Thanks for this. This is such a bias commentary - I remember watching at the time thinking that it was so one sided. I do remember that the games were becoming very uneven, and that it did need a change. I think now we have that. The fact that Kerry Packer did the same thing with cricket (and what they are accusing SL of doing in contracts) is hypocrisy. The guys saying people sign for the mighty dollar. Rugby League is a professional game. They all (journos included) get paid to do it.

Hospital pass 😮

Harrogan says to Bella afterwards “ that’s for the leaving the Bears!”

My opinion super league ruined nrl out of greed nrl had 5 teams left 7 defunct and super league had 7 and 3 defunct and it destroyed the tradition and heritage of the game and most old clubs and other clubs and most clubs are middle and young and not too old who survived people only care about money 🤑💰 not the game people thought 🤔💭 super league would make nrl better it ruined it people were selling people out and boycotting them nrl should of objected to it super league tried to kill of nsw that represents nrl because they had the most teams qld didnt have enough if it happened in afl super league it would of cause the same damage only difference sydney would bitch like others in places existing or not that want more clubs because vic has the most afl teams that represents afl super league was designed back in the 90s for cable in australia 🌏🦘 to see if nrl should be free or pay tv the real winners 🏆 of super league are them and greed because they kept the most teams in nrl and greed expansion killed NRL because everyone want a flag to represent NRL still they don't want another NSW team like central coast they want to go beyond NSW because they have to many teams

Good hard old school rugby league mate but lols that would be a send off these day's mate

It was about live games every week. Gosh remember the delayed telecasts and showing Regional areas a game of choosing by channel nine simply because of where they lived. NBN TV remember. ARL was grabbing the money and not paying the players, simple.

He destroyed Ian Lucas's career as well. One of the most shameful, disgraceful and disgusting incidents in the history of the Australia v GB games. Just as bad was the referee Hales who not only failed to give a penalty but shouted at the comatose victim to 'Get up!' Lucas had to be given Oxygen and was stretchered off.

What a ripper

I have this on VHS and watched live, Watch phil Gould he was awesome

If you’re interested in this then then I recommend the Rugby League Digest’s Super league podcast. 100 episodes of quality. And gees Hadley gives me the shits.

In hindsight it's obvious Super League was largely in the right of it. Ken and the Sydney crew ran the ARL like their personal fiefdom, with a deep aversion to new ideas. Yeh yeh, it was all about Pay TV; who cares whether Packer or Murdoch get the TV rights. What's important is what's in the interests of the game. Clearly the game was better served by a more professional, national competition, with a more global appeal. Andrew Johns was on a measly 20k per year at the time. Guys worked 2nd jobs to get by, while the administrators lined their pockets. There were a preposterous 11 Sydney teams, and every year the Grand Final to this day is still played at Sydney regardless of the teams who make it. Complete amatuer hour. The NRL only got a new Brisbane team in 2023, which is insane given that Sydney still has 9 teams, and old heads like Gould still moan we're doing too much for Queensland lol. Thank goodness they're finally expanding in the right way, and focusing less on 1 city. Night finals, video refs, interchanges, more dynamic rules, all of it and more came from the Super League. The old ARL administration was a joke. They didn't even have a competetive process when taking bids for TV rights, instead Ken would just give it to his mate Packer, denying the players a fortune.

funny ken autherson claiming people are deceitful and crooked, he was the most untrustworthy person ever and he’s the reason everyone went to super league

He scored some remarkable tries!

Super League bosses were delusional. They actually thought they could go toe to toe with the Premier League and the NFL.🤣

John ribot is an arrogant c

You caused the divide artho.

Ray Hadley what a grub

Chris Murphy what a scum bag.

thats wat i said.....i said YEH-YEH🌝🌝🌝

Definitely matty is the better tv personality. Just funny naturally. Joey is more your methodically gifted tactical genius for rugby leauge on tv. Funny guy in his way.

Thus ruined the game for me. The talent was spread way too thin. Some real mediocre teams in both camps. Really killed it for me. In retrospect, the ARL bought it on themselves and more money for players was a good thing. We all pay tk watch now anyway.

Buy a house for $200k... The good old days.

Love how “loyal” the ARL were to the clubs that stuck with them. Shafting norths, south’s, Illawarra, list goes on. Teams were better of going to the star league. Till this day I don’t have my team back as we stayed and got merged, even though we were a foundation side. Disgusting.

Oh mate, this game was such a comedown after our awesome debut game against Saints the week before.

No Sydney SL club was ever in danger of merging or extinction. Bears had a better chance with SL.

Ray what is the vision of the arl every player would be stupid to knock millions of dollars, but again why cnt the arl and ch9 come to the party and share the boardcast deals. a soccer player at that time could be with any 2nd tier comp in europe could earn millions of dollars

why couldnt ch9 packer and the arl have been transparent and share the broadcast ch9 had 2 games per week plus finals and orgion, and the rest of the game could be on fox, fast foward now they are on fox, all fox wanted is to show rugby league on fox

This guy immortal ❤❤❤

Back when rugby league was played by gladiators in a coliseum. Now it’s played by a bunch of gamesmanship cats

Ribot.what a corporate stooge.chris johns too.

I was a 20yr old when all this was happening.But even though I was a Sydney tiger supporter and backed the ARL through this debacle,I still didn’t mind watching a super league game.I even attended the super league grand final at anz stadium between the broncos and sharks in 1997.And thanks for this footage bought back a lot of memories and loved the footy show.

Love him or hate him, Gus made good points.

Super League? We are still stuck with an asset rich(?) cash poor club that seems to be bailed out numerous times in the 70's, 80's & 90's who only got a place in Rugby League due to St George winning 11 straight. Norths went over 90 years of fiscally responsibility providing Rugby League and were told they were they didn't meet a criteria because bad weather delayed a move to the Central Coast by 12 months😔 "Super League" and the NSWRL of the late 60's have a lot to answer for.

At the time the GB (RFL) and NZRL signings were rumours coming in from London and Auckland within a week they were true with regard to Auckland (the Auckland Warriors having a large chunk of the NZ test team at the time) with regarding to the RFL four of it's top clubs Wigan, St Helens, Warrington and Leeds between them having a large chunk of the Great Britain test team

That’s 99 weeks on the sideline

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I write this in jest, as this time in rugby league caused my love of this game to wane. I remember being heartbroken as a kid seeing all this happen. But, if they wanted origin type games every week....they needed to have ARL vs Superleague teams. Then have the best of each side play off. In writing that, I did see this split the game. Big corporate moguls wanting to line their pockets because they owned satellite TV. Even as a kid, I akways thought my favourite player Big Mal, retired just in time.

Tim Brasher was better.

4 weeks now

Ribot got a much fairer hearing here than on the Footy Shows in Brisbane and Sydney to be seen elsewhere on KZfaq.

I love Chief, but that’s a high shot, not a good tackle.

I thought Superleague was fantastic, I remember going to Auckland to watch Warriors Vs Bradford Northern, a Brit club playing a Kiwi club in the world club challenge , it was awesome. It had my vote

Paul Harragon smashes Martin Bella.... right across the jaw with a swinging arm.

The game is so, so soft now, compared to what it was back then, what made it worth watching

It's not one of my favourites it IS MY favourite

Still wonder why QLD hates NSW?

It's not rare dude

Always take the money to better set up ure family in the future & life after footy.

The two ball boys front row seats 🤣

Well well well have times changed every player is chasing money these days rugby league would of been more beneficial in the long run if super league had taken over clubs salarys would of been higher and players would stay at there clubs instead of selling out and chasing cash at other clubs.