Not Worth A Thread - Random Bulldog Discussion - Part 2

[maddog37]

Shaggy

 

[dogwatch]

The future of free-to-air sports TV is currently being shaped in Parliament House. As always big business is well ahead of the government who are having to play catch-up. The media moguls will do all they can to wring every dollar possible from the domestic market. In a way you can't blame them. That's what they are in business for and they have far greater resources to find their way through and around the laws and regulations than the government has to oversee them. They will also have lots of lobbyists prowling the corridors of Parliament House and no doubt make "donations" to the major parties. Amazon is just one of several big players in there, as well as the usual suspects like Fox.

Their aim is to move as much high profile sport as possible from the Federal anti-siphoning list onto streaming services behind a paywall. They can do this more easily with big international sports like cricket, soccer or basketball where the federal government has less jurisdiction over broadcast rights. As this article says, it has already happened with big cricket events like ODIs and the ICC World Cups.

They are also putting on the squeeze by making non-paywalled services like SBS On Demand pay a premium to have their tile displayed prominently on Smart TVs. So the TV manufacturers are trying to cash in as well, perhaps in collaboration with the streaming service providers.

The people who will lose out of course are those who can't or won't subscribe to streaming services. The divide between rich and poor lifestyles grows ever wider. Some in parliament are fighting a rearguard action but I think it's inevitable that these FTA sports services will continue to be eroded.

Proposed new Australian broadcast rules: how much sport will you be able to watch for free?

A report has been released that will shape how fans are able to access sport media content in the Netflix era

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

The future of free-to-air sports TV is currently being shaped in Parliament House. As always big business is well ahead of the government who are having to play catch-up. The media moguls will do all they can to wring every dollar possible from the domestic market. In a way you can't blame them. That's what they are in business for and they have far greater resources to find their way through and around the laws and regulations than the government has to oversee them. They will also have lots of lobbyists prowling the corridors of Parliament House and no doubt make "donations" to the major parties. Amazon is just one of several big players in there, as well as the usual suspects like Fox.

Their aim is to move as much high profile sport as possible from the Federal anti-siphoning list onto streaming services behind a paywall. They can do this more easily with big international sports like cricket, soccer or basketball where the federal government has less jurisdiction over broadcast rights. As this article says, it has already happened with big cricket events like ODIs and the ICC World Cups.

They are also putting on the squeeze by making non-paywalled services like SBS On Demand pay a premium to have their tile displayed prominently on Smart TVs. So the TV manufacturers are trying to cash in as well, perhaps in collaboration with the streaming service providers.

The people who will lose out of course are those who can't or won't subscribe to streaming services. The divide between rich and poor lifestyles grows ever wider. Some in parliament are fighting a rearguard action but I think it's inevitable that these FTA sports services will continue to be eroded.

Proposed new Australian broadcast rules: how much sport will you be able to watch for free?

A report has been released that will shape how fans are able to access sport media content in the Netflix era

www.theguardian.com

FTA will die, piracy will boom, and then we'll repeat the last 20 years with different tech. The circle of life.

 

[dogwatch]

This is a good peek into what happens through the week and over the season at AFL clubs. Also a bit of an insight into how accumulated short breaks between games probably have a bigger impact than just one 5-day break. And there's a bit of discussion of who gets advantage from the 2024 fixture too. (We are somewhere in the middle, Essendon probably the most favoured).

How rest and preparation dictate AFL performance

In the 2024 AFL season football will be played on at least six of the seven days of the week across 21 different start times. It has brought the schedule for each team into focus.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Werewolf]

Channel surfing - came across Josh Hill

Josh Hill

Age

35

Ht

186cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.4

3star

K

8.1

3star

HB

4.3

3star

M

4.1

4star

T

2.8

4star

G

1.3

5star

No current season stats available

D

15.0

4star

K

10.8

4star

HB

4.2

4star

M

6.4

5star

T

1.8

4star

G

1.2

4star

on "Kickin' Back with Gilbert McAdam" (NITV Ch. 34)

 

[glenashley]

How AFL player won $500K real estate battle

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/plausible-and-consistent-court-finds-for-afl-great-in-development-dispute/news-story/ec33aac1fe33d703b6be0c9c3b092c5e

 

[dogwatch]

Not unexpectedly soccer now has its own problems with CTE and law suits. And I expect that these law suits would be for mega-quids like everything is in the EPL. Some famous names like Nobby Stiles died with CTE-related dementia.

Fortunately I was a goalie in my playing days so I didn't manage to destroy my neurons doing headers. (I destroyed them with alcohol instead.)

