Nine/Fox to retain NRL Broadcast rights

[absentee]

With all this money coming into the game now, I'd like to know what the ARLC's plan is to increase the profile for rugby league and the Storm in Victoria. It feels like most of the time rugby league is just forgotten about in the media. Example - whenever I get the Herald Sun, I start from the back and flick through something like 20 pages of AFL news trying to find something Storm-related. We need more exposure and work needs to be done to make sure the Storm is embedded into Melbourne's sporting culture.

[absentee]

Also, I get the impression with this deal that the ARLC just wanted the money for now with a view to get a much better deal in five years time. I mean, as part of this deal, all of the first and last rights options Nein and Fox Sports had have been waived. That means five years from now the ARLC won't have to go to Nein and Fox Sports first to get their first offer and then give them another chance once the other networks have put in theirs. And who knows for sure where technology will be in five years? For all we know, the ARLC might drop Fox Sports completely in favour for their own NRL IPTV channel.

[Cherry_Poppins]

So without Gallop we got double the money and he has moved to the game with the biggest scumbags fans can be, in soccer every team has the bulldog army as fans

A match made in heaven

Also Absentee,I was in Melbourne a few days before the grand final in 08,as a matter of work commitments and flew back mere hours before the game to take my seat in bay 618

There were a lot of pages on afl and basically none on the storm who at the time were shooting for back to back, personally I don't enjoy Melbourne as a city, anywhere my car can be slammed by a mini train can go screw itself without the benefit of lubrication

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[scriptyx]

Being from Manly you wouldn't know much about modern transport...trams don't bump into you unless you bump them first LOL even i know that and I am from Sydney

[Turtle188]

It was probably Puffing Billy.....

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[Chip]

So without Gallop we got double the money and he has moved to the game with the biggest scumbags fans can be, in soccer every team has the bulldog army as fans

A match made in heaven

Also Absentee,I was in Melbourne a few days before the grand final in 08,as a matter of work commitments and flew back mere hours before the game to take my seat in bay 618

There were a lot of pages on afl and basically none on the storm who at the time were shooting for back to back, personally I don't enjoy Melbourne as a city, anywhere my car can be slammed by a mini train can go screw itself without the benefit of lubrication

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Had my first visit there a few weeks back...was lucky enough to meet everyone (CB & all) albeit for fleeting moments! And one of the thrills - got to walk out onto AAMI park, after everything was over, lol, but awesome nonetheless!
Melbourne reminds me of Wellington (even down to the weather) & I loved it!!!

[Cherry_Poppins]

So without Gallop we got double the money and he has moved to the game with the biggest scumbags fans can be, in soccer every team has the bulldog army as fans

A match made in heaven

Also Absentee,I was in Melbourne a few days before the grand final in 08,as a matter of work commitments and flew back mere hours before the game to take my seat in bay 618

There were a lot of pages on afl and basically none on the storm who at the time were shooting for back to back, personally I don't enjoy Melbourne as a city, anywhere my car can be slammed by a mini train can go screw itself without the benefit of lubrication

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Had my first visit there a few weeks back...was lucky enough to meet everyone (CB & all) albeit for fleeting moments! And one of the thrills - got to walk out onto AAMI park, after everything was over, lol, but awesome nonetheless!
Melbourne reminds me of Wellington (even down to the weather) & I loved it!!!

It's been the coldest i ever was and the hottest i ever was in Melbourne....different visits

The only good thing there is the city within a city,although in RLL2 you won't have that sponsor
due to a whinefest about gambling/alcohol sponsorship

[LESStar58]

We'll still see one of the Friday night games live on Gem. Still though, spewing these pricks got to keep them.

don't be so sure. read the breakdown. there's nothing about a commitment to live FNF...only a guarantee of broadcast via main or digital channels.

[Ice]

I'd find it near impossible to believe that the IC would be anywhere near as stupid as the previous hierarchy and not stipulate a clause where 9 must at least broadcast games on Gem and not just when they feel like it. Then again this is the NRL so nothing at all would surprise me really......

[bula]

So does this mean you guys in Melbourne will still get league games at midnight??

[Ice]

Apparently there's no stipulation they have to show it live on Gem (Friday nights) but i doubt we'll be reverting back to the bad old days of midnight replays and reckon the first game will continue to be shown live on Gem.

[Storm Spirit]

Apparently there's no stipulation they have to show it live on Gem (Friday nights) but i doubt we'll be reverting back to the bad old days of midnight replays and reckon the first game will continue to be shown live on Gem.

i thought I read somewhere that Storm games would definitely be shown live on GEM as part ofthe new deal.

Bugger me if I can find the reference now !!!

[Ice]

That was my understanding SS but Less seems to think otherwise so i'm not sure.

[Surandy]

Being from Manly you wouldn't know much about modern transport...trams don't bump into you unless you bump them first LOL even i know that and I am from Sydney

Nah, he said "mini train" he must've been driving on the Altona Miniture Railway.

[Cherry_Poppins]

Trams don't exist in modern civilisation

Only Melbourne and San Francisco, which I reckon have a lot in common

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