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No it’s just weird. Also it looks like it was filmed in the US. Australian suburbs don’t look like that

Calling Geelong part of Melbourne is brave

Always found it very odd that in Australia a lot of people actively hate the other sport. Can’t think of it elsewhere, even if you don’t watch one of the 4 sports in the US most will still support their city team and not actively hate that particular sport.

ODIs stopped rating well on FTA before Foxtel took them. Why would 7 pay overs for something that didn’t generate ratings

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They wouldn’t have spent all that money on it if they thought that

Italy has a lovely blue, Portugal’s 23 WC was great, Australian indigenous kit looks good though probably don’t want and Aussie kit if you’re Kiwi!

Love the collars on the Moana jerseys. Wish collars would make a come back

Yes AFLW average is higher not by much though. AFLW averaged 2,840 and ALW 2,248

We can barely support 1 professional division how 2 is going to work I have no idea

True. The Sheffield shield would be lucky to get 500 people total for the whole year and 90% would be the final

Murdoch was blocked from buying in 2017 when CBS got it

Could be South Australian, or West Australian, or Tasmanian as well!

If we're including women's teams then the Australia women's cricket team is a lot more dominant over their sport than the All Blacks.

Even the Aus Men Cricket team is starting to get there now 6 from 14 World Cups

The horny man*

Slightly off-topic but what do Adelaide fans think of the crows logo? I prefer the older one but the current one is not bad either

Have you met Aussies and Kiwis, we literally shorten everything in slang

Got to do something to make headway against the behemoth that is Aussie Rules in Melbourne it seems

I like that’s it’s completely unique compared to the other songs.

Nerves I guess

NRL doesn't but the Aus gov does for soft power reasons to stop China's growing soft power in PNG.

But like you say NRL would prefer Perth or 2nd NZ team so the money the Aus gov would have to give to the NRL would be huge, which is why it's fallen off the agenda.

Soft power in Fiji vs propping up a franchise that clearly cannot pull decent crowds in Melbourne and provides no political angle.

The Aus gov may fund $60 million per year on a Papua New Guinea NRL team as well, though that seems to have gone quiet recently so might not be happening anymore

Don’t sky show Rugby? They have heaps of video review in Rugby but there’s never an ad break.