Seeing as it's your main obsession, you do concede that the AFL including contra received $2.03m per game based on an 18 team comp.
The NRL only has 15 teams in Australia, 1 in New Zealand and game coverage usually goes for 1 hour less.
The NRL shortened the comp with the 9 deal so it will likely end up with 197 games per season including Origin. The equivalent dollars (including contra) over 5 years is approx $1.999 billion. Anything over that means the NRL is making more per minute for its coverage in Australasia.
But I think you should wait until the NRL press conference before you really start your whinging.
you will agree you are already making excuses? I just showed where the bar is. You cant say we got less because no ninth game and absolve the NRL of any responsibility for not having that ninth game to sell! More per minute doesn't pay the bills, fund expansion, sort out grass roots or pay for marketing of the game. Cold hard cash in total amounts does that.
I notice you failed to mention the value of origin , Nines or the fact that the NRL is the biggest TV sport in the country in your defence of the AFL deal being justifiably worth more? I'm always amused by RL fans who slate AFL then say that it is ok for it to be worth more to Australian media because of X,Y&Z.
tick, tick, tick...... Time will tell.
