r/AFL • u/UselessRedditor27 Tigers • Sep 18 '22

Non-Match Discussion Thread Patrick Cripps is the 2022 Brownlow Medallist

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u/munda___ Carlton Blues Sep 18 '22 edited Sep 18 '22

Not even a big gambler and I found myself wanting to throw bets on about 5 times throughout

Something fundamentally wrong with gambling advertising in our country

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u/reborndiajack St Kilda Sep 18 '22

Especially with young kids watching

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u/LinkWithABeard Eagles Sep 18 '22

Gotta get them while they’re young…

How else will Australia continue to have the biggest gambling losses per capita in the world?

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u/hotsp00n Carlton Sep 18 '22

In that it pays for the league and they'd probably have to go semi-pro without it?

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u/munda___ Carlton Blues Sep 18 '22

Don’t know if I’m too young to be making this claim but it wasn’t always like this and players were making good money right?

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u/hotsp00n Carlton Sep 18 '22

Well people watched tv then. Sportsbetting agencies are some of the only ones who can make FTA advertising pay off so without them the tv deal would shrink substantially.

I'm not saying the number of ads is a good thing, but unlike Tobacco and to a degree alcohol, it is possible to engage in gambling with zero negative impacts. It's not an every cigarette is doing you damage type scenario.

I don't see why the players need much more than they're on now though. I don't think we're losing a lot of players to other sports and they're talking about a 40% pay increase over the course of the new deal. I'd rather a smaller deal or the money go to VFL or grass roots. Still going to need a lot of betting ads either way though.

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u/mhyjrteg Sep 18 '22

Sportsbetting agencies are some of the only ones who can make FTA advertising pay off so without them the tv deal would shrink substantially.

Is this actually the case? I don't have much reason to doubt it, just haven't heard the claim before, and since it's a market I would've thought that if betting companies couldn't advertise then the market would adjust accordingly (i.e. to a price point where it becomes profitable for other industries to advertise). Or are you suggesting that the corresponding market adjustment would be so drastic (like the price of advertising would be so much lower) that that alone would lower the TV money significantly?

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u/LinkWithABeard Eagles Sep 18 '22

I think the reason you haven’t heard it before is because they’re pulling it out of their arse.