Recent content by JRugby2

It would most likely be a Friday-Saturday or Saturday-Sunday thing. NRL manages the bye during magic round fine enough

This is true to a certain extent They would be able to charge more for sponsorship and other things associated with each broadcast but on a broader level you're right. I have no doubt though that Stan Sport and Stan more broadly will eventually turn to an ad supported model (despite their best...

I suppose I'd be looking at them as completely separate comps - so if 1st Grade Premier is playing at 3pm, then so is 1st Grade Subbies (5th grade) in their comps. Time Home Away 3pm 1st Grade (Hospital Cup) 1st Grade Suburban/ 5th Grade (Barber Cup) 1:30pm 2nd Grade 2nd Grade Suburban/...

I think this has more to do with the production company than the broadcaster. U20s was outsourced by 9/stan as I understand - shit weather probably didnt help

The ABC is owned by the government - doesn't mean its state media.

To clarify - I meant only in those lower/ subbies grades. Grades 1-4 in the hospital cup to be left unaffected.

Or follow the lead of Shute Shield and have only 4 grades of QPR and prop up the subbies comp. Sure - keep the players in the club house but have those grades play in the Subbies comp with promotion/ relegation or grading trials in pre season.

Love the thought but with all due respect to the regions they'd get absolutely bopped by the QPR teams in this format. Would say that there is likely enough talent (particularly in SEQ Country Regions) to field a competitive team but not without the support an established club environment...

Just quietly - how good would it be to get a handful of QPR games up the coast again with some kind of formal partnership. Northern Suburbs Stingbads has a great ring to it.

The ABC is owned by the government but it doesn't mean it's state media. OzTAM doesn't use reach for anything - they report on it, just like they report on a lot of things....

It's not cooked up by FTA channels... it comes from OzTAM who are independent from the networks using a representative sample and extrapolating that out to the entire population. https://oztam.com.au/TheOzTAMPanel.aspx No one is hiding the decline of FTA TV - but sport continually bucks this trend.

The off field review process in my view is easily the best innovation in the professional game that I've seen for some time. For rugby-related red cards (I'm talking dangerous tackles/ clean outs here mostly as opposed to punching, stomping, eye-gouging etc etc) there is now absolutely zero...

Love the cynicism (truly, I do) but they're quoting researchers and media industry experts in the article saying that 10's position is untenable - maybe there is something behind NC shining a light on it but there is definitely a lot of smoke anyway. 4th behind the ABC last year and no light at...

They don't directly benefit from talking about sports that they don't broadcast, so they don't talk about them.

As opposed to the rugby union heartland that is Homebush?