Blame the Media

[eddie]

And a similar one from 2015 about Nines cricket coverage

Thanks for posting that Mr Skeez, very interesting and so true.
We can draw a direct comparison with the ex-cricketers and MJohns and co.

[The Skeez]

Thanks for posting that Mr Skeez, very interesting and so true.
We can draw a direct comparison with the ex-cricketers and MJohns and co.

Did you read them both Ed?

The guy that wrote the cricket one, Geoff Lemon, is on that abc Sunday sports show Offsider's from time to time.

[The Skeez]

Blame the MEDIA. Great title.

Ownership and sponsors have to play a part in blame the media. News LTD has a lot to do with this disdain towards the roosters. The hatred goes back to the Super-league wars of 1997. News LTD verse Packer.The drongos (NEWS LTD team) verse Sydney City Roosters (ARL Voice) .They merged back together and formed the NRL in 1998.
Drongos won the first NRL title. Drongos which were News ltd flagship team and the introduction of the Melbourne Storm the other owned News Ltd team. Rupert Murdock the owner of News Ltd and other affiliations involved with this game will continually be in control of their assets by means of promoting what is good for them.
When the super league wars were on all that was seen in QLD was super-league and the drongos. Im sure in Nsw it was the opposite in ARL games only. Murdock and News Ltd own the game whether we like it or not.
He sold off Melbourne in 2013 after they were stripped of their two grand finals and three minor premierships.
2012 News Ltd relinquished the rights to the NRL and gave ownership to the Australian Rugby League Commission. Part of the deal included that the Drongos were to have a dispensation of the salary cap of $800 thousand dollars. Melbourne also gained from this but i cant find the figure. (Canberra Titans, Nth QLD didnt get any such benefits). This was to fund the one team one city allowance.
So Murdock and News LTD own Fox Sport, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. The Sunday Telegraph usually puts an a5 poster in the middle of the paper to celebrate the grand final victor. Which after the Roosters back to back victory they chose not to.
Murdock also had large shares in Fairfax. Fairfax media has a share in Nine Holdings and yes you guessed it, Nine Holdings have the television rights to the Rugby League. Nine Holdings also is a sponsor of the Drongos, (and the Drongos are the only public company in Rugby League) That explains why we get so many Drongos games on thursday and friday nights. The highest viewed days of the NRL.
Prior to the the Superleague stuff from 1998 there were heaps of back to back teamsBris of 1992-3, Canb 88-9, Canterbury 84-5, Parras triples in the early eighties. Yet its take 26 years for this to be contested. And the ARL voice team the Roosters win it and its down played. I wonder what it would have been like if the Drongos or storm had played instead of us.

RANT OVER................................ROOSTERS FOR EVER......................

Fun fact : uncle Nick is a Broncos shareholder

[eddie]

Did you read them both Ed?

The guy that wrote the cricket one, Geoff Lemon, is on that abc Sunday sports show Offsider's from time to time.

Yes I did.

Agree with a lot of it and found both interesting. Never heard of GL before, but I dont watch abc.

[TheLoneRooster]

This thread has been very good and my new favourite word to describe how neutral fans are feeling is butthurt - not a word I would normally use given the connotations, but it unfortunately makes me laugh when used in the specific context of the GF win.