Beaussie wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:29 pm
leeroy*NRL* wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:14 pm
pretty pathetic with the success they are having...
LIVE: FOOTBALL: A-LEAGUE SYDNEY V WELL
FOX SPORTS 4
58,000
with no other sport on at same time..
And that's the national figure. Just imagine how small the actual Sydney audience really is? What a joke of a code.
The only thing holding Football back at a professional level in Australia is money. They don't have the best of the best players like AFL and Rugby codes have.
Any player that is at the top level will play in European leagues where that can get much more lucrative contacts. Not in Australia.
Saying that, soccer would be lucky if it has pumped one tenth in promotion of the sport compared to AFL in NSW.
It has never needed to try to pay other codes players millions to promote itself.
It has never needed to give away tickets and balls to bribe children like AFL has.
Has never needed to spend millions on goal posts in schools or ban other codes from.using it fields.
Yet with all those disadvantages, it still kicks AFLs arse with participation numbers and general interest in NSW.
Will be interesting to see the turnout that the Brazil vs Argentinas match gets at the mcg in June. All these Melbourne AFL fans can watch a real football game where players can actually kick a ball with accuracy.
