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For the second year in a row I got stuck with NRL grand final tickets; ever so optimistic about the Rabbitohs' chances of making…
With my beloved Rabbitohs falling in the preliminary final, I wasn't sure I could attend this year's grand final. It was perhaps too painful…
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Thank you everybody. I just wanted to convey what a tremendous day it was and no trouble with Bulldogs supporters at all. In fact it was very family orientated. I could not fathom why the media like to portray a few idiots (burning of Storm jersey) and tarnish a whole club. That Kent bloke was at it again on the Back Page which they just focused on the bad aspects, which were clearly the minority. It also makes me think if Paul Kent took the time I did to really take the whole atmosphere in and look at the things I saw. From what I read & hear majority of league fans and quite a few neutrals enjoyed the game immensly. But Kent was probably hung over as guest of the AFL the day before and wasn’t extended the same ‘free’hospitality he & his like feel oblidged to receive.
It was really an elite effort by the boys and when they hear & read that their game was trashed by so-called ‘league experts’ no wonder there is growing distrust with the media. It is evident that when these journos have a gripe or fued with someone/some club they use the media as an avenue to crtiticize and coerce. i can see the day when entities like News Ltd Australia are scrutinized like their IUK counterparts. Real grubby journalism and the public have had enough.
The 2012 NRL Grand Final: A cultural journey
Firstly, are those AFL figures for post game presentation?
Added, the NRL figures have been updated: numbers for its metro audience is 2,551,000 for the NRL Grand Final with 1,010,000 in Sydney. The numbers for the Grand Final presentation are interesting with disappointed Bulldogs supporters turning off. The numbers were 960,000 in Melbourne and 798,000 in Sydney.
Audiences for the Grand Final were:
Sydney 1,010,000
Melbourne 803,000
Brisbane 600,000
Adelaide 61,000
Perth 77,000
Good results especially in Melbourne because those figures do not indicate a much sma;ler media build up for the NRL in Melbourne compared to Sydney for the AFL. All goes well for the future.
Grand final TV: AFL beats out the NRL
Clipper, it seems the Swans have a few thousand ex South Melbourne supporters based down there that would still drive ticket sales. Contrast that to the Storm, once they made the GF, thousands of Souths/other club members want to offload their tiks. My original group of 4, 3 opted out, weren’t even bothered to sell their tickets but I was determined to go regardless and now have the opportunity to take 3 victorian novices to their first GF.
Is Sydney too important for a Grand Final Parade?
The buy back system is a farce with the date of c;osing before both GF teams are known.
I know heaps of Souths supporters who bought tickets way back that are trying to offload. league is tribal and most couldn’t ccare less about the GF as an évent’. They just want to see their teams play. The GF is sold out but how many won’t be able to offload their tickets, and decides to go, remains to be seen.
Is Sydney too important for a Grand Final Parade?
Kovana, the IRB were caught out lying about world cup final TV audiences, especially when they bandied around figures of ‘billions’yet only 30 million watched the final with 95% of those in the 8 main union countries.
i wonder how much they paid to wine & dine this laureus mob?
Is rugby league actually a better spectacle than union?
you’d love golden point then in the NRL where drop goals are done under immense pressure at times. Also a great drop goal to google is Joe Lydon + Drop Goal, 63 metres in an English Challenge Cup semi at Man City’s old Maine Road ground.
Is rugby league actually a better spectacle than union?
Hello, since when have I denied league doing cheap discounts? I gave the Olympic stadium league double header as an example.
So watch who you call a liar please. You are prone to mistruths your self or missing certain info. Liked the one about the Stad Francais defeating the french league tezm. You faiuled to mention they only just won, and the union team had a 20 million euro team versus a 650, 000 euro team. So they should have won. Bet they even paid a leagiue big money to bring them up to speed.
Is rugby league actually a better spectacle than union?
Chuck, is that the average where the reds include their finals crowds?
Is that the average for how many less games? If you had to play the equivalent of cronulla, penrith etc more often would the reds be so high year in year out?
Chuck, please remind me of the Reds FTA ratings?
Is rugby league actually a better spectacle than union?
Surprise surprise. Intensity and you follow AFL?
Well, I’m taking 3 born & bred young Vics in their 20’s with top jobs in finance to the NRL GF who have become avid Storm followers. Good days indeed when your sport is on the up. Also amazed to see the cultural diversity of young girls in hijabs, Egyptian-Aussies pounding goblet drums, Vietnamese, Indonesian Aussies revving up for the doggies buying their tickets and bringing colour to the NRL finals. They’re all coming to the NRL.
Once we get our stadiums in Sydney sorted things will only get better.
Is rugby league actually a better spectacle than union?
Bakies, please, like Saracens, these matches are free or near free, tens of thousands of euros in prizes, and hyped to the hilt by a ready media and rich suger daddy. Then they return to their home grounds and get 6-7,000.
If the dogs, or any NRL club could do this, I’m sure they could get 70,000. Remeber the last gimic game like this for the NRL attracted 107,000 for the opening of the Olympic stadium. When did Stad Francais attract such a crowd then?
