Peter V'landys - New NRL/ARLC Chairman

[Nuke]

And why not.
Ch9 have aussie rules shows and they don't have the broadcast rights. No reason why Ch7 can't do likewise for League.

 

[Wb1234]

Pvl should sack whoever is in that committee for even thinking a draft could ever work in league where the clubs develop most of the players

 

[siv]

As long as National RG follows 2 years later

 

[Chins get the wins]

As long as National RG follows 2 years later

Nah pointless

 

[Perth Red]

As long as National RG follows 2 years later

I wonder if the doubling of nswrl and qrl funding is a prelude to getting them to agree to a reserve grade?

 

[Jetka100]

I wonder if the doubling of nswrl and qrl funding is a prelude to getting them to agree to a reserve grade?

Very much doubt it. I don’t think there are a lot of people crying out for a national reserve grade. Just continue to invest in making the QLD and NSW Cup stronger competitions.

 

[siv]

I wonder if the doubling of nswrl and qrl funding is a prelude to getting them to agree to a reserve grade?

There is 2 mil allocated to NSWRL Infrastructure Investment Fund

 

[Captain Apollo]

Very much doubt it. I don’t think there are a lot of people crying out for a national reserve grade. Just continue to invest in making the QLD and NSW Cup stronger competitions.

They did away with it, and a national under 21s competition to cut down on costs in the first place. You will get some extra sponsorship dollars, but I doubt it would be enough to cover the costs of running those competitions.

 

[Perth Red]

They did away with it, and a national under 21s competition to cut down on costs in the first place. You will get some extra sponsorship dollars, but I doubt it would be enough to cover the costs of running those competitions.

Clubs and game are now flush with cash, an extra $2mill a year per club to run those programs isn’t a problem now.

 

[MugaB]

Clubs and game are now flush with cash, an extra $2mill a year per club to run those programs isn’t a problem now.

 

[MugaB]

Very much doubt it. I don’t think there are a lot of people crying out for a national reserve grade. Just continue to invest in making the QLD and NSW Cup stronger competitions.

The only reason anyone cares about a "National reserve" grade is coz there are places like Adelaide and Perth that don't get any funding to build any support for anything Rugba lieg, basically the current systems are fine with which areas actually want to play RL, starting up an expensive national reserve grade comp is useless if they are populated with also rans clubs that don't have RL entrenched in their local area, I'm not saying don't include them by all means add a Perth reserve grade team to the existing comps, just like the warriors or hunters are, but thats it, don't go changing the qcup and nswcup just to headline some national BS presence, it would detract the quality of the NRL junior base by depleting the current clubs who provide the NRL with quality reserves

 

[siv]

Very much doubt it. I don’t think there are a lot of people crying out for a national reserve grade. Just continue to invest in making the QLD and NSW Cup stronger competitions.

I think your missing the point

NRL is the "professional fulltime" pathway. They now run at $35 to $50 million operations

They pay for the Top 30 plus 6 players in that arrangement, or 19 players who would play in a NRL Reserve Grade

While NSW Cup or Qld Cup is basically a "part time" pathway for players who work. And they operate on only around $2 mil

The $ gap between the two pathways professional v parttime continues to grow

 

[Jetka100]

I think your missing the point

NRL is the "professional fulltime" pathway. They now run at $35 to $50 million operations

They pay for the Top 30 plus 6 players in that arrangement, or 19 players who would play in a NRL Reserve Grade

While NSW Cup or Qld Cup is basically a "part time" pathway for players who work. And they operate on only around $2 mil

The $ gap between the two pathways professional v parttime continues to grow

Flying 2 teams around everywhere would come at a cost. They could either do a national reserve grade or a national u21s but not both at the present time. For the casual viewer, not people on these forums, the u21s holds more appeal, which is why the NRL will go with this. It is also an attraction strategy for junior players. That is not to say a national reserve grade is a bad idea, just that I don’t think it is the highest priority for the NRL.

 

[siv]

Flying 2 teams around everywhere would come at a cost. They could either do a national reserve grade or a national u21s but not both at the present time. For the casual viewer, not people on these forums, the u21s holds more appeal, which is why the NRL will go with this. It is also an attraction strategy for junior players. That is not to say a national reserve grade is a bad idea, just that I don’t think it is the highest priority for the NRL.

I think you will find National RG is higher priority due to the prior NYC suicide issues

But QRL mainly Ikins is blocking it.

Removing 4 players per QLD Cup team won't impact that competition as injuries and SOO already have the same impact

Noting that 13 of the 17 clubs actually play RG and U21s today, with the Warriors and Storm flying teams already

 

[Jetka100]

I think you will find National RG is higher priority due to the prior NYC suicide issues

But QRL mainly Ikins is blocking it.

Removing 4 players per QLD Cup team won't impact that competition as injuries and SOO already have the same impact

Noting that 13 of the 17 clubs actually play RG and U21s today, with the Warriors and Storm flying teams already

The reporting seems to suggest that the u21s is the priority. I haven’t seen anything suggesting they have decided to bring back the national reserve grade just yet. Although that may change.

