Agree, i recan the path the AFL should take is totally different to the NRL
and bring in SA AND TAS >> and NSW AND QLD to a degree


Please, just no Allies shit foisted on us again. We want to support our own states, not some messed up states and territories combined rubbish vs Victoria. 🙄

I ...

Finally, change is happening in 2026. Any wonder why tv ratings were down last season with so many dud teams/match ups in marquee tv slots. Channel 7 and Fox Footy appear to have finally woken up to the fact us fans just want to watch good footy.



Viewers loved the Suns v Pies. Here’s why that ...

It’s laughable at best in the international stage! The Australian grown game of AFL has an excuse of not being an international game. League by international levels is a joke. In Europe it’s played by rejects of union or ex union players wanting get a few more years on the field before ...

Rugby League World Cup challenge utter nonsense.
Rugby League is not a world game
World game implies a sport that is extremely popular, part of the culture in many countries
Rugby League World Cup challenge and also the Rugby League World Cup do not fill this criteria.

Novelty events ...

Beaussie wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 8:15 pm

Incredible stuff beatup. I give it 2............maybe 3 years........and it'll be back in hibernation due to lack of interest. Mark this post folks. Its gonna happen.

Considering one is a by product of a popular European, UK and Irish game of Union, the players make up people mostly playing Union but switched to league,

League still only has one professional competition, that’s in Australia like the AFL.

Continued comparisons like these are only laughable ...

I watched Origin at a Sydney Swans pub with mates. Pub was packed with Swans regulars who go meet there to watch away games, finals and grand finals. Was a great atmosphere in the pub with virtually everyone cheering loudly for WA and in particular whenever Chad Warner got the ball. I thought ...

I watched Origin at a Sydney Swans pub with mates. Pub was packed with Swans regulars who go meet there to watch away games, finals and grand finals. Was a great atmosphere in the pub with virtually everyone cheering loudly for WA and in particular whenever Chad Warner got the ball. I thought the ...

Channel 7 seem very happy with the return of State of Origin. Be interesting to see the Foxtel and Kayo tv/streaming numbers.

7plus had a massive 227 per cent increase in streaming viewers.


AFL ORIGIN comeback delivers strong ratings for Seven, return set for 2027
Kyle Laidlaw
15 February ...

gave the 1st quarter a watch and the 4th quarter a decent watch..

WA CROWD PATROTIC Seemed Loud
VICTROIANS in 2nd Gear.. no way near as much passion.

was a soft contest, with defence barley a thing.

its the kinda of contest if this was revesed and played at MCG
VICTORIA win by 100

i give a ...

Considering one is a by product of a popular European, UK and Irish game of Union, the players make up people mostly playing Union but switched to league,

League still only has one professional competition, that’s in Australia like the AFL.

Continued comparisons like these are only laughable at ...

the NRL figures! and we all know they to double and triple count crowds.

were not the official numbers released from the stadium greatly different from the NRLs numbers after the triple counting?


Pretty sure you are confusing the NRL with AFL's blatant crowd figure lies at their ...

That’s good for the future of the AFL and not so the NRL, as the Code grows NSW and Qld as the NRL stagnates and slowly withers away means better advertising dollars for the AFL



Yeah pal, off the back of record crowds, record participation, record revenue, record profits and record TV ...

Fantasy figures of 5 billion are only a pathetic joke.
The problem is that NRL only rates well in two states.
Companies want and need to advertise all over Australia to promote events and sell products nationwide, saturating two states with high TV numbers won't achieve the advertising ...

the way it is going now...

NRL CLUBS should be adding in the LEAGUES CLUBS MEMBERS and associate clubs they own :lol:


The ones you have to sign up to just to have dinner and larger at?


Yeah thats the ones makingstupiddumber. The same as RSL clubs, bowling clubs, social clubs, Catholic ...