Capital_Shark
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The kid doesn’t mind are nothing kick on the 4th.
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Sevshark
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He's missed a decent chunk of footy in recent times due to injury but still only 22
Just needs consistent footy even if it is just nsw cup for most of this year
HaroldBishop
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Thanks NRL
Flying Fish: Cronulla’s hectic travel schedule
Rd 1 — Cronulla to Las Vegas: 24,880km
Rd 2 — Cronulla to Townsville: 4208km
Rd 5 — Cronulla to Canberra: 560km
Rd 6 — Cronulla to Perth: 7688km
Rd 7 — Cronulla to Newcastle: 392km
Rd 9 — Cronulla to Brisbane: 1888km
TOTAL: 39,616km
Flying Fish: Cronulla’s hectic travel schedule
Rd 1 — Cronulla to Las Vegas: 24,880km
Rd 2 — Cronulla to Townsville: 4208km
Rd 5 — Cronulla to Canberra: 560km
Rd 6 — Cronulla to Perth: 7688km
Rd 7 — Cronulla to Newcastle: 392km
Rd 9 — Cronulla to Brisbane: 1888km
TOTAL: 39,616km
Hopefully it will galvanise us for the back half of the comp....
Capital_Shark
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It is the round 2 to Townsville while all the other Vegas teams get a home game that shits me. Not like our ground was already booked out to someone else.
Western Sharkie
Jaws
Yep.
the rest are fine, but travelling after Vegas is a bit stiff!
But if we knock em off, it’s a big feather in our cap!
HaroldBishop
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I really hope they don't split up games amongst various streamers, subscribing to multiple platforms would suck.
Why NRL wants to bring TV production in-house ahead of next rights deal
The NRL will consider bringing broadcast production of its matches in-house ahead of the next television deal to entice streaming services to bid for the rights.
The governing body will start negotiations with potential media partners once it has made a definitive call on the number of teams in the competition. PNG will enter the league in 2028, while there remains the prospect of another franchise – most likely in Perth – coming in a year earlier.
Negotiations with the Western Australian government will recommence now that Roger Cook has been reappointed as premier, with a decision on the region expected within two months.
While the existing broadcast deal between Foxtel and Nine Entertainment – the publishers of this masthead – doesn’t expire until 2027, the NRL wants to get to the table early to consider all the options in an increasingly fragmented media market.
Sports rights are becoming valuable to streaming services – such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google and Apple – but they usually prefer a clean feed to be provided rather than having to produce the content themselves.
It’s one of the reasons the NRL is considering bringing production of its rugby league content in-house.
“That is definitely an option,” ARLC chairman Peter V’landys said. “We have to consider it because some of the other streamers require us to provide them a clean feed. The ones we spoke to last time around, we would have had to do production.
“It will be the same quality as what we get now, that’s the thing. With technology, you can add things. If you have your own equipment, you can reinvest and keep up with the technology. There’s robotic cameras, there’s AI.”
Under the leadership of V’landys, Racing NSW paid a reported $5 million for production equipment to Global Advance, which had gone bust after previously broadcasting A-League matches. However, the NRL would likely purchase its own equipment if it decided to bring production in-house rather than lease from elsewhere.
The issue of traditional media – in the form of free-to-air and pay-TV – coming under pressure from streaming services was a topic of conversation at a recent NRL business of sport conference in Las Vegas. Keynote speaker David Nathanson of Mapleton Investments – who acquired the American rights to the NRL while at Fox Sports – said “the television and pay TV business in the United States is in a state of irreversible decline”.
“The aggregate programming fees, the fees that distributors are paying networks for their rights, is not keeping up with the pace of decline,” Nathanson said.
“That is leading us to this state of irreversible change in the US television market.
“Sports are unquestionably the most coveted assets for traditional media companies. Why? It’s the only thing keeping their audiences connected with their pay-TV universe and the old model. Entertainment content has already left the building. They’re gone, they’ve already gone to the streaming platforms. Sports will turn off the lights.”
Nathanson pointed to Netflix having 89 million subscribers in the US, at a time when the number of pay-TV subscribers was just 67 million. He added that streamers were keen to acquire sporting content given 80 per cent of the most-watched programs in America were sports related, a number that would have been higher still if not for the US election.
He said content entrants such as Apple were well placed to jockey for sporting content given that globally there are 2.2 billion active Apple devices, including phones and computers.
“You have an apex predator on the horizon, one that is acquiring content selectively with a significantly better mousetrap than that model that has been created by the traditional providers, and those are the streamers,” Nathanson said.
“They are better at hunting for subscribers and monetising these rights than any of the traditional players.”
Why NRL wants to bring TV production in-house ahead of next rights deal
The rise of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime could result in a huge change to the way rugby league is broadcast.www.smh.com.au
Western Sharkie
Jaws
Fck me dead.
We will end up needing 100 different subscriptions to keep up with our sports.
For a sport loving person I’ll end up needing 10+ apps/ subscriptions (which is not going to happen) just to watch AFL, NRL, cricket, Basketball, F1etc etc etc
HaroldBishop
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I know, it sucks. Rather go back to the old Foxtel model.
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The good news is Foxtel/Kayo falls over without the NRL, so they'll overbid anyone else.
HaroldBishop
Megalodon
NRL and AFL, they need them both.
stormshark
Jaws
FAL? V'landys ball?
Shark_Hatch
Jaws
NRL boss takes action after furore over Ivan Cleary's 'terrible' comment in presser
It might be a different story this year. Read more here.
I read his yesterday, if they are going to crackdown on it this season about time they do but they'd better make it consistent & make it for coaches like Cleary & Bellamy too. Hate it when these things happen but they let top teams get off it & only crackdown on the lower teams.
HaroldBishop
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Sticky would have copped a fine, bet he's pissed others are getting off.
NRL boss takes action after furore over Ivan Cleary's 'terrible' comment in presser
It might be a different story this year. Read more here.au.news.yahoo.com
I read his yesterday, if they are going to crackdown on it this season about time they do but they'd better make it consistent & make it for coaches like Cleary & Bellamy too. Hate it when these things happen but they let top teams get off it & only crackdown on the lower teams.
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NRL boss takes action after furore over Ivan Cleary's 'terrible' comment in presser
It might be a different story this year. Read more here.
I read his yesterday, if they are going to crackdown on it this season about time they do but they'd better make it consistent & make it for coaches like Cleary & Bellamy too. Hate it when these things happen but they let top teams get off it & only crackdown on the lower teams.
When reporters ask about the refs coaches should just ask them if they are going to pay the quote's fine.
No? Next question please
Western Sharkie
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From 2028...
CrazyMatt
Jaws
Flanno is piiiiiiiissed. Good luck to those players this week.
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‘You’re smarter than that’: Flanno’s telling reply as Dragons halves put on notice after blowing lead
‘You’re smarter than that’: Flanno’s telling journo reply as Dragons halves put on notice
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The curse of scoring more tries and still losing. Hopefully we have passed that onto the Dargons forever.Flanno is piiiiiiiissed. Good luck to those players this week.
‘You’re smarter than that’: Flanno’s telling reply as Dragons halves put on notice after blowing lead
‘You’re smarter than that’: Flanno’s telling journo reply as Dragons halves put on notice