The Game 2023 Crowd Watch

[yakstorm]

Suspect the arlc will make a decent profit off this plus the tv rights should be worth up to five million more pa

There won't be any additional TV revenue from the Pacific Championship in Australia or New Zealand.

The current Nine, Fox & Sky deals include any mid & end of year representative fixtures outside of a World Cup.

This is what contributes to some of the half-heartedness end of season Internationals get. The money has already been banked.

 

[Iamback]

There won't be any additional TV revenue from the Pacific Championship in Australia or New Zealand.

The current Nine, Fox & Sky deals include any mid & end of year representative fixtures outside of a World Cup.

This is what contributes to some of the half-heartedness end of season Internationals get. The money has already been banked.

The government paid $7m across 5 years, You'd think it will have a naming rights sponsor over the coming years

Fiji, PNG etc getting paid to play tests is huge for test footy

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Personalise Rugby League Australia Kangaroos 1908 Vintage Centenary Jersey – YourGears

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They wore that jersey against NZ and England in 2008. Rare colour combo for RL. More associated with Soccer. Three Premier League clubs - Aston Villa, West Ham, Burnley.

Highest profile RL team I can think of is Central Queensland Capras. Also Richmond Rovers, one of the oldest clubs in Auckland.

It's a gap in my knowledge why Australia opted for those colours in 1908.

 

[Wb1234]

There won't be any additional TV revenue from the Pacific Championship in Australia or New Zealand.

The current Nine, Fox & Sky deals include any mid & end of year representative fixtures outside of a World Cup.

This is what contributes to some of the half-heartedness end of season Internationals get. The money has already been banked.

Tv deal to be negotiated it will

 

[Wb1234]

They wore that jersey against NZ and England in 2008. Rare colour combo for RL. More associated with Soccer. Three Premier League clubs - Aston Villa, West Ham, Burnley.

Highest profile RL team I can think of is Central Queensland Capras. Also Richmond Rovers, one of the oldest clubs in Auckland.

It's a gap in my knowledge why Australia opted for those colours in 1908.

State colours. For each state

ironically the colours from England the Oxford vs Cambridge rowing race except the colours were light and dark blue so they changed the dark blue to maroon for qld

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[bazza]

How could they have done it better ?
This year Tonga are missing, next year Australia will be in England.

Any thoughts ?

Play it regularly so people know about it
Will take a few years to get going though

 

[titoelcolombiano]

4 teams in the top tier at the very least would have helped. This 3 team group format is a waste, we get a very limited international window and we have teams having a “bye” for a week? No wonder some players preferred to sit it out.

Lebanon could have given 1 or 2 of the bye teams a game and NZ could be playing Fiji this weekend as a warm up for both teams.

Pretty much sums it up, a 4 nations was the absolute bare minimum they should have done. Gives each team a min of 3 tests.

Div 1: Aus, NZ, Samoa, Lebanon
Div 2: PNG. Cooks, Fiji, France

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

State colours. For each state

Of course.

Suspect the reason that didn't occur to me (apart from senility) is that I've always assumed that in 1908 the Australian RL was essentially the NSWRL.

 

[bazza]

Pretty much sums it up, a 4 nations was the absolute bare minimum they should have done. Gives each team a min of 3 tests.

Div 1: Aus, NZ, Samoa, Lebanon
Div 2: PNG. Cooks, Fiji, France

would have kept it to the Pacific but have 4 nations in the main event
If they didn't have the late announcement then there could have been qualifiers during the season to get the 4th spot

e.g. Aus, NZ and Samoa
4th spot determined from matches between PNG, Fiji, Cooks during the season e.g. when SOO is on

the 2 non-qualifiers could play a 2 game series to determine ranking for next years event

 

[Wb1234]

Of course.

Suspect the reason that didn't occur to me (apart from senility) is that I've always assumed that in 1908 the Australian RL was essentially the NSWRL.

That’s true

qra didn’t start club games till 1909

 

[Perth Red]

Tv deal to be negotiated it will

For 2028 lol

 

[Wb1234]

For 2028 lol

Negotiations won’t be happening then

more content means bigger tv deal than any other sport

 

[yakstorm]

Some promising movement at QCB Stadium for Saturday's match with additional rows put on sale in the upper bays, including Southern Grandstand.

On the Eastern Grandstand, it looks like they are selling odd-rows, which isn't ideal, but will at least make the venue look fuller on TV and at least enough has been sold in the lower parts so additional sections have been opened up. Lower Bowl, with exception of a few random rows, is down to single seats.

 

[Billythekid]

How could they have done it better ?
This year Tonga are missing, next year Australia will be in England.

Any thoughts ?

It has to be a regular thing or it will always be treated like the Mickey Mouse international sport that it is. No one takes league seriously as an international sport despite the high quality and increasing competition between nations.

It takes time to build up interest and legitimacy on an international sport.

 

[jim_57]

would have kept it to the Pacific but have 4 nations in the main event
If they didn't have the late announcement then there could have been qualifiers during the season to get the 4th spot

e.g. Aus, NZ and Samoa
4th spot determined from matches between PNG, Fiji, Cooks during the season e.g. when SOO is on

the 2 non-qualifiers could play a 2 game series to determine ranking for next years event

I agree Lebanon would be out of place in a “Pacific Championship” but they could be playing one of the teams in a warm up game or one of the teams on a bye week. Ideally they’d be playing some European teams, they’d give England a decent game.

Tier one should be 4 teams as it provides twice as many games pre-final and doesn’t leave a team having a “bye”. Tier 2 could be the remaining 3 teams or if a team is touring England then give Niue, Vanuatu or Solomon Islands a run.

 

[Wb1234]

Problem is england wanting someone from here to tour every year

depriving the comp of tonga vs samoa (it’s biggest game) is a huge letdown

unless of course it gets expanded and they are included

would they want samoa to tour next year ?

or a solution is for English tours to be delayed until this comp is over

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Problem is england wanting someone from here to tour every year

depriving the comp of tonga vs samoa (it’s biggest game) is a huge letdown

The NRL's task is to restore the prestige of international RL. Make it the icing on the cake of the club game. We don't need a plethora of fixtures to accomplish that. Notwithstanding the burdens too many games would place on the top players.

Between 1986-94, international RL in the UK enjoyed a high and rising profile. The success was entirely due to Kangaroos and Kiwis test series i.e. tours in only two out of every four years.

Samoa and Tonga manifestly have more impact playing in the SH. An optimum year in the cycle would have a Kangaroos tour to England, a three-way face-off with NZ/Samoa/Tonga in Auckland, and PNG/Fiji home and away. All those games could be massive. And no shortage of attractive permutations to keep the pot boiling through the in-between years.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

It has to be a regular thing or it will always be treated like the Mickey Mouse international sport that it is. No one takes league seriously as an international sport despite the high quality and increasing competition between nations.

It takes time to build up interest and legitimacy on an international sport.

Agreed, which is why canning the 4 nations just when it was starting to build said interest and legitimacy was so disappointing

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

18,144 in Townsville

 

[Willy2452]

Aus v Samoa crowd 18,144