Four Premier League-era players and Joe Kinnear’s family part of brain injury legal action

Four Premier League-era players and the family of Joe Kinnear are part of the legal action against the football authorities over brain injuries sustained from playing the game

www.theguardian.com

Not sure how you can change the game of soccer to prevent such brain injuries. Headers are such an integral part of the play. It seems feasible to get rid of the bumps and tackles that traumatise the brain in AFL without changing the very nature of the game. That process is under way now. But can you imagine how soccer would look if you outlawed deliberate contact on the ball with the head? It sounds ridiculous but if there are enough successful law suits that day may be coming. And sooner than we think.

 

[glenashley]

How AFL player won $500K real estate battle

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/plausible-and-consistent-court-finds-for-afl-great-in-development-dispute/news-story/ec33aac1fe33d703b6be0c9c3b092c5e

Not sure if you can read this. Romero got sued for a dodgy development but won as the court said they should have gone after the builder, not Romero (the developer).

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

https://fb.watch/rQiSV2k6i2/?

 

[X_box_X]

Watching Darcy and West running around and playing well takes me back to when their fathers were kicking butt.

Which leads me to the following question.

You can pick several individual seasons to use this as a nomination, but I'll go 2002.

Our top six players that year were without any argument(no particular order) Grant, West, Darcy, Brown, Johnson, Smith.

Question is, would this be considered the strongest 'Top Six' we've ever had.

I use 2002 because I reckon as a collective that's when they were probably at their best.

Sure, we've had some very good top half dozen players before and after that, but I just reckon that can't be beaten in terms of what they all achieved in their careers.

Often we'd have opposition supporters telling us outside of those six, who did we have? They had a point. Especially under Rohde, the gap between our sixth best and seventh best player at that time was massive. And then Brown left, Grant did his knee and we were Wooden Spooners

 

[Libbaaaa]

The away guernsey is better than our usual one.

 

[Ash1337]

The away guernsey is better than our usual one.

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Probably because Jones & Sanders wear it so well.

 

[Yesterday Dog]

Just because we have hoops doesn't mean every single Indigenous guernsey has to automatically turn them into snakes and boomerangs

 

[Libbaaaa]

Probably because Jones & Sanders wear it so well.

Yep, and the hoops aren't getting tucked into the shorts.

 

[Ash1337]

Who is on the right and why is he wearing Buku's number?

 

[Mojorisin]

The away guernsey is better than our usual one.

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Looks like the Pepsi Logo. I do like it though.

 

[Sentinel]

Who is on the right and why is he wearing Buku's number?

Josh Chatfield. VFL captain. I can't answer your second question.

 

[BEaston]

Just because we have hoops doesn't mean every single Indigenous guernsey has to automatically turn them into snakes and boomerangs

Why don't you write an angry email to the Indigenous people that design them each year?

 

[Yesterday Dog]

Why don't you write an angry email to the Indigenous people that design them each year?

Well for one, i highly doubt my view is worthy feedback to the Indigenous people that design them each year

 

[King Harold]

Watching Darcy and West running around and playing well takes me back to when their fathers were kicking butt.

Which leads me to the following question.

You can pick several individual seasons to use this as a nomination, but I'll go 2002.

Our top six players that year were without any argument(no particular order) Grant, West, Darcy, Brown, Johnson, Smith.

Question is, would this be considered the strongest 'Top Six' we've ever had.

I use 2002 because I reckon as a collective that's when they were probably at their best.

Sure, we've had some very good top half dozen players before and after that, but I just reckon that can't be beaten in terms of what they all achieved in their careers.

Often we'd have opposition supporters telling us outside of those six, who did we have? They had a point. Especially under Rohde, the gap between our sixth best and seventh best player at that time was massive. And then Brown left, Grant did his knee and we were Wooden Spooners

I’ll have a go.
1985
Purser
Hawkins
Royal
Bamblett
Beasley
Edmond

Not a bad 6

 

[geoffjennings79]

I’ll have a go.
1985
Purser
Hawkins
Royal
Bamblett
Beasley
Edmond

Not a bad 6

1985 first year I thought of too, King.

There's a certain red headed bloke was handy that year, though!

I'd also go 1973:

Dempsey
Quinlan
Thorpe
Sandilands
Gallagher
hard to pick a 6th

1974:
Dempsey
Huppatz
Parke
Sandilands
Welsh
Gallagher/Stoneham/Round/Quinlan

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Well for one, i highly doubt my view is worthy feedback to the Indigenous people that design them each year

Any feedback should be worthy. Some will like it, others not. That’s normal. I quite like it.

 

[weltschmerz]

How about 2016?

 

[geoffjennings79]

How about 2016?

Was there a clear top 6 that year though? It was almost a year of what used to sometimes reported when I played juniors (a l-o-n-g time ago!):

Best players: team effort

 

[TiAn_]

Don’t think any other combo to date can top Grant, West, Johnson, Smith, Darcy and Brown from 1998-2003.

Bont, Libba, Macrae, Treloar, Dunkley & Naughton will probably give that a run in hindsight.

Johnson, Murphy, Cooney, Boyd, Lake and Akermanis very good too.