Online petitions are a bit of a joke - needs to be a real one. Great effort making it etc. but it can just be too easily manipulated (though the current signatures all seem legit)
I saw a 'Joe Ifill' on there though - any relation haha?
valeo2009-08-19 16:45:23
Online petitions are a bit of a joke - needs to be a real one. Great effort making it etc. but it can just be too easily manipulated (though the current signatures all seem legit)
I saw a 'Joe Ifill' on there though - any relation haha?
I saw a 'Joe Ifill' on there though - any relation haha?
I think it actually is Ifill's dad! Wasn't his Facebook page posted on here previously?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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Dont Know if his Facebook page has been on here but he is one of my friends on Facebook so he probably saw my status a while back with the petition link
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Dont Know if his Facebook page has been on here but he is one of my friends on Facebook so he probably saw my status a while back with the petition link
And now he is my Facbook friend too! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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An interesting article on Sky TV from the NZ Herald's media guru, John Drinnan, who's been writing about such things for decades. Really knows his stuff.
Background on how Sky became a juggernaut, future plans, and the pressures at work to break their stranglehold on sports coverage.
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He dismisses calls for regulation, and comparisons between Sky and Telecom, which eventually proved too big to escape regulation.
"It is a huge jump to make that comparison," says Fellet.
"You have Telecom which had a huge monopoly as a state-owned enterprise, sold off privately, where we have made every single programme available in the marketplace.
"We have not been anti-competitive, we have given viewers options. "
Haha not acting like it at the moment...as much as theyll deny it,theyre a monopoly,and are at the moment acting as such. Those who says its a business decision so who cares, must support these companies ripping people off
Allegedly
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Suggest people forward the petition to their local football authorities too, as they have the contacts to circulate it widely around clubs and football people.
I forwarded it to the Mainland Football CEO here in Christchurch last week, plus all the local authorities in the top half of the South Island like Nelson, Marlborough, Mid-Canterbury etc.
Just find contact e-mail addresses online for your local Federation authorities, clubs etc.
Numbers seem to be creeping up now!
Big Pete 65, Christchurch
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Guys, is there a problem with the site's "post counter"?
Just noticed the prolific Steve-O's number in this thread is stuck at 440.
And Tony P posted twice earlier in this thread, but his total didn't change.
A footballing... Deus Ex Machina?
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The guy who counts everything on here probably went to the loo...had to go I guess.
Friday night shift, every other b**ger gone to the pub.
Friday night shift, every other b**ger gone to the pub.
Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!
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Guys, is there a problem with the site's "post counter"?
Just noticed the prolific Steve-O's number in this thread is stuck at 440.
And Tony P posted twice earlier in this thread, but his total didn't change.
A footballing... Deus Ex Machina?
Im pretty sure it updates itself as you post more. For example, if you went to my first post it wouldnt read '1' post, it would be my current number '1770(ish)'
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He dismisses calls for regulation, and comparisons between Sky and Telecom, which eventually proved too big to escape regulation.
"It is a huge jump to make that comparison," says Fellet.
"You have Telecom which had a huge monopoly as a state-owned enterprise, sold off privately, where we have made every single programme available in the marketplace.
"We have not been anti-competitive, we have given viewers options. "
Haha not acting like it at the moment...as much as theyll deny it,theyre a monopoly,and are at the moment acting as such. Those who says its a business decision so who cares, must support these companies ripping people off
The irony is when Sky got rid of its internet broadcasting plans earlier this year they blamed the lack of competitiveness amongst NZ ISPs with their data caps.
Pot, meet kettle.
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Another Sky story in this morning's media. Almost feel sorry for them. Yeah, right!
SKY TV BOSS SEE GLOOMY OUTLOOK
Sky TV boss John Fellet has a downbeat message for his rivals at TVNZ and TV3.
Delivering the pay-TV group's June year results yesterday, which showed a 10 per cent fall in net profit to $88.4 million, Mr Fellet said he saw no end in sight to the advertising downturn.
