With the penalties handed down to Parramatta in the National Rugby League yesterday, Ive laid out a ranking of the top penalties for salary cap breaches in Australian sport. 1. The Melbourne Storm (NRL 2010) Unquestionably the king of salary cap penalties, the Melbourne Storm were heavily penalised after the National Rugby League uncovered breaches estimated…
General To coincide with the end of the AFL and NRL seasons, Nielsen has compiled data forMediaweek that ranks all the AFL and NRL clubs. Association Football AUSTRALIAN football will embark on a bright new dawn after the successful adoption of wide-ranging governance reforms finally ended the civil war crippling the game. Steven Lowy said while the FFA board is…
AFL Football great Kevin Sheedy has called on the AFL to open the new Burswood Stadium next year with a one-off State of Origin fixture between WA and Victoria. TASMANIA is sick of jumping through the AFL’s hoops — now it is up to the League to show the way for the state to enter…
NRL Thu NRL – Dogs v Cowboys – 8,122 at ANZ Stadium Thu NRL FTA – #NRL #NRLBulldogsCowboys Nine/9Gem 701k: Metro 424k (Syd 209k Bri 191k) Regional 277k Thu STV #NRL #FoxLeague #NRLBulldogsCowboys National: 202k Metro 143k (Syd 81k Mel 12k Bri 40k Ade 6k Per 5k) #MattyJohns 112k Thu Footy Show – Syd 87,000…
AFL AFl Sat – Pies v Blues – 70,279 at the MCG AFL Sat – Dogs v Tigers – 46,387 at Etihad Stadium Sat TV night #AFL #AFLDogsTigers Seven Mel 307k, 7mate 152k (Syd 25k Per 95k) AFL Sat – Suns v Cats – 13,648 at Metricon Stadium Sat TV night #AFL #AFLSunsCats 7mate Bri…
AFL PLAYERS will pocket a minimum of $1.8 billion over the next six seasons under last week’s breakthrough pay agreement. The monster pay day equates to 28 per cent of total AFL industry revenues and sees the average player wage climb to $371,000. The AFL has agreed to pay players the equivalent of 11.2 per…
AFL The latest data collected in the Nielsen Social Content Ratings for the week ending April 30 shows the AFL took the top four spots on the chart with the Anzac day match between Essendon and Collingwood screened by Seven and Fox Footy ranking #1 for sport. GOLD Coast have come out on top in…
AFL A radical proposal to short-circuit pay negotiations with the AFL Players Association by putting an offer directly to the footballers to vote on has been placed before league bosses by Melbourne president and prominent industrial lawyer Glen Bartlett. The AFL says it will has put Gold Coast’s Metricon Stadium on standby if the decision…
AFL Thu AFL: West Coast Eagles d Sydney Swans: Crowd: 38,065 @ Domain Stadium Thu STV: #AFLEaglesSwans #FoxFooty 357k (Only one FoxFooty H&A game bigger in 2016 – #AFL NTH MELB V HAWTHORN in June with 399k) Thu STV: #AFL #FoxFooty #AFLEaglesSwans National: 357k (Metro: Syd 34k Mel 141k Bri 20k Ade 39k Per 55k)…
AFL AFLW – Melbourne v Fremantle – 2,500 (est) at Casey Fields AFLW – GWS v bulldogs – 6,460 at Manuka Oval, Sat TV #AFLW 7mate #AFLWGiantsDogs 145k (99k Metro Regional 46k) AFLW – Collingwood v Adelaide – 2,500 at Olympic Park AFLW – Carlton v Brisbane – 5,801 at Ikon Park Sat STV #AFLW…
With the penalties handed down to Parramatta in the National Rugby League yesterday, Ive laid out a ranking of the top penalties for salary cap breaches in Australian sport. 1. The Melbourne Storm (NRL 2010) Unquestionably the king of salary cap penalties, the Melbourne Storm were heavily penalised after the National Rugby League uncovered breaches…
As we get closer to the full reports release, the AFL as usual drips the information out to us as needed. This week, player wages and some handy graphics. The AFL website reports that AFL players have streamed further ahead of other sports – and other industries – as some of Australia’s highest paid professionals,…
Fairfax media is reporting that there was a meeting on Wednesday between NRL club chiefs and the NRL about wide-ranging issues that included funding, the salary cap and changes to the constitution. Storm Chairman Bart Campbell described the latest round of talks as “positive” but it’s said there’s still be a long way to go before the NRL…
Fairfax reports that NRL clubs want their annual grants increased to 130 per cent of the salary cap and changes to the constitution to give them a greater say in the make-up of the ARL Commission.Those are the key points in a list of demands drawn up ahead of a potentially explosive meeting on Wednesday between a delegation…
Fairfax media reported on the 14th of October that Mark Evans was halfway through the process of conducting the review into third party payments “We’ve got some improvements that could be made,” Evans said. “I’m testing a few ideas against a few people in the game. Hopefully, in the next few weeks I will be…
Steve Mascord writes in Fairfax media that making player salaries public knowledge is only a matter of time.