Australian Football vs Rugby League in Darwin

[Beaussie]

According to Raiderdave

RL is now more popular in Darwin then the VFL

viewtopic.php?p=94633#p94633

Um, Raider, care to prove this point? Rubbish if you ask me, but open to you proving your point if you can? This should be good.

[Raiderdave]

According to Raiderdave

RL is now more popular in Darwin then the VFL

viewtopic.php?p=94633#p94633

Um, Raider, care to prove this point? Rubbish if you ask me, but open to you proving your point if you can? This should be good.

sure dickhead
Victorian Football V Rugby League eh

Channel 9 made the call years ago when it had both codes
It knew RL was the more popular of the sports


Nine chooses NRL for AFL Darwin

By Glenn Dyer

It’s not just News Ltd sports writers taking pot shots at the Nine Network. Darwin AFL fans are up in arms at an amazing decision by the local management of the Packer-owned station to give preference to the National Rugby League.

This in a town that thrives on AFL, hosts Wizard Cup games and the occasional home and away AFL game, while the NRL ignores the city except for a visit once every now and then.

Nine in Darwin is now showing NRL on Friday nights live at 7pm, and AFL after that. Is this a sign of the Packer empire punishing the AFL before the current rights run out?

It’s an absurd programming decision, as one Crikey reader in Darwin explains:




The powers to be have thrown their support behind rugby league in a very large way. From now on, rugby league will be shown live on Friday nights ahead of the AFL Friday Night Football and the NRL Footy Show will be shown ahead of the Logie Award winning AFL Footy Show.

The decision, according to Andrew Bruyn, Channel Nine GM, has to do with Darwin being a rugby league town and some garbled reason that the NRL is produced in high definition television. This sounds like what it is – a crock of shit.

There is not one Northern Territory player currently playing on Friday nights or any other part of the weekend inside an NRL team. Yet there are enough Territory-bred AFL players to field their own AFL team.

At a time when Channel Nine is losing the ratings war and when it is going to have to fight tooth and nail to maintain its Australian Rules television rights, this is a really poor management decision.

Suddenly the AFL is second fiddle in the Territory, NSW, Qld and the ACT. What happened to taking the code to regional Australia? The AFL and the Western Bulldogs have spent millions to bring home and way matches to the Northern Territory and the so-called national broadcaster of the game has made this decision.

Bruyn by the way is a former member of the Rugby League Board, and if memory serves me correctly was the Chairman. This decision is an absolute stinker. How will this decision affect revenue?

In any event, I hope this decision costs Bruyn his job. Channel Nine treats its viewers with contempt and has done so for a very long time. Let’s hope that the revitalised Channel Seven will now take the opportunity to have a local news service, which it currently doesn’t have, and that that may be the start of Seven’s growth in the area that will really take off when they regain the rights to broadcast Australian Rules again.

It’s pointless complaining to Bruyn because he is too arrogant to listen. This town has been good to Channel Nine and this is how they repay them.

CRIKEY: In a funny way Nine probably justifies these sorts of decisions by a form of equalisation – its merely placing Darwin on the same footing as Queensland and NSW. League first, AFL second and shown in the deep of night. When you’re running second, every little bit counts.





http://www.crikey.com.au/2005/04/01/nin ... her=mobile




look at the funmblers whining in this article :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<>
they don't like being numb 2 do they ?
the dummy hasn't stopped bouncing


lucky for fumblers in Darwin 9 lost the rights in 2007
because if they didn't ... they'd still be behind that cities most popular sport today

[Xman]

Hang on, your "proof" is a comment by a ch9 exec, when ch9 broadcast the sport??? >

Oh dear!

