Hahahahahahahaha The Roar fmd
Ok beyond dismissing this elsewhere I'll use it as an example.
About 10 people, if that, actually come to this site on a regular basis. I don't know what that says about this site but about 50-100 goto the roar nrl section.
I'll leave it up to you to figure it out.
The NRL must be run by a bunch of socialist dummies. They are taking away the clubs chances to make as much money as possible (by having games on stupid days and times) which means the clubs are even more dependent on the NRL itself. The NRL also wants the clubs to put in a certain amount of money per year into a fund to save incompetent clubs. They also want a salary cap on football department spending. So basically an incompetent club can continue being incompetent, but will get away with it because the well run clubs will be brought down to their level. This isn't how it should be.
I actually sympathise with what you're saying, I just can't support it.
Not only do those things maximise dollars it's just not a market economy they are operating in. The clubs don't earn enough plus the limited resources, sponsors, tickets, it's a banana republic. Also the economy is buffed up by closed nrl injections in the main.
It's not an open market. The players skills based internal economy is more open market but it exists under layers and tight regulation too.
The clubs don't need more money, per say', they need just enough to go ahead with their sporting tech while staying solvent. If they use extra money to combat themselves they simply waste it.
The nrl will get years ahead by introducing a football department cap.
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Finally the future is Digital. I recently purchased a Google Pixel with cash off contact. Not to bignote or suggest you should too, but it shows the market is getting flexible and mature enough, plus at 1450 it's not cheap but the tech is beginning to represent "worth it". It has no trouble getting a location lock. These have 4x carrier aggregation, the iPhone is no where near it.
If you're using the nrl app you need a Geo lock before you start going into streams.
By the time LTE mobile Sports get here the carrier aggregation on Qualcomm with their purchase of the semi conductor mob for 40 billion, itll be too late.
You will be able to stream at over 50mb/s... The Pixel if Australian mobile actually supported it can do more than the 16mb/s+.... It would do 40ish.
Think of how many shows that means.
Digital is the future. The NBN is good but mobile could be better. Pretty sure LTE 13 or 14 is like 100mb/s. 10x carrier aggregation.
Telstra will flick fox and buy nrl plus more. You'll probably get stations from nrl on telstra plus heaps more from Google, ect, beamed into your home using some broadcast space from old tv to boot, then to your mobile devices including your car, and you'll be far better off.
Mobile parts in Pixel are doing 24mb/s here but 16 max, and 48 overseas already with Qualcomm gearing up further, it's an open source world now, iPhone is able to already do 12mb, and there other players out there.
The way Google is doing it now, look at Project Fi that also uses old Telco towers/networks, you're never away from a mobile network, they all flow into each other, and in future android will support zero day provisioning for everything, so it sets up and dismantles networks with ease.
NRL should be on that train. It means clubs don't have to wait on tv networks to generate revenue, plus flexibility.
> The clubs should not waste the money because the profitability is already falling out of Foxtel and no one knows the position telstra or Optus will be in or anyone else. It will be a landslide or a cliff face. No one is saying Fox won't be able to pay but a year will come where it's blatantly obvious due to the size of our market here the old ways are not best. The ARLC must decide when they will jump off the old train and be prepared.
Other opportunities like LTE proximity and other things can be monetized and used. TV will look old, feel old, and be old.
They just rolled out LTE cat 9 in England and HTC, Google Pixel, Samsung s7, plus other latest devices can use it. At 45mb/s you download instantly, and with Android 7 and its brand new compiler, it installs everything instantly, optimises later.
You can watch Freeview tv app on your devices, and most New Foxtel subs are for their mobile offerings.
