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@Avon River And your incessent sniping at anything positive relating to AUS Football is getting boring & it's incredibly juvenile. Try discussing a sport you actually watch & enjoy.

Midfielder can you find the largest pay tv audience we had last year irrespective of what city that that figure was from and not including any finals matches, just any of the 27 rounds. I would be interested to know our best figure from last year and work from that as a base.

BTW these rating figures do not include any of the 11 other countries we broadcast into [which you assume] NZ would be reasonable ... nor the FFA paid streaming ... nor the 65 countries that highlights packages are shown in...

#Fuss Unlike Cam above your gruff argumentative and self-righteous approach is verging on offensive.

#Cam K Ah yes thanks. Ruddy handheld devices and all I saw a number and Sydney but needed to read more carefully. The Bathurst point is intetesting and I guess exhibits some of the 'no competition' arguments put forward. It clearly shows that a modicum of context is always useful.

For the record... Ratings FTA - SBS 11 October 2013 Sydney FC v Newcastle Jets SBS 243,000 Pay - Fox 11 October 2012 Sydney FC V Newcastle Fox 115,000 12 October 2013 Central Coast Mariners v Western Sydney Wanderers 77,000 12 October 2013 Melbourne Victory v Melbourne Heart 124,000 13 October 2013 Wellington Phoenix v Brisbane Roar 60,000 13 October 2013 Adelaide United v Perth Glory 88,000 Total Fox 464, 000 Total SBS 243, 000 Round Total = 707,000 Round Average = 141,500 Crowds Melbourne Victory ... 45, 202 Sydney FC ..............20, 103 Central Coast Mariners .. 17, 134 Adelaide United ..... 10, 320 Wellington Phoenix ..... 8, 239 Total: ............. 100,998

Wait until it actually catches on Fuss. I believe we will increase our viewing numbers as the season progresses. I am sure that Fox sports is happy with the viewing numbers and of the demographic of who is actually watching. Its only going to get better.

Not to worry, we only have 1 other Friday night match in Sydney and that isn't until 14th March. We have 2 in Melbourne and 1 in Adelaide, even the Kiwis have 2 in that time. Perhaps FFA saw your line of thinking Franko mate?! hahaha

@Avon River Your ignorance about the Game is understandable, but your consistent sloppiness in conducting basic research suggests an inherent laziness. Friday: A-League had the top 2 rating shows on PayTV Saturday: A-League had the top 2 rating shows on PayTv & 3 of the Top 4 rating shows (The Toorak Handicap, which lasts a few minutes attracted 6k more viewers than CCM v WSW) Sunday: A-League was the 2nd highest rating show on PayTV. Only 3k more viewers watched a cricket ODI featuring the AUS national team playing one of the biggest cricketing nations in the world .. than watched AUFC v Perth Glory! Aren't we always told that, when watching cricket, we are ALLEGEDLY watching the best in the world?

Hmmmm. So even removing rhe 77,000 fox viewers for Fri night leaves 386,000 for the other 4 matches. Last year Rnd 1 had 108,200 avg viewers across the board. Fox would be concerned in part to lose in the head to head on Fri but more so the drop away particularly come the Sunday games. The 4 games have a 96,500 avg. That's shaving roughly 10% off. Again rnds 1&2 last year had more big name (esp ADP) appeal. As the season rolled on the avg viewers fell away markedly.

If I remember correctly last years match between Sydney FC vs Newcastle was played on a Saturday/Sunday which always makes for a healthier crowd. If that match was held on a Saturday it would have nudged closer to 30k.

I think the Sydney Derby , the Big Red and the Big Blue shoulld be great crowd-pullers this season

#AZ_RBB & Cam K Sorry lads. 2 trains of thought got merged. The ref to 'only' 20k shoulda been re the SFC V Jets down 15k on rnd 2 last season. That plus Melb derby plus GF replay put a lot of eggs in one blockbuster basket and the sum result was a 6500-7000 increase at the gate and fta eyes on SBS. Seems Melb derby ratings were down on rnd 1 last season. As too the per game avg ratings given 3 games quoted at 316,000 vs 541,000 across 5 games quoted and would fall away to around 90k and later dropping regularly around 80k as the season wore on. To me with no new big signing to drive a big SFS crowd then it's okay but surely FFA hoped the Skyblues could nudge 30 or at least 25. So on what transpired how did rnd 1 go vs expectations based in particular on early rnds of last season??

My wife and her friend decided not to come with us to the AU v Perth match. They cost us the 101000 milestone!

It will be interesting to to see how this pans out over the next few weeks. From memory the audience for the world cup qualifiers on sbs2 grew larger with each game. History may repeat with the a league.

Ah, I see, I read it as week 2. This coming Friday it's Adelaide at home to MV The following Friday is MV home to Brissy @AZ yes, usually AU's best attended match all year and IMO one of, if not the best derbies in the league. Forecast for 26 and sun, should be a beauty.