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Emric, this piece is talking about Australian TV ratings, and Australian ratings alone. So the fact that Super Rugby is shown in SA and NZ is irrelevant. The ratings reflect viewing and interest in Australia. Comparing Roosters v Warriors to a Chiefs v Waratahs game is incorrect.
Apologies Cattery, that was a mistake. It should have been around $20m a year for the FFA. It has a seven-year $120 million deal, plus contra, I imagine.
AFL and NRL ratings fire
AndyMack, DCE was merely asking for what he is worth. According to what he has said, he always stated that he wanted to stay at Manly. He recognises the faith they have put in him and the work from the likes of Hasler and Toovey. I’m sure he could have got more money at another club.
And his current contract finished in 2013. So he is not “seeing out his contract”, he has signed an upgrade and an extension. Get your facts right.
Cherry-Evans re-signs with Manly until 2015
Thanks Jason. Do you know when ESPN is showing the doco again?
Dewey Bozella and the spirit of boxing
“Is it going to go back to a nine-team competition with a bye each week and a drop in attendances as a result? With less games to play and some teams’ supporters missing out on their team out on the park, it can’t be a good look for re-negotiating a new television deal.”
Why will the attendances drop next season? What was the GCU average attendance, 2000 or under? It’s not going to have a big impact. And if Western Sydney do come in, they will average more than 2000 people a game in attendance. Easily
Case for Gold Coast United's A-League inclusion
Beau, you keep talking about the fans of Gold Coast United. Problem was, there was hardly any. So disappointing them, making them bitter, isn’t that big an issue.
Where to now for football and the Gold Coast?
You say the Sea Eagles have screwed up – but they have made three grand finals in five years, and won two of them. I don’t call that screwing up. They are just the victim of what happens to successful teams, their players get selected for rep football and rightly want and deserve more money. Even the non-key players, like David Williams and Matt Balin, have played rep football, not to mention Jason King. Its inevitable that some Manly players will have to leave, thats life in the NRL. It may be Brett Stewart. But the onus for Manly is to keep the key young players – Cherry-Evans, Foran, T-Rex etc – and see if they can ease salary cap pressure by letting go of some of the older players. As they have done in the past few years with Menzies, Orford and Perry.
Cherry-Evans deserves to demand the big bucks
Thanks Snobby Deans for the list, makes for interesting reader. Australia is fairly high as both an importer and exporter.
Are the Wallabies becoming too much like the Kiwis?
JCVD, what ‘innovative’ marketing strategies have the Broncos used?
The best teams in the comp, those that occupy the top spots on the ladder, should get the most Friday night games. So that should be Melbourne, Manly, Tigers, Broncos, St George. That’s the way it should be done every year, and agreed a full year schedule should be done like the AFL. Gold Coast and Canberra may have improved in 2012, we shall see, but they were woeful in 2011 so for 2012 should get the least amount of prime-time games. It’s that simple.
Broncos deserve to be Friday night regulars
So living in QLD for six years makes you a Queenslander Truth 88? Thanks for the hot tip
State of Origin to finally get new eligibility rules
Thanks Alan for the call, great game.
New Zealand Warriors vs Manly Sea Eagles: NRL live scores, blog
Almost had a heartache. Great scrambling defense from Manly. They deserve the 2 points
New Zealand Warriors vs Manly Sea Eagles: NRL live scores, blog
Manu is not worth the bother. Way too many errors
New Zealand Warriors vs Manly Sea Eagles: NRL live scores, blog
What a game. Manly can’t lose this. Best game of the first round by a mile. Entertaining stuff.
New Zealand Warriors vs Manly Sea Eagles: NRL live scores, blog
Loving the ball movement from Manly. More errors but less structure from Manly, so very unpredictable. Great to watch. The influence of Toovey
New Zealand Warriors vs Manly Sea Eagles: NRL live scores, blog
Just re-saw the second last try, was a forward pass. Another not picked up. Ashley Klein is a joke.
Manly lose to Leeds in World Club Challenge
Sack Toovey Johnno? You’ve got to be joking. The reffing in that game was a joke. At least with 2 refs in the NRL that can keep 10m. leeds were offside for 60mins of the game and Peacock had a low blow kneeing a Manly player. How a Leeds player didn’t go to the bin for repeated infringements I’ll never though.
Leeds played smarter at times with a lot of intensity. They deserved the win. But give Manly a few more games and they would tear them apart.
Manly lose to Leeds in World Club Challenge
Great atmosphere, but not a great standard. Redfern Oval facilities are great, they have a fence around and a decent grandstand. I’ve played soccer on it and the turf is pretty nice. Not good enough for NRL or A-League games though.
Yep Clover Moore is the Lord Mayor and MP of Sydney
Rabbitohs' return to Redfern still needs work
Hewitt’s a great competitor, and he seems to have matured more of late, but he’s not very likeable:
A timeline of Hewitt indiscretions
January 2000: A teenage Hewitt, upset after his hometown crowd raucously cheered on his unheralded Aussie opponent Dejan Petrovic during the AAPT Championships in Adelaide, slams “the stupidity of the Australian public” at a press conference. Hewitt goes on to win the tournament but a month later, Inside Sport magazine rates him as Australia’s least-admired sports person.
May 2001: Hewitt is fined US$1000 for calling chair umpire Andres Egli a “spastic” during a French Open fourth round match. Hewitt apologises, but declines an invitation from the Spastic Centre of Australia to visit one of its centres. “It’s a great shame that having spasticity, which is one of the major conditions associated with having cerebral palsy, should be used in such a derogatory way,” says Spastic Centre chief executive Rob White.