 

[johnny plath]

I think you will find National RG is higher priority due to the prior NYC suicide issues

But QRL mainly Ikins is blocking it.

Removing 4 players per QLD Cup team won't impact that competition as injuries and SOO already have the same impact

Noting that 13 of the 17 clubs actually play RG and U21s today, with the Warriors and Storm flying teams already

Plenty of flying around in q cup as well from png Cairns Townsville Mackay Brisbane goldy

 

[Wb1234]

FIXING ORIGIN

NRL club bosses have been presented with a series of scheduling options to solve the current State of Origin conundrum – although they will have to wait until 2028 for any changes to come into effect.

It is understood that among the options discussed were:

– retaining the existing schedule;

– playing Origin games one week apart; and

– playing Origin games with a two week gap in between.

Origin scheduling has been a vexing issue for the game as officials look to balance the integrity of the NRL competition with the need to maximise one of the showpiece events on the rugby league calendar.

It appears any changes will need to wait until the existing broadcast agreement expires at the end of 2027.

However, the clubs are set to have a decisive say in how it is played from 2028 as the NRL prepares to open talks with broadcasters over fresh agreements.

The NRL has traditionally bundled Origin into the commercial broadcast rights but they haven’t ruled out selling the series as its own entity in

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[Wb1234]

“STORMING MAGIC ROUND

Magic Round ticket sales have exploded following the release of three and four-day passes in recent days.

So much so that the release of single-day passes have been brought forward to cope with the demand.

Total sales for Magic Round three and four-day passes has edged close to 20,000 just a few days into the on sale, which is a 40 per cent jump on the same time last year.

With the new four-day passes being released for the first time, there has been a 280 per cent jump in sales for women’s State of Origin One on the Thursday night prior to Magic Round on May 1.

Interestingly, aside from the obvious support from Broncos and Dolphins fans, the biggest take-up so far of the club member allocation has come from Melbourne Storm and Warriors members.

Eels and Sharks members lead the way from the Sydney teams.

“The popularity of Magic Round continues to grow,” said NRL boss Andrew Abdo.

“The addition of the four-day passes has given fans an opportunity to see nine games for $109, which is amazing value.

“We’re well on the way to seeing sell outs for all three days of Magic Round as well as a new record crowd for Women’s Origin.”

Single-day passes will now go on sale on December 16 for club members and a day later for the general public.“

Suncorp needs 70k to cater for this and similar league events

 

[Éamonn an Chnoic]

FIXING ORIGIN

NRL club bosses have been presented with a series of scheduling options to solve the current State of Origin conundrum – although they will have to wait until 2028 for any changes to come into effect.

It is understood that among the options discussed were:

– retaining the existing schedule;

– playing Origin games one week apart; and

– playing Origin games with a two week gap in between.

Origin scheduling has been a vexing issue for the game as officials look to balance the integrity of the NRL competition with the need to maximise one of the showpiece events on the rugby league calendar.

It appears any changes will need to wait until the existing broadcast agreement expires at the end of 2027.

However, the clubs are set to have a decisive say in how it is played from 2028 as the NRL prepares to open talks with broadcasters over fresh agreements.

The NRL has traditionally bundled Origin into the commercial broadcast rights but they haven’t ruled out selling the series as its own entity in

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It has been said before but:

- pause NRL matches
- play origin on Wednesday’s we consecutive weeks
- play as many rep games as possible across the 2/3 weekends that are disrupted

 

[Éamonn an Chnoic]

“STORMING MAGIC ROUND

Magic Round ticket sales have exploded following the release of three and four-day passes in recent days.

So much so that the release of single-day passes have been brought forward to cope with the demand.

Total sales for Magic Round three and four-day passes has edged close to 20,000 just a few days into the on sale, which is a 40 per cent jump on the same time last year.

With the new four-day passes being released for the first time, there has been a 280 per cent jump in sales for women’s State of Origin One on the Thursday night prior to Magic Round on May 1.

Interestingly, aside from the obvious support from Broncos and Dolphins fans, the biggest take-up so far of the club member allocation has come from Melbourne Storm and Warriors members.

Eels and Sharks members lead the way from the Sydney teams.

“The popularity of Magic Round continues to grow,” said NRL boss Andrew Abdo.

“The addition of the four-day passes has given fans an opportunity to see nine games for $109, which is amazing value.

“We’re well on the way to seeing sell outs for all three days of Magic Round as well as a new record crowd for Women’s Origin.”

Single-day passes will now go on sale on December 16 for club members and a day later for the general public.“

Suncorp needs 70k to cater for this and similar league events

I dont understand why more clubs dont commit to regular double headers. It makes the games feel like major events so the fans really make their way out.

ideally we would see regular Sydney doubleheaders as Accor, trying to push about 40k.

If the NRL could agree to put that in the Sunday 2pm-4pm slots, we would have a killer event