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[QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3490622, member: 9052"] To me I think in general there is a Sydney centric bias across the league and that the media do have an influence on perceptions and narrative across the competition. The level of influence can be debated, but I don't think its presence can be. On the field if a referee makes a mistake they get absolutely destroyed in the media the next day... to avoid this a referee may look to make the 'easy call' as damage control... their goal is to be invisible in a game and just stay the **** out of the newspaper... there's square ups when they stuff up or are overly influencing a game... everyone knows of these things i.e. "how's Trent?". Ch 9 and Fox create the 'draw' every year and they're only objective is eyeballs on screens ... and to the NRL they are the most important stakeholder, because they pay the bills... even though we are the ones that actually have the fucking eyeballs. Does the NRL have the same objective as their tv partners... to an extent yes, but shouldn't their main goal be growth of the game and expansion across the country for a 'National' Rugby League competition and securing a long term sustainable future for the game. Whenever a conference system is brought up it's Sydney vs the rest, because 'it makes sense'... how does it makes sense to have half the comp travelling all over Australia and NZ, whilst the others can take a bus every week... or does it make sense because 9 and Fox then have an excuse to play Sydney teams against each other every week, and put the backwater teams that don't matter to them at whoever the **** cares timeslots. 9 and Fox are effectively in control of which teams get promoted instead of equal promotion across the competition. They control which teams are televised and when, and have a monopoly on media coverage for the game. They tell us that souths, parra, rorters, etc. are heavyweights of the comp and then put them on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, but they've spent more time out of the 8 this year than in it.... and yet Warriors, who are in the top 4, have barely rated a mention across their entire existence... outside of "geez how good are the warriors going"... because they don't draw a crowd. This can influence decisions in the game... players want to go to 'good' teams, so suddenly the 'good' teams get players at lower prices because they want to go to successful clubs and 'good' systems... whereas 'bad' teams have to overpay just to get a player to even consider them. That starts to skew and create imbalance in the competition... even though there is a salary cap. The imbalance allows a team to artificially go above the cap whilst others are handicapped, furthering a team's success and creating a rich get richer system whilst hindering a lower team's opportunity to get up the ladder and become a 'good' team. If any conspiracy does exist then it's being driven by the stakeholders within 9 and Fox, and it's really only about increasing exposure to the teams that generate them clicks and views, and they can do it through their control on promotion and monopoly on media coverage. Broncos have obviously benefited from this current system, because we get a shit ton of prime tv slots across the draw... however, that draws anger from the audience... and so they'll tune in to see if we lose... either way they've got their eyeballs on screens. As a result we are an antagonist of the league, but we're not alone. The clubs that are heavily promoted are generally hated across the audience (souths, rorters, panthers, parra, broncos, storm, etc.), probably because fans are sick of seeing them all the time and sick of media bleating on about them ad nauseam. There's a general disparity across the league in regards to equal promotion and attention... and the NRL are losing more and more control of creating equality on that front. Probably because they're scared of losing the pay cheque from 9 and Fox, and also because whatever they're doing is generating eyeballs on screens, so if it's working... let's leave it up to them.... but is it them and they're promotion of the game OR is the game sustaining, and possibly growing, itself in spite of the piss poor media coverage it actually gets. Is 9 and Fox's method for promoting the game actually helping or hindering the game? That's up for debate... Fox promote the shit out of the game nonstop compared to 9 and they would love to have more games to put on screens.... but I daresay their constant favouritism of teams gets on the nerve of a lot of fans. Do 9 and Fox care? Hell no... the content they already have access to generates some of the highest ratings on TV and that's primarily from two fucking states in the country. Could they make more money if the comp expanded? Maybe... but they'd probably be happier having more teams in Qld and NSW... they'd probably be happier if NZ and Storm relocated to Qld and NSW as well. [/QUOTE]
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