Bullion
Trying to read my mind tis difficult I have enough difficulty understanding myself at time...
No I don't expect NZ to mimic the Australia coverage... I am actually one of the biggest supporters of having a NZ team... also FFA will have enough trouble finding the two extra sides for the next media deal, finding 3 would be near impossible IMO... I should mention I also worked in NZ for just under 4 years on the Marsden Point Refinery and lived in Koma a little part of Whangerie in the lol winter-less north...
My thoughts are reasonably well known, and in simple terms Football is starting to gain real traction in Australia and growing quite quickly, In NZ growing but at a slower pace and I wonder if it goes un treated [wrong term] say with limited growth will the A-League growth leave NZF behind.... I don't pretend to know the solutions nor even the issues but to ignore as not important would be foolish...
My team the Mariners are also under very similar pressure with the often suggested move to Northern Sydney akin to similar stories about Nix and Auckland... however a move to say North Sydney, the history of the Northern Spirit says a team would be huge ... The NS averaged crowds in its first years as an NSL team greater than most A-League clubs today ...
I accept my natural instinct is to look at Stats and management maybe in overkill but that's my nature and my job as well and has nothing to do with the Nix or any other team...
Maybe I should explain a client of mine [I am a CPA] is employed by one of Australia's largest public listed companies who advertise extensively across a number of platforms... He is the director in charge of statistical analysis of trends and directions and advises his board on how much to sponsor various things including sport ... He has a vast knowledge of all sports and he tells me all sorts of interesting stuff we seem to go out to lunch often turning into dinner when he comes up from Melbourne.... On all the major sports deals with the AFL, NRL, SANDZAR, Tennis etc he sits in the meetings between his board and the board of the code in sport he sat in on the last 3 AFL & NRL & SANDZAR media deals as an example and advised his board on how much to sponsor... Over way too many Hunter Reds we have discussed the affect of media on ratings, crowds, sponsors etc... Before his current position he was employed in a similar role by one of Australia's and the world largest media companies in a similar role ... So by nature and interest I post these things but do not have the motive of some seem to say I have ...