So this is what Super League was about all along...

[Once Dead]

It's there for all to see.........News Ltd didn't care about the game but cared about what they could milk from it. Obtaining a stake in the running of the game and acquiring the rights to televise it for less than it deserves.....

Surprise, surprise......but it was all about the good of the game, right?

Without league, the Daily Telegraph wouldn't sell and without league, Foxtel wouldn't sell either....

About time people finally wake up to reality....

 

[dallymessenger]

adopts mock voice of a fan of a former SL club :

but the way the ARL were running the game was just so crooked. manly were winning the competition every year.

the news ltd promised to bring RL to china.

remember the vision?

 

[Blind Freddy]

"Once Dead" has taken the red pill and woke up...

 

[Man_of_Steel_1982]

"State of orgin every week"

 

[Tin Man 4.24]

I remember that Moldova were going to be the new super power of rugby league. It would appear that things didn't quite go as planned...

From Wikipedia The Moldova national rugby league team first competed into international competition in 1993. Moldova has not competed internationally since the 1995 Emerging Nations World Cup. Rugby league is no longer played in Moldova and while there were attempts to revive the national team for a tournament in 2003 (likely based on Russian players of Moldovan descent and Moldovan rugby union players) the team failed to materialise. It is doubtful whether the team will ever play again

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[dallymessenger]

"State of orgin every week"

:lol:

Mal Meininga "The ARL did nothing for me"

Laurie Daley "the ARL treated us like dogs"

 

[Once Dead]

"State of orgin every week"

*REPLAYED ON FOX SPORTS 3 each Tuesday 2:45am EST

 

[dallymessenger]

Another SL great idea :

State of origin isnt working, lets bring new zealand into it

 

[Butters]

:lol:

Mal Meininga "The ARL did nothing for me"

Laurie Daley "the ARL treated us like dogs"

Who?

 

[dallymessenger]

*REPLAYED ON FOX SPORTS 3 each Tuesday 2:45am EST

and for half the money they pay AFL.

 

[Once Dead]

"Once Dead" has taken the red pill and woke up...

It's called "sarcasm"......another casualty of the SL war.

 

[dallymessenger]

John Ribot and his "Vision".

 

[Once Dead]

Don't get me started on Ribot.....once a front rower, once a winger, once a Super League spearhead.....forever a tool.

 

[dallymessenger]

Don't get me started on Ribot.....once a front rower, once a winger, once a Super League spearhead.....forever a tool.

spoke to him when he was CEO of the storm, around 5 years ago.

the merkin was still in favour of a 12 team competition

 

[dallymessenger]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...o.jpg/150px-Super_League_(Australia)_Logo.jpg

 

[bartman]

It's there for all to see.........News Ltd didn't care about the game but cared about what they could milk from it. Obtaining a stake in the running of the game and acquiring the rights to televise it for less than it deserves.....

Surprise, surprise......but it was all about the good of the game, right?

Without league, the Daily Telegraph wouldn't sell and without league, Foxtel wouldn't sell either....

About time people finally wake up to reality....

You mean you didn't already realise this 12 years ago...?

 

[bartman]

Ah, sarcasm... my mistake!

 

[dallymessenger]

these are the financial statements of news corporation :

http://quicktake.morningstar.com/StockNet/Income10.aspx?Country=USA&Symbol=NWS.A

can someone please point me to the section where ownership of our game is recorded.

the founding fathers of RL in australia would be turning in their graves to learn that which they worked so hard to establish ended up as a minor footnote in a multi national media empire

just a little trophy for murdoch to add to his collection

 

[mave]

It's there for all to see.........News Ltd didn't care about the game but cared about what they could milk from it. Obtaining a stake in the running of the game and acquiring the rights to televise it for less than it deserves.....

Surprise, surprise......but it was all about the good of the game, right?

Without league, the Daily Telegraph wouldn't sell and without league, Foxtel wouldn't sell either....

About time people finally wake up to reality....

Superleague had nothing to do with tv or newspapers, it was all because of Manly and the way we kept winning all those premierships in the late 80's and early 90's.

 

[In-goal]

The ARL could have prevented the SL war but they gave into Kerry Packer and shot themselves in the foot.