David Gallop
Today’s NRL State of the Game report revealed a particularly impressive set of figures, which NRL CEO David Gallop didn’t hesitate to fire straight across the bow of the AFL.
In particular, Gallop drew attention to the number of close matches in the NRL this year. As Gallop and the despairing AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou would know only too well, the AFL has had more blowouts than Summernats this year. And a lopsided competition is a predictable competition is a dull competition.
While the NRL still lags well behind the AFL in terms of attendance, one of its key advantages is its dominance in subscription TV, where it boasts 74 of the top 100 programs so far in 2011.
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In our shock, it is so easy to think of yesterday as a black and terrible day for Australian sport.
In that we discovered one of our sporting teams cheated and deceived it was – but in time, yesterday will be remembered as the day Rugby League regained its soul.
It will be remembered as the day that David Gallop and the Board of the NRL decided they would rather fold their tent than tolerate cheating in their ranks. It’s the day when a major Australian sport said that the values on which it was founded was more important than the corporate support and the enterprises that fund it.
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NRL is the most watched football code on TV? Andy that is just blatantly untrue Read more »
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Really? You lost me at the headline. The only time I have heard the words “rugby league” and “soul” in the same sentence there was “arse-” in front of it. The NSW and Brisbane Rugby League competition calling it self national is like the Yanks calling their baseball the world… Read more »
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