NRL considers radical changes

[joshreading]

BTW - The NRL needs to have a Summer Arena RL and take it to the A-League and dominate the year not just the winter.

With the excess Under 20's - International Players and retirees you could easily stack 8 - 10 sides for 8 weeks with a mix of old names, International bolters and those that came oh so close to making the NRL and want another Pro opportunity.

 

[joshreading]

The NRL must also be considering the positioning from Super Rugby for the mighty Yen and Asian market, rather than the Pacific Super Rugby proposal which gave players but no pay day. The NRL dominates right now but if the Super Rugby can position to pay more than the NRL simply as Super Rugby rather than International Rugby than we competition for the elite players.

The NRL does need to consider doing everything possible to be the premiere Rugby Competition in the world from a pay point of view.

 

[pHyR3]

Regarding the amount of rounds - I don't imagine that the TV broadcasters are going t want LESS games per year. Atleast not significantly so.

Why not 18 teams - two conferences (H/A) verse your own conference for a shield and once against the opposition conference teams. Winning the conference shield could become massive especially for Sydney teams which could have a defacto Sydney Premiership.

I follow a non-Sydney team and would not for a second be grudge the Sydney Teams playing for a Sydney Cup with National / NZ sides playing for a National Cup (with the advantages that may give Sydney teams in terms of travel)

it's not that many less games

180 games under this proposal versus 192 currently, after adding in finals and SOO the difference would be around 5%, mostly made up from increased internationals, NRL 9s and U20 events like SOO, junior Kiwis vs kangaroos etc.

e.g. instead of $1.5 billion we'd get $1.4 billion.

that's why the NRL is considering increasing the lengths of games (not that i think it will happen), because they want a fan friendly TV deal next time with more day games and control plus slightly less games means they may battle to substantially increase the deal from $1.25 bil to say $1.5. And then add in general downward trend in TV ratings across australia.