You AFL blokes are a laugh a minute when you try and "explain" why the NRL has a significant and growing lead over the AFL in TV ratings. The NRL finished this year with a 15m viewer advantage. Three years ago it was 4m. So the gap has grown by 11m based on exactly the same number of NRL ...

It hasnt been mentioned in this thread ( that I have noticed) but the NRL get a massive advantage in any cumulative rating figure because every NRL fan can watch up to 7 exclusive games per weekend where as AFL fans can only watch up to 4 to 5 games, because 7 of the eight AFL games are shown when a...

Oh dear, GWS have more members than the Gold Coast Titans and the Gold Coast Suns have nearly triple the Titans membership base and have just about reached the Titans entire total for 2011 before the end of this year. ******* hilarious. :(/ :(/ :(/ The Gold Coast is clearly AFL heartland. :wink: La...

Intentcity wrote:

Was Lockyer captain when Australia lost the RL WC to a Country of 5 million? and in that country only the people who aren't good enough for RU play RL?

Lol

Captain of a team representing 22million who lost to a team representing 5million, of which 4.9million prefer RU.

Classic.

800k, here we come!

Proving which code has the higher ratings tally is irrelevant anyway. They both schedule their games in completely different ways which makes them virtual incomparable. Probably the best way of showing the popularity of each code on TV is the ratings for the respective grand finals, and we all know ...

Intentcity wrote:

AFL by the lengh.

Couldn't agree more Intentcity! :D