& once again you missed the point by focusing as usual on one thing .
Let me dumb it down for you
with extreme emphasis on the word DUMB.
the last decade the Afl has during the season
9x3 hr games .= 27 Hrs weekly
NRL has 8x2=16 weekly .
A massive advertising difference for media …
They pay for content …We can’t match that for content…hence we have gotten lesser deals .
yet P/H we were getting more …lol you didn’t want to touch that one .
AFL has 11 Hrs P/W extra for media (7 & Fox to a lesser extent) to advertise .
of course they are going to pay more …it’s simple You get a jersey lol
Theres a bucketload of advertising opportunities that we don’t have .
We make up some of that with SOO & international.but it’s still a huge gap.
Now stay with me …& try not to ignore these points
Its not just about 1 figure …it’s all you have with your hate of PVL & RL
What about the largercosts of running 9 teams .
What about the larger travel costs .
The larger overall costs of running a Comp.
The larger overall costs ofThrowing a fortune at 2 unwanted teams to keep them afloat for Lol ever .
It’s not about one thing .
We are traveling pretty good well not according to you .
You can be a smaller organization & run well with a smaller budget & smaller income.
Seeing as you like to to focus on one thing.
They have many many many more Hrs of game time .
Hence they get more .
You have this rose colored view of everything The AFL does as wonderful yet hate on RL for being conservative in the past .
Even now with a very good financial report you are posting negative after negative about it while nearly all are very happy with it & where we are headed.
Dont disagree, the game is in good health. Finances are looking good at club and comp level, thought the continued underspend in grassroots is a concern.
Yes they have more content, but we provide more subscribers to paytv and we have bigger audiences by far watching the ads on fta, We also have origin which is in the top 3 programs of the year consistently.
In TV we have been behind consistently and that gap is growing to a chasm,
in sponsorship we are behind consistently,
in revenue generally we are billions behind.
Yes they spend more, but guess what when you earn more you can spend more! Clubs would have $25mill grants by now if NRL was earning what AFL is.
Its no ones fault we dont have 18 clubs by now other than the last decade of leaders who've procrastinated on it. Yes vlandys has finally done something, but it hasnt added the ninth game to the tv value it should have done by now.
