The Australian rules of the Grand Paul Roos exploded the AFL for a “crazy” decision to remove the Saturday football matches for the 2025 free television channels.
The AFL has left many fans, commentators and former scandalized players after announcing the decision to make football on Saturday live on Fox Footy and Kayo.
The change in the radiudiffusion calendar means that fans of Victoria, Tasmania and the Northern Territory will have to pay for a subscription.
In Victoria, football fans will not be able to watch Saturday matches for the season at home without Fox or Kayo subscription. The change will be implemented in the northern territory for the first 11 weeks of the season.
It comes after the AFL signed a new broadcasting agreement worth $ 4.5 billion in 2022. The agreement lasts until 2031.
Ex-Fitzroy and Sydney Great, Roos, were unleashed at the League bosses for changes saying that they were counter-intuitives to the league’s goals to increase the match.
The Australian rules of the Grand Paul Roos castigated the AFL for a decision `Foule ” to remove the football matches on Saturday for the 2025 free television channels season
It then happens that the new $ 4.5 billion broadcast agreement in AFL comes into force this season (CEO of AFL Andrew Dillon illustrated)
“Can I just say this, who, in Reunion, thinks that it is a good idea?” Roos told Poppy Penny on ABC AFL daily.
“We are sitting, Jules, me and you and we go:” The guys, I have an idea, we are not going to have free television on Saturday evening. What do you think of this idea? “And everyone says:” Yeah it’s a very good idea! “
“It’s as crazy as I heard out of the AFL for many years. You are right, I know it’s a business, we know that they have to pay so many stakeholders-but I don’t know … Am I on the wrong track there?
“How can you not serve the football public who paid so much money and in particular when things are difficult, it is a shameful decision of the AFL.”
Penny noted the slightly confusing decision not to set free air available for those who live in Victoria, the traditional heart of sport. She also noted that the games will not be displayed for free in Tasmania – which would get a new team in a few years and added that they have also done the same for the Northern territory, a place where the league bosses are trying to develop sport.
Penny said the podcast: “Surely the AFL public relations team is now sitting:” What did you think? “”
Roos, a Prime Minister’s winning coach with the Swans, continued: “It’s my point.
“ At one time also, whose players we hear about to talk about … Who was the Essendon player who said we needed small lists because we need more money, well I am going to: “Hang on, I can’t even watch you play. You get $ 1.2 million, you want more money? It costs me $ 27 for a toast and Football on television? “
The change in the calendar of the broadcasting means that fans of Victoria, Tasmania and the Northern Territory will have to rid a subscription for parts of the season, according to their location
Roos described it as a “extremely bad decision” not to show free television matches on Saturday
“This is an extraordinarily bad decision. And I really feel for people who cannot afford paid television.
“Many elderly people. The weekend is a very good way to relax and watch the match and watch the team play. But you’re right. Someone in the public relations team must be done: “Who has coated this? This is a very bad decision.” ‘
“I imagine that 90% of people would opt:” It’s a very bad decision. “Even if you have access to it, we all like our football, we are all connected through football. It is really the fabric of our society.
Although there was no free Saturday football, seven claims that there will be more football for the fans as part of the agreement, with more Thursday evening games which should be played during the coming seasons.
“What we did was listen to fans with the call for more matches on Thursday evening,” AFL CEO Andrew Dillon said on Monday at the league launch event.
“So what we saw is (a) going from Saturday evening to free Thursday evening.”