Is rugby league actually a better spectacle than union?
Even Phil Gould, who is normally very critical of attendances, said there were no more than 4-5,000 empty seats in top tiers. So a crowd of 75,000 plus might have been there.
Bulldogs to play Storm in NRL decider
I had the pleasure of attending the game and I can say the 25,000 plus atmosphere and Storm performance were supurb. i even noted a ‘few’AFL people were impressed. I find it hypocritical you all go on about GWS being a ‘long term’project but criticise the Storm after only 13 years of existence, lack of FTA live /near live TV (til this year), etc as though they are so e failure.
The Storm are a great club, great set of supporters and slowly a few of those AFL supporters are coming out of (to use a Star Trek term) the borg-like collective.
It’s time to put the stereotypes away for the Storm. Go to their Facebook page and have a look at comments from a wide -range of fans, including joint AFL/Storm fans. I’d also say the Kiwi/Maori Storm supporters in that crowd was in the low hundreds if that. Lots of Vic bred people, AFL supporters, expats, and Asians. All looks good for the Storm’s future.
Bulldogs to play Storm in NRL decider
Calcio, many things could be written about other codes but doesn’t. I remember reading a ‘small’article on a force player, caught by video camera, stealing from his teammates and contract terminated but no widespread media attention. If it were an NRL player you could imagine?
The hypocrisy of violence in rugby league
This isn’t publishable as it’s defamatory in nature without facts. Thanks, Roar Mods.
The hypocrisy of violence in rugby league
Bit cocky when NRL isn’t simulcast on live on Fox, NRL regionals dwarf AFL, and Nine has underhyped the NRL compared to Seven. See the Storm got 64,000 on GEM. Imagine if Nine actually started promoting them? Lots of flaws in your argument.
Snapshot of week one in the AFL finals
I hears on ESPN during the Notre Dam College Football game they have sold out their 80,000 stadium for every game bar one sunce 1966! That even makes AFL small fry let alone the NRL.
On league in the USA, it may take a century but I think there is a market otherwise why would we see things like Arena football and the Lingerie league? It seems to me this suggests TV networks are looking for alternatives. Arena football is pretty bad in my opinion and a few games I flicked over to see the crowds were pretty sparse but some attracted good crowds. We need to push league in this direction. Lingerie footy, enough said.
NRL should follow AFL's American experiment
Excuse me but Hill is not a ‘league’man. Not involved in the game and when he was, he was brought in from the outside. Bears no longer in comp, so says alot for Mr Hill. His knowledge of league OS would be minimal. Union survives soley on money from its wealthy ‘benefactors’. The game doesn’t carry it. Look at Japan. Even with all that corporate backing, failure.. A world cup there is the last desperate straw.
Players to watch for in the NRL finals
10 years ago Broncos were still suffering from a thing called SUPER LEAGUE. An era which the Lions coincidentally had their great period. Effects of Super League ended, LIONS, back where they are….behind the Broncs, and now the Reds.
p.s AR, stick to your AFL threads, your knowledge of sports particularly RL is pretty bad and biased..
Players to watch for in the NRL finals
After reading that blurb from Hill, now I can see why North Sydney went belly up, with him in charge. Bears supporters should go thru his reign with a fine tooth comb and see if his tenure led to a deliberate demise of the rugby league in that part of the North Shore. His speech was crap with mistruths and showed little respect for the sport he supposedly followed. Sounds like that other goose, Mike Gibson.
Players to watch for in the NRL finals
They do that on the morning Today show, with AFL first. Atleast 7s Sunrise alternate with NRL/AFL. They don’t have to do that but they do. That’s why i think Gyngall hasn’t got his finger on the pulse.
New NRL deal, same Channel 9 personalities
That Liverpool story was found to be untrue.
Gill McLachlan to stay with AFL, will not take up NRL CEO role
I think the take up of memberships (ticketed) by warriors supporters helped with their averages.
NRL regular season in review (part I)
Tbe papers are talking about the Essendon CEO now and i think he would possibly be a good idea given his knowledge of league here & abroad. Worth consideration?
In wartime, NRL must throw out the welcome mat for Gil
AFL leads the way because that’s what they tell the media and the media don’t question them. There was little media fanfare about the NRL Intl. award in London recently.
Does the AFL have an indigenous commission member?
I think the NRL should also be congratulated for employing Frank Puletula, as chief curator of its new museum. How many people of Island descent get employed by the AFL or ARU, for that matter, in positions of importance in governing sporting bodies? Let’s not forget Nigel Vagana too.
Rugby league has led the way in equality for decades without any prompting or accolade by the media. Arthur Beetson, Clive Sullivan (first black person to be captain of a British sporting team), or the numerous Pan African/Arab players in French rugby league, long before it was fashionable in French sports. The list goes on and continues where our glorious past recognises all races ala statues for Beetson, Martin Offiah, and Billy Boston.
An NRL survival guide for Gillon McLachlan
Good to see the RLEF secure more EU funding for programs 🙂
http://www.rlef.eu.com/news/article/716/rlef-wins-record-european-union
RLEF template for rugby league's growth