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The list covers a 15 year period and is supplied by Foxtel, so don’t try and discredit me.
Any AFL figures are insignificant when compared to Asian football audiences.
You want current figures. 2015 Asian Cup in Australia smashed all records.
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/article/asian-cup-smashes-audience-numbers/pp1ebmxdio8k1gibyf93a54dx
Think outside the centre square. Think globally.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
Apologies Sydneysider,
glad to have you as a football fan. I know lots of people follow more than one sport.
Don’t ever underestimate the popularity of football in Australia, or the world.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
I think the viewing and listening public in Australia are maturing as well. They are not as stupid as the critics think they are.
They attend other sporting fixtures and see the violence and bad behaviour at other sports as well.
180 people evicted from the boxing day cricket and several people arrested and injured people taken to hospital.
Why aren’t their photos on the front page of the Herald Sun or Sunday Telegraph?
Is News Limited genuinely concerned about violence affecting families attending sporting fixtures.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
The BBL is also smashing NRL and AFL attendances and TV ratings.
Maybe we should all stop playing or watching any other sport and just watch BBL.
While we’re at it, lets ban anyone else in the country if they don’t like BBL or Chris Gayle.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
We are consumers and make our own decisions about where to spend our money.
If McDonalds made a public statement about “soccer hooligans” and called me and my family “grubs” for going to A-League games, then I would not take my family to McDonalds, I would eat somewhere else.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
Pretty good, recommend it.
And if you’ve got FetchTV, they offer the BeIN sports package that’s available on Optus, iiNet and Dodo for $4.95 per month. That’ll give you a more solid fix of actual live games to watch from the EPL and a host of other football leagues that’s another non-Foxtel alternative.
If you have a VPN, there are other options round the world such as Premier League Pass.
If you want to live a bit more dangerously there are many football streaming sites you can hack for free via freely available software on the web, but the quality is not as good and its not always in English.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
Sydneysider, its the most popular team sport in Australia to play too.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
“Around the world, FFA says that number [watching the A-League Grand Final] swells to a quarter of a billion people in more than 100 countries.
A-League chief Damien de Bohun hailed growing interest in the match.
“The global audience continues to grow, some 54 countries took the game live and another 50-odd countries on delay,” he said.
“Somewhere between 250 and 300 million people would have watched the A-League grand final yesterday which is a massive result for us.”
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
Sydneysider you have a bit of a narrow view of the world.
Recently during Foxtel’s 15th anniversary they released a list of their top 15 watched matches on pay TV, which might surprise you.
Here’s the results:
1. World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Uzbekistan 1/4/2009: 431,000
2. AFC Asian Cup Qualifier: Japan v Australia #3 21/7/2009: 419,000
3. Chappell-Hadlee Trophy – New Zealand v Australia 18/2/2007: 415,000
4. Parramatta Eels v North Queensland Cowboys 02/04/2011: 407,000
5. World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Japan 17/6/2009: 378,000
6. Canterbury Bulldogs v Wests Tigers 14/3/2011: 365,000
7. Parramatta Eels v Sydney Roosters 31/7/2007: 361,000
8. South Africa v Australia – Second Test, Day 2 7/3/2009: 358,000
9. Canterbury Bulldogs v Melbourne Storm 23/5/2009: 357,000
10. South Africa v Australia – Second Test, Day 1 6/3/2009: 355,000
11. South Africa v Australia – Second Test, Day 4 9/3/2009: 353,000
12. Bledisloe Cup – Australia v New Zealand 26/7/2008: 350,000
13. South Africa v Australia – Second Test, Day 3 8/3/2009: 350,000
14. AFC Asian Cup – Australia v Oman 8/7/2007: 345,000
15. World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Qatar 1/4/2009: 345,000
AFL didn’t even make the list,
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
FIUL, what’s “illegal” about a Vlan or VPN, especially when you have them for your own business.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
Foxtel is 51% owned by Telstra, which is 51% owned by the federal government.
I don’t have Foxtel, I use other media to follow sport including Livesport TV. All the world’s football for $6 per month.
http://www.aleague.livesport.tv/
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
A third Sydney team and a third Melbourne team giving us 6 derbies in each city every year.
The average attendance at A-League derby games is nudging the 30K mark and starting to rival AFL average attendance, which has capital city derby games every week.
The future of the A-League's evolution
Football is a global game, you can’t just change the game to suit Aussie spectators.
In fact most A-League clubs try and adopt the more sophisticated attacking possession based style of the overseas clubs.
Managers are aware of that need to entertain fans and bring in more spectators through the gates, but at the same time if they don’t get results they will lose their jobs. Its a balancing act and for me one of the great attractions of the game is how it mimics the drama of the real world.
The future of the A-League's evolution
Here we are in 2016 and this problem still persists.
“Business model” is a good choice of words, these random and persistent attacks on football and the A-League are no accident.
Its News Limited business on 2 major fronts.
