And they have bigger tv deals because they have expanded. They have earnt the money to be able to invest by strategically growing their footprint, you know the pins in maps thing, and their crowds and their funding strategies. We've done what? Nothing in the last 5 years despite all the money and independent decision making.
How many of the main kpi's in the Strat plan has the nrl achieved? Re ARL having to spend its $25mill in the bank, the commission has just done exactly the same again and spend all the moe y that it saved during the last mega deal because it still can't pay its way. Why is That? Your an apologist for the commission yet slate gallop, thebgame has been plagued with sht administration since forever and probably always will be. There is a reason Samuels has jumped ship.
You are right in one thing afl is spending vast sums more than nrl on growing their game, and guess what it means their revenue compared to nrl's is massively more, which means they can spend even more and somitbgoes in business.
But back to crowds, weather is turning to sht here this afternoon just in time for nrl!
They expanded because they got the big money at the beginning, we didn't and we used up $25m to fight of News Ltd.
The AFL are spending money because they have it ,completely unaffected by having their reserves vanish by a SL conflict.The same mob are spending money in huge dollops to underpin the Lions,GWS and Suns.
Nothing in the last 5 years LOL .For a start getting Govt to cough up $1.6bn is hardly nothing for infrastructure which will help, crowds and income.They have a lobby Dept ,which the previous admins did not.They are stetting up a digital dept of the future ,not a cheap exercise,They are keeping the likes of Titans and Knights operating until they are sold.Membership assistance is provided by H/O which has led to record numbers,still growing.They have record sponsorship at the NRL.Touch Football which the code owns, is an opening for future crowds and players.Funding towards the RLPA.Money spent and wasted on off field incidents with an integrity unit.
You can OK argue about loss of crowds,yet ignore scheduling and transport.Adult playing numbers are down, possibly due to lack of funding, but female participation has shot ahead.
I'm an apologist for no one.I'm put on this planet to put facts into your noggin.The NRL owes me nothing and I owe them nothing.
I followed this code before the NRL was a see in ribot's stomach.
You are bleater and ignore problems in other codes, yet are quite happy to promote them and cite them as the panacea when it suits.
You still don't get it.When the SRTL was in popper prior to 1995,expansion happened including your whining mob, and the ARTL even then had $25m in the Bank.So they had money to do things .It went in the pockets of the likes of players and Gould.
