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Mike probably doesn't know about the NRL's new TV contractLeather Patch Mike said:Crystal ball-gazing in the wake of the soccer (oh all right, football) World Cup, I suspect that league is on a slow but inexorable decline in Australia.
so what?Leather Patch Mike said:The Crikey.com.au website reported on Wednesday that this season's NRL crowds are down by almost 10 per cent. The once mighty Roosters, now bumping along near the bottom of the comp, have lost about 23 per cent of their home game fans.
I wonder why AFL will be less dominate in Western Australia?Leather Patch Mike said:Ten years out, the football scene will look like this: the AFL will maintain its stranglehold in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, and to a lesser extent in Western Australia.
Some interesting points in there. Socceroo players who currently get 10 times the money Wallaby players get, will in tens years, when soccer which is played in summer, will be the truly national code, only if soccer do well at the next World Cup in Rugby Union’s South Africa, of course. Somehow, Union will be the glamour and money of big-time international football code, even though Soccer, which will take over from the AFL and NRL as the dominate domestic code. But this can’t happen until Union junks some of the impenetrable penalty laws which litter the game and Union will make their rules more like Rugby League.Leather Patch Mike said:Soccer will rise to become a truly national code, especially if Australia does well at the next World Cup in four years.
Union, with the glamour and money of big-time international football, will cream off more and more league players and crowds, especially if the code junks some of the impenetrable penalty laws which litter the game.
If the News Ltd empire then pulls out of its investment in league, the rest, as they say, is history.
And of course, News Ltd will dump the NRL because it will go from the top rating sport on Pay TV to the worst rating sport, like say…………….. Rugby Union.
Makes sense,