Round 18 | Best Bets & Predictions 🏈

Let's just touch on it because I have actually...

Well, I mean, on the surface, I'm no broadcast deal expert, but on the surface, it looks like an incredible deal for the game.

$5.3 billion TV right deal.

Best part of $1 billion above the most recent AFL deal.

Bit of a landmark day for Rugby League as far as the amount of money that's going to come in to the game.

Yeah.

It would appear that on the surface that it will be ratified by the commission.

The existing rights holders don't change.

NRL will be broadcast by Fox and Channel 9 moving forward.

So all the talk around Amazon and Channel 7 and bloody whoever else, you popping up for Thursday night games for the rights, whoever, is out the door.

And...

I suppose the interesting thing for me is a clause has been added for the provision of a 20F team, which we sort of knew, but it's interesting to look at the timing, 2029, 2030.

So we're going to go bang, bang, bang.

So we're Western, so the Perth side, PNG side, and I would think most likely probably New Zealand.

Yeah, that's certainly the look of it.

Stephen, whichever way you slice it, clearly it's a big win for the game.

Outstanding result and, you know, praise to all involved.

You know, I think without being a little bit negative, I mean, if you look at...

this and compare it to where we were in the last deal, we got absolutely taken down the river by the same guy and sold for a song.

But the good result is where we are now.

And, you know, what it then potentially means for the game, let's hope it's then used wisely in many of the right areas, you know.

in particular, I hope, grassroots and development and, you know, a lot of that stuff that we desperately need.

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