Rugba League is Numba one

[rpfc 28,947]

7 hours ago, Brownie said:

NRL has just announced it's KPIs for 2024.

NRL 2024 season by numbers

    Attendances – total: $4.79m - up 3.8%

    TV viewership – total: $200.5m - up 8.6%

    Participation – total: $1.03m - up 20.6%

    Asset value – total: $322.4m - up 24%

Pretty impressive numbers and claiming to be the number one sport in the country now.

I don't find that many of my friends who watch sports but are not following an AFL club bother to watch any AFL matches these days.

Can't say I really enjoy "being activated" at AFL footy matches much any more either.

I wonder if the AFL may head into a bit of a ARU slide over the next decade?

 

You’re posting on a fan forum dedicated to the AFL…

Must be doing something right.

Regardless of your personal anecdotes of your friend group minus those who don’t like sport and minus those that are already invested in the code - it’s hard to argue the sport isn’t doing well.

There are those that long for the glory days of the unsustainably brutal and increasingly foggy past - but they are the lenses of rose colour.

[BDA 23,025]

Rugby league is as boring as [censored]

[whatwhat say what 23,548]

7 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

Shorter quarters is the way of the future.

I watched the indigenous/freo game the other night and got bored. The quarters go for too long in a world where shorter form content is growing exponentially in popularity. 

prefer the bite-sized chunks, eh?

[rjay 25,311]

4 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

Shorter quarters is the way of the future.

I watched the indigenous/freo game the other night and got bored. The quarters go for too long in a world where shorter form content is growing exponentially in popularity. 

A game with nothing hanging on the result is always boring...it has nothing to do with the length.

It's why I didn't bother watching.

[The Taciturn Demon 607]

10 hours ago, BDA said:

Rugby league is as boring as [censored]

D tier sport, as the kids would say. 

[Robbie02 117]

For us who have grown up going to AFL matches, we can visualise what is happening out of camera.  We understand the overly complicated set of rules and it just makes sense to us. I now live in Qld and my partner describes watching AFL on tele like ants madly running around but with less structure 🤣. She says it is chaotic and the umpire seemingly randomly stopping play for no apparent reason every two seconds. Our game doesn’t translate well on TV to the unitiated 

NRL is much easier to understand. A rectangular field with the two sides running at each other. Simples. 

 

[VNightCityLegend 118]

I’d rather sit through watching 5 days of test cricket twiddling my thumbs, whilst wearing a Collingwood jumper and Carlton cap than watch rugby league. 🤣😂

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[Diamond_Jim 12,708]

27 minutes ago, Robbie