Todd Greenberg Appointed NRL CEO

[Usain Bolt]

Well Rothfield tweeted a few days ago that Greenberg was the man for the job. This is like Palin endorsing Trump

 

[Vic Mackey]

Is it true Shane Richardson has quit the NRL and is going back to Souths??????

Yes

He spent just enough time at the NRL to get the farcical burgess deal across the line and has now gone back to souths to reap the rewards

 

[Twatface Magee]

Hopefully this means his bullshit 'Platinum League' doesn't eventuate.

 

[Perth Red]

More money the game has the more it wastes.

 

[jaseg]

Well he negotiated a $925 Mil deal with Gyngell at Nine, but left enough wriggle room that the NRL only ended up with about $650 mil...

Ended up about a 35% increase on what Nine are paying now- in return for another prime time game on Thursday night to replace the delayed 2nd Friday night game.

Gyngell took him to school.

lol.

Only reason the deal went down is because the value of the 2nd deal went up accordingly. Just labeling it as 'wriggle room' with the negative connotation is a failure of understanding at best. As for the move of Friday #2 to Thursday - that's not just a Nein victory, it's a win/win - the NRL want less (ideally no) games running concurrently, and every game shown live (better for exposure).

RE the ASADA thing, someone undercut his dealings there (edit: oh, it was you again!)... look at what is happening over at AFL and praise the man for understanding the situation and reacting in a way that was best for the game moving forward. Exactly what he needed to do.

Of course, he's hardly perfect - that said, the stupid gameday festival type ideas he came in with were quickly discarded, and the discretionary war chest thankfully wasn't used. Still makes him a lot better than he's made out by many - and much better than (almost) every candidate I've seen suggested across the media.

Anyway, the guy promptly got politicked out of the job by Uncle Rupert after Fox/News realized they weren't going to be able to continue dicking the NRL with a seemingly pretty ruthless operator at the helm (see: Nein deal). Well done spineless clubland tards. It's almost like watching the Parra execs & board self-sabotage on a bigger scale.

 

[BuffaloRules]

lol.

Only reason the deal went down is because the value of the 2nd deal went up accordingly. Just labeling it as 'wriggle room' with the negative connotation is a failure of understanding at best. As for the move of Friday #2 to Thursday - that's not just a Nein victory, it's a win/win - the NRL want less (ideally no) games running concurrently, and every game shown live (better for exposure).

RE the ASADA thing, someone undercut his dealings there (edit: oh, it was you again!)... look at what is happening over at AFL and praise the man for understanding the situation and reacting in a way that was best for the game moving forward. Exactly what he needed to do.

Of course, he's hardly perfect - that said, the stupid gameday festival type ideas he came in with were quickly discarded, and the discretionary war chest thankfully wasn't used. Still makes him a lot better than he's made out by many - and much better than (almost) every candidate I've seen suggested across the media.

Anyway, the guy promptly got politicked out of the job by Uncle Rupert after Fox/News realized they weren't going to be able to continue dicking the NRL with a seemingly pretty ruthless operator at the helm (see: Nein deal). Well done spineless clubland tards. It's almost like watching the Parra execs & board self-sabotage on a bigger scale.

You can make excuses and justify all you like.

Ultimately Nine got games on Thurday night, Friday night Sunday arvo + Origin for about 35 per cent more than the old deal. More prime time content but way unders on the increase compared to what Fox paid and what 7 is paying for AFl.

He also gave away control of the Saturday night game to Nine. There should have been a clause that if Nine didn't want to show the game than this should have reverted back to the NRL - not allowing Nine to on sell the game themselves to Fox.

In regards to ASADA, it doesn't take a genius to take the three game deal on offer for admitted drug cheating. Just because the AFL in their typical hubris thought they could control the outcome is irrelevant.

 

[POPEYE]

Hopefully this means his bullshit 'Platinum League' doesn't eventuate.