September 2001: Hewitt is accused of racism during a match against African-American opponent James Blake at the US Open. Upset at twice being foot-faulted, Hewitt approached the umpire demanding the linesman in question – also an African-American – be changed. “Look at him”, Hewitt said, gesturing first at Blake and then at the linesman, “look at him and you tell me what the similarity is”. Hewitt insists there were no racial overtones in his outburst, escapes punishment and wins the tournament, beating Pete Sampras in the final.
January 2005: Juan Ignacio Chela takes exception to Hewitt’s on-court histrionics during an Australian Open match. The Argentine, furious at Hewitt having celebrated an unforced error, deliberately serves directly at Hewitt and then spits at him during the change of ends. Hewitt’s rift with Argentina deepens during a spiteful Davis Cup tie that culminates in Argentinian newspaper La Nacion listing Hewitt as the country’s fifth most-hated sportsman. “You really feel like killing him”, says Argentine player Guillermo Coria. “As a person, I would rather not win a single tournament in my life than be like him”. Compatriot David Nalbandian later reveals that “nobody [on tour] is a friend of him”.
January 2005 and 2006: Hewitt blames his exits from the Australian Open on the slow and uneven rebound ace surfaces at Melbourne Park. “I don’t think there’s been a lot of homework done on how the balls play on this surface & I feel like I’m fighting with people that we should be working together to try and make Australian tennis better,” he tells a press conference in 2006, insinuating that event organisers should be tailoring the surface to better suit his own game.
June 2008: Hewitt cops a US$1000 fine for unsportsmanlike behaviour during his first-round Wimbledon clash with Dutchman Robin Hasse. Ignoring a warning from chair umpire Fergus Murphy, Hewitt smashed his racquet on the ground and launched several verbal tirades at a line judge for foot-faulting him. When asked if Murphy was right to call his conduct unsportsmanlike, Hewitt says: “I would doubt it. No, I would be fighting that”.
June 2009: Hewitt stirs controversy at Wimbledon by suggesting females should not play five-set matches because they don’t possess sufficient fitness levels. “There would obviously be question marks (over whether) a lot of them could last that much”, Hewitt tells reporters.
Why does everybody hate Lleyton?
Emric, as I said before, this is about Aussie TV ratings. And it doesn’t matter if its the Reds v Force or Roosters v Warriors. The fact that Super Rugby teams play teams from other countries is irrelevant. Are you saying that a Tahs fan will watch them play the Rebels and not the Crusaders? Ah, no. Yes games against two Aussie teams rate higher, so do NRL games involving Parra v Brisbane or St George v the Bulldogs.
And drama city, no its not a cop out. Its a fact. That is a poor result, no matter which way you look at it. And no, I’m not bagging those two sports, I watch both every weekend.
This story was about the ratings for last weekend – week 13 according to ASTRA. If you look at week 12 it ain’t much better for rugby or football. The highest was Super Rugby Rebels v Force with 130,000 and no A-League above 99,000.
9 LIVE: SUPER RUGBY: REBELS V FORCE FOX SPORTS 3 Fri 19:30 130,000.
In week 11 it was slightly higher with Super Rugby with 134,000 for Tahs vs Force.
7 LIVE: SUPER RUGBY: WARATAHS V FORCE FOX SPORTS 3 Sat 19:30 134,000
In week 10 it was about the same
10 LIVE: SUPER RUGBY: REDS V REBELS FOX SPORTS 3 Sat 20:00 136,000
In week 9 it was bad, no Super Rugby above 112,000:
Top 10 Sport Broadcasts Channel Day Time B/cast
1 LIVE: NRL PANTHERS V BULLDOGS FOX SPORTS 2 Sat 19:30 343 ‐ 1626 733
2 LIVE: NRL RAIDERS V STORM FOX SPORTS 2 Sat 17:30 337 ‐ 1413 799
3 LIVE: NRL COWBOYS V TITANS FOX SPORTS 2 Sat 21:30 229 ‐ 1300 595
4 LIVE: NAB CUP COLLINGWOOD V MELBOURNE FOX FOOTY Sat 19:30 175 ‐ 1617 464
5 LIVE: AFL: NAB CUP POOL 6 CARLTON V ADELAIDE FOX FOOTY Sun 16:13 161 ‐ 1116 288
6 LIVE: FOOTBALL: WORLD CUP QUALIFIER AUS V FOX SPORTS 1 Wed 20:30 138 ‐ 1084 375
7 LIVE: AFL: NAB CUP POOL 6 ADELAIDE V PORT AD‐ FOX FOOTY Sun 17:25 131 ‐ 1058 245
8 LIVE: RUGBY LEAGUE: NRL SATURDAY FOX SPORTS 2 Sat 16:55 124 ‐ 1252 237
9 LIVE: CRICKET: THE ALLAN BORDER MEDAL FOX SPORTS 2 Mon 20:30 112 ‐ 974 335
10 LIVE: FOOTBALL: EPL LIVERPOOL V ARSENAL FOX SPORTS 1 Sat 23:45 112 ‐ 600 227
In week 8 it was a bit better, but this was the opening round of the season and with no NRL as competition:
Top 10 Sport Broadcasts Channel Day Time B/cast
1 LIVE: SUPER RUGBY: WARATAHS V REDS FOX SPORTS 3 Sat 19:30 193,000
Are you detecting a theme here?
Check out the ASTRA website if you don’t believe me.
AFL and NRL ratings fire