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    What are your favourite rugby league images ?

    Love how his kid took dolly onto the field - who says RL isn’t family friendly?
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    Fitzy's league Sledge

    Wow, just wow. At last some self realisation. No more stories of buying Nathan Cleary and multiple kangaroos on a path to the sunny uplands. But now a realisation the RA has f@@@ed itself. At the moment he is in the anger stage of his bereavement...
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    What are your favourite rugby league images ?

    Love the middle pic with Reece Walsh doing obeisance, if not the full kowtow, to a Master
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    Fitzy's league Sledge

    Starts by stealing a joke from Billy Connolley from 40 years ago but then finally begins to show some insight - RA is f@@@ed
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    The Game 2023 Crowd Watch

    Indeed, a local game for local people
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    The Game 2023 Crowd Watch

    So all up counting every game what was the total crowd for the year. it must be close to 4,500,000. very impressive.
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    Fitzy's league Sledge

    He will have to get his PhD students to write another crap history to get them out of this hole. Maybe its time for him to do an autobiography - certain best seller
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    Do you have difficulty with comprehension? The NRL had the largest viewing audience aggregate
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    PNG's back.

    The budget being rejected in the Senate because of a foreign aid measure - producing a 1975 style crisis. What a fantastic scenario
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    What are your favourite rugby league images ?

    Eddie Waring on the Corroboree: "carrying on with all this Malachi... half of them don't know what it is about...but they look very good any way"
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    I think a problem is the size of rectangular fields. Is 100-120 m x 50-80 m large enough for a high quality game?
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    The expansion paths for both sports each have their difficulties: NRL 1. Perth appears obvious but has failed in both RL and RU in the past - I think it will be a drain on the NRL for years 2. PNG/Pasifika - plenty of fans but requires $20M + from the Commonwealth for years 3. NZ 2 - should be a...
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    BUT what of AFLX - surely this is the path to the Olympic Games!
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    Yeah I noticed that - interesting article in Wikipedia. The GAA in Ireland is no longer interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rules_Series
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    Sorry, my error. The AFL grand final had 170 million viewers world-wide in 2007 https://www.theage.com.au/business/grand-finals-free-kick-to-economy-a-tough-call-20070923-ge5vxf.html It must be a quarter billion by now
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    No, it hasn’t survived Covid. In any case, Gaelic Football is an amateur sport. It was like putting the Panthers up against the Bellinger Magpies,
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    There was an ABC AFL commentator who used to claim the Grannie had a world wide audience of 100 Million. We can make up better shit than that.
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    When you are talking about penetration, I find that size is over rated
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    2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

    NRL TV penetration 174 Million + NZ AFL TV penetration 143 Million NRL Attendance 4 Million AFL Attendance 8 Million adding together for what I like to call Double Penetration NRL 178 Million + NZ TV AFL 151 Million Therefore NRL has double penetrated AFL

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