Granted RL is a f**king cocooned shitfight but surely we can't be so unlucky you're wanked prediction comes true

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Well he negotiated a $925 Mil deal with Gyngell at Nine, but left enough wriggle room that the NRL only ended up with about $650 mil...

Ended up about a 35% increase on what Nine are paying now- in return for another prime time game on Thursday night to replace the delayed 2nd Friday night game.

Gyngell took him to school.

Enough wiggle room to properly extract a pound of flesh from Fox. That problems came when Grant decided the valuations in the 9 deal (prices meant only to scare Fox) were the prices that Fox had to pay.

DSmith did a sweet deal and was shafted before he was given the chance to get it over the line.

 

[betcats]

So Richo has now quit lol another great appointment by the Maestro smith. Its nice to Doctor in hear still tooting his horn :crazy:

 

[betcats]

I thought he was involved in the negotiations fighter current TV deal, sorry if I'm wrong.

No, he came in and reaped the rewards pissing away money he had f**k all to do with getting(while crowds and ratings stagnated) and then undersold the rights to Nine without even taking bids from anyone else!(a brilliant negotiating tactic according to his supporters here) Also during his tenure the game was f**ked around massively on and off the field.

Honestly I think the most of the people who think Dave Smith was good are dinosaurs who still think the superleague war is happening.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Enough wiggle room to properly extract a pound of flesh from Fox. That problems came when Grant decided the valuations in the 9 deal (prices meant only to scare Fox) were the prices that Fox had to pay.

DSmith did a sweet deal and was shafted before he was given the chance to get it over the line.

Well, at least two people think the deal was sweet - you and Gyngell.

 

[carcharias]

no to greedberg

 

[Captain Apollo]

He also gave away control of the Saturday night game to Nine. There should have been a clause that if Nine didn't want to show the game than this should have reverted back to the NRL - not allowing Nine to on sell the game themselves to Fox.

You are not stating the complete facts. Channel 9 could only onsell the Saturday night game with the NRL's approval. As such the still did retain control of it.

 

[DiegoNT]

People say channel 9 done extremely well in their negotiations, but they got some pain as well. They lost the exclusive rights to their 3 games. Now that fox are simulcasting 9s game it means that 9 are losing viewers. If they lose just 200k viewers on every game due to then simulcasting on fox it means they lose 600k over a round, times that by 26 rounds and its roughly 15.5 million less viewers on nine over a season.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

I hope I'm wrong but in 5 yrs time I think people who are now criticising Smith will look back & see just what we lost when he went .

 

[Twatface Magee]

Granted RL is a f**king cocooned shitfight but surely we can't be so unlucky you're wanked prediction comes true

Surely you don't think the Platinum League would be a good idea?

 

[BuffaloRules]

You are not stating the complete facts. Channel 9 could only onsell the Saturday night game with the NRL's approval. As such the still did retain control of it.

Nine and Fox agreed/controlled the final price of the Saturday night game.

I have not seen one article that says the NRL had any input into this.

Unless you have a link otherwise?

 

[Perth Red]

People say channel 9 done extremely well in their negotiations, but they got some pain as well. They lost the exclusive rights to their 3 games. Now that fox are simulcasting 9s game it means that 9 are losing viewers. If they lose just 200k viewers on every game due to then simulcasting on fox it means they lose 600k over a round, times that by 26 rounds and its roughly 15.5 million less viewers on nine over a season.

The better live time slot will more than make up for the likely 150k viewers lost to Fox. They will have massive net gain overall. No real pain to be had for them compared to what they gained for what they paid.

 

[siv]

Interesting how the deck chairs are shuffling in club CEO land

Richardson and now Canavan which means someone will move into Easts CEO

Sounds like the NRL CEO shortlist is being trimmed

 

[Nice Beaver]

Interesting how the deck chairs are shuffling in club CEO land

Richardson and now Canavan which means someone will move into Easts CEO

Sounds like the NRL CEO shortlist is being trimmed

How so?

If they do the right thing and look outside current NRL cronies then the shuffling would mean shit.

But this is the NRL administration.....