Revenue at Sky's free-to-air channel Prime slid 18.5 per cent to $22 million and Prime's margin slumped to 1.7 per cent from 10.8 per cent. Prime, which Sky bought for $30 million in early 2006, also suffered a drop in its share of the peak-time audience to 5.6 per cent from 5.8 per cent.
"Every quarter last year advertising revenue was down compared with the identical quarter in the previous period and what's probably somewhat troubling is it's getting deeper and deeper and we still haven't hit the bottom yet," Mr Fellet said.
[here's the full article]
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Yet they could have a target audience if they pulled their heads out of their arses ceased wearing their rugby blinkers. Lonegunmen2009-08-23 12:16:24
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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Yet they could have a target audience if they pulled their heads out of there arses ceased wearing their rugby blinkers.
Yeah, cos I bet Rugby makes them no money at all
www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com
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Wonder why Fox across the Tasman treats the A-League with more respect than Sky treats it here? Have a read of this. An Australian take on where the beautiful game is going in that country, and why.
scribbler2009-08-23 12:10:49
TIM'S [Cahill] ARMY WINNING CODE WAR
It's been fascinating to see how the Australian sporting landscape has changed in the past five years, particularly in terms of how football is perceived and where it sits in the national hierarchy of codes.
Sometimes it takes a venture into the heart of a rival code to sense how football's growth is being accommodated and I was afforded such an opportunity when I sat on a sporting panel at a charity luncheon in Melbourne this week.
Two comments, one from a basketball lover and the other from an AFL follower, showed that while the mindset of football fans and planners has not changed - we believe the world game will be the No.1 sport in Australia within 20 years - if you listen closely, others are changing their views very subtly around us.
The gent from basketball made the point that any perceived contest for the hearts and minds of the sporting public is illusory; in fact, with each sport focused exclusively on their own welfare, there is no contest, he said.
I begged to disagree. While this may be true for the bouncing game, football is and has always been engaged in an ideological war. In this conflict, every Socceroos game is a strategic strike, every A-League super goal is a tactical victory, every Beckham visit is marketing shot across the bow � every time someone watches Barcelona or Arsenal play for the first time, the beautiful game has won a new conscript...
[the whole article at]
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Yet they could have a target audience if they pulled their heads out of there arses ceased wearing their rugby blinkers.
Yeah, cos I bet Rugby makes them no money at all
You missed my point. They are losing money and need to tap other interests, not soley concentrate on rugby sources. Right now, they are concentrating only on two or three sources of income, whereas, giving football a fair go, might just open us another source of income.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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Wonder why Fox across the Tasman treats the A-League with more respect than Sky treats it here? Have a read of this. An Australian take on where the beautiful game is going in that country, and why.�
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TIM'S�[Cahill] ARMY WINNING CODE WAR
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It's been fascinating to see how the Australian sporting landscape has changed in the past five years, particularly in terms of how football is perceived and where it sits in the national hierarchy of codes.
Sometimes it takes a venture into the heart of a rival code to sense how football's growth is being accommodated and I was afforded such an opportunity when I sat on a sporting panel at a charity luncheon in Melbourne this week.
Two comments, one from a basketball lover and the other from an AFL follower, showed that while the mindset of football fans and planners has not changed - we believe the world game will be the No.1 sport in Australia within 20 years - if you listen closely, others are changing their views very subtly around us.
The gent from basketball made the point that any perceived contest for the hearts and minds of the sporting public is illusory; in fact, with each sport focused exclusively on their own welfare, there is no contest, he said.
I begged to disagree. While this may be true for the bouncing game, football is and has always been engaged in an ideological war. In this conflict, every Socceroos game is a strategic strike, every A-League super goal is a tactical victory, every Beckham visit is marketing shot across the bow � every time someone watches Barcelona or Arsenal play for the first time, the beautiful game has won a new conscript...
[the whole article at]
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I just can't take Foz seriously.
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Well i signed it even though it will have absolutely no effect on me whatsoever just for the numbers... 
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More signatures needed based on the shabby coverage confirmed for September (although marginally better than August at least).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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bump. sign it. link on 1st page. 279 so far :)
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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