New TV Rights Deal

[LostDoggy]

Re: New TV Rights Deal

NRL is basically a made for TV product. Their game day attendances are pitiful. I get the feeling that AFL with the emphasis on twilight games is heading that way. I mean, why would the TV networks care about ground advertising to 35,000 as apposed to 20,000, when they measure ratings in the hundreds of thousands on TV? If you can watch a game live no matter where you are, I can see the ground attendances dropping.

I don't get it, personally, you get so much more of a view at the game. You can see the whole gameplan in place, not just the ball carrier/whatever has caught the commentators attention.

[Ozza]

Re: New TV Rights Deal

I don't get it, personally, you get so much more of a view at the game. You can see the whole gameplan in place, not just the ball carrier/whatever has caught the commentators attention.

Yeah I'm in the same boat. I find it very frustrating watching on tv, and never feel like I have a great idea of what is happening strategically.

As a result, when watching on tv I tend to carry on like a lunatic - whereas it takes me far more to fire up when at the game where you can see things unfolding.

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: New TV Rights Deal

For me the game day experience does give a much better view of what is happening.

Yet you still miss some things that you get from the TV coverage.
I really enjoy going to the game and then watching the replay.

That has been fun this year.

[Mantis]

Re: New TV Rights Deal

As a result, when watching on tv I tend to carry on like a lunatic - whereas it takes me far more to fire up when at the game where you can see things unfolding.

I wanted to kick the TV in during the 3rd quarter against Geelong.

[Twodogs]

Re: New TV Rights Deal

For me the game day experience does give a much better view of what is happening.

Yet you still miss some things that you get from the TV coverage.
I really enjoy going to the game and then watching the replay.

That has been fun this year.

I like that there is coverage at the ground on the scoreboards too. Being short sighted sometimes I can't get a proper view of what's happening 100 metres away so watching on the screen can be handy.
Sometimes it disorienting though if you think the ball is at the other end of the ground and you look down its at actually right in front if you!

I wanted to kick the TV in during the 3rd quarter against Geelong.

Mmmm. TV, smashed windows, car roofs, garage doors, radios have all fallen victim to bulldog related random violence on my part.