Interesting, seemed to work OK for truthslayer when he picks up records from an old round and quoted them in this thread. Anyway, there is a big difference here. Firstly there are 3 games not 1 and I averaged it across them all. Secondly, there are only 3 games of Rugby League that are televised in the AFL based states, at a time that anyone really has a decent opportunity to watch them.Truthsayer wrote:Do not refer to individual games to make a point, Mr Dog. It's a smoke screen because one can just grab a game to make a point but ignore the bigger picture. State of Origin was only shown in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth because it is an event in it's own right and not just because it's another game of rugby league. I make statements from my own personal experience. If you wish to question my personal experience then perhaps you should be prepared to defend your own.
It stands to reason that where there are local grass roots clubs in either sport there will be people watching it on television. I note Mr Pussycat's mention of rugby league competitions on Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and yet outside of State of Origin there is no television coverage given. Perhaps you should get the NRL to pressure the Nine Network to show NRL games in prime time against the AFL in those cities and see what happens?
Don’t try and give me the nonsense again about why RL is not televised in AFL based states either. I would suggest you read raiders update as he pretty much sums it up. On the RL interest front, within AFL based states, just like AFL we have local leagues in AFL based states too, but that really does not prove anything. The SOO games are a good guide to determine if RL games are being watched in VIC, SA and WA. So you can't suggest that they are smokes and mirrors, the fact is there’s interest and allot of it.
Other proof that suggests the interest in RL was the Brisbane v South game in Perth which sold out and was only a few thousand shy of the ticket sales in Sydney and Brisbane AFL games. Not bad for a code that your buddies suggested wouldn’t be watch or doesn’t have any local interest hey. Or the bulldog’s game that drew just under 10K to the game this year in SA, not bad considering you clearly stated that nobody in SA is interested in RL at all. I know these are not big crowd numbers in AFL home town Melb standard, but my point is not numbers. My point here is there is definitely genuine interest in RL in those states, especially WA. By using ozTAM only this is a massive bias to AFL as RL fans don’t even have an opportunity to watch the game and be counted.
I suggest we accept there are holes in the available data, but this is the best we have so put it all on the table. Then we can actually have a debate rather than continuing on this merry go round. AFL fans believe that regionalTAM is NRL bias, NRL fans believe ozTAM is AFL bias. There you go, even. Let’s start from there.
Let’s see how this pains out when Perth comes back into the competition in 2013 and we have National Viewers of our code, oh and New Zealand too. It will be interesting to see what the networks or fox is prepared to pay for the viewers to potentially watch all day Saturday Live coverage from Auckland, followed by a live game in QLD, NSW or VIC, followed by a live game in WA.
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