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People act like it's something new, it's already happened, the first 4 rounds of 2013 were 5 nights, thurs-mon, as was round 1 last year and this year, I don't think ratings would suffer from any overexposure, particularly if there are less rounds, crowds would suffer on thursday's & sunday nights, but it's not like they get that many on friday night or sunday arvo in Sydney anyway.
Because crowds are so ordinary they aren't giving the NRL much of a hard decision, hundreds of millions more or crowd averages down a couple thousand off an already low base?
Apathetic fans are just as much to blame as the NRL for allowing TV to control the draw, they have had plenty opportunities to show they value daylight games and haven't.
Personally, I hate the Monday night game, it is devoid of excitement and atmosphere and has essentially become a choir. Thursday's I actually like, it's that early taste before a weekend of footy. Sunday nights are awful, no one wants to be at the footy or watching footy the night before the beginning of the work week.
I would like to see thurs FTA, fri FTA, sat arvo, sat 5:30, 7:30 FTA, Sun 2pm x 2, and sun 4pm FTA
Well why not just go for it and put a game on every night and have an extra game on Sunday's.
At what point do we stop being TV show and start being a sport?