http://www.oztam.com.au/documents/2009/E_20091004.pdf

5 city metro of 2,528,000

http://www.oztam.com.au/documents/2009/E_20091004.pdf

As opposed to ‘initial’ figure of 2,416,000

Up by 112,000

Not sure how this impacts the final figure plus regionals?

The comparison seems to have been made on the only metric genuinely available at the time that allows for a comparison. Any further comparison is uselss until the NRL OZTam figures come out, whatever they may be.

Townsville had that new AFL/Cricket ground opened in 2007/8?,
http://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi?action=VENUE&venueid=8011921&client=1-3484-0-0-0
There is a saying – Build it and they will come. Its all about perception and credibility with the kids. Noticed they now have
regular girls comps up there now as well.
But the Cowboys do dominate the town.

Not sure why its so popular around Cairns, lots of southern expats i would imagine.

AFL is becoming more popular around the cape york far north area but Townsville would be the one town/city that aussie rules has little to no foothold. The cowboys have made sure of that.

At the end of the day Brisbane, GC, sunshine coast and far northern NSW are the main areas to target for growth.

A 99,000 decrease……

just shows, don’t it, that OzTam must be just another Mike Fitzpatrick run company!!!!

Seriously though, the initial figures did not include the Post Game that was rated at 2.448 million. The ‘amended’ figures listed the Post Game separately (as per the Pre Game).

The Pre Game is perhaps more interesting, as that jumped from 1.505 million to 1.697 million. That’s 192,000. That’s more than the adjusted increase for the GF proper.

All that has happened since if the AFL final figures have come out, which apparently went up due to the AFL GF overlapping into a later time slot.

Lets all take a breath till OzTam figures come out for the NRL GF.

if you pay attention I have not made any comment on the NRL numbers.

Now let’s see, I’ve left the Daily Telegraph’s phone number around here somewhere.

Redb

How about accepting the intial numbers re the AFL GF of 3.4M published by the Daily Telegraph were wrong as pointed out.

The Oztam/Agneilson numbers days ago showed it was 3.8M for the AFL GF. Don’t like the result so you just deny it exists eh?

re your last sentence that sounds a lot like hubris to me – is the NRL on war footing to dominate the country and kill off all other codes. Geez I’ll wait 6 months and give the Daily Telegraph a call, they’ll love it.

Redb

Either way, as long as the NRL concentrates on the path they are going down, within the next 10 years we won’t even have to have this conversation, as it will be quite clear who the dominate code is.

Others will want to beat their chests about the NRL, my main critcism was aimed at the Daily Telegraph for jumping the gun and declaring a victory for their product.

Redb

The first incorrect figures were simply the un-validated preliminary figures – that OzTAM do NOT publish on their website.

About 2 weeks after those are bandied about, OzTAM release and publish the validated correct and final (official) figures.

Why do you question Redb in accepting this process???

Do you accept it? (and again, let’s wait for the official validated NRL figures).

Note – for that AFL GF weekend, the AFL figures when ‘validated/finalised’ increased, whilst the NRL PF 2 decreased. Both by substatial amounts (i.e. 170K and 99K respectively).

Normally the variation is very minor…….just a couple of thousand.

At any rate – all along on this front, Redb and myself have argued NOT that the AFL is better, or anything – - but, simply that the figures being used were infact wrong.

So, back to the short answer – yes, let’s all wait for the NRL figures to be finalised.

just goes to show you should never ‘PAY OUT’ until correct weight is signalled.

but, little did I know we’d play Prelim final weekend for the next 8 seasons straight……

The Voss broken leg probably only helped increase the burning desire of he and the group of players……

….which gets to a parallel to the relatively current thread about “Do you have to lose one to win one”.

btw – gee that footage of his leg just bending where it shouldn’t…….that was so……uncomfortable!!!

“The NRL’s belief strong grand-final ratings last weekend would help their next TV deal was punctured slightly with the revelation yesterday the AFL’s decider had in fact beaten its rugby league counterpart in national ratings, not the reverse as had been claimed originally. Recalibrated figures lifted the AFL’s ratings by almost 400,000 nationally.”

Hopefully the Daily Telegraph will publish a form of retraction as well (wont hold my breath).

Redb

And Brisbane were very unlucky to lose Voss for year with a broken leg.

Redb