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Message: [QUOTE="OXY-351, post: 2447640, member: 2107"] The fans will never be happy. For every upside, there is a downside, and vice-versa. The game needs to generate revenue in order to compete with other codes and retain it's players. The main way they can generate revenue is by selling the broadcasing rights. Now either a pay TV network broadcasts the games, which means the fans have to pay to watch the games, or a FTA network broadcasts the game, which means they have to recoup the money via advertising. If they are going to broadcast the game on FTA, then they need to maximize the advertising dollars they can get by broadcasting the games in the best manner for this (eg, best games in prime time, most probably delayed). Unfortunately if the NRL want the maximum deal possible, they have to bow to this pressure. It's like anything in life, the more people pay for something, the more they expect, and quite rightly imo. So for those whinging about the new deal, would you rather better FTA coverage (i.e more games, and more live games), less money for the deal, no increase is salary cap and see players like Hunt, Folau etc lost to other codes or overseas? Then instead of whinging threads like this there would be whinging threads about how the game needs to do more to keep it's players. Or would you rather all the games to be shown on pay tv, and have to subscribe to it to even see any games? [/QUOTE]

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