NRL v AFL - Wake Up Call

[Rockin Ronny]

You know - it's starting to sound a little weak that so many posters whine and carry on about the "raw deal" rugby league gets on bad news stories - compared to the AFL. Time to grow up.

Players create the dramas. News Limited, which is built on delivering dross to the masses, thrives on reporting bad things. That's all they do.

News Limited don't own rugby league because they love it and want to foster it. They own the game because they get to control the content of PayTV and make a lot of money from it. So, for the idiots out there expecting News Limited to protect and boost the game, wake up, you idiots, and realsie the obvious.

Wayne Bennett introduced a factor to St George which has helped turn them around - they focus on their own game mainly, not the opposition. Rugby league, and its fans, need to do the same. First step, get rid of News Limited.

Every time a league fan whines about the AFL, you are simply proving that rugby league is dreadfully worried about the AFL. It's great ammunition for them.

 

[gottabegood]

I think you will find, as has been pointed out by many others here, that it is the other codes who are obsessed with Rugby League.



From their top level administrators through to there obvious dominance in the Media and corporate world, all these codes are falling over themselves to attack the greatest game.

It also has been pointed out that the other codes have equal or worst "dramas" but are rarely disclosed or when written or talked about are diplomatically glossed over.


It is the fans who respond due to the deafening non response and obviously controlled RL hierarchy.

Unfortunately your opinion endorses their strategy...and confirms that many Rugby League supporters will make nice doormats.

 

[ME SO HORNBY!]

Your a tool and most probably a troll. RL whinges about AFL? PUH-LEASE! its their journos that have an obsession with us and try to bring us down a notch every time one of our players puts the slightest step wrong and hasnt been proven guilty. But its ironic how this AFL player who got busted with an ecstacy pill has been already brushed under the rug and everyone is saying hes innocent. Double standards!

 

[Lockyer4President!]

A Bronco who is late or misses a training session recieves front and back page attention in the CM while Albert Proud, a Fitzroy Bears fumbleballer, can glass a woman and get charged by the police yet recieves sfa coverage in the same paper. Something doesn't add up.

 

[typicalfan]

When is the last time David Gallop has talked about the AFL above and beyond he needed too.

The AFL CEO jumps in line after every comparable (and sometimes incomparable) incident the NRL suffers quickly pointing out the differences. That is obsession.

ARU using all their 2003 warchest on what? Talking their own code? no Developing their own juniors? no To obsessively hunt down the higher profile NRL players? yes

 

[LeagueXIII]

Spot on as this story from Melbourne AFL preacher Caroline Wilson proves, go to last line:

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rf...ith-early-clash/2009/08/06/1249350638112.html

AFL looks to tackle league with early clash

Caroline Wilson | August 7, 2009


A proposal to stage a stand-alone game between Sydney and Essendon at Homebush Bay to launch the 2010 AFL season, a week ahead of the rest of round one, is the latest blast across the bow of the NRL in its western Sydney stronghold.
The round-one clash to be played at ANZ Stadium is the brainchild of Essendon, who have put forward the idea as part of their 2010 fixturing submission. The Bombers have won backing for the radical season-opener from AFL NSW as the code works to build a following for the yet-to-be formed western Sydney franchise. Essendon are also looking for support from the NSW Government to turn the game against the Swans into a big event.
The Swans, who learnt of the proposal only two days ago, have cautiously supported the idea. Sydney had put in a bid to play a Friday night game at the SCG, something the Swans have not done for more than a decade, against Essendon in round-three.
Outgoing Essendon chief executive Peter Jackson confirmed last night that his club was keen to continue to accommodate its significant supporter-base in Sydney - the Bombers boast the second-largest AFL following in that market behind the Swans - as well as boost support for Australian football in western Sydney.
The clash would take place on Saturday night, March 20, five days before the now customary season-opener at the MCG contested over the past two seasons by Richmond and Carlton. Those two clubs have again proposed to play each other in round one on the Thursday night.
AFL NSW boss Dale Holmes, in Melbourne yesterday for league executive talks, said some concern existed over attendance figures at ANZ Stadium but agreed that a one-off clash to signal the start of the season in Sydney could prove a compelling marketing tool.
"The concept of having a stand-alone game as per the Collingwood game during the mid-season break is something we would support from the point of view of AFL NSW," Holmes said.
"The submission's been made, it will go through the process and it will be considered, taking in a whole range of factors."
The Bombers first mooted a mid-March home-and-away series against Sydney two years ago partly to combat the high level of attention garnished by rugby league over that month given the NRL season begins several weeks before the AFL season proper.
The AFL rejected the proposal but all parties conceded now that the landscape has shifted significantly. Jackson and his colleague, the Bombers general manager of community and media, Simon Matthews, have worked closely on this new submission.
"We only became aware of this on Wednesday," said Sydney chief executive Myles Baron-Hay. "I think it's an interesting proposition. The rationale is to create a major event in Sydney and it would require support from the AFL and NSW Events. We would certainly look at it.
"Our Friday night proposal could still work against a club such as Carlton as well. We are all aligned in what we are trying to do here and we just need to work out which ideas best suit the market and the clubs."
The Bombers' football department has sanctioned Essendon's proposal, which would mean the team would have a week off during the start of round-one, having played an "away" game at Homebush Bay the previous week.
NRL boss David Gallop declined to comment on the AFL proposal.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

...is the latest blast across the bow of the NRL in its western Sydney stronghold.

