Recent content by JRugby2

Reds player mate, we'll never know

Probably not much point flogging the horse of 1996 much further. Hindsight is 20-20 and that has clearly not paid off in the long run. But our reality is that extensive FTA coverage is never going to happen with current market conditions. With the NRL and AFL dominating the weekend, there is...

Yep, and this would come back to advertising. The majority of ads you see during the FTA broadcast on SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) are free to the advertiser - either as bonus or makegoods for rating shortfalls elsewhere, and so if they aren't making money from it - they may as well paywall it like the rest of the...

Off topic but my bet is Nine's not gonna get more content on more days out of PVL. If anything either their bill is going way up to keep what they have, or they get less (or both)

I could be wrong, but I'm inferring it from my experience in the media industry + Phil Waughs comments in this article. I also don't think that one game added nothing - I've been pretty consistently saying it's a trade off. Knowing that Nine would rather paywall as much of their content as...

Hope it's not a pike fence ;) Would you trade the uplift in money for this - meaning we don't have as much to invest in players/ high performance/ grass roots?

I definitely agree in principle, but with context it's not that black and white. In a different reality if we had 3-4 games on FTA a week that we were trading away - I'd have a different opinion. I think it's just a pragmatic decision looking at what was put in front of them. FWIW - the NRL...

As a direct attribution, probably not. But rugby did see a lot of coverage last ANS with the success of the team + nothing else to fill backpages so it would have helped. Also remember this is a part of the wider context of what's better: 1 FTA game a week that's not really advertised and...

Mentioned this in the context of the free-air as in no other football happening, meaning we get more coverage and attention in this window which would contribute to engaging the casual fan.

Yeah sure but we still have 6-7 tests a year in our time zone, then also the free-air of November when all the other codes have finished, Test cricket hasn't started so (provided we do well) we get a lot of coverage that would engage the casual fan we're trying to convert, even if they aren't...

International Rugby would do a better job of doing this than SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) - and they get advertiser dollars for it too.

Good I needed someone to target in this thread.

Plays off scratch apparently.

It's never been separate as far as I know? Purely talking player numbers with comment you replied to.

Maybe its not a cop out and just his own personal reasoning.