Aus rugby down the girgler?

[Raiderdave]

The best two RL nations in the world competed last Friday yet Australia city populations preferred to watch a home and away AFL game between two middle of the ladder teams!

AFL>>>>> international RL

yet nearly 50% more Australlians ( well everyone was counted ) prefered the League test to anything else on TV last Friday

1.637 Million
more then any vicky kicky game in 2011 .. except the GF

League ... slaughtering the singlet wearers

Yet the 14m metro audience across australia preferred the AFLs run of the mill game.

yet 50% more Australians ... preferred this League Test ..not only on this Friday just gone .. but more then any Vicky Kicky game bar the singletball GF from last year

the best your cr@p sport has to offer .. could not beat a test that is about 3rd rung on the list of priorities for League fans

[Xman]

yet nearly 50% more Australlians ( well everyone was counted ) prefered the League test to anything else on TV last Friday

1.637 Million
more then any vicky kicky game in 2011 .. except the GF

League ... slaughtering the singlet wearers

Yet the 14m metro audience across australia preferred the AFLs run of the mill game.

yet 50% more Australians ... preferred this League Test ..not only on this Friday just gone .. but more then any Vicky Kicky game bar the singletball GF from last year

the best your cr@p sport has to offer .. could not beat a test that is about 3rd rung on the list of priorities for League fans

Interesting maths there Dave. Over 1.5m watched an AFL fn game a few weeks ago. Yes a regular home and away AFL game, not a stand alone spectacle like international RL.

Plus the AFLs game is averaged over 3 hours so the peak audience would easily eclipse the RL international.

But we can all see Australia's metro population prefers pretty much any AFL game to international RL

[eelofwest]

Who gives a **** about either rugby??

Yeah well i can tell you that rugby has more nations playing there game then you have teams in the AFL
And same could be said about league, unfortunately AFL fans are ignorant to the fact that there game is a backwater sport with no internationals scene.
The day you guys realize this u can come and join either rugby code and see what it has to offer is far more rewarding then playing for a Flag. :D

It's all in the name change if 'Australian Rules' is to be successful o/s. If they dont change it to marngrook or something more appropriate there's no hope o/s. What the AFL, and its fans in here, dont understand is for a nation to take on a sport properly i.e. at the professional level, it has to own it. In other words embed the sport within its cultural fabric. If anyone can tell me how China or any other country can seriously expect to own a sport so narrowly named as 'Australian Rules' I'll buy them a little

Cos? Xman? I'm sure you imbeciles have some kind of bulbous headed response?

What makes it worse is the tv adds in Sydney.

Australia's Game

[eelofwest]

Yeah well i can tell you that rugby has more nations playing there game then you have teams in the AFL
And same could be said about league, unfortunately AFL fans are ignorant to the fact that there game is a backwater sport with no internationals scene.
The day you guys realize this u can come and join either rugby code and see what it has to offer is far more rewarding then playing for a Flag. :D

It's all in the name change if 'Australian Rules' is to be successful o/s. If they dont change it to marngrook or something more appropriate there's no hope o/s. What the AFL, and its fans in here, dont understand is for a nation to take on a sport properly i.e. at the professional level, it has to own it. In other words embed the sport within its cultural fabric. If anyone can tell me how China or any other country can seriously expect to own a sport so narrowly named as 'Australian Rules' I'll buy them a little

Cos? Xman? I'm sure you imbeciles have some kind of bulbous headed response?

So when local comps in Australia play American football do they change the name?

Actually its called Grid Iron you dumb arse.

http://www.gridironaustralia.org.au/

Unlike (Australia's game) they have spread there sport to most of Europe.

[Raiderdave]

Yet the 14m metro audience across australia preferred the AFLs run of the mill game.

yet 50% more Australians ... preferred this League Test ..not only on this Friday just gone .. but more then any Vicky Kicky game bar the singletball GF from last year

the best your cr@p sport has to offer .. could not beat a test that is about 3rd rung on the list of priorities for League fans

Interesting maths there Dave. Over 1.5m watched an AFL fn game a few weeks ago. Yes a regular home and away AFL game, not a stand alone spectacle like international RL.

Plus the AFLs game is averaged over 3 hours so the peak audience would easily eclipse the RL international.

But we can all see Australia's metro population prefers pretty much any AFL game to international RL

add 300K to a League test coverage if it were on pay tv

we're up to 1.937 Mill
so what was it you were saying ?

[eelofwest]

Add in the kiwi's watching on Fox 280k and its shiting all over AFL run of the mill.

[Xman]

It's all in the name change if 'Australian Rules' is to be successful o/s. If they dont change it to marngrook or something more appropriate there's no hope o/s. What the AFL, and its fans in here, dont understand is for a nation to take on a sport properly i.e. at the professional level, it has to own it. In other words embed the sport within its cultural fabric. If anyone can tell me how China or any other country can seriously expect to own a sport so narrowly named as 'Australian Rules' I'll buy them a little

Cos? Xman? I'm sure you imbeciles have some kind of bulbous headed response?

So when local comps in Australia play American football do they change the name?

Actually its called Grid Iron you dumb arse.

http://www.gridironaustralia.org.au/

Unlike (Australia's game) they have spread there sport to most of Europe.

Also called American football stupid! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football

[Xman]

yet 50% more Australians ... preferred this League Test ..not only on this Friday just gone .. but more then any Vicky Kicky game bar the singletball GF from last year

the best your cr@p sport has to offer .. could not beat a test that is about 3rd rung on the list of priorities for League fans

Interesting maths there Dave. Over 1.5m watched an AFL fn game a few weeks ago. Yes a regular home and away AFL game, not a stand alone spectacle like international RL.

Plus the AFLs game is averaged over 3 hours so the peak audience would easily eclipse the RL international.

But we can all see Australia's metro population prefers pretty much any AFL game to international RL

add 300K to a League test coverage if it were on pay tv

we're up to 1.937 Mill
so what was it you were saying ?

Which state of Australia is NZ again?

[King-Eliagh]

So when local comps in Australia play American football do they change the name?

Actually its called Grid Iron you dumb arse.

http://www.gridironaustralia.org.au/

Unlike (Australia's game) they have spread there sport to most of Europe.

Also called American football stupid! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football

If it was only called gridiron Aussies may have taken it up. Xman you fail to note my reference to a nation taking it up seriously "at a professional level". American Rules football will never become a professional sport in Aus while that is its name. As will 'Australian Rules' in other nations while that is its name.

[justanotherleaguefan]

VFl will not be taken up in other countries because of it's name. It's more to the fact it's a sh*t sport.

[Xman]

Add in the kiwi's watching on Fox 280k and its shiting all over AFL run of the mill.

We are discussing which code is the most popular in AUSTRALIA!

Desperate much?

[pussycat]

With Telstra winning there court case it will mean a few hundred million more for league