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In 1988 half our firstgraders were semi-pro and the coaching and support staff could meet in a phonebox.
Our NYC team is a more professional, well paid and well run outfit than our 1988 firstgrade side was - and would probably beat the 1988 firstgrade side by 50.
You keep harking back to professionalism. No one denies the game is more professional now than ever before in facilities etc for all age levels. That comes naturally with moving with the times, no different to you being able to call off a mobile phone from the game instead of the nearest phonebox where the support staff could have met.
Are the Knights financially better off? No.
So tell me where exactly this business model is doing anything more ( or better ) than any other business in the world of sports from a financial perspective?
The game is not maximising its profit potential, it undersells its key products ( TV, multimedia ) , it has a team in Melbourne who survive on being propped up by the charity of News Corp, it has teams in Sydney losing money and fans, it has crowd figures that are close to records that you speak of superficially inflated by record number of comp tickets like the 5000 tickets being handed out for free in a crowd of 9200 last night, and TV ratings in Sydney ( where most of the NRL teams play out of ) on a massive slide and beating only SBS on Friday nights.
And the business is a success?
Deluded.
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