Hallelujah! Finally admitted your stupidity in believing Smith could have signed the Ch9 deal without governance from the commission. Only took 5 years lol.
as outsiders and knowing afl I’m sure all three of them looked at the fta deal afl was getting and thought hang on we’re getting stiffed and went hard with nine. And it worked! 85% increase!
End of day only big impact for Fox was loss of Saturday night game, which they still had the chance to buy off nine, a mistake I believe as its nuts we don’t have a fta game on a Saturday night.
f**k Fox, they should have let smith and the team deal with them. If they couldn’t get a fair deal then by all means sack him but to get rid of him mid negotiations was weak as pss. And repeated by the commission again this year. As soon as news rattled its drum the commision collapsed in a heap, at that point we were destined to get a lower fox deal.
Who knows what Vlandys has signed us up to, be doesn’t want us to know and the RL press arent asking which is concerning.
ps there is a comment in one of the press releases at the time that mentions numerous conversations had been had with fox prior to the Ch9 deal announcement.P so it’s a furphy that they had been cut out all together.
LOL OPSM is open Saturdays be there. If you bothered to open your ever so closed peepers in the past stated ,I noted "if" Smith had authority to do so in the past, then isn't it strange none of the so called fellow negotiators had anything to do with him, when the ch9 deal was announced.That also formed the basis of my going rogue, plus the fact ch 7 wanted to get involved and he pushed them aside has added to that view.Plus his lonesome press announcement.
In all the time the NRL has announced broadcast deals, this was the one and only occasion Smith was on his own making the annoncement.If it was all that the Commission had instructed and everything was all rosy, they would have been there, unless of course it wasn't the result they in fact wanted realising it .At every press for major sport announcements having just one rep from the sporting code is as rare as hen's teeth.Smith looked smug and confident and his loneliness at the presser showed.
Notice you ignored the 7 offer brushed aside by Smith. No competitive tension there.
Notice you ignored the fact Smith bent over for Gyngell, something you bagged Greenberg ,Gallop about in the past.
Funny Grant and Samuels then had to get involved with the Foxtel deal, going cap in hand how embarrassing.
Oh I've just bought a brand new 6 cylinder off roader, sorry it ended up being a used 4 cylinder.Who got screwed in the end.
The deal was negotiated two years before it was due, critics ask why the need to do so.
Your comments only serve to remind me on this issue, sending naive kids out to do a men's job, ends up a f*ck up.When negotiating a little civility helps at times.
News pays decent coin for the NRL,they need it ,they are a ruthless organisation, but as shown with the AFL it appears deals are done in a civil manner give all parties a shot manner.It plainly didn't happen here.
They made it known by giving the AFL a bonus according to Masters reputed to be $300m,that's an extra $50m a year, enough to help a Perth side into the NRL .
I repeat if Smith had the full blessing of the board in the decision making ,Grant, and possibly another commissioner would have been in attendance at the announcement, rather than him and the "lottery "winning Gyngell.To this day I will suspect all was not well then, between Smith and the Board.If I was own the Board and I thought this is flipping great deal,I'd have my mug in front of the cameras proclaiming the announcement.
And you continue to not to acknowledge, ignoring your major source of income over the decades is a good thing.I have zero love for News ,and their journos,I ahve also last year cancelled Foxtel.
You will not respond to views as to why the NRL did not employ someone with a knowledge of rugby league, like the AFL does with their CEOs.
85% increase LOL of a part FMD ,Did you bother to compare the whole the fumblers got, $2.5bn.
I call BS to the last para ,because of the knock back to the seperate bids from 9 and 7 ,to the reaction by having Murdoch(first time ever) attend a deal announcement and it was the AFL, because of the early negotiations with 9.
The negotiations have in the past involved all 3 parties trying to achieve a maximum benefit for each.
Keep you and I and your competition guessing.If it means long term revenue that ensures the game grows and continues ,I have no problems.As if AFL is going to tell us how much contra is involved in their deals now. I adopt the approach give your competitors nothing, the more they know the moire they can use against you.
V'Lad has got kudos from Govt State and Federal , and even within the AFL for ensuring the season started as envisioned ,had the bubbles operating pretty well and to date not one NRL, player has COVID,and secured Pay TV deal til end 2027 ,kept transparency between head office and the clubs(something lacking in the past).
You whine about his suits and he hasn't told you what the new deal was LOL.seriously.
You don't like his bluntness or his shots at the AFL.I say about friggin time, we have been for a major sport too damn timid in promoting the game, and worrying about getting cheap shots at our code.He is standing up for the code at last.
Smith in particular because of his lack of familiarity with how Foxtel and News ruthlessly operate here, was naive enough to believe Foxtel will pay overs for the crumbs.And everyone knows how nasty Murdoch gets if he's been snookered.
The question that will never be answered, if Smith had followed and insisted such that all parties should be involved ,not just a feinting manoeuvre to 9, how much better off financially would the game have been ,than the end up 2015 result.We get enough crap from News media as is, this deal only made them more vengeful.