[Raiderdave]

Hang on, your "proof" is a comment by a ch9 exec, when ch9 broadcast the sport??? >

Oh dear!

they
broadcast BOTH in 2005 you twat

yet chose to screen the more popular of the 2 in each state

RL in
NSW
QLD
ACT

&

NT


the bumbling Victorian abortion in the rest

[Xman]

Hang on, your "proof" is a comment by a ch9 exec, when ch9 broadcast the sport??? >

Oh dear!

they
broadcast BOTH in 2005 you twat

yet chose to screen the more popular of the 2 in each state

RL in
NSW
QLD
ACT

&

NT


the bumbling Victorian abortion in the rest

They have had a long term relationship with the NRL since forever, where as the AFL was channel 7s forever and only ch9s briefly.

Show some ratings, show some participation numbers, show some club numbers, show some recruits, show something other than a comment from a TV exec

[Raiderdave]

Hang on, your "proof" is a comment by a ch9 exec, when ch9 broadcast the sport??? >

Oh dear!

they
broadcast BOTH in 2005 you twat

yet chose to screen the more popular of the 2 in each state

RL in
NSW
QLD
ACT

&

NT


the bumbling Victorian abortion in the rest

They have had a long term relationship with the NRL since forever, where as the AFL was channel 7s forever and only ch9s briefly.

Show some ratings, show some participation numbers, show some club numbers, show some recruits, show something other than a comment from a TV exec

oh I'm sorry dickhead

but Ch 9 had BOTH codes & so as to make money
HAD to broadcast the more popular of the 2 codes depending on where a broadcast took place

again
it was the NRL in
NSW
QLD
the ACT

&



NT


for what possible reason would they do anything else ?

[Xman]

That isnt proof, its a commercial decision which would be based on numerous financial permutations. Add to that it was 9 years ago.

Really Dave, not even you would believe this ridiculous claim

[NRLCrap1]

Someone grab a comparison between the NTFL and the main rugby league competition up there. That'll tell the real story!!

[Raiderdave]

Someone grab a comparison between the NTFL and the main rugby league competition up there. That'll tell the real story!!

oh
our resident tar.d is back from the asylum :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<>


Darwinites pefer our game over that Victorian abortion to watch
playing numbers mean nothing dickhead when you consider soccer is played by more Nt'ers then any sport up there

[Raiderdave]

That isnt proof, its a commercial decision which would be based on numerous financial permutations. Add to that it was 9 years ago.

Really Dave, not even you would believe this ridiculous claim

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Oh of course its not proof
when anything says the fumbles & bumbles is No 2 , its just not accurate


tell me Einstein
why do companies make commercial decisions ?

to lose money
or
make it ?

when 9 got the rights to both codes
Ch 9 execs no doubt got hold of the ratings for Darwin .. for both codes
& it took them 2 minutes to work out which was the more popular code :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<>
& if anything its become more so in the last 9 years with thousands of Easterners in the mines in the Pilbara & the Gas fields off the North West Shelf making Darwin their base instead of Perth

add the NT capital to the list of
RL towns

[pussycat]

"Per capita figures show that the Northern Territory along with Queensland are the highest participators per capita of rugby league in Australia."[td][/td].....Wikipedia

[Pete_09]

"7% of all Northern Territorians in 2007 participated in Australian Football, the highest participation in Australia (and second worldwide only to Australian Football in Nauru)"

[Raiderdave]

"7% of all Northern Territorians in 2007 participated in Australian Football, the highest participation in Australia (and second worldwide only to Australian Football in Nauru)"

worldwide ?


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[AFLcrap1]

"7% of all Northern Territorians in 2007 participated in Australian Football, the highest participation in Australia (and second worldwide only to Australian Football in Nauru)"

.
A sport with no pro or semi pro comps anywhere outside AUS ,should never use the word "WORLDWIDE",when talking about their sport..

& you idiots wonder why you get laughed at.

[adamj1300]

"7% of all Northern Territorians in 2007 participated in Australian Football, the highest participation in Australia (and second worldwide only to Australian Football in Nauru)"

.
A sport with no pro or semi pro comps anywhere outside AUS ,should never use the word "WORLDWIDE",when talking about their sport..

& you idiots wonder why you get laughed at.

dumbass, crapper, rugby league is hardly an international sport it self.
it only gets some international recognition thanks to the union