Peter V'landys - New NRL/ARLC Chairman

[Iamback]

You're also the person who suggested 6am games would average more than the biggest league in the world.

I said nothing of the sort.

What I did say is playing games late US time after a big Baseball game for example. COULD generate some viewers due to people staying on the channel.

Hence why the push is for games being played on Fox Sports 1.

Getting 0.01% of the population over there is nothing but adds 300k viewers.

That is what is in it for the game. Very very small numbers over there looks huge for us due to population here

 

[Maximus]

No and that’s a massive leap to make.

Person 1 makes an unrealistic claim
Person 2 says it's unrealistic
You criticise person 2

How exactly is it a massive leap to imply that you support person 1?

 

[Maximus]

I said nothing of the sort.

Right here

They have more of a history of late night viewing over there. Even still say RL gets 0.1% of the population watching that is 500k.

That is 50% of the what the game pulls here, That is the aim of this USA push. A tiny USA audience is huge numbers given our population.

I don't see anyone here claiming the 340m US population will all start watching though.

The EPL has averaged over 500k 3 times.

Premier League draws second-best season yet on U.S. airwaves

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

 

[Iamback]

Do you honestly believe the nrl is going To make hundreds of millions from America? seriously?

Does it need to make that much to be a success though?

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Person 1 makes an unrealistic claim
Person 2 says it's unrealistic
You criticise person 2

How exactly is it a massive leap to imply that you support person 1?

Person 1 makes claim - however outrageous but does at least come off the back of positive media reports and all led by a man with a proven track record in gambling success.

Person 2 says it’s unrealistic but also says it’s stupid, deluded but their strongest argument for the negativity is, it didn’t work for the AFL in China. Not saying this is you btw.

Me. Well what can I say of person 1’s claim, I can’t disprove it. I’ll wait and see. Person 2, I say, do better. I don’t think the pro Vegas posters on here are getting encouragement off the back of my posts but thank you for holding me in such high regard

 

[Canard]

Clubs will kill the Vegas experiment quickly, especially after the initial excitement dies down.

Kicking off your season with a 40hrs+ is flying isn't going to cut it

 

[Wb1234]

Pvl needs to take some advice off the various randoms on here that know more about the us gaming market than he has got from years In the horse racing industry

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Clubs will kill the Vegas experiment quickly, especially after the initial excitement dies down.

Kicking off your season with a 40hrs+ is flying isn't going to cut it

Isn’t there a 2 week gap between round 1 and 2? You’re probably right though. Aussie clubs coming back from the WCC often struggle to find their feet. Just have to wait and see how the four clubs going come out of it.

 

[Wb1234]

Isn’t there a 2 week gap between round 1 and 2? You’re probably right though. Aussie clubs coming back from the CC often struggle to find their feet. Just have to wait and see how the four clubs going come out of it.

The clubs involved in Vegas are all playing each other in the early rounds to mitigate the travel involved

all these negative nellies think they know better than the arlc

 

[colly]

Clubs will kill the Vegas experiment quickly, especially after the initial excitement dies down.

Kicking off your season with a 40hrs+ is flying isn't going to cut it

However all other clubs are asking ( and players, most definitely players) when is our turn.

 

[Wb1234]

However all other clubs are asking ( and players, most definitely players) when is our turn.

It’s weird there are people on this forum that want to see the Vegas thing fail

Some rugby league fans we have following this sport of ours

 

[Banger]

It’s weird there are people on this forum that want to see the Vegas thing fail

Some rugby league fans we have following this sport of ours

I think it’s a dumb idea.
Motivated by gambling income alone.
I don’t want it to fail. But I’d rather the NRL spend that money on taking the game to Australian country regions. Like. You know. The people that have got the sport to where it is today.

 

[Colk]

There's two contentious debates going on right now. NRL going to Las Vegas and PNG possibly becoming the 18th team.

My firm view is that Perth should be team 18. There's too many hurdles for PNG to overcome, even if it gets government money. For example, how are they going to compete on the field? How many home grounds will PNG have? Travel etc.

With Las Vegas, I am more open minded. Let's see how it goes. Kinda hoping that something else pops up in the Las Vegas/ American venture that is more beneficial to the game then getting a piece of the gambling market. Betting on sports is a mugs game. However, PVL does have experience in this space (gambling market), so let's see what transpires.

100% with everything you have said.

I don’t think we will get hundreds of millions but if we make a profit from this then that’s a positive

 

[Bukowski]

I'd rather have a guy in charge thinking outside the square than 'um errs' like Gallop.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

You can tell when flogball's dwaft has ended because all the cult members flock to LU to troll because there's f**k all for the cult members to do until the next flag.

 

[Wb1234]

I think it’s a dumb idea.
Motivated by gambling income alone.
I don’t want it to fail. But I’d rather the NRL spend that money on taking the game to Australian country regions. Like. You know. The people that have got the sport to where it is today.

The event will probably make money so it won’t cost the nrl a cent

all air fares are being paid by the airline sponsor

 

[Canard]

It's a loss making exercise surely?

Just the stadium hire alone right?

 

[Iamback]

Clubs will kill the Vegas experiment quickly, especially after the initial excitement dies down.

Kicking off your season with a 40hrs+ is flying isn't going to cut it

They get the following week off than in Round 2 play other side that had the same trip

 

[Iamback]

100% with everything you have said.

I don’t think we will get hundreds of millions but if we make a profit from this then that’s a positive

seems like they are playing the long game, which is unlike RL.

UFC is one sport who fans should cross over, They are often on a Sunday before the 2pm game.

That is the one game that should get decent exposure off the back of.... Translating that exposure into meaningful money is harder part from it

 

[Iamback]

I'd rather have a guy in charge thinking outside the square than 'um errs' like Gallop.

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