"The other 14 clubs all require regular cash injections from between $1 million and $5 million from supporting leagues clubs"

That's how RL has ALWAYS worked?? we get money from leagues clubs.... doesn't make them bankrupt or something it's just the funding model in place.

Lol how a Saturday afternoon game beat your prime time grand final! You didn't see that one coming, did you Dementedave? :D All week you were saying the nRL GF would smash the AFL's, turns out nRL ratings were well down on last year as we all expected (except you of course). Gotta love a backfire! ...

The figures are from 2012 cause the 2013 ones aren't out yet. ANd when they DO come out you can bet that figure will climb past 100million, jeez and the fumblers make fun of the tigers and eels :_<> :_<>

So then how come more people watched the NRL GF in melbourne than watched the AFL GF in sydney? And obviously sydney has an extra 600,000 people and neither team had a team in the other GF. 400k for melbourne watching NRL and 340k watching AFL in sydney if you were wondering :rock: :rock: :rock: :ro...

That'd be because you're in victoria, of course people there wouldn't know what team is what. I have no clue about any AFL team except the swans. oh and collingwood is black and white just like the Western Suburb Magpies were. There's also a black and gold team in afl but dunno who that is... NRL is...

Stewie wrote:

AFL in Melbourne is much, much bigger than nRL in Sydney.

Probably, but NRL in melbourne outrated AFL in Sydney. 400k for NRL GF vs 340k in Sydney for AFL GF (both averages from oztam). And that's without accounting for the obvious population advantage of Sydney (4.6 million vs 4.0million).

True, reflective of a lack of interstate teams. poor reffing, poor set of rules. Last year was a 4.7 million peak for NRL. Oh well, I want a strong message to be sent to the ********* working at the nrl, now hopefully they'll act for 2014.

3.928 million people nationally watched an epic GF last night. Thanks to all our fans and supporters. tweeted by Dave Smith. Well, least we beat AFL. Still a lot of work to do though....Would have preferred 3.7 million viewers, need to send a message to the NRL without having a drop in crowds/viewer...

Xman wrote:

Not looking good for the NRL GF. 2.17m Metro.

Very dissapointing for prime-time. Very unlikely to get over 3.6m Australia wide

ah well. expected without an interstate matchup i guess. maybe now management will pick up its game like the AFL did 20 years ago.

Wow, just looking at the heraldsun.com.au page sport section, all RL. Front page granted has an AFL article as it's the dominant sport but surprised still.

And guess who demands more ridiculously expensive tickets.... RICH PEOPLE

and how many tickets do you actually think were sold on ebay for that cheap? a thousand? two thousand? jack shit compared to the total crowd and most were from pissed off souths supporters

I think all the talk has been of how many seats people were trying sell ... And cheap too. See article posted earlier . But looked like a good crowd . Shame it wasn't full but did well to get the crowds they did. Plenty of rabbit fans selling tickets dirt cheap though ... I guess if you were there ...

Watch the NRL embarrass themselves by claiming a patchy crowd is near capacity :_<> Patchy crowd? yea talk shit OOOO a couple of hundred of tix went cheap on ebay. What about the other EIGHTY THOUSAND? still sold half the price of the AFL GF tickets, & the NRL did not sell out :(/ good job, you...

Xman wrote:

Watch the NRL embarrass themselves by claiming a patchy crowd is near capacity :_<>

Patchy crowd? yea talk shit

OOOO a couple of hundred of tix went cheap on ebay. What about the other EIGHTY THOUSAND?

that was bloody amazing, would be the highest rating GF if it was an interstate GF. Not sure how much it'll rate, more than 3.6mil though I reckon.