Firstly, football and the A-League are a competitor to News Limited’s investments in AFL, NRL and cricket. Secondly, these type of articles feed their organisational culture and the mindset of their core readers, who see football and football fans as foreign.
We’ve just learned to ignore them, don’t respond to them and we don’t spend one cent on any media interests owned by Rupert Murdoch. That’s the only thing they understand – money.
Thankfully the FFA is finally getting the message, the most important things about the A-League are the fans, the players and the game. In this day and age of worldwide social media and internet, there is no need to pander to dark ages thinking, local biased parochial media with obvious “hidden” Murdoch business agendas.
There’s plenty of sport in the world to keep me interested.
Happy New Year to the A-League's persistent critics!
I’m talking about the A-League and other top leagues in Asia, not the junior referee exchange programs.
Since when have we had a Japanese referee in charge of an A-League game?
Williams admitted he made 3 major mistakes and will be refereeing another A-League game this weekend. You have to do something pretty bad to get stood down.
Having different referees from other countries will also help stop the ongoing referee battles between Graham Arnold, Kevin Muscat and other managers and the same referees every week.
Its not a good look for the game when a lot of the post match discussions are about the referee’s performance and not the teams or the game.
Ref sorry for wrong penalty decisions
They would still be there if Qatar and Russia were chosen fairly.
Its not the result, its the way it was corrupted and the hundreds of millions of dollars that changed hands for votes that goes back a decade or more.
Then there’s the corruption money for awarding television rights, advertising rights, marketing and media rights and so on.
Ah sport, we still love ya
We have a shallow pool of referees in Australia. They make mistakes and there is no punishment. They can’t get relegated or stood down.
The AFC should have a referee exchange program, so Australian referees have stints in other Asian countries and vice versa.
Maybe we have a round or two with Japanese referees, while Williams and his mates have a couple of weeks in Singapore for example.
It would help to standardise Asian refereeing and maybe reduce match fixing and refereeing corruption in Asia.
Ref sorry for wrong penalty decisions
The FFA didn’t spend $45M it was mostly subsidised by the federal government and Frank Lowy.
It was a risk based on the reward of billions of dollars in revenue and boost for the game from staging a Football World Cup, the biggest sporting event in the world, right here in Australia.
Football's winners, losers and lessons learned of 2015
Yes, when you read the details its only selected games and a lot of clubs and games miss out.
This just creates more division.
Should be all the A-League games in January, when the kids are on holidays and it should be paid for by the FFA.
For heavens sake, it would only be a few thousand dollars, surely they are not that skint.
And the kids have to be accompanied by an adult, so they’ll get some of it back.
Football's winners, losers and lessons learned of 2015
Great news!!!
The FFA have just announced all kids free at all A-League games in January 2016.
Football's winners, losers and lessons learned of 2015
There were 180 ejected from the Boxing day test – appropriately named given several people were taken to hospital following some of the violence.
They were very lucky not to get their photos put on the front page of the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun, who are on a religious crusade led by virgin Saint Rebecca, to get rid of violence in all Australian sports.
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What other world wide sport gives you so much drama, controversy and humour all rolled into one with the drama excitement and tension on the field. Some people in Australia make a lifelong career out of knocking it.
Love the A-League irrespective, in spite of it all and because of it all.
Ah sport, we still love ya
The FFA get $12.60 for every player registration fee in NSW.
http://www.footballnsw.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Resources_and_Documents/Circulars_and_Memos/1509_-_Circular_National_Premier_Leagues_NSW_and_State_Leagues_2016_Competition_Registration_Fees.pdf
There’s not much room for the FFA to reduce fees, its the clubs that set the majority of the charges, supply and demand.
With record registrations every year, the FFA could double their fee and still not make any difference, so I think they are being reasonable about it.
The problems are with the amateur administration and coaching standards of the clubs themselves and its not easy to run a sport with nearly 2 million registered players and spread over every corner of our big country.
Football's winners, losers and lessons learned of 2015
There were 180 ejected from the Boxing day test – appropriately named given several people were taken to hospital following some of the violence.
They were very lucky not to get their photos put on the front page of the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun, who are on a religious crusade led by virgin Saint Rebecca, to get rid of violence in all sport.
I think we also should not take our competition for granted. fair enough for the administrators and fans to make a stand, but we also need to take care of the players and our unique competition. If we don’t turn up and support our team then the owners will give up losing money.
There are over 2 million football followers in this country, who are very knowledgable about the sport. Trouble is 90% of them will “never go to an A-League game”. That’s where we start our focus group research and discovery.
Football's winners, losers and lessons learned of 2015
Nice work Bobby Brown,
Arnie’s got the upper hand.
Look forward to the next one at Allianz.
Record crowd last night for a Parramatta derby, so could be a record crowd back at Allianz too.
I got there early and enjoyed the wonderful atmosphere in the streets of Parramatta and catching the fairground like no other Arquitectura de Feria in Prince Alfred Park.
Gee, if these two play each other in the finals or even the Grand Final, more A-League records will tumble.
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