Will RL die or stay alive?

khan

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I know its all speculation and confusion with everything that is going on but i highly doubt this game will survive through bad administration past and present, the true face of RL is getting exposed thanks to the "covid19".
 

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you cant kill rugby league, its so many people in Australia's number 1 sport!!
yes it will take a big blow but it will never die!
 

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It will survive. Hopefully Manly don’t
 

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There will need to bbe a lot of belt tightening.

For a sport with a $1.7B broadcast deal, it will have to learn how to put some away in the future. Players will have to stop their demands for higher % of revenues.
 

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It's inevitable that at some stage this season the competition will be halted.
I think there'd be a 2 to 3 month period where the comp shuts down, coming back up in time with a modified final few rounds and finals system to close out the system.
 

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It will be fine even if they lose the rest of the season. Fox and Nine won't let it die because they'll be in massive trouble themselves without the ratings that NRL gives them.
 

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It shouldn't be close to folding. The administration of the game are the worst financial managers in the world if they haven't built a sizeable chunk of capital to tide them over. Either that or they've robbed the game blind with huge wages and bonuses for the administration,i which case, if the NRL does die, I think that another competition which is better run will pop up.
 

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I think the betting agencies will make sure it doesn't die otherwise they'll stand to lose a lot of money.
 

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My theorie no. Because everyone will be on the same level everyone is gonna be affected financially I think tradies on small businesses may be the best out of this outcome we work in smal groups . Rl will survive it’s media scare tactics
 

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Nrl is one of the only sports still playing professionally in the world they are gonna make a fuck tonne of Lo eh this weekend because everyone Will be watching on tv . As soon as you tune in and a add is played when they hit certain targets for viewers of an ad channel 9 and fox receive more
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I'll put in perspective for you...

Back in 2010 shortly after Spain won the Soccer World Cup, FC Barcelona were in debt €500,000,000 - that's right, half a billion EUROS. They ought so many of the of the topc players in the world (who's price would've increased after the World Cup) and also had to re-sign players who were off contract, and did so without a care in the world. Did they declare bankruptcy? No. Why? Because Nike bailed them out. Nike make that much money of them by selling Barcelona merchandise, that they will never let them die.

That's how it works in the business world. No matter poor managed or run a team is, if another entity can make money off them, they'll save them.

Betting companies here will never let the NRL die because of how much money they'll make off them.
 

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The whole world is melting down as no one was prepared for something like this.

It’s fucken awesome.
 
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