Except for those that actually go.


17/04/21 AFL: GWS Giants d Sydney Swans 33,541 Sydney Cricket Ground
17/04/21 NRL: Rabbitohs d Wests Tigers 16,134 Stadium Australia

hearing Olympic Bid will be announced next year..

if Successful.

GABBA will be knocked down in 2024 ( Month is TBA )


Brisbane is in the box seat to secure the 2032 Olympic Games after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) accepted recommendations to install South East Queensland as its ...

Pity that many Bronco followers (and other top “followed” NRL teams) don’t follow them to a game.

Pippen1994 wrote: Sat May 15, 2021 12:49 pm

86 years old

Average age of swans fans in 2018 was 49.

Next piece of crap you want to make up is?

From my post of:

From 11/9/20
“And give potential for an increase in TV income.
Of course the broadcasters that do not rely on ad revenue may have ideas of their own.
CBS that own 10, have neglected the ptv arm, recently announced they are redoing the whole thing, CBS Rejuvenated themselves by ...

I cannot see either super rugby or A-League being too attractive for any of the broadcasters in the nearfuture.
The big 2 are a different matter.
Come 2025 the picture (pun) will change greatly.
Paramount and 10. Amazon prime and anyone, Disney and anyone, money talks. Stan will need to be after ...

“Get any major football club like Manchester United to play in Sydney. They will gets bigger crowd than the Swans and Giants.”

As they would beat the NRL clubs too, as the Swans do now,.
A 1 off game, even a series of “marque” games proves nothing.
The swans average home attendance this year is 29 ...

Quolis... why do you bother... guys an idiot. You’ll just go round in circles. Doesn’t matter what facts or figures there is no reasoned debate or discussion. To him it is Rl good, AFL bad and bend any facts to suit this ignorant, if not stupid viewpoint. I would suggest you do like many here and ...

You are not authorised to read this forum.

There are very few current football researchers that believe “marngrook” had any influence on the establishment of the game that became Australian Rules.
The AFL, no matter how romantic the idea was, no longer believes or promotes that theory either.
It was established by several old British ...

pussycat Mark 11 wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:28 am

It's hard to say what I'm looking forward to most, Santa or Gils annual report.

How about a non-interrupted football season for all codes?

AFL crowds measured against other countries football codes are an outlier. The current holder of the soccer world cup, France, average 20k per game in Ligue 1 with a population of nearly 70M. Prior to covid the AFL averaged around 35k per game in a country of 25M, more than half of whom do ...

Beaussie wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 6:52 am

Last night in Melbourne


AFL - Carlton vs Richmond
Crowd: 72,179 at the MCG


NRL - Melbourne vs South Sydney
Crowd: 13,269 at AAMI Park


Wow, seriously…. why did the NRL think this scheduling was a good idea?

The NRL don’t count and ignore the BIG AFL crowds, they are “Outliers”

Last night in Melbourne


AFL - Carlton vs Richmond
Crowd: 72,179 at the MCG


NRL - Melbourne vs South Sydney
Crowd: 13,269 at AAMI Park


Wow, seriously…. why did the NRL think this scheduling was a good idea?


The NRL don’t count and ignore the BIG AFL crowds, they are “Outliers ...