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    anything can happen?

    I'd say Line-out would be the most endangered species of the unique rugby union aspects of the game. Simply because they are rarely contests anymore, they are a cause of many penatlies of a dubious nature, and this whole lifting someone up is actually very dangerous*. * - How can it be any...
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    anything can happen?

    The sort of rules I've heard mention like yours (simplify rucks/mauls, reduce penalties value, reduce drop-goal value) make the modern rugby union closer to rugby league than RU 10 years ago. So when does rugby stop being rugby ?
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    anything can happen?

    Yes, I can think of no other sport where not one upset happens in over 40 consequtive games. I think its because the rules have been tampered with to such a degree that if you are better than your opposition, even by a relative small amount, you can retain possession at most breakdowns, and...
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    anything can happen?

    Surely one of the most inaccurate slogans for rugby union would be the tag "anything can happen". We've had 40 odd games in this world cup, and there has not been one upset. Even the worst journalist in Australian history, Peter Fitzsimmons, was salivating at the first upset last night...
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Nice theory, except AFL still makes more money out of TV than league does, and it hasnt had to sell its soul to do so.
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    There is no doubt NRL has sold itself to TV, and become a TV sport. What other sport in the world allows its top level comp slip below 10,000 crowds regularly. But just like TV programs, when a sport is only there for the use of TV, it will eventually run its course like Gilligans Island or...
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Desperate cash grab, throwing tradition out the window. The ultimate in prefabricated franchise based decisions that would make rupert proud. Also, the IR has got the crowds, the close results, and the ratings to put international league to shame. Shame, shame, shame. :D
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    channel 7

    10 coverage into NSW and QLD is far better than 7, but the other states its probably the same. You are right about 9. They really have made an art form of stuffing up sports broadcasting.
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Ah the old Neilson chestnut. A well worn, but utlimately futile, comeback. It doesnt matter which you use. The only time the NRL even gets close to AFL is the grand final, and thats only because the NRL moved to prime time in a desperate attempt to claw back some ground. Thems the facts...
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    channel 7

    Seeing how badly channel seven is televising the RU WC, not to mention most sport since they lost the AFL rights, could it be that channel 7 through their general incompetence actually held AFL back during the 20 years they broadcast it ? Channel 10 would have done more for AFL footy in the...
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    Ratings disaster for Seven

    Terrible ratings for its glamour event couldnt have come at a worse time for the ARU with the new TV rights deal about to be negotiated. Rupert was right. This new one will be a lot less lucrative.
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    No, AFL dominates TV coverage. AFL on friday night beats NRL on friday nights nationwide. AFL on Saturday day and night on ten easily beats foxtel, and AFL at 1pm Sunday slaughters foxtel, and AFL on Sunday at 4pm beats NRL at 4pm nationwide. Then Foxtel shows 2x 24 hour channels of AFL every...
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    NRL doesnt even get close. Tamazoid and Dimitri should know better than to bag AFL expansion predictions. Both still havent accepted that AFL is firmly entrenced in the so called rugby states of australia.
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    No, its not booming at the elite level at the moment because of lack of grounds, lack of population and lack of money, but it is booming at grassroots level. And that boom will continue.
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Just because you can play cricket on it, does not mean you can play AFL. All major NZ cricket grounds are too small except that new one in Wellington. As an example the old gabba with the dog track, and North Sydney oval have hosted 1st class cricket, but are too small for AFL (At NSO, they...
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Yep 200,000 seat stadium was the plan. If you ever saw the ground it was one big bowl, with a second tier for a short space on one wing. The original plan was for some day to extend that second tier all the way around, .....and put a roof on it. But it was built in the days before TV, when...
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Great idea, although it would have to be Auckland. Take a look at the history of Waverly in Melbourne (90,000 seat stadium, with plans for up to 200,000) which died simply because it didnt have any public transport to it (and it was in a rain belt without a roof), or Stade de Oz which is...
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Like the Gabba and Stadium Australia reconfiguration: "Build it and they will come". :D
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    League "should" have a better chance in NZ, but it has too much antagonistic history with Union, that they will be eternally bickering with each other leaving the door open to other codes like AFL. AFL is by far the dominant TV sport in australia so I have no idea why you think its not a TV...

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