NRL faces major turmoil as clubs threaten breakaway league

[Diesel]

Haha. Also cricket is dying, so needs to be replaced....there is going to be a lot of empty space.10 episodes of The Block every week.

Any surprise it's the games on Nine that are struggling??

 

[Brutus]

Yup.

So who wrote this piece of crap this time? I'm not going to bother clicking on the link, but I'm guessing it was that idiot Hooper, Skin Crawley or alco cheeks.

DUI wrote it.

 

[some11]

They probably hacked her phone for this rehashed piece of garbage.

 

[Timmah]

This idea comes up in News Ltd rags every time they're not happy with whatever it is the NRL is doing.

Snore.

 

[T-Boon]

I wonder if Greenberg refused to leak some information to them...or maybe he raised the idea of a second Brisbane team.

 

[roostersrule2]

Ah the annual breakaway comp article is here.

 

[Perth Red]

Didn't they all just sign perpetual licenses?

The interesting bits is the blow up about contributing a fund for struggling clubs. AFL have managed to get clubs to chip in, NRL clubs seem happy to let the strugglers drown.

 

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Didn't they all just sign perpetual licenses?

The interesting bits is the blow up about contributing a fund for struggling clubs. AFL have managed to get clubs to chip in, NRL clubs seem happy to let the strugglers drown.

They signed a MoU, they are arguing over the detail of the final license agreement.

 

[Foreign Legion]

i heard the the New Murdoch League maybe bring back the Rams and Mariners

 

[Canard]

Didn't they all just sign perpetual licenses?

The interesting bits is the blow up about contributing a fund for struggling clubs. AFL have managed to get clubs to chip in, NRL clubs seem happy to let the strugglers drown.

PR you've always been a massive AFL cheerleader, but surely even you can take this with a grain of salt.

 

[T-Boon]

The interesting bits is the blow up about contributing a fund for struggling clubs. AFL have managed to get clubs to chip in, NRL clubs seem happy to let the strugglers drown.

If the NRL clubs weren't so god damned selfish and short sighted the code would be a much stronger state.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

If the NRL clubs weren't so god damned selfish and short sighted the code would be a much stronger state.

You probably want them drawn and quartered...

 

[Parra]

So if the salary cap goes to $8.5 million (it’s now $7 million) the club grants will be slightly more than $11 million, leaving the NRL to hand out $192 million to the clubs each year.

This should be achievable given the $1.8 billion TV money averages out at $360 million a season.

All BS in the article aside, are the figures accurate?

How does the administration justify needing $168 million per year?

 

[The Charlatan]

I thought the clubs had it written into their licence agreements that they cannot bail and compete in another competition?

 

[T-Boon]

All BS in the article aside, are the figures accurate?

How does the administration justify needing $168 million per year?

they can't divy out contra...
but it is a good question. Where does the money go?

 

[T-Boon]

You probably want them drawn and quartered...

I want quarters because that would add at least $30 million a year and these clubs need it.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

So if we go to quarters we get an extra $30 million.

So why not divide the game in to eighths? Then we'd get an extra $60 million.

Or twentieths, then we'd get an extra $150 million a year.

Or eighty 1 minute segments that's $600 million a year extra!

Forget T Greenburg, I say T boob should be nrl ceo.

 

[RL The greatest game]

I want quarters because that would add at least $30 million a year and these clubs need it.

You can give clubs another $300 million a year and still most of them would still make a loss.

 

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All BS in the article aside, are the figures accurate?

How does the administration justify needing $168 million per year?

$360m is only the Australian rights revenue, it doesn't include the NZ/international/radio rights revenue nor the ~$130m+ a year non broadcast revenue. So realistically the game will have revenues in excess of $500m.

As part of the funding discussions the ARLC committed to spending an additional $100m a year on 'grassroots'. By comparison, last year the states received ~$30m between them, with another $30m allocated to "development". The NRL itself operates on its central revenues, not broadcast revenues which the majority goes to clubs. For all the telegraphs campaigning over out of control administration expenses, they have increased about 50% since 2012 to $23m, while revenues have risen over 80% to $334m. I wouldn't mind betting there are clubs spending more than 6% of their revenues on administration costs.

 

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I thought the clubs had it written into their licence agreements that they cannot bail and compete in another competition?

The current agreements expire at the end of 2017, which means if these perpetual licenses aren't signed off before then clubs are free to do what they want. Because its a perpetual license both sides need to get it right, but I don't think some clubs are the bargaining chip they think they are and it would solve a few dilemma's for the ARLC, namely too many Sydney clubs, if they didn't sign.