The Las Vegas Thread

[Trifili13]

Would take a long term commitment and lots of $'s to get any traction in USA. Lets just accept it for what it is, and what is proving to be successful. A fun way to start that season that gets plenty of interest.

Agree, enjoy what has achieved and look to grow it a bit each year. Some have mentioned the MLS. The MLS franchises are owned in many instances by billionaires as part of existing ownership in NFL and NBA franchises. Also, soccer is a global sport so is more identifiable to Americans and millions have been poured into the game and global stars have joined some of their teams (admittedly some have been past their best when they went to the MLS).

 

[Perth Red]

Agree, enjoy what has achieved and look to grow it a bit each year. Some have mentioned the MLS. The MLS franchises are owned in many instances by billionaires as part of existing ownership in NFL and NBA franchises. Also, soccer is a global sport so is more identifiable to Americans and millions have been poured into the game and global stars have joined some of their teams (admittedly some have been past their best when they went to the MLS).

Not to mention MLS has an avg crowd higher than NRL's. .
We struggle to get a sustainable amateur RL comp up and running in USA, getting a fully prof one is light years away

 

[taste2taste]

Don't know if this has been mentioned before or even tried by the NRL, but the NRL maybe should give a FTV operator and a pay TV or streamer free the whole season for a year to gauge interest in the game over there (assuming the NRL has the rights to do that or are they with Nine/Fox). This will allow the ARL to see the true level of interest that the American's have rather than a 1 off game that is heavily marketed.

The NBL did this with success.
MLR has given their games free to ESPN+

If the NRL is serious about the USA they should look at giving their games free and grow an audience and down the track hopefully getting paid for the rights.

 

[taste2taste]

Would take a long term commitment and lots of $'s to get any traction in USA. Let’s just accept it for what it is, and what is proving to be successful. A fun way to start that season that gets plenty of interest.

Interesting article posted a few pages back from a union journo talking bout the different approaches by union to league.

Union has investested millions upon millions trying to grow the game at grass roots, league is trying the opposite, starting from the top down.

I was surprised to see the union journo saying league has a better chance of taking off in the USA.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Seriously jokes aside even if they got 20 million pa from America which included fta access for games that would be a huge boost for the nrl

Being mostly in the nfl offseason they can build up a dedicated fan base which even if it’s tiny by American standards would be massive for us

The nrl needs to stick with Vegas and not go to Wembley and start all over again

An origin in America and London would be massive one day

Nrl has to be the one to grow rugby league internationally since super league doesn’t have the money or critical mass to do so

30 000 full-season paying WatchNRL subscribers equates to nearly $7m straight-up. Btw I do realise a portion of that number may have just signed up for Vegas.
Even still 100k is your $20m+. Get 100k then you`ve got something to approach a broadcaster with.

 

[taste2taste]

He writes more articles about league than union these days which tells you who’s getting than marketing right.

Fitzy has a little melty every time league tries to step out of its lane. World cups, pacific chamionships and Vegas seem to really trigger him.

He‘d like nothing more than league to stay within its traditional borders of Penrith, Redcliffe, port morsbey, Perpignan , Auckland and the M62

 

[AlwaysGreen]

You're all starting to sound like the fumbleball 'if we can just get 1%' brigade.

 

[Trifili13]

The NBL did this with success.
MLR has given their games free to ESPN+

If the NRL is serious about the USA they should look at giving their games free and grow an audience and down the track hopefully getting paid for the rights.

Wasn't aware the NBL had done that. Again, basketball is a familiar sport to the Americans so maybe easier for the NBL to get traction over there. Do you know if they still do that and do they get any money out of it?

An issue I can see is the NBA is obviously a higher standard so Americans might be somewhat put off watching the lower standard but the NRL is the highest standard of league so that won't be an issue. Issue is simply getting Americans to understand the game and want to watch it.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Americans refuse the metric system and you expect them to embrace rugby league????

 

[taste2taste]

You're all starting to sound like the fumbleball 'if we can just get 1%' brigade.

you can add cricket and union to the 1% club.

 

[Wb1234]

Fitzy has a little melty every time league tries to step out of its lane. World cups, pacific chamionships and Vegas seem to really trigger him.

He‘d like nothing more than league to stay within its traditional borders of Penrith, Redcliffe, port morsbey, Perpignan , Auckland and the M62

There’s a lot of people like that even the ones who like league and also union / afl / a league

Fitzstupid definitely watches more league than union even if he spends most of his time bagging the heck of out rugby league

 

[taste2taste]

Wasn't aware the NBL had done that. Again, basketball is a familiar sport to the Americans so maybe easier for the NBL to get traction over there. Do you know if they still do that and do they get any money out of it?

An issue I can see is the NBA is obviously a higher standard so Americans might be somewhat put off watching the lower standard but the NRL is the highest standard of league so that won't be an issue. Issue is simply getting Americans to understand the game and want to watch it.

Sorry, I was talking about the NBL having success in Australia.

they gave their games free to ch10 and once they build an audience they cashed in with their largest tv deal.

 

[Maximus]

It’s not just Fitzy, the other smh union journo wrote an article yesterday saying Union was miles ahead of league in the USA.

that might be true, but someone should remind them when the MLR was shown on fox FTA it drew only 200k viewers

If you want to talk directly to fitzy his alias on these boards is @Maximus

Unlike you guys, I've never clicked on anything he has ever written. It's easy to ignore him when you're interested in something other than endless code wars.

It's funny, without you guys who claim to hate him, he wouldn't have a job.

 

[Wb1234]

Could that be two women’s nrl teams going

That would be good

 

[Trifili13]

Could that be two women’s nrl teams going

That would be good

A threesome in Vegas. I am sure that has never happened before.

 

[Wb1234]

This level of hype is akin to the early 90s era

 

[shadowformz]

This level of hype is akin to the early 90s era

Yes it is.........super league war on the horizon again???

 

[Cactus]

Americans refuse the metric system and you expect them to embrace rugby league????

It aint hard.

Just invent an imperial to metric, yards to meters calculator, which upon delivering an answer spits out a 10% discount offer for a USA fast food chain.

Problem solved.

 

[shadowformz]

NRL weighing up future season openers after Vegas contract

The NRL may shift to another international location.

www.zerotackle.com

 

[Wb1234]

Yes it is.........super league war on the horizon again???

Broncos are happy these days with how the game is run lol