New Zealand 2 will deal a massive blow to NZ rugby

[flippikat]

Tonight's Warriors game is live, free-to-air on Three (aka TV3).

Another encouraging sign of the buzz over NRL at the moment. FTA live games have been severely lacking here for way too long.

 

[Gobsmacked]

Thing is whilst they arent revenue generators per se (though I reckon the wheelchair RL would have done ok) They get Govts interested. Whilst the RLWC didnt make RFL any money in profits it lead to the UK govt giving $30million to grass roots RL. That needs to be factored in to "profitability" of tournaments.

Well there lies the key.
Make it clear to government that they get to put their stam on wheelchair and Women's. If they don't simply have it without.

 

[Gobsmacked]

Tonight's Warriors game is live, free-to-air on Three (aka TV3).

Another encouraging sign of the buzz over NRL at the moment. FTA live games have been severely lacking here for way too long.

Hang on, are the Warriors, actually ... good?

Shaun Johnson is thriving. Their defence is on par with the best in club history, and so are crowd numbers. Are the Kiwis be on the verge of something special?

www.smh.com.au

 

[Brian potter]

Nothing against WheelchWheelchair rl and Womens rl but if the financial implications of those will bring everything undone , than they need to be shelved until such time they become viable.

And ironically wheelchair rl and women’s rl got a lot of media coverage especially wheelchair rl and on twitter in the last World Cup held in England.

This had a positive knock-on effect for the men’s tournament.

 

[Matua]

Tonight's Warriors game is live, free-to-air on Three (aka TV3).

Another encouraging sign of the buzz over NRL at the moment. FTA live games have been severely lacking here for way too long.

TBF, the FTA games were arranged and announced back in February. Thankfully, and uncharacteristically, the team has been good this year so can take advantage of the FTA games.

 

[Perth Red]

Is the FTA channel they are on a main stream channel or a digital sub channel? Great to get Warriors on FTA either way at long last!

 

[flippikat]

Is the FTA channel they are on a main stream channel or a digital sub channel? Great to get Warriors on FTA either way at long last!

Main channel.

TV3 was the first privately owned TV network in NZ. They have subchannels but I don't recall them using any of those for sport.

TVNZ (owner of TVNZ 1 & TVNZ 2 - the 2 heritage Government owned channels that date back to 1960 & 1975) - has a digital subchannel called 'TVNZ Duke' (male-skewed, basically) which reasonably often screens sport, usually the stuff they picked up from the now-defunct Spark Sport streaming service.

 

[Perth Red]

Main channel.

TV3 was the first privately owned TV network in NZ. They have subchannels but I don't recall them using any of those for sport.

TVNZ (owner of TVNZ 1 & TVNZ 2 - the 2 heritage Government owned channels that date back to 1960 & 1975) - has a digital subchannel called 'TVNZ Duke' (male-skewed, basically) which reasonably often screens sport, usually the stuff they picked up from the now-defunct Spark Sport streaming service.

cheers, thats good, should get decent exposure nationally then. How many warriors games a year are they putting on FTA?

 

[Bukowski]

It looks like a prime tine to to bring in the second NZ club. Gonna be interesting how we handle expansion. I agree with the poster the other day who said they should announce the 3 new teams and timeline asap.

 

[Matua]

Main channel.

TV3 was the first privately owned TV network in NZ. They have subchannels but I don't recall them using any of those for sport.

TVNZ (owner of TVNZ 1 & TVNZ 2 - the 2 heritage Government owned channels that date back to 1960 & 1975) - has a digital subchannel called 'TVNZ Duke' (male-skewed, basically) which reasonably often screens sport, usually the stuff they picked up from the now-defunct Spark Sport streaming service.

Any idea why the Warriors are not on Prime anymore?

I guess TV3 paid for the FTA rights for the 3 matches this year?

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

It looks like a prime tine to to bring in the second NZ club. Gonna be interesting how we handle expansion. I agree with the poster the other day who said they should announce the 3 new teams and timeline asap.

Brisbane 3, NZ 2 and Perth are the only viable candidates.

Perth has probably earned the right to be the 18th team.

 

[taste2taste]

Brisbane 3, NZ 2 and Perth are the only viable candidates.

Perth has probably earned the right to be the 18th team.

Please ANYONE but Brisbane 3 !!! Perth or NZ !!!

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Please ANYONE but Brisbane 3 !!! Perth or NZ !!!

Brisbane Tigers are in the hot seat to win the 18th licence. The club is rich with an NRL standard high performance centre based just a few kilometres from the CBD. It will have access to the world's premier rugby league stadium. It'll generate more revenue from football operations than every team bar the Broncos. Ch9 are behind a third Brisbane team.

Perth doesn't have a high performance training facility and needs to upgrade Perth Oval to bring it up to NRL standard. Can be done, but whether the WA Gov is willing to fund it is yet to be determined.

New Zealand 2 doesn't have a bid and is light years behind Brisbane 3 and Perth.

 

[Bukowski]

Brisbane 3, NZ 2 and Perth are the only viable candidates.

Perth has probably earned the right to be the 18th team.

With sides already in NZ and Brisbane it would make the most sense. I think Pete is still east coast centric though. It's a great position for the game to be in.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

With sides already in NZ and Brisbane it would make the most sense. I think Pete is still east coast centric though. It's a great position for the game to be in.

Perth deserves to have the next team. Our game would be stupid to not go to Perth.

 

[Brian potter]

West tigers and Cronulla sharks either relocating or dropping down to the NSW cup also frees up another 2 places potentially allowing 5 new teams/areas entering the NRL in a 20 team competition by 2030.

 

[Ideas Man Stephen]

West tigers and Cronulla sharks either relocating or dropping down to the NSW cup also frees up another 2 places potentially allowing 5 new teams/areas entering the NRL in a 20 team competition by 2030.

What a terrible idea that is. Lucky you are not a decision maker.

 

[Brian potter]

What a terrible idea that is. Lucky you are not a decision maker.

Yeah because the tigers and sharks are currently packing them in with their 21st century modern stadiums.

 

[Ideas Man Stephen]

Yeah because the tigers and sharks are currently packing them in with their 21st century modern stadiums.

I wouldn’t call Penrith or Brookie 21st century either and the Sharks are still hampered by reduced capacity due to the 21st century works taking place around the stadium and Tigers actually do alright at LO.

Not that the state of a club’s stadium should be the one and only decision to relocate two clubs which would each have over 150,000 fans.

Speaking of 21st century, relocating or dropping solvent clubs must be the most ridiculous idea of the 21st century.

 

[MugaB]

West tigers and Cronulla sharks either relocating or dropping down to the NSW cup also frees up another 2 places potentially allowing 5 new teams/areas entering the NRL in a 20 team competition by 2030.

Idiot call.... there is no number or no currency value on NRL licences... you don't need to cut off you're nose to get a boob job.... you make the competition stronger by expanding, not detracting and adding...
You'll never see the NRL ever go down the path set by the SLwar again, it was a nessesary evil back then as the game couldn't sustain 22 clubs, but nowadays, with sponsorships and broadcaster money, The league is more streamlined than ever..
We could expand to 24 teams if we wanted to.
Trouble is the player depth needs to grow first, you can't hope to plonk teams in Adelaide and Perth without a spare extra 60 grade players.. its why NZ and PNG are so important....