NRL have spent $25m to give free passes to Junior footy players.

166,000 free passes are being designated to children and club officials. The pass gets you in to NRL games for free and gives juniors other special offers.

I have to say this is a fantastic gesture, to give them to the juniors as well as all the other grades that get them.



Hopefully that'll increase the attendances in the NRL. Though the figures will be a false reflection as to paying customers.

Lucky for you,you'll get to see every game ! just joking mate.









Seriously mate that has been going on for years hasn't it? free entry for junior footy players?

That's great news. Is it free regardless or do they have to ahve a paying adult with them? If the latter then it could make a big difference to paying attendees

Not all junior reps. No. Flegg. Yes. As they had to get into the stadia. This time it's also some school players.

Passes are nothing new. They way it works, is you simply turn up and get general admission. As for places Like Parra, you have to got to box office, get it swiped and they give you a general admission ticket.

Doesn't Dally have a comment about this? What if the overall attendances do no go up by atleast say, 180- 200,000 next season. As an example there were weekends where I could get to 4 NRL games in the Sydney Region in one weekend on an NRL pass. 160,000 kids can do the same. And if they did go up by only that amount, you know that the NRL paid $25m for it to happen.

Still good for the kids and good for the future of the game here. That's the important thing.

Yes. Free regardless.

About time.

If that's the case then we might see the" full house sign"@ ANZ stadium for a change.Let's just hope all these kids attend games .

great idea, but it hasnt cost them that has it?

they would be free ot the nrl.

Quote ="dally messenger"great idea, but it hasnt cost them that has it? they would be free ot the nrl.'" www.nswrl.com.au/news/article.php?id=571 "The Junior Pass program is a significant investment in the game at junior level," NRL Chief Executive, Mr David Gallop, said today. Not free Dally It's a $25m NRL program. That's what it's cost the NRL to do.

Quote ="dally messenger"great idea, but it hasnt cost them that has it? they would be free ot the nrl.'" www.nswrl.com.au/news/article.php?id=571 "The Junior Pass program is a significant investment in the game at junior level," NRL Chief Executive, Mr David Gallop, said today. Not free Dally It's a $25m NRL program. That's what it's cost the NRL to do.

BS.

they dont have $25 million to spend on stuff like this for starters.

theyve gotten them for free

Sorry Mr rooster booster ,but I agree with dally.Yeah like they have spent 25 million on free pass out to all junior players.Spend that sort of money where it's needed like the bush.

So are you saying, it's worth $25m but costing the NRL nothing? And that it's it a case of the NRL talking things up again then?

"it's costing us $25m, look at us" etc. et.c

yeah the ARL couldve given $25 million for more development officers, stop players going overseas etc etc.

but they spent it on this

stick to coaching mate

So you're saying that the NRL didn't spend $25m. Correct?

ARL??? Where'd that come from?



You'd know this. What was the "official" figure for attendances in the NRL for Round 1 last season?

yes im sure they didnt.

anyone that suggests they did doesnt know much about the games finances.

given the nrl, arl, nswrl, crl dont have a spare $25 million laying around where did the money come from?

So what you're saying is the NRL say they've invested $25m but haven't spent a penny?

So you reckon it's cost the NRL nothing to get each club to hand out free seats (potentially by the thousand) at each NRL game when the clubs could sell them?

nah its cost them $25 million they dont have







this is what happens when a pom comes to Oz. you cant match having actualy grown up with the game as the major sport going

Great answer Dally.

Still got nothing as usual. No answer as usual. Avoiding what was said due to your own impression on something, as usual. And then try and (unsuccessfully) be funny and personal about it, as usual.

See you at footy on Sunday.

GO the chooks. Though I am interested to see how Bears player Corro goes for Souths.

im going on sunday.

can i say from the bottom of my heart, f**k the roosters.

You can say what you like.

No-one listens to you.

i got banned from LU for bagging the roosters so much

indeed what ticked off their fans the most was someone with this user name would hate the chooks

my reply was if messenger was alive today he wouldnt even know the roosters existed given their name change.

first they changed their name from eastern suburbs to sydney. do they represent campbelltown and parramatta now too?

and with all the bulldogs players in their team, they might as well change the rooster to poodle.

Sorry, did you say something?

It's good the nrl are doing this, to make the game more successfull