Monday Night Football - stay or go?

[Marlins]

Having 17 teams will introduce the bye round for teams. The bye would help reducing short turn arounds.

 

[Perth Red]

If you brought back Monday night football, meaning games played on Thursday thru to Monday, it would see a dramatic increase in teams having 5 day (or less) turn around between games. When you consider how some teams seem to get a greater proportion of games on the same day and same time (e.g. Broncos) do we really want to go backwards to teams so favoured getting 7 day turn around more often than not, whilst many others get multiple 5 day or less turn around between games?

Sorry but bringing back Monday night football would be just plain dumb in my book. It would create greater disparity between teams in recuperation/prepration time between games, whilst be harmful at the gate for the home teams due to lower crowds. Its just not worth it.

That depends what Fox offer Vlandys. Sht for the fans, but that didnt stop them bringing in Friday 6pm or Thursday night games!

 

[macavity]

Prefer Monday to Thursday

 

[Tigers1986]

There's 24 monday night games though and only a handfull of regional areas willing to pay NRL clubs to take games to them.

Each club links up with one regional club = 16 games.

Then you can run 'regional' teams on the Monday night like Canberra, Newcastle, Wollongong, Townsville, Gold Coast (21 games). Put 3 in Sydney for the sake of it. Any of that combination is better than dragging teams across 2 timezones to a desolate outpost that has proven incapable of sustaining anything that isn't AFL

That depends what Fox offer Vlandys. Sht for the fans, but that didnt stop them bringing in Friday 6pm or Thursday night games!

That was Channel 9's call.

 

[Perth Red]

Each club links up with one regional club = 16 games.

Then you can run 'regional' teams on the Monday night like Canberra, Newcastle, Wollongong, Townsville, Gold Coast (21 games). Put 3 in Sydney for the sake of it. Any of that combination is better than dragging teams across 2 timezones to a desolate outpost that has proven incapable of sustaining anything that isn't AFL


That was Channel 9's call.

Clubs dont take games to the country parks for fun or out of altruism, they take them because the local council pays $200-300k for the privilege.

as for the desolate outpost, yeh why would the game want WA govt’s millions and a stadium that look like this? Lol.

 

[Tigers1986]

Clubs dont take games to the country parks for fun or out of altruism, they take them because the local council pays $200-300k for the privilege.

as for the desolate outpost, yeh why would the game want WA govt’s millions and a stadium that look like this? Lol.

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So you'd scoff at 200-300k? Cool.

That stadium isn't all too special tbf. Looks very 'ancient' on A-League and Rugby coverage.

 

[Perth Red]

So you'd scoff at 200-300k? Cool.

That stadium isn't all too special tbf. Looks very 'ancient' on A-League and Rugby coverage.

Looks better than a grass hill lol

point is there isnt 16 regional councils willing to fork out for an nrl game so your idea is a non starter For Monday nights.

 

[Iamback]

Sunday night makes more sense. Super Sat and Super Sunday

 

[Perth Red]

Sunday night makes more sense. Super Sat and Super Sunday

Its a shame the news is in the way for FTA, though fox wont care about that. You could have FTA games 2pm and 4pm and Fox game 6pm Sunday. Would be better than a Monday night for sure. Play the 6pm game in Perth when at home and we get another day time game with better crowds.

 

[Iamback]

Its a shame the news is in the way for FTA, though fox wont care about that. You could have FTA games 2pm and 4pm and Fox game 6pm Sunday. Would be better than a Monday night for sure. Play the 6pm game in Perth when at home and we get another day time game with better crowds.

FTA won't pay for another game. Fox will want Sunday night because it is going well so far this season

 

[siv]

Not sure why we cant have games in parallel

Fri 7:30pm

Sat 5:00
Sat 7:00 x 2
Sat 9:00 full replay on Fox

Sun 2pm x 2
Sun 4pm x 2
Sun 6pm full replay on Fox
Sun 8pm full replay on Fox

Reserve Fri 6pm / Sat 3pm for Qld & NSW Cup games

I would play NRLW in MNF

 

[Perth Red]

y

Not sure why we cant have games in parallel

Fri 7:30pm

Sat 5:00
Sat 7:00 x 2
Sat 9:00 full replay on Fox

Sun 2pm x 2
Sun 4pm x 2
Sun 6pm full replay on Fox
Sun 8pm full replay on Fox

Reserve Fri 6pm / Sat 3pm for Qld & NSW Cup games

I would play NRLW in MNF

eh in this day and age of streaming theres no need for stand alone time slots, though having sold that it would be very hard for the NRL to claw it back.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Not sure why we cant have games in parallel

Fri 7:30pm

Sat 5:00
Sat 7:00 x 2
Sat 9:00 full replay on Fox

Sun 2pm x 2
Sun 4pm x 2
Sun 6pm full replay on Fox
Sun 8pm full replay on Fox

Reserve Fri 6pm / Sat 3pm for Qld & NSW Cup games

I would play NRLW in MNF

TV ratings and coverage by the broadcasters is why. Live sport is what people want to watch, not replays. If you went your route, the TV broadcasters would probably pay less money.

 

[Perth Red]

TV ratings and coverage by the broadcasters is why. Live sport is what people want to watch, not replays. If you went your route, the TV broadcasters would probably pay less money.

Except they dont for AFL, they pay more despite cross over games. FTA yes Tv ratings matter most, PTV subscriptions matter and having games on overlapping or at same time doesn't reduce subscriptions I'd suggest. As long as FTA was stand alone and the same spots games were Fox it shouldn't make any difference to value of the media rights. With streaming Ive gone from nearly every game live to 2-3 live and the rest when it suits me.

of course the elephant in the room is gambling which does benefit from every game stand alone for live betting and exotic changing odds sht. .

 

[Jamberoo]

Each club links up with one regional club = 16 games.

Then you can run 'regional' teams on the Monday night like Canberra, Newcastle, Wollongong, Townsville, Gold Coast (21 games). Put 3 in Sydney for the sake of it. Any of that combination is better than dragging teams across 2 timezones to a desolate outpost that has proven incapable of sustaining anything that isn't AFL


That was Channel 9's call.

The whole reason regional councils pay for NRL games is because it brings a bunch of people to town from surrounding areas, many of whom stay overnight/weekend, go to the pubs/restaurants and spend heaps of cash in town. Monday nights are no good for that. Defeats the whole purpose.

 

[siv]

TV ratings and coverage by the broadcasters is why. Live sport is what people want to watch, not replays. If you went your route, the TV broadcasters would probably pay less money.

Do you think fans watch every game live these days?

With streaming and video recorders making watching on delay so easy and fast forward through the boring stuff

I will watch my team live and every other game on delay or timeslip