WookieReturns wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 2:33 pm
leeroy*NRL* wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 2:12 pm
WookieReturns wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 1:37 pm
sure if you put stock in the idea that theatre events match general interest in the league. I dont.
i am looking at the picture of what Melbourne Generates in ratings
and what Perth is currently doing without a team
Perth 190k
Melbourne 308k
with Populations bases totally different..
Perth is way better setup to be alot more successful than the Storm ever were by a long way
in literally every metric
While its a good result its only a 23k higher audience than it did in 2019 without a team. Thats margin of error territory.
Population/Audience difference is largely irrevelant 8.7% for Perth to 5.1% for Melbourne - Noting that Melbourne have a hugely popular AFL show(the Front Bar) on at that time which will have sucked 2-250k of the audience away, that isnt shown in Perth until after origin finishes due to time difference, but which impacts ratings.
Perth Population > 2.1mill >>> 190k (double it to 4.2mill your looking at 380k equivalent) with 1.3mill pop less.
Melb Population 5.4mill >>>> 308k
point taken on Front Bar >> that would hurt Victorian Audience.
when i say without a Team>> Perth has no team yet in the comp >> which generates more interest..
190k with no team >> in NRL
adding a team>> you would suspect that Origin Figure to go up.
Melbourne 308k with team for almost 30 years.