Just a thought during this painful NRL off-season. Collectors in this country are being starved and NRL is suffering most.
Browsing through Cardzone catalogues you can see that AFL is the predominant sport in the trading card world. Cricket has been abandoned (strange, as it is our national sport), A-League is covered on a casual basis and what's left? No NBL or motor-sport or squat!
NRL has had two releases most years, and the product has been hit and miss. Now we have a new manufacturer and their first release IMO was rubbish, but I do expect improvement. Not gunna dig this up again so the rant continues.
Recently I have been indulging in NFL, part serious interest, part withdrawal from NRL. My point is (sorry it took so long coming) the amount of product available (and the incredible standard) in the US for a huge variety of sports is overwhelming, while we wait for months at a time for a mostly sub-par release that satisfies very few.
Is the market for sports cards in this country so minimal that we are fed these scraps that we devour rabidly, or should there be a much wider product of higher standard that would sell simply because there are enough people willing to buy. Are there???
Where are we at???
Browsing through Cardzone catalogues you can see that AFL is the predominant sport in the trading card world. Cricket has been abandoned (strange, as it is our national sport), A-League is covered on a casual basis and what's left? No NBL or motor-sport or squat!
NRL has had two releases most years, and the product has been hit and miss. Now we have a new manufacturer and their first release IMO was rubbish, but I do expect improvement. Not gunna dig this up again so the rant continues.
Recently I have been indulging in NFL, part serious interest, part withdrawal from NRL. My point is (sorry it took so long coming) the amount of product available (and the incredible standard) in the US for a huge variety of sports is overwhelming, while we wait for months at a time for a mostly sub-par release that satisfies very few.
Is the market for sports cards in this country so minimal that we are fed these scraps that we devour rabidly, or should there be a much wider product of higher standard that would sell simply because there are enough people willing to buy. Are there???
Where are we at???