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[dallymessenger]

Silly me forgetting that advertising & commercial cash cow called PNG



Many poster here disagree with such an insular view...but yes of course lets expand to CC, Bris Vegas and of course PNG...good concept of the word National



At least this is a point I hope you're right on. the deal SHOULD be a $100m increase....the chances of it being so? - Is News still in control at the time?

calling it a crack in the pavement, yes silly you.

as long as RL is the favourite sport amongst a majority of australia, im not too fussed about the bits that arent. certainly not to make a big issue of it. what weve got is bigger than AFL, and thats good enough for me

the clubs and the players are more than aware what a lower rating product in AFL is getting.

 

[Knightmare]

Stop whining mate. The AFL don't "arrogantly assume" anything. What they do is aggressively compete with us and soccer and Union everywhere and in every way they can and truth is they cane us all over park. They are trying a second Sydney team because they know that their code is much bigger in Sydney than ours is in Melbourne and they have the guts and vision to go for it.

They know as we in our hearts do that they have what has been developed into a fantastically successful product on the back of vast matchgoing support and the biggest TV audience in the nation when proper comparison is made and we are not pretending that double counted regionals count. what AZA is saying is that we on LU can tell ourselves that we are bigger til we are blue in the face but that won't make it so. we are not and we know it and they are not arrogant. In fact they are a model for how to compete and aggressively front up to others. I admire them hugely.

I know i'll be bagged for this but i'll still be right.

The biggest TV audience in the nation? More people in Victoria and W.A watch Origin than people in NSW and Qld will watch the AFL Grand Final. As for the Swans, they had two decades head-start on the Storm, and have had the advantage of cash for comment exposure in Sydney and countless cases of feel-good propaganda in that time. You only need to go back to that 60 Minutes story last month to see what I mean. I wish the Storm could get that much of a free ride in the Melbourne media.