I thought at the time and I still do, that the AFL did a very good deal and the NRL a fairly dud one. For the reasons explained by DLH above, the AFL will get more next time in as will the NRL. It will never be parity though.

The NRL and their media goons (Masters, Geyer, Gould etc etc) have certainly been great promotors of AFL this year with their negativity and scare mongering