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2023-2028 next tv deal discussion

Wb1234

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Tonga and Samoa don't have the population or TV money to make this as lucrative as Origin.

Australian TV viewers, for obvious reasons, aren't going to be as invested in the contest.
You know there are loads of islanders in Australia that have tv don’t you ?

and maybe people who aren’t islanders like me enjoy watching it
 

Colk

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You know there are loads of islanders in Australia that have tv don’t you ?

and maybe people who aren’t islanders like me enjoy watching it

I am sure it will have some popularity and it will be great for the game in general (continually improve international football and foster greater development of rugby league in those areas) but you will never get 3 million Australians watching it.
 

Colk

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You know there are loads of islanders in Australia that have tv don’t you ?

and maybe people who aren’t islanders like me enjoy watching it

Pacific Islander was roughly 207k in 2016. As I said before you might get ok to decent TV numbers but you are not going to get millions of people watching it.

That wouldn’t be the main point of the exercise I would think anyway
 

Perth Red

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100m profit annually?

That would make the calls for govt investment in PNG and stadiums seem like greed in the extreme.

There is no way they make that much profit annually, not even remotely.
Hes a day dreamer, for starters the nrl is a not for profit company lol
 

Wb1234

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Pacific Islander was roughly 207k in 2016. As I said before you might get ok to decent TV numbers but you are not going to get millions of people watching it.

That wouldn’t be the main point of the exercise I would think anyway
You know English people call Aussies insular for saying international football can never top origin
 

Colk

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You know English people call Aussies insular for saying international football can never top origin

I’m just being realistic mate.

A game involving Australia (potentially) if international rugby league continually improves and rivalries grow could reach that number but a game involving two other nations would not be a chance.

I’ll give you a couple of examples

Soccer World Cup Final which would be the biggest event in sport (maybe some Olympic finals might match it) only achieved these figures


Australian open final involving an Australian winning the tournament was the highest ranking women’s final and even then some SOO matches have attracted similar numbers


Achieving ratings that SOO that generally obtains every year is extraordinary and it often achieves similar or better ratings than many of the biggest international sporting events. The idea that a Samoan va Tongan or other such fixture would achieve similar ratings is implausible at the very least.
 

Wb1234

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I’m just being realistic mate.

A game involving Australia (potentially) if international rugby league continually improves and rivalries grow could reach that number but a game involving two other nations would not be a chance.

I’ll give you a couple of examples

Soccer World Cup Final which would be the biggest event in sport (maybe some Olympic finals might match it) only achieved these figures


Australian open final involving an Australian winning the tournament was the highest ranking women’s final and even then some SOO matches have attracted similar numbers


Achieving ratings that SOO that generally obtains every year is extraordinary and it often achieves similar or better ratings than many of the biggest international sporting events. The idea that a Samoan va Tongan or other such fixture would achieve similar ratings is implausible at the very least.
You really are nitpicking

and the soccer World Cup is usually on some awful time

did you see the Samoa war cry last night ?
 

Colk

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You really are nitpicking

and the soccer World Cup is usually on some awful time

did you see the Samoa war cry last night ?

How am I nitpicking?

I’m just suggesting that SOO ratings are incredible and that Australians watch things that Australians are involved in. To suggest that ratings for two island countries would reach those numbers I think is incredibly optimistic or borderline fanciful.

As I said though I wouldn’t care about the ratings because I think its value would be in other ways and in my opinion, it’s value to the future of the game is much more than SOO.
 

Wb1234

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How am I nitpicking?

I’m just suggesting that SOO ratings are incredible and that Australians watch things that Australians are involved in. To suggest that ratings for two island countries would reach those numbers I think is incredibly optimistic or borderline fanciful.

As I said though I wouldn’t care about the ratings because I think its value would be in other ways and in my opinion, it’s value to the future of the game is much more than SOO.
Ok if they focus on international football it will become massive how’s that lol

they have some genuine rivalries reedy to go

it’s another growth area for rugby league
 

Steel Saints

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What i like to see with end of season internationals is to bring back the 4 nations. Below the 4 nations, have a second tier of 4 countries and have promotion/relegation. A team that comes last in the 4 nations gets relegated, and the team coming first in the second tier, gets promoted.
 

westerntiger

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Strange that Crichton, Luai and To'o are good at club level but average or rubbish at Origin/International level. Then you have the likes of Munster and Cameron Smith who can play consistently at any level
 

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