post_hoc wrote:what I find funny is the 113,000 people that watched the Wanderers on TV and claimed to be such low number by KE_liar is still 9,000 more people than play Rugby League in the entire country.
So, if 99.68% of the country didn't bother watching, then slightly more number of people couldn't be bothered to pick up a rugby league ball and run into a meathead.
A flawed assessment, as is pretty much all of your assessments. The sooker was available for all to watch and I recall much less than the 113k you nominated bothered to watch the most important game in Australian history apparently. I think it was more like 47k right? Less than the Aussie womens cricket side manages

...the bioggest game in aus soccer history...less than a womens cricket match

its just astounding really.
So yes the sooker was available to the whole bloody nation, old young female male hermaphrodites dwarfs amputees anorexics rich poor you get the picture

Whereas to participate as a RL player? Well we know the ABS calls for their participant data to be current i.e. someone who played five years ago aint saying he's playing it in the most current census. This takes out pretty much the whole pop over 50 or say 8million. We know a high percentage of females aint keen on it. So for the under 50 females there goes another 6 or so million. We know you cant play it until you're about 5 or 6. There goes another 2million. We know that thai ladyboys and other men who don't have much physical strength don't go near it so there goes another 2 million. We know Victorians aint that keen on it because they like AFL. There goes another 2 million.
So yeah. Its a more demanding and difficult code to enter so really out of those who physically can, we got massive numbers.
Sooker on the other hand? It's considered 'safe'. And it is. The whole country under 60 can play it and yes they get decent numbers which is great but id have a well educated guess and say 70% of those who participate in sooker prefer to watch RL or marngrook on the tele
Poor sooker. It's never gunna be big here.