My comment
How many times do I have to say this, I'm bagging the fact that V'landys has clearly worked with News Ltd, take away the pandemic. The same thing would have happened, Greenberg gone, News Ltd back in the box seat telling us what to do. When I see reports that Lachlan Murdoch can tell us we can have another team in Brisbane that is a concern. When I see V'landys has council with Murdoch that is a concern.
I don't think the code would have been stuffed it was always going to restart, necessity is the mother of invention. From a business side the broadcasters haven't wasted a crisis they have got a good deal for themselves.
Please stop labouring the point about the start date, it has never been an issue for me nor the revision of the deal. If need be do as the AFL will do and extend for a year or two, not 5. Why 5? It leaves me to think the digital arm will come under Fox in some capacity.
You have misunderstood my intention of that comment. It was in reference to the fact that being first over the AFL doesn't do anything financially or to deals etc. it's just bragging.
Whilst I love sticking it up AFL it's pointscoring at the end of the day, I'm sure you're mature enough to see that.
You said you are only interested in the digital.I am interested in what happens also.
Ch9 didn't want the NRL to start with.Foxtel needed the NRL, so of course they worked with V'landys.
The clubs were given the brush off by Greenberg on occasions, you and I anywise are not into what fully transpired, it was 9 who made the financial issue about Head Office not Foxtel.
Courtesy to let Murdoch know ,you have an interest in the Broncos ,we are looking at expanding into Brisbane.Murdoch spends large sums on the NRL deal.If V'Landys hadn't had a TV deal with Foxtel,you'd say nothing about expansion intentions.
Murdochs screwed rl with the SL wars,thus I have little time for them.
It(the comp) was going to restart, the question is when and with what.If we had no deal with 9 and had to go to court, we would have to rely on the borrowed $250m.The decision to rationalise would have been inevitable.The figures we had actually in the Bank was not $120m but $30m thereabouts as we apparently owed the broadcasters a loan of $80m.We were on the edge of a financial precipice.
What' On 23/5 you stated "my argument is not the football side of it, it's more the business side."
You do understand both the football side and the business side are intertwined under the current situation.
The starting date means two weeks earlier than the AFL,and two weeks earlier where the ch9 and Foxtel have to fork out money.The later it's left the less money that will be paid by broadcasters.
The AFL have an asset Marvel stadium(must be worth a decent amount) as they were able to secure from NAB $600m loan.We had SFA assets ,and gained the money from a Pommy financial organisation.
The AFL have the asset backing ,we don't ,so whilst they'll take a hit, they are not in the financial situation we are in.Thus they can be more aggressive with the broadcasters as to leaving it as is.
We need long term revenue certainty ,you seem to think everything will be somehow OK in 2022 playing cool.Have you been reading the news on what is now happening in China, re their economy and how that can further impact our struggling economy?
