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    Grand Final to be televised in more than 80 countries

    In the U.S. the Grand Final is on live on Fox Soccer. While I could easily see NBC putting it on delayed if they had the rights, they would be delaying by over 12 hours to put it in prime time.
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    Watching Classic Grand Finals on Fox this week

    The players might have been less athletic and less fit, but the play the ball was pretty damn fast--and in my opinion much, much, better than the mess we have today.
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    Slight flaw in the new finals system?

    I think the bigger flaw is that if 1 or 2 lose in the first week, they end up meeting in the third week. I believe that happened in the last year or two in the AFL, I was not impressed. And after three seconds of research...next week the teams finishing first second in the AFL will meet in a...
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    Sepp's incompetence vol. MXIIV

    I've always hated shootouts. They can be exciting and nerve wracking, but they aren't part of the game. Golden goal can be exciting but from what I remember from actually watching matches during the golden goal era was that, a lot of the time, teams didn't necessarily want to risk attacking...
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    Sports teams with the highest salaries

    Do American teams even need to draw crowds with the TV money that they are swimming in? Not that the ticket revenue would be anything to sneeze at. Though I do wonder if American teams would be as rich if they had multiple teams in cities. The overwhelming number of American teams are the only...
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    Scrap the Haka

    Generally, I am supporting whoever maybe playing New Zealand in any sport...well anyone not named France, England, or a Sydneyside NRL club...but I do tune in earlier to watch the Haka. I wouldn't mind if other teams found more creative ways to stare down or challenge the Haka. I was greatly...
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    NYC players as free replacements

    I believe that at one time players in the reserve grade were allowed to enter the game as replacements, but as far as I know that rule went away long before anyone dreamed of interchanged or a NYC.
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    New Overtime Rules

    For those that haven't heard, the NFL adopted the playoff overtime rules for the regular season. If the team that loses the coin toss kicks a field goal on its opening drive, the other team gets a chance to tie the score or win the game. It is still sudden death in all other situations. But...
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    My Mid-Season break concept!

    Let's see, beyond what has been repeatedly stated: I, personally, don't like the idea of players openly negotiating with other teams during the season. It just seems wrong. It is one thing if it is obvious that a player is leaving the team for one reason or another, but I just get unsettled...
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    Free tickets to watch the Giants next week

    I'd think it could be a proud moment for Sydney's sporting world if the crowd was less than a regular Swans home game--a clear statement of the "success" of a second Sydney club.
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    NRL club merger's

    Maybe I'm slow and missing something, but if season ticket holders are buying up all the seats what is the problem? I can understand that casual fans wouldn't be able to get into the game, but a casual fan wouldn't be able to get into any game if all of the seats had been bought up by any means...
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    Overhaul NRL points system, Furner says

    Naturally the best way to allocate premiership points would be to eliminate such unfairness as relying on "points" and "tries" and "goals" to determine the winner. Instead a jury of 12 judges should rate each team on their: athleticism, quality of tries, the artistic value of their tries...
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    The Double Movement Rule

    I can see both sides of the legalize/ban the double movement issue, with a caveat. I have no problem changing the laws so that once a player is tackled or deemed tackled, he can place the ball down and that spot becomes the mark. I also would have no problem with continuing to make that a big...
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    Expansion and Conferences

    When I first read that I thought you wrote "in Australia and across to Tasmania" and was waiting for the punchline. I have no real comments about the specific membership in your conferences, but agree that a conference system is probably going to be needed if the comp keeps expanding. I'm not...
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    Golden Point.........again

    Have a penalty kick shootout like soccer. Two points for each penalty goal, one point for missing the posts but sending the ball past the dead ball line. Most points after five attempts for each side wins! Seriously though, what is wrong with a draw? The game is played for eighty minutes, if...
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    How to watch NRL from overseas

    Isn't that live? I admit my maths calculating the time difference may be wrong.
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    NRL Finals System Changed

    I personally prefer the McIntyre system, but don't have much in the way of any real problems with the old ARL system. However: 1) 1 and 2 do get a harder road, as many have said. Of course I could say that the weirdness of the rest of the system makes a change back to the old ARL an improvement...
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    Over the Top Ideas to Improve the Competition

    With the season barely over, I am already bored, at least until the Four Nations begin. Why don’t have a thread for describing our visions of a perfect NRL, or even a perfect Rugby League world. Here’s my fantastic, totally over the top vision of the game. I know that most of...
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    How to improve referees

    Replace the refs with a crowd vote. Every time the crowd calls for a penalty, its penalty. If the crowd doesn't call for a penalty its not a penalty. Seriously though, here are my ideas, for better or worse: Make certain rules simpler to enforce. Either the man is tackled or he is not. If...
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    Could the USARL use MLS Stadiums in future?

    Yeah, pretty much. Old "astroturf" fields were, more or less, carpets that were painted green. For lack of a better analogy, most the of the newer artificial fields use their synthetics to make fake dirt and grass.

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