Talking Footy

MarkZZZ wrote:

50K at the A League, I think they will be lucky to break 35K. They got 40,351 last year and that was the Harry Kewell factor, he has gone now and so has his novelty factor. "50,000 at the A League, tell them their dreaming son".

King-Eliagh wrote:

Wow. So lemme get this straight. Was it 900 odd k watching in melbourne? Why that's...that's one in five melbournians sitting down with their family on a sunday evening devouring RL.

1 in 5! So basically we're talking every third household on the street, all sitting, eyes glued to their screens, utterly ingesting RL!!! This is quite astounding and the "but but but's" of the AFL goons in here just does'nt go near to explaining the phenomenal support. The sheer numbers of melbournians lapping up their league. Xman you tuned in didnt you?

Yes the old prime time/people love sport rubbish just doesnt cut it I'm afraid, otherwise the numbers would have been the same five years ago...but alas for our AFL supporting numbskulls this isnt true. The numbers dont lie, they're simply booming in Melbourne town! Melbourne IS falling in love with RL !!! now lets dance

Drac wrote:

800k watched the game in Melbourne this year. In 2006 900k watched. Not sure how a drop of 100k people is a 'boom'

because in 2009 .... 685K watched you dribbling halfwit .. is maths not your strong point , cos thats a rise of over 100K on their last apperance
a more intersting fact is the 2006 vicky kicky GF attracted 745K in Sydney ..... this year ... just 609K
oh dear

I also note that the Victory had a crowd of 42,000 last night. For the record that's almost 10,000 more people than the highest Storm crowd ever (which was a preliminary final btw

Raiderdave wrote:

Drac wrote:

800k watched the game in Melbourne this year. In 2006 900k watched. Not sure how a drop of 100k people is a 'boom'

because in 2009 .... 685K watched you dribbling halfwit .. is maths not your strong point , cos thats a rise of over 100K on their last apperance
a more intersting fact is the 2006 vicky kicky GF attracted 745K in Sydney ..... this year ... just 609K
oh dear

I also note that the Victory had a crowd of 42,000 last night. For the record that's almost 10,000 more people than the highest Storm crowd ever (which was a preliminary final btw

hmmmmm... well I note the soccer crowd last nite was 14,000 less then the biggest Rugby League crowd in Melbourne this year ..SOO I .... & for the record .. thats the biggest attendance of any sport at Etihad in 2012 , & in fact .. is bigger then any flogball attendance at the ground .... but so what eh?

Raiderdave wrote:

Xman wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

So a once yearly event, the pinnacle of your game, managed to beat an A league crowd by 14k. Well done!

Raiderdave wrote:

Xman wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

So a once yearly event, the pinnacle of your game, managed to beat an A league crowd by 14k. Well done!

and every game of fumbleball thats been played at Etihad too marcus ... don't forget that

Stewie wrote:

LOL the dumbfuck is talking about ticket prices now? What about the AFL prelims costing double the nRL's Raiderdave? And the nRL could only get 13k more even with 2 NSW teams playing...

nRL - poor mans rugby.