I have never watched more than about 5 minutes of this show due to its unfriendly Sydney time slot, but its hard to argue with some of the comments below... I have said it before, but Sam Newman has to be the worst "celebrity" on TV... Full of racism, sexist ,toilet humour... His "bla...

Right on both counts... NZ produces many NRL players each year... Its important to keep an NRL team over their flying the flag... They are also another TV market that contributes to NRL revenue (I have heard in the vicinity of $10 mil per year, however I have no source to confirm this..) In fact, in...

In actual fact we've seen 36 signed up in the past month alone "That kid Perry was the 36th teenager signed on AFL scholarships in the past 18 months :lol: 1 month, 18 months.. whats the difference... Never let "facts" ( like the Bullsh*t article you are quoting from) get in the way ...

Keep dreaming boys... :lol: The article quotes one low level AFL type trying to justify what a great job he is doing.. The more articles like this, the more they will push people away...( it appears they don't have the guts to print it in the Telegraph..) AFL has got nothing in Sydney... I just have...

I still love this thread...

Thought I would bump it so some of the newbies can read it...

Some of Bea's best work here...

What ever happened to that idiot Beachlover??

Gee... A match of AFL involving legends of the game outrates a Game of Rugby League involving 2 interstate sides in Melbourne...

Who'd have thought it...

A "good lead in audience"... yeah all those people were too lazy to flick the remote over to another channel...

Mark Geyer also says that AFL is a terrible game played by fairies... are you going to start a thread on that as well Bea??

Geyer is a brain dead moron who can't even string together a sentence...

He is just saying these ridiculous things to give himself some publicity...

http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/enews/nine-tv-ratings-140607.html Game Two of the State of Origin Rugby League series was easily the number one program around the country (1.967 million). In Melbourne, the match peaked with 330,000 viewers, averaged 257,000 and dominated the last hour over Seven and Te...

http://www.mediaspy.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=12284 What Australia watched, Wednesday, June 13 Description Network Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth 1 STATE OF ORIGIN RUGBY LEAGUE 2ND MATCH Nine 1,967,000 915,000 257,000 725,000 41,000 28,000 2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,663,000 408,000 458,000 3...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20510195-7582,00.html MELBOURNE didn't win the rugby league grand final but rugby league won Melbourne. In an incredible ratings result for the Nine network, more people watched the NRL finale between Melbourne Storm and the Brisbane Broncos in Melb...

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21889936-10389,00.html June 12, 2007 12:00am SCOOBY-DOO was panned by critics when it aired on the big screen but when Channel 9 ran a repeat against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday night it was a ratings bonanza. Brisbane has not won in five weeks and...

What Australia watched, Friday June 8 Description Network Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth 1 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,545,000 452,000 398,000 295,000 194,000 206,000 2 TODAY TONIGHT Seven 1,378,000 399,000 348,000 278,000 159,000 194,000 3 NINE NEWS Nine 1,334,000 434,000 360,000 258,000 152,000 ...

You realise that 1 million people watched the NRL grand final in Melbourne last year, compared to about 700,000 who watched the AFL final in Sydney??

The norm for Sydney watching the AFL GF is about 400k...

Now that the Shiek is moving on, who will replace him as the Swans No 1 fan??

It will have to be someone that receives the same respect and love from the wider community...

Maybe Pauline Hanson?

Ivan Milat??

Martin Bryant??

Any other sugggestions???

But also add up the populations for the regions not covered by OZ Tam...

Or do you concede that they will be 2 million??