The COVID-19 Elephant In The Room

[Scollop]

How much money does the NRL and AFL risk losing from Betting sponsorship... and betting in general if season 2020 is called off?

[Saintmatt]

How much money does the NRL and AFL risk losing from Betting sponsorship... and betting in general if season 2020 is called off?

It's a terrific question but, I'm trying to look at it slightly differently. If there are no sports (pretty much anywhere in the world) for people to bet on - how much will the betting companies themselves lose?

My great hope is that they'll be fvcked so financially hard in their greedy tvrd tunnels that they'll all shrivel up and die.

Possibly not a popular position but they do so little good for society (and conversely, so much bad) that I care not a zack as to their outcomes.

[saintly]

U might be right but think about all the job losses

[saynta]

Don't know about the ARL, and don't give a rat's anyway, but losses for the AFL are said to be around 400 million dollars, all up including betting and other sponsorship lucre.

[BarryGrogan]

Two-Up could make a comeback!

[The Fireman]

do all player contracts get another year tagged on ?

[sunsaint]

If that COVID-19 Elephant looks like it's about to sneeze I'm outta that Room

[ausfatcat]

do all player contracts get another year tagged on ?

Probably not but they will probably all have to take pay cuts for the game to survive

[fugazi]

How much money does the NRL and AFL risk losing from Betting sponsorship... and betting in general if season 2020 is called off?

It's a terrific question but, I'm trying to look at it slightly differently. If there are no sports (pretty much anywhere in the world) for people to bet on - how much will the betting companies themselves lose?

My great hope is that they'll be fvcked so financially hard in their greedy tvrd tunnels that they'll all shrivel up and die.

Possibly not a popular position but they do so little good for society (and conversely, so much bad) that I care not a zack as to their outcomes.

They make money from other people's misery.
Not great karma

[stevie]

Hi guys A heads up...tonight at work at Woolies, a lady customer told me the national lockdown would start Thursday 19th to the 31st. She said she had government friends who had texted her She showed me the text and it seemed legit

Anyway it may be true

[Brunswicksainter]

Hi guys A heads up...tonight at work at Woolies, a lady customer told me the national lockdown would start Thursday 19th to the 31st. She said she had government friends who had texted her She showed me the text and it seemed legit

Anyway it may be true

I have legit heard this exact same info from two different people. One supposedly has a relative who is an MP in Nsw parliament and another works high up in the department of education. Both said they have received correspondence from the federal government about this. However, im surprised nothing has been announced yet if this is a foregone conclusion.

[stevie]

When I told my workmates about it at smoko, one said it’s too sudden but another said it’s better to announce it suddenly as it gives people less time to panic

[Brunswicksainter]

Emails were obviously fraudulent (many have been sent around), there won’t be a lockdown at least for now.

[The_Dud]

ScoMo’s talking today about further limiting public gatherings, so maybe that’s what they meant?

[stevie]

I guess it had been discussed but they are holding off for now