Drac wrote:Raiderdave wrote:Drac wrote:This is a classic thread. Apparently making tickets affordable and getting 6 million people through the gates makes the AFL somehow inferior to the nRL. The excuses that come from nRL fans are great.
Big AFL Crowds: Cheap tickets, mostly children attending, fudgy wudgy
Tiny nRL crowds: weather, bad stadiums, Superleague
Poor nRL participation rates: Superleague
Low membership numbers: Superleague
Lack of nRL expansion: Superleague
the list goes on lol.
theres cheap ..... then theres VFL prices d head

Let's assume for a moment that AFL prices are as cheap as you think they are (they're not, but I digress). AFL revenue dwarfs nRL revenue. AFL attendances
belittle nRL attendances. How do you rationalise AFL ticket prices being cheaper (again, they're not, but we'll ignore this fact for a moment) as somehow equating AFL inferiority?
They get the best of both worlds. Massive attendances and massive revenues. How is the nRL charging more (they don't btw), yet getting less people and less total revenue somehow a 'win' for your code?
What argument are you trying to make?
NRL revenue has gone from being half the VFL's
to 3/4 of it over night
VFL attendances are plummeting
and heres the thing
it was the Headline whores .. the VFL ... who couldn't get into print quick enough to proclaim they are the 4th highest average attendance in the world ... having the gall to declare .. they have a higher average attendance .... then the National Baseball League in the USA ( by about 600 a game )
and this is where I & many others see straight through the VFL's bullshit.. yet its dopey fans cannot
the average Cost of getting into a premier league game is about $40
the cost of getting into a VFL game is about $18
you cannot there for compare the averages as it is irrelevant
if a vicky kicky game cost on average $40 to get into ..... it would not average the crowds it does
& similarly EPL games would average a lot more if you cut its admission prices in half
lets compare the NBL & VFL in real terms shall we
75 Million people watched the NBL in the summer of 2012 in the US ...
& less then 7 Million .... the VFL
the VFL comparing itself & claiming its more popular then the NBL .... is plain laughable
its hysterical
but thats what the VFL tries to get people to believe .... & more astoundingly ...... D head VFL fans in here & elsewhere ... believe it