:lol::crazy: Oh god the delusion down there...

 

[El Diablo]

I think you will find, as has been pointed out by many others here, that it is the other codes who are obsessed with Rugby League.



From their top level administrators through to there obvious dominance in the Media and corporate world, all these codes are falling over themselves to attack the greatest game.

It also has been pointed out that the other codes have equal or worst "dramas" but are rarely disclosed or when written or talked about are diplomatically glossed over.


It is the fans who respond due to the deafening non response and obviously controlled RL hierarchy.

Unfortunately your opinion endorses their strategy...and confirms that many Rugby League supporters will make nice doormats.

the AFL and their journos are always comparing the games and making theirs out to be something it's not

one of them had the audacity to have a go at the NRL drug policy the other day saying everything is hidden


their drug policy is 3 strikes and ours is 2 yet he somehow thinks ours is sh*t and tells everyone in his column

that's just one of the many examples of how these idiots work

AFL journos wrote numerous articles about the Johns scandal at the start of the year but when allegations of Carlton paying hush money to alleged rape victims came out these same journos went silent

AFL and their journos have been doing it for years

they are the ones that started it

 

[El Diablo]

NRL boss David Gallop declined to comment on the AFL proposal.

why would he :lol:

FMD these Victorians are idots

 

[_snafu_]

Exactly, WTF is the relevance of the AFL draw to League? No need to comment.

 

[LESStar58]

:lol::crazy: Oh god the delusion down there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-0z6YXfA9s

I know we all blew up when Sam did this but come on... tell me this isn't funny!

 

[El Diablo]

Exactly, WTF is the relevance of the AFL draw to League? No need to comment.

why would a boggerball journo even want his opinion on their draw :crazy:

 

[BuffaloRules]

Essendon are also looking for support from the NSW Government to turn the game against the Swans into a big event

Our tax dollars at work.....

No thanks Essendon.

 

[LESStar58]

This is the same mob that also wants to bring the ANZAC game between 2 Vic clubs to ANZ Stadium :lol:

 

[Jason_(Is_our_King)_Smith]

If you want any more proof of how the codes are treated differently by the media, looking at the gushing articles on the Swans' Michael O'Loughlin today, saying what a fine upstanding citizen he is. Compare that to the treatment of Matthew Johns, who was demonised by the media --- led by AFL cheerleaders -- until his career and life were left in ruins.

 

[Rockin Ronny]

If you want any more proof of how the codes are treated differently by the media, looking at the gushing articles on the Swans' Michael O'Loughlin today, saying what a fine upstanding citizen he is. Compare that to the treatment of Matthew Johns, who was demonised by the media --- led by AFL cheerleaders -- until his career and life were left in ruins.

Oh, boo hoo hoo.

the standard of quality journalism nowadays is Danny Weidler - thrash-mongering, talentless idiot who loves hanging out with "celebrities" and getting scoops.

what the hell do you expect?

 

[Jason_(Is_our_King)_Smith]

Oh, boo hoo hoo.

the standard of quality journalism nowadays is Danny Weidler - thrash-mongering, talentless idiot who loves hanging out with "celebrities" and getting scoops.

what the hell do you expect?

Better than we're getting...

 

[El Diablo]

If you want any more proof of how the codes are treated differently by the media, looking at the gushing articles on the Swans' Michael O'Loughlin today, saying what a fine upstanding citizen he is. Compare that to the treatment of Matthew Johns, who was demonised by the media --- led by AFL cheerleaders -- until his career and life were left in ruins.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2004/s1100551.htm

TICKY FULLERTON: According to Jane, in an isolated spot, the two followers, Adam Heuskes and Michael O'Loughlin, caught up. She says her clothes were ripped off, her bag thrown away. She was forced to the ground, tossed around like a rag doll and raped.

MAN: Were you raped?

JANE: Yes.

TICKY FULLERTON: On the same tape, Jane's lawyer describes all three players being involved in sexual abuse.

MAN: You were absolutely positive it was Adam Heuskes, Peter Burgoyne and Michael O'Loughlin?

JANE: Yeah.

TICKY FULLERTON: Jane says she was raped by Adam Heuskes and Peter Burgoyne and that at one point, Heuskes and Michael O'Loughlin were masturbating close to her face.

JANE: I came to, then - and they did that - then blacked out again.

MAN: The three of them did that?

JANE: Um, I think it was just Heuskes and O'Loughlin - it was dark, yep - while Peter was doing other things.

sounds like a real charmer

 

[gottabegood]

Oh, boo hoo hoo.

the standard of quality journalism nowadays is Danny Weidler - thrash-mongering, talentless idiot who loves hanging out with "celebrities" and getting scoops.

what the hell do you expect?

Plenty of sports journalist have little to no affiliation to Rugby League, they report it because they are journalist and RL has the biggest readership.

And that type of journalism is what made Uncle Rupert stomach burst at the seems....mostly swallowed by....hmm...well, I leave that alone.

 

[hineyrulz]

If you want any more proof of how the codes are treated differently by the media, looking at the gushing articles on the Swans' Michael O'Loughlin today, saying what a fine upstanding citizen he is. Compare that to the treatment of Matthew Johns, who was demonised by the media --- led by AFL cheerleaders -- until his career and life were left in ruins.

Well said mate, anyone would think this bloke is a saint. But we all know differently, to bad most people out there have no idea.