Talking Footy

pussycat wrote:

How many football games are we talking about? the crowd for the 3 Origin games was over 220k. And ratings - well, I don't want to embarrass you.

no everything else NRLOL he would be refering about

Great crowds for those football (Soccer) games. It really shows you that there is a market for soccer here. It's just a shame that the A league is so shit.

That's terrible for one of the biggest sokka clubs in the world .

I thought this soccer event was suppose to be sell outs each game.

Lol .
Nothing like the sokka crowd over estimating their popularity in Aust.

AFLcrap1 wrote:

Lol .
Nothing like the sokka crowd over estimating their popularity in Aust.

A bit like the nrlol & SOO

AFLcrap1 wrote:

That's terrible for one of the biggest sokka clubs in the world .

Against Roma, which has a pretty small following in Australia.

How about we wait and see City v RM, and see what that pulls in.

The_Wookie wrote:

post_hoc wrote:

Looks like more people will have gone to the big football games than SOO.

Yes, over 6 games. Average crowd for Origin was 74,000. Average crowd for the soccer so far - 60,000.

We have had

Chelsea v Sydney FC 83,500
Tottenham v Sydney 71,000
Liverpool v Brisbane 50,000
Liverpool v Adelaide Utd 53,000
RM v Roma 80,000
Man City v Roma 41,000
RM v Man City ?

They are big figures and 4 of those games involved A League teams against European teams, so it is great for the game here. More people been watching football than Rugby League in our off season. What is there not to be happy about

The_Wookie wrote:

You have had three of the top teams in the world here for a two or three matches. And they've rated like shit on tv.

Frankly, Im surprised the FFA gives permission for so many of these games. It only shows how poor the local product is and continues to bolster the eurosnobs. Why go during the season, when the offseason has much much better talent and opposition?

Considering, the comments from foreign coaches (who these eurosnobs) listen to have all been impressed with the quality of the A League teams, added to the fact that the eurosnobs are not necessary the ones that need to be "converted"

How poor local talent is? the fact that 15 years ago those teams would tour here and play the National Team, they are now playing club teams and do not dominate them. So I would argue that is shows the complete opposite of your claim that the local talent is poor. Also notice that today Matt Ryan (Socceroos Golakeeper) moved from Club Brugge to Valencia for I believe $10 million transfer fee. Now this is a kid who grew up in Blacktown and was developed by the Central Coast, (which I believe will earn about $1 million from this Valencia move)

while the Crowds have came out to watch the EUROPEAN SIDES PLAY
what WOOKIE stated is true.

No one is watching on TV, even with it being PRIME TIME TV
AS AN EVENT this should be rating through the roof.
But it is not.
all the fans going, prob have very little interest in the A LEAGUE

and have come to see Liverpool RM & CITY PLAY.

leeroy*NRL* wrote:

while the Crowds have came out to watch the EUROPEAN SIDES PLAY
what WOOKIE stated is true.

No one is watching on TV, even with it being PRIME TIME TV
AS AN EVENT this should be rating through the roof.
But it is not.
all the fans going, prob have very little interest in the A LEAGUE

and have come to see Liverpool RM & CITY PLAY.

Businesses and governments spend big money for these large European soccer clubs to come to Australia. People pay big money to see them play & the clubs attract thousands to their training sessions

But the the games rate crap!
Wow those 4800 rating boxes only showing again how crap the current system is

leagueiscrap wrote:

leeroy*NRL* wrote:

while the Crowds have came out to watch the EUROPEAN SIDES PLAY
what WOOKIE stated is true.

No one is watching on TV, even with it being PRIME TIME TV
AS AN EVENT this should be rating through the roof.
But it is not.
all the fans going, prob have very little interest in the A LEAGUE

and have come to see Liverpool RM & CITY PLAY.

Businesses and governments spend big money for these large European soccer clubs to come to Australia. People pay big money to see them play & the clubs attract thousands to their training sessions

But the the games rate crap!
Wow those 4800 rating boxes only showing again how crap the current system is

Instead of clogging up threads with your ratings box crap ,why don't you come into the thread that I started.

Seriously if you think you will look like a complete clueless fuckwit, don't worry .
It's way too late ..the cats out if the bag .

leagueiscrap wrote:

leeroy*NRL* wrote:

while the Crowds have came out to watch the EUROPEAN SIDES PLAY
what WOOKIE stated is true.

No one is watching on TV, even with it being PRIME TIME TV
AS AN EVENT this should be rating through the roof.
But it is not.
all the fans going, prob have very little interest in the A LEAGUE

and have come to see Liverpool RM & CITY PLAY.

Businesses and governments spend big money for these large European soccer clubs to come to Australia. People pay big money to see them play & the clubs attract thousands to their training sessions

But the the games rate crap!
Wow those 4800 rating boxes only showing again how crap the current system is

OH BOY!

not this Rating box theory

He's not on about his rating box theory again

If dumbo can spam multiple threads( this is a crowd thread) with his ratings box crap ,then I will will ask him in here to answer my questions about his ratings box theory .
Don't run dumbo .
Grow some balls .

Here we go ..




According to you .
Tv stations hand out ratings boxers to select people .
Knowing that they will watch certain programs .
Then try to leverage advertising dollars off companies with these fake numbers .

Here's where your theory is as about as relevant as all your other bizarre claims .

So once a tv channel has put out fake ratings to show how popular a program or sport is ,they then have to fork out hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the rights to that sport .
Why would they artificially inflate the popularity of a sport when it will drive the price up ?
According to you they are paying big overs for something they know doesn't rate well ,but they lied about that so they could outlay far more than it's worth .

Why would any company do that?