WA BEARS

[BuffaloRules]

Probably correct. But that's what you get when you send a second division Sydney club here. That's what the NRL failed to understand.

Im not a fan of the Bears thing … but I have little doubt this negative campaign would be still happening regardless of the name of the team

 

[Perth Red]

Im not a fan of the Bears thing … but I have little doubt this negative campaign would be still happening regardless of the name of the team

Liberal AFL (7) papers. Not sure why anyone is expecting The West or Sunday Times to be positive about a Labor led NRL project!
Thankfully 80% of WA doesn't read it. NRL media needs to be feeding WAtoday (owned by 9) and the local radio stations (who've traditionally been positive about RL) some perth facing positive Bears news stories. WAToday doesnt even have a RL section, I'd be starting there!

 

[titoelcolombiano]

The majority of the population in Australia resides in NSW and QLD .

Yep and NSW is bigger than Victoria and QLD is bigger than SA, WA and TAS combined. Then we have a good following in NZ and a religious following in PNG on top of that. Our footprint shits on theirs.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Liberal AFL paper. Not sure why anyone is expecting The West to be positive about a Labor led NRL project!
Thankfully 80% of WA doesn't read it. NRL needs to be feeding WAtoday (owned by 9) and the local radio stations (who've traditionally been positive about RL) some perth facing positive Bears news stories. WAToday doesnt even have a RL section, I'd be starting there!

Is the AFL in the media ownership business? .., sounds like a weak excuse to me …

The election is over … so what’s the “liberal “ newspaper trying to influence ? Are they going after Cook on any other issues ?

 

[Perth Red]

Yep and NSW is bigger than Victoria and QLD is bigger than SA, WA and TAS combined. Then we have a good following in NZ and a religious following in PNG on top of that. Our footprint shits on theirs.

Never going to be seen as national if you are perceived as having zero presence in 2/5 states.

 

[Perth Red]

Is the AFL in the media ownership business? .., sounds like a weak excuse to me …

The election is over … so what’s the “liberal “ newspaper trying to influence ? Are they going after Cook on anything else ?

Its owned by Ch7. Its a Liberal newspaper, you think they only lean one way during election time? lol. They will already be plotting how they can make Basil the next WA premier. Yes they have been slamming him on the Burswood racetrack pledge. Todays news has them sowing seeds of dissent between Cook and Albo with a heading over minerals that has no relationship to the story content. Dont be so naive lol

 

[Wb1234]

Liberal AFL (7) papers. Not sure why anyone is expecting The West or Sunday Times to be positive about a Labor led NRL project!
Thankfully 80% of WA doesn't read it. NRL media needs to be feeding WAtoday (owned by 9) and the local radio stations (who've traditionally been positive about RL) some perth facing positive Bears news stories. WAToday doesnt even have a RL section, I'd be starting there!

So the paper nine owns in wa doesn’t have a rl section ?

This gets better and better

 

[Bukowski]

Im not a fan of the Bears thing … but I have little doubt this negative campaign would be still happening regardless of the name of the team

From some sections, I agree. Forcing a Sydney club onto Perth has just given them another angle to go at us though.
We've supplied them with ammunition.
It's just the reality, people can pretend it's not there or label it anyway they want but it's just reality. The NRL created it and will need to combat it.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Never going to be seen as national if you are perceived as having zero presence in 2/5 states.

Not all states are the same though are they.

Oh no we are a "two state game". Yeah the two states that make up 55-60% of the population.

 

[Perth Red]

So the paper nine owns in wa doesn’t have a rl section ?

This gets better and better

Id say thats pretty sad reflection on the NRL's influence on Nine and how much it cares about WA. But you be you.

 

[Perth Red]

Not all states are the same though are they.

Oh no we are a "two state game". Yeah the two states that make up 55-60% of the population.

Not really how public perception works though. People are generally too lazy to care about stats, they just look at the obvious.

 

[Wb1234]

Id say thats pretty sad reflection on the NRL's influence on Nine and how much it cares about WA. But you be you.

You’re not making a very compelling argument for a team

Especially when you’ve said pretty much the only media league gets in wa is negative or outright hostile

 

[BuffaloRules]

Its owned by Ch7. Its a Liberal newspaper, you think they only lean one way during election time? lol. They will already be plotting how they can make Basil the next WA premier. Yes they have been slamming him on the Burswood racetrack pledge. Todays news has them sowing seeds of dissent between Cook and Albo with a heading over minerals that has no relationship to the story content. Dont be so naive lol

I don’t remember Channel 9 , and particularly News Ltd doing the NRL a lot of favours over the years …normally they were the opposite in fact….

 

[SirPies&Beers]

WAToday doesnt even have a RL section, I'd be starting there!

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perthwrongs, ding dong

 

[Perth Red]

You’re not making a very compelling argument for a team

Especially when you’ve said pretty much the only media league gets in wa is negative or outright hostile

I dont need to, NRL has already decided the case.

 

[BuffaloRules]

From some sections, I agree. Forcing a Sydney club onto Perth has just given them another angle to go at us though.
We've supplied them with ammunition.
It's just the reality, people can pretend it's not there or label it anyway they want but it's just reality. The NRL created it and will need to combat it.

Another angle they don’t need apparently …according to our mate ,,,they are being attacked because of the involvement of the Labor Premier and Channel 7 protecting their AFL product .

 

[Wb1234]

Not all states are the same though are they.

Oh no we are a "two state game". Yeah the two states that make up 55-60% of the population.

I was arguing with a fumbler on Twitter and he literally said clubs in png and nz shouldn’t count since the game is called nrl

Dumbest twats in the country

 

[Perth Red]

I don’t remember Channel 9 , and particularly News Ltd doing the NRL a lot of favours over the years …normally they were the opposite in fact….

NRL has never controlled the media like AFL has until the sweet covid deal when Vlandys took a poor deal and but got some sweet media traction. The change in media tone towards NRL over last couple of years is very very evident.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

NRL has never controlled the media like AFL has until the sweet covid deal when Vlandys took a poor deal and but got some sweet media traction. The change in media tone towards NRL over last couple of years is very very evident.

So there was some benefits to the deal then?

 

[BuffaloRules]

NRL has never controlled the media like AFL has until the sweet covid deal when Vlandys took a poor deal and but got some sweet media traction. The change in media tone towards NRL over last couple of years is very very evident.

so the AFL gets top dollar AND is protected by their media ? Why is that ?