It would seem Eddie has no real business in promoting afl while he ties it so closely in with nine. You'd swear he is acting like he still has the rights and is doing things as such, except he doesnt actually have the rights. By that i mean the amount we see him speaking about it, promoting it with his own words, and putting things into place like shows to promote it.
Sure he is there to steer nine and make some money for the network...thats fine...but what i dont like is the fact that he is tied to the AFL indirectly.
He is still the president of collingwood, right?!
I think you will agree, its a case of his heart ruling his head, and no, he doesnt care about the NRL like he does the AFL....the AFL is like it were his own child, and the NRL some ugly step-nephew. If i were him, I too would be promoting AFL so as to indirectly make it (and collingwood) stronger.
This is bizzare. In fact, its zealous.
This is feverent and zealous activity by nine and eddie.
I seriously question nine's motivations.
I think Eddie is using one means to help another.
Its stale and we dont like it, and I believe its up to the owners to put a stop to it, because as far as i can see, while the goals of both - the owners and eddie - seem the same.....they are infact different....its just luck that the AFL is a well-to-do product....eddie would have already been exposed by now if it were not such a product....
he would have been stopped.
And its high time he WAS STOPPED.
He has already lied to the fans of the NRL. Where is the huge push he is talking about? I'd like to see it.
AFL always has, and always will, try to head off league. They are even doing it with memberships....NRL starts to push memberships, and AFL does the same thing. They have the right to do so, but its more than a coincidence that it happens at the same time. They are trying to stand taller than league, to cast a bigger shadow, and the poor nrl has to be limited in what it can do, because the people who own it want to recoup money.
The groups who own and have stakes in nrl foxtel ch9, etc, are all a bunch of back patters and scratchers....they help one another out, and eddie now helps them too, except he is a capable - albeit - AFL man.
Not enough funds for a nrl show....come off it.....i rarely watch tv but i do so for nrl, and i have been hoping for ( and suggested many times in the past) a nrl wrap-up show. If I want it, small tv fan that I am, imagine how much others would have appreciated it channel 9.
What a shame.