its that time of year again, Sooker sent packing ... BBL starts tonite

[Vlad Tepes]

As an A league fan I have no malice towards cricket and it's no surprise that Australia's most popular sport continues to out-rate soccer. Obviously our code is growing from a much lower base then the established ones and has enjoyed a lot of success over the past 3 years. I think Murray is disrespectful to both sports with his comments.

[AFLcrap1]

Continues to outrate.
Lol that's an understatement .
Only outrates lol league by 10 -1

Where's your fearless leader.
Is he still claiming Sokka is more popular than Cricket.
Lol league ,bringing the giggles every yr

[Vlad Tepes]

Les Murray is hardly a leader, TBH he's way out of touch on a lot of things regarding the game in Australia. Giggling about cricket out-rating soccer seems juvenile TBH, who really expected otherwise? As a soccer fan I'm happy with the progress the game has made over the last 3 years and the progress the game continues to make. 5 years from now you're obsession and hatred for us will be even greater

[Raiderdave]

Les's moaning & whining is further proof sooker people in this country are completely delusional


When you stack their sport up against the big 3

The gap is vast
Enormous

they are on different planets
This is the reality

[Raiderdave]

Les Murray is hardly a leader, TBH he's way out of touch on a lot of things regarding the game in Australia. Giggling about cricket out-rating soccer seems juvenile TBH, who really expected otherwise? As a soccer fan I'm happy with the progress the game has made over the last 3 years and the games continues to make. 5 years from now you're obsession and hatred for us will be even greater

yeah yeah

10 years ago it was... 5 years from now

Then 5 years ago
You wait another 5

Here we are & its
5 years from now.... again

I suspect in 5 years itll be

In 5 years...


Seriously
Sooker wankers need to accept
Australians will never embrace this soft effeminate sport

[AFLcrap1]

Les Murray is hardly a leader, TBH he's way out of touch on a lot of things regarding the game in Australia. Giggling about cricket out-rating soccer seems juvenile TBH, who really expected otherwise? As a soccer fan I'm happy with the progress the game has made over the last 3 years and the progress the game continues to make. 5 years from now you're obsession and hatred for us will be even greater

Jesus the same shit every yr ..in 5 yrs time blah blah .
When hooligan ball gets a rival it is blown out of the water back into oblivion .

& mr herpes you dumb fuck ,don't you know who the boss of the a league is .
I'm talking about Mr ummm aghhhhhhhhhhh um. Gallop.

The man who proclaimed soccer was more popular than cricket ,shortly after they went head to head ,the result 10 x the ratings .

Lol league ..the comotosed giant.

[AFLcrap1]

Les Murray is hardly a leader, TBH he's way out of touch on a lot of things regarding the game in Australia. Giggling about cricket out-rating soccer seems juvenile TBH, who really expected otherwise? As a soccer fan I'm happy with the progress the game has made over the last 3 years and the games continues to make. 5 years from now you're obsession and hatred for us will be even greater

yeah yeah

10 years ago it was... 5 years from now

Then 5 years ago
You wait another 5

Here we are & its
5 years from now.... again

I suspect in 5 years itll be

In 5 years...


Seriously
Sooker wankers need to accept
Australians will never embrace this soft effeminate sport

Hold on raider .
Some Australians will .
Those who like to Gang up on people 15 v 1 is always good odds.
Those that like to break things .
yep just the dregs of society .

[Vlad Tepes]

Dregs of society....you're having a laugh. 90% of RL fans are lower class peasants who haven't a hope in hell of replicating the unrivalled passion and vocal support of more cultured A league supporters. We all know RL is for rednecks who follow the world's most repetitive and least sophisticated sport because they don't have the IQ to understand the others :_<> :_<> Find your sister kind of attractive? Think your son's rats tail looks pretty grouse? Can't afford the petrol costs to actually attend a game? Then rugby lolgue is for you! Straya chunts.=D>

Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to lunch to enjoy one of the great Australian dishes and one that agrees well with my Continental European background- Spaghetti Bolognese.

[AFLcrap1]

Lol .you do have a future in comedy .
I will say this ,why do such cultured supporters need extra police to watch them at games?

[Raiderdave]

Dregs of society....you're having a laugh. 90% of RL fans are lower class peasants who haven't a hope in hell of replicating the unrivalled passion and vocal support of more cultured A league supporters. We all know RL is for rednecks who follow the world's most repetitive and least sophisticated sport because they don't have the IQ to understand the others :_<> :_<> Find your sister kind of attractive? Think your son's rats tail looks pretty grouse? Can't afford the petrol costs to actually attend a game? Then rugby lolgue is for you! Straya chunts.=D>

Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to lunch to enjoy one of the great Australian dishes and one that agrees well with my Continental European background- Spaghetti Bolognese.

Now pig herpes
you thank your mum for lunch .. give her a kiss & make sure her moustache doesnt tickle too much

Theres a good little greazy wanker

[ParraEelsNRL]

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/blog/201 ... dare-dream

Bahahahahaha

Les Murray can cry all he wants about how much the big bad Rugby League in Australia gets over his precious soccer-A League, looking at the Cricket ratings just confirms exactly why there are only three genuinely popular sports in this country that get the big money, they all or mostly get a million viewers at least once a week on FTV sometimes multiple times if more games are shown on FTA during that week.

Les Murrays soccer is now available to watch on FTA television live on Friday nights in the same time slot as the two big football codes in Rugby League and Australian Rules on SBS, the ratings have bombed, and sometimes they are lucky if the game manages to rate above 100 thousand viewers let alone what the RL, AFL and Cricket get weekly with at least one game rating 1 million plus or very close, that mr Murray is exactly why your sport being Soccer does not, and will not get the big money, people do not watch it.

Some of the ratings when looking at Pay TV also suggest Soccer should be worrying not about doubling its last Television deal on monetary terms alone, but actually maintaining or keeping up with the current deal. Some games have rated in the low 30 thousands I am sure this season all ready and definitely in the low 40 thousands. That's nationwide mr Murray, 40 odd thousand people bothered to watch an A League game on Foxsports a few weeks back. The A League does not average 100,000 on Pay TV per game each week, sometimes 2 or 3 games can be played and they'd be lucky to reach 100,000 if you added them all together yet mr Murray expects soccer to get paid as much as the three big sports that actually pull in the viewers even though they don't average a quarter in the ratings on Foxsports compared to the two other big footy codes?

The equivalent ratings for an average NRL game on Foxsports averages around the 220,000 mark whilst the AFL equivalent averages around the 190,000 mark, I have never seen nor heard of an AFL or NRL game rating under 100,000 let alone in the low 30,000 range.

What you are crying about and actually lying about in some cases in your article just doesn't add up Mr Murray, and when you look at the TV numbers on Free To Air television where 1 NRL game on a Friday night will pull in close to if not more than 1 million just like the other two big sports in Cricket and AFL, I just don't know how you could explain and or justify anyone paying soccer anything more than they have got now, not unless you are biased and obviously green with envy of the other lot like you seem to continue to come across each and every time you mention Rugby League.

Not every country has soccer as its official or unofficial national sport, and the country you emigrated to is one of them. I'd have thought you would have learnt to live with it by now.

And yet when I post something similar to this about any subject at the roar, it does not go through. I still can't get to that site, they blocked me completely all because I put my own opinion down in writing and they don't like what I have to say because it tears apart all their lies.

I see no personal attacking, no swearing, no made up facts, I see nothing wrong with what I wrote yet there is no way in hell the roar or any paper will allow my opinion to be seen by anyone else but myself.

I hope someone in sports esp RL sues the crap out of that site one day when they continue to allow trolls to attack and say anything they like about the sport with not a single person there allowed to stand up for it.

When I could see the article a while back, the amount of lies and falsehoods being posted at that site would make your head spin as a fan of the code talking about rapes that never happened like B Stewart and so on, not once did any of their so called authors print an apology, even that worm Spiro wrote articles giving it to mungoball and all involved, yet when he was found not guilty, not a single one of those *professionals bothered to set what they had earlier said, straight and or right.

Censorship the rugby union way.

[Foolproof]

Les Murray is hardly a leader, TBH he's way out of touch on a lot of things regarding the game in Australia. Giggling about cricket out-rating soccer seems juvenile TBH, who really expected otherwise? As a soccer fan I'm happy with the progress the game has made over the last 3 years and the progress the game continues to make. 5 years from now you're obsession and hatred for us will be even greater

Murray has the additional hold up of being stuck on SBS, which has never rated it's socks off like certainly Nine always has with the cricket. Or Ten for that matter with the BBL.

It's my view that soccer is in good shape already with playing numbers. But it's a long way behind with crowd numbers. That seems to suggest that it's popular to play but not so much to watch. That I think may be soccer's biggest problem. Translating playing numbers to viewing numbers - both live and on TV. The only time there doesn't seem to be an issue is at World Cup time.

[Vlad Tepes]

Les Murray is hardly a leader, TBH he's way out of touch on a lot of things regarding the game in Australia. Giggling about cricket out-rating soccer seems juvenile TBH, who really expected otherwise? As a soccer fan I'm happy with the progress the game has made over the last 3 years and the progress the game continues to make. 5 years from now you're obsession and hatred for us will be even greater

Murray has the additional hold up of being stuck on SBS, which has never rated it's socks off like certainly Nine always has with the cricket. Or Ten for that matter with the BBL.

It's my view that soccer is in good shape already with playing numbers. But it's a long way behind with crowd numbers. That seems to suggest that it's popular to play but not so much to watch. That I think may be soccer's biggest problem. Translating playing numbers to viewing numbers - both live and on TV. The only time there doesn't seem to be an issue is at World Cup time.

In context our crowd numbers are quite healthy, it's continually increasing the TV audience which is a major focus. This season that increase will likely be modest but an increase nevertheless. Also a hell of a lot of Australians watch European soccer but refuse to watch the A league because of the lesser quality, which was once justifiable but not now because after 10 seasons the quality of the A league has increased exponentially and the matches are entertaining.

Despite the substantial TV audience every four years, World Cup is actually a far less entertaining form of the game than club soccer.

[Foolproof]

But average crowd numbers are still behind the other elite level sports. Weak links in the A League are holding it down against the numbers for the Victory and the Wanderers.

The biggest issue for TV audience is no one likes SBS. The A League needs one of the commercial FTA networks to pick it up, and that will be hard because of commercial breaks. It can be done with the NRL, the AFL and the cricket but with soccer it's much more difficult. You and I know that the standard has improved but getting it out into the mainstream is another matter entirely.

[Raiderdave]

The biggest issue for TV audience is no one likes SBS.

Ah
No dickhead

No one likes sooker... bat shit is more interesting