Footy in China

[Briandi01]

Usually a casual, but very entertained observer to these discussions,however feeling compelled to comment.

It is hilarious watching these NRL mumblers make excuse after excuse, whilst denying the facts their game is under real threat of being reduced to a second tier sport.

I initially thought the China game was a joke. Footy would never appeal to the Chinese. However, if viewed in a marketing and financial context, this was a masterstroke from Kochie, and will reap his club quite a few bucks which was his intention all along. Kudos to him.

Complacency, and not the AFL, is the biggest enemy of the NRL.

[NRL&NFLweLaughATafl]

Americans couldnt care less about the lack of gridiron overseas. I agree with them. I live in Australia, where the AFL is the number one sport by a country mile. Why would i care if the game expands in countries where I dont live?

Gridiron is massive in Canada too with their own professional league.

So that comparence still makes a mockery of AFL. Show me another major nation that Aussie Rules has a professional league like Gridiron?

CANADIAN GRIDIRON
www.cfl.ca

[NlolRL]

Americans couldnt care less about the lack of gridiron overseas. I agree with them. I live in Australia, where the AFL is the number one sport by a country mile. Why would i care if the game expands in countries where I dont live?

Gridiron is massive in Canada too with their own professional league.

www.cfl.ca

Im sure the yanks are ecstatic

[NRL&NFLweLaughATafl]

Americans couldnt care less about the lack of gridiron overseas. I agree with them. I live in Australia, where the AFL is the number one sport by a country mile. Why would i care if the game expands in countries where I dont live?

Gridiron is massive in Canada too with their own professional league.

www.cfl.ca

Im sure the yanks are ecstatic

Yeah is a two nation sport unlike Aussie rules.

[leeroy*NRL*]

I haven't looked much into this Game in China..

But the crowd looked like a PAST MARK

by was definitely not a Sell out

lucky to be 75% Capacity

Looked abit like when RUGBY UNION Play in HONG KONG

full of EXPATS

To be fair it's a lot more then what league would get if they tried to play a game in aisa.

there would be a lot more better rectangle stadiums in china..
so this would help,

though I don't think you can say a definite it would or it wouldn't ...

[Terry]

Great crowd, great weather and ground in you beaut perfect condition today.

Going by the massive tv ratings in China we've seen for other AFL games, imagine the tv ratings potential today.

Way to go AFL, Port Adelaide and Gold Coast football clubs =D>

Fumbleball hack Travis Auld said, ".........means that Sundays match in Shanghai will become the most watched AFL game in history.’’

So it's been nearly a month now and still no word on the greatest ratings in the games history. Is this like numerous fumbleball pronouncements over the years........you know....like Gilligan's 30,000 missing 'players' in NZ or the first indigenous team to represent Australia overseas since the 1860's. Both proved wrong but silence from fumblehouse.

So where's the ratings? Why the silence? I suspect they don't exist and never did. This is typical spin over substance, or to put it another way, bald faced lies. Just another one to add to the list.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Meh the idiot Briandi01 saying League is becoming a 3 tier, bahahahaha. Matter of fact, we have a 3rd tier club in Toronto Canada averaging 7,000 plus in their first season.

Derp!

[Terry]

So still silence from the fumblers. They make a big proclamation and then nothing. It's gone from being , 'the highest rating fumbleball game in history' to zero, zilch, nothing. Typical fumblers.

[AFLcrap1]

Lol
I wonder how many Chinese in Aust will now be watching fumbles because they played a game in China

[Terry]

Lol
I wonder how many Chinese in Aust will now be watching fumbles because they played a game in China

You won't be able to get a takeaway feed soon -they'll all be closed while their owners watch fumbleball.....lololololo.

[NRL&NFLweLaughATafl]

Yeah all that chest pumping by AFL heads ended up being just a huge embarrassment.

Played in a stadium which looked 3rd world.

Most of the crowd looked like white Aussie expats.

And the stadium was only a bit over half full after a years promotion.

Yet somehow this is meant to be a big success for AFL??

Like I said a million times, AFL just can't resonate with people outside Australia and never will.
They can take their waving streamers back to Melbourne where they belong.

[pussycat]

Yeah all that chest pumping by AFL heads ended up being just a huge embarrassment.

Played in a stadium which looked 3rd world.

Most of the crowd looked like white Aussie expats.

And the stadium was only a bit over half full after a years promotion.

Yet somehow this is meant to be a big success for AFL??

Like I said a million times, AFL just can't resonate with people outside Australia and never will.
They can take their waving streamers back to Melbourne where they belong.

I think they should keep searching, keep looking for somebody to play with. Who knows, maybe In a galaxy far ,far away there may be a planet where fumble ball is the dominant sport.

[NRL&NFLweLaughATafl]

Usually a casual, but very entertained observer to these discussions,however feeling compelled to comment.

It is hilarious watching these NRL mumblers make excuse after excuse, whilst denying the facts their game is under real threat of being reduced to a second tier sport.

I initially thought the China game was a joke. Footy would never appeal to the Chinese. However, if viewed in a marketing and financial context, this was a masterstroke from Kochie, and will reap his club quite a few bucks which was his intention all along. Kudos to him.

Complacency, and not the AFL, is the biggest enemy of the NRL.

A masterstroke??

More like a masterfail, AFL can't even pay another nation to like their little village game.

[Terry]

So I ask again - what happened to the greatest rating game in fumbling history?? It looks like this announcement was straight out of the FB propaganda play book - all tip and no iceberg!!!!

[AFLcrap1]

Lol
Nailed it .
Still it wouldn't surprise me if one day on another site one of the cultists posts a figure( not wookie..he knows who I am referring to) & suddenly the cheer squad over there take it as gospel .