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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 650945" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>You're still not getting that League fans don't care about the contest for possession; they care that the play the ball is <strong>faster</strong> than a ruck, in which the ball is also effectively out of action (it's only that there are players are bunching over the top of it in union - something which slows the process of bringing it <strong>back into action</strong>).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Minor is a relative term. All sports are medium players at best in the context of large businesses - the most economically powerful football comp in the world - the NFL - still only rakes in $6 billion a year for its TV contract, a couple years ago BHP Billiton had $20 billion in profits for a single year and still weren't a top 5 company. </p><p></p><p>Rugby League is a small player, but it still scores TV contracts worth over a billion dollars with its fan base over the Australia Eastern Seaboard. That's a significant economic footprint in a country like ours, so you're just not going to see its administrators risk alienating its existing fans in the hope of scoring fans from random locations overseas by messing with such a fundamental area like the play the ball. The outcomes of such a move would more likely than not be a net loss of support for the game. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, if you think about that for a moment longer you'll see that 1) it's not at all analogous, and 2) it provides a perfect example of how to split scoring systems. In rugby, if you foul a player by slowing the ball near the try line, the result is still less than half a converted try (unless it's a foul stopping "a certain try"), but possibly ends with the offending player getting sent off. The problem with soccer's scoring system is that by assigning a singular value to goals, you have equal value for something that has zero team element to it as you do to a goal that is scored by and against a team.</p><p></p><p>The fact that you expected my friend to laugh was kinda why I brought it up; your ideas just sound of a similar nature to fans of league and union and fail to grasp that the games have been moving in different directions for 100 years now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 650945, member: 12207"] You're still not getting that League fans don't care about the contest for possession; they care that the play the ball is [B]faster[/B] than a ruck, in which the ball is also effectively out of action (it's only that there are players are bunching over the top of it in union - something which slows the process of bringing it [B]back into action[/B]). Minor is a relative term. All sports are medium players at best in the context of large businesses - the most economically powerful football comp in the world - the NFL - still only rakes in $6 billion a year for its TV contract, a couple years ago BHP Billiton had $20 billion in profits for a single year and still weren't a top 5 company. Rugby League is a small player, but it still scores TV contracts worth over a billion dollars with its fan base over the Australia Eastern Seaboard. That's a significant economic footprint in a country like ours, so you're just not going to see its administrators risk alienating its existing fans in the hope of scoring fans from random locations overseas by messing with such a fundamental area like the play the ball. The outcomes of such a move would more likely than not be a net loss of support for the game. Actually, if you think about that for a moment longer you'll see that 1) it's not at all analogous, and 2) it provides a perfect example of how to split scoring systems. In rugby, if you foul a player by slowing the ball near the try line, the result is still less than half a converted try (unless it's a foul stopping "a certain try"), but possibly ends with the offending player getting sent off. The problem with soccer's scoring system is that by assigning a singular value to goals, you have equal value for something that has zero team element to it as you do to a goal that is scored by and against a team. The fact that you expected my friend to laugh was kinda why I brought it up; your ideas just sound of a similar nature to fans of league and union and fail to grasp that the games have been moving in different directions for 100 years now. [/QUOTE]
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