Talking Footy

Australia's No 1 sport has done it again. Check them numbers out fumblers lolololol!!!!! Absolutely pulverised last weeks fumbling mess.Well done Rugby League. Well done Peter The Great. What a year for our great nations most watched sport.

Read this and weep fumblers lolololololol!!!!!

Here is a beautifully written article by our dear friend at sportsindustry about the state of play between the codes. In short: the AFL has maxxed out. It has nowhere else to go. It's leaders have run out of ideas and are treading water. RL on the other hand is flying. New teams are coming in and there is a long cue for further expansion in NZ and the pacific. And there is talk of the NRL taking over Superleague Europe. For the NRL the world is their oyster whilst the AFL is chomping down on a shit sandwich lololol!!!!!!!!!!! You know its true.

https://footyindustry.com/index.php/202 ... ark-below/

NRL/AFL

Metro breakdown

#NRL
Sydney 1.099m
Melbourne 734k
Brisbane 941k
Perth 198k
Adelaide 127k
Total 3.099m + regional 1.361m

#AFL
Sydney 464k
Melbourne 980k
Brisbane 456k
Perth 344k
Adelaide 300k
Total 2.544m + regional 1.643m

NRL always kills regionals
has all year.

Fun fact:

The Storm's 734,000 in the Melbourne Oztam metro (which includes Geelong etc) of 5.5 million is 13.4% of the viewing population.

The Lions 456,000 in the Brisbane Oztam metro (which includes Gold Coast etc) of 3.6 million is 12.7%.

So NRL in Melbourne had a higher percentage of viewers than the AFL in South-East Queensland

leeroy*NRL* wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 7:22 pm

NRL/AFL

Metro breakdown

#NRL
Sydney 1.099m
Melbourne 734k
Brisbane 941k
Perth 198k
Adelaide 127k
Total 3.099m + regional 1.361m

#AFL
Sydney 464k
Melbourne 980k
Brisbane 456k
Perth 344k
Adelaide 300k
Total 2.544m + regional 1.643m

NRL always kills regionals
has all year.

Yet for the GF the AFL apparently had more regional viewers lol

leeroy*NRL* wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:43 pm

Fun fact:

The Storm's 734,000 in the Melbourne Oztam metro (which includes Geelong etc) of 5.5 million is 13.4% of the viewing population.

The Lions 456,000 in the Brisbane Oztam metro (which includes Gold Coast etc) of 3.6 million is 12.7%.

So NRL in Melbourne had a higher percentage of viewers than the AFL in South-East Queensland

Great stat. Seems Rugby League is doing better in Melbourne than the fumbling mess is in Brisbane. A bit of truth serum that the fumblers here will find hard to swallow !!!!!y

By the way..........where is our dear leader beatup ???????????? I haven't seem him since the almight thrashing the NRL handed to the fumbling mess on GF day. Come out to play beatup. Your village needs you lololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!

makingnrlfansgowacko wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 9:13 pm

leeroy*NRL* wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 7:22 pm

NRL/AFL

Metro breakdown

#NRL
Sydney 1.099m
Melbourne 734k
Brisbane 941k
Perth 198k
Adelaide 127k
Total 3.099m + regional 1.361m

#AFL
Sydney 464k
Melbourne 980k
Brisbane 456k
Perth 344k
Adelaide 300k
Total 2.544m + regional 1.643m

NRL always kills regionals
has all year.

Yet for the GF the AFL apparently had more regional viewers lol

that was my point
thanks for highlighting it again..

Terry wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 1:52 pm

leeroy*NRL* wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:43 pm

Fun fact:

The Storm's 734,000 in the Melbourne Oztam metro (which includes Geelong etc) of 5.5 million is 13.4% of the viewing population.

The Lions 456,000 in the Brisbane Oztam metro (which includes Gold Coast etc) of 3.6 million is 12.7%.

So NRL in Melbourne had a higher percentage of viewers than the AFL in South-East Queensland

Great stat. Seems Rugby League is doing better in Melbourne than the fumbling mess is in Brisbane. A bit of truth serum that the fumblers here will find hard to swallow !!!!!y

By the way..........where is our dear leader beatup ???????????? I haven't seem him since the almight thrashing the NRL handed to the fumbling mess on GF day. Come out to play beatup. Your village needs you lololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and i think alot more to growth can be done in Victoria too.
what i found very interesting was QLD number
it lifted dramatically on Broncos 2023 numbers>> where as Lions remained the same

7day consolidated.

The NRL Grand Final is the highest rating program of the year, with a National Total TV Average Audience of 4.552 million. It is also the highest rating NRL Grand Final of all time.

#NRL Grand Final Day
Consolidated +7

NRL Grand Final
Nine 4.553m (BVOD 1.373m) Reach 6.51m

#NRLW Grand Final
Nine 1.084m (BVOD 237k) Reach 2.056m

State Championship
Nine 500k (BVOD 95k) Reach 1.171m


all 3 games have risen

also worth noting
that the NRL entertainment beat AFL entertainment by 1 Million

the question begs, is it worth paying such high coin for artists at Grand Finals