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Message: [QUOTE="Number6, post: 2919558, member: 9008"] Issue is more games doesn’t necessarily mean that much more value and especially relative to cost. Thurs, Fri 1-2 games, Sat 2 games and sun 2 games. How many people are watching beyond that? Those with most money (and thus most advertiser attractive or fox sports) usually work too much to catch more than a couple or so games a week. Most fans only watch their own club. Die hard fans with time and money to watch 9 games a week probably aren’t a huge market and even then some will fatigue especially for 26 rounds + finals and rep season. Can be case for less but higher quality games being more exciting and drawing higher ratings especially for prime tv audience demographics. Issue is how many will be lost and how permanently if cut a bunch of Sydney teams. Will it be a short term pain and most will come back or will it be a loss of a generation to AFL and other sports. As for players - reinstate a national reserve grade (but with focus on linked teams to NRL side from regional areas that love league but don’t qualify for NRL) would be nice but more realistically and perhaps cost effective is to strengthen the local state comps. More tv slots for local comps for the die hard fans. [/QUOTE]

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