Talking Footy

As usual the followers of rl have thrown in the towel and conceded defeat.
They have no time for logic, statistics, references or debate.
Until then, we can can consider this a win for Australian Football over the imported imperial English game.

cos789 wrote:

As usual the followers of rl have thrown in the towel and conceded defeat.
They have no time for logic, statistics, references or debate.
Until then, we can can consider this a win for Australian Football over the imported imperial English game.

heres something new for you

try posting some worthy of debate
K

When is this burp machine labelled "RD" going to get the message?

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

hey lostcos789.. did you see the pictures of French fumbleball ?

nah come on you have to pay that eh ?
funny as eh ?

I mean what the Fark is going on there ?

come on mate .... funny is funny
& thats a LOT funny

The bloke is a fool, no wonder he has a dedicated thread at TFC with his delusions in it.

what ever your opinion is of COS, why dont you respond to his comprehensive list? Do we need a list for you too?

Xman wrote:

ParraEelsNRL wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

hey lostcos789.. did you see the pictures of French fumbleball ?

nah come on you have to pay that eh ?
funny as eh ?

I mean what the Fark is going on there ?

come on mate .... funny is funny
& thats a LOT funny

The bloke is a fool, no wonder he has a dedicated thread at TFC with his delusions in it.

what ever your opinion is of COS, why dont you respond to his comprehensive list? Do we need a list for you too?

hes never answered a question on this forum in his life
completely ignores them

why should we entertain his rambling .. ranting ... nonsensical lists ?

He won't respond with anything but burps, Xman.

Raiderdave wrote:

cos789 wrote:

As usual the followers of rl have thrown in the towel and conceded defeat.
They have no time for logic, statistics, references or debate.
Until then, we can can consider this a win for Australian Football over the imported imperial English game.

heres something new for you

try posting some worthy of debate
K

How about the OP? The list doesn't appear to be in dispute.

Instead of all the pathetic excuses for low RL crowds, how about you lot just admit RL fans aren't as passionate about their code/clubs as AFL fans. Never have been and never will be as passionate as AFL fans. FACT!

Given only a fraction of AFL fans attend games and the great majority of AFL fans watch on TV does that make the TV watchers the equivalent of rugby league fans?

Just trying to follow the "logic" such as it is.

Beaussie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

cos789 wrote:

As usual the followers of rl have thrown in the towel and conceded defeat.
They have no time for logic, statistics, references or debate.
Until then, we can can consider this a win for Australian Football over the imported imperial English game.

heres something new for you

try posting some worthy of debate
K

How about the OP? The list doesn't appear to be in dispute.

Instead of all the pathetic excuses for low RL crowds, how about you lot just admit RL fans aren't as passionate about their code/clubs as AFL fans. Never have been and never will be as passionate as AFL fans. FACT!

136 Million to 128 Million .. says they are

enarelle wrote:

Given only a fraction of AFL fans attend games and the great majority of AFL fans watch on TV does that make the TV watchers the equivalent of rugby league fans?

Just trying to follow the "logic" such as it is.

WTF?

The AFL would have one of the highest participation rates, such as attendance and memberships, per population of any code in the world. This no doubt effects TV ratings for other AFL games in a negative manner. For example if I go to a game on Saturday arvo the long game time plus travel time means its virtually a full day event. Watching another game on TV in the evening is usually not a priority.

The reality is that the majority of AFL fans see the game on TV so according to Beauaussie they are less passionate than those who attend. I know it is difficult to follow.

enarelle wrote:

The reality is that the majority of AFL fans see the game on TV so according to Beauaussie they are less passionate than those who attend. I know it is difficult to follow.

Oh dear!

Not every fan attends every game.

The core group of passionate AFL fans that attend games regularly and take out memberships is much larger than any other Australian sport.

All sports have fringe fans who are only interested in watching the odd game on TV and aren't prepared to spend any money on memberships or attending games. The NRL certainly have a greater proportion of these fringe fans than the AFL!

You guys keep missing the point. I didn't say this your AFL colleague did. He said that people who go to games are more passionate than those who watch. I simply pointed out that only a fraction of the audience for any AFL game were at the game.

So Beau is saying there are first and second class AFL fans. If you dont go to the game you are not that passionate.

Xman wrote:

enarelle wrote:

The reality is that the majority of AFL fans see the game on TV so according to Beauaussie they are less passionate than those who attend. I know it is difficult to follow.

Oh dear!

Not every fan attends every game.

The core group of passionate AFL fans that attend games regularly and take out memberships is much larger than any other Australian sport.

All sports have fringe fans who are only interested in watching the odd game on TV and aren't prepared to spend any money on memberships or attending games. The NRL certainly have a greater proportion of these fringe fans than the AFL!

a shrinking fan base.. attendees & TV watchers in 2011
tired of an uneven .... lopsided ... uninteresting .. boring comp .. full of tanking .. with too many shit teams. rigged draws

thats gunna get worse in 2012
the passion is dying
it already has outside of Victoria .............AFL > ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

enarelle wrote:

You guys keep missing the point. I didn't say this your AFL colleague did. He said that people who go to games are more passionate than those who watch. I simply pointed out that only a fraction of the audience for any AFL game were at the game.

So Beau is saying there are first and second class AFL fans. If you dont go to the game you are not that passionate.

I agree with him.

Fans who go to the games are more passionate about the game. It takes a financial and time commitment. In comparison, Watching the TV is piss easy.

The AFL have over double the number of attendance compared to the NRL so they have over double the number of passionate fans as the NRL.