well in clubland, with a host of franchises situated outside Sydney, most notably the Warriors, desperate to get information about the competition’s direction.

It comes after all 16 NRL coaches had agreed to hold off on training until the Warriors had not only touched down in Sydney, but were also free from their 14 days in isolation.

Elsewhere, the Melbourne Storm and Queensland’s three NRL sides are also waiting to get more clarity on the shape of the season before committing to where exactly they base themselves.

On Thursday, a Ten spokesperson said the station was offering “no comment” to the ongoing impasse involving Channel 9 and the NRL.

However, those close to the situation said the broadcaster, which has recently hosted the Wallabies, Supercars and Melbourne Cup, was unlikely to throw itself into the situation alongside rivals Channel 7.


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[Aucklander]

Most of Storms funding hasn’t come from the NRL though, which I think is his point.

They were owned by News who effectivelly ran the game. That's where the support ended.

They tried to get extra cap space.

Which you've acknowledged never happened.

We only had extra space when we had extra list spots.

No such luxury for the Storm.

Weren’t the Storm given all the best players

Nothing is free.

Year after year? Lol

I believe they call it a draft.

I seem to also remember part of the deal to get an independent commission was a guarantee to keep the storm alive.

Makes sense.

As for grassroots that’s on the nrl and storm not seemingly wanting to grow it down there.

No, I think the blame lays squarely at the feet of the NRL. They still seem happy with only having a team here and not making any effort where it can actually help the game grow.

Look, what the AFL have done in WS is amazing. They've got it 100% right, but not so much at the Suns. Am I a little bit jealous? Of course I am, but I don't sit here and call for your club or the Suns to be kicked out of the comp, or engage in the talk of merging them with other sides like a host of other AFL fans and are supportive of what's going on there. Both clubs will eventually be successful, the Giants just that little bit sooner.

Imagine the GWS crowds if they didn't give out freebies LOL

Free tickets are ok. My own AFL club gives out free tickets too and we're one of the biggest in the country.

 

[Tasmanian saint]

Melbourne storm?

Nothing against the giants but there nothing like the storm who are privately owned I believe newscorp is there major share holder they receive the same dividend as every other nrl club they haven’t had millions pumped into them buy the nrl there’s was no draft and they didn’t receive any extra recruiting concessions or cap that’s why it makes me laugh a little when people go on about how tough it is in the expansion states when you look at the storm who have been a powerhouse since entering rugby league was nonexistent in Melbourne Pryor to them at least afl was already being played in nsw and Queensland!

 

[Tasmanian saint]

They tried to get extra cap space.

We only had extra space when we had extra list spots.

Weren’t the Storm given all the best players
From clubs being killed off on their start up. Timing with the cull there.

Year after year? Lol

I seem to also remember part of the deal to get an independent commission was a guarantee to keep the storm alive.

As for grassroots that’s on the nrl and storm not seemingly wanting to grow it down there.


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The Melbourne storm are a powerhouse any afl club would love to have the results they have had since entering and continue to have !

 

[RedV3x]

Look, what the AFL have done in WS is amazing. They've got it 100% right, but not so much at the Suns.

Not the AFL but the clubs. The Suns took a punt and initially it worked but later it failed.
The GWS failed early because no club would trade with them leaving them to bloom later.
Onfield success accounts for a lot.

 

[Aucklander]

Not the AFL but the clubs. The Suns took a punt and initially it worked but later it failed.
The GWS failed early because no club would trade with them leaving them to bloom later.
Onfield success accounts for a lot.

Fair points.

 

[Colonial]

Not the AFL but the clubs. The Suns took a punt and initially it worked but later it failed.
The GWS failed early because no club would trade with them leaving them to bloom later.
Onfield success accounts for a lot.

Actually clubs did want to trade with us but according to Shepperd and Matthews they wanted to trade spuds and retirees for our top picks.
We said, rightly, no and played the long game.


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[BringBackTorps]

SMH R. Masters 20.4

RA may be trading whilst insolvent.

RA Chairman "McLean, with 3 new directors is confronted by ongoing solvency tests...".

Clock ticking towards rugby's doomsday

Rugby Australia will have to lodge audited accounts by the end of the month before World Rugby agrees to a bail-out... but even then, the portents remain bleak.

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RA has made cuts to players wages this year, which expects will deliver savings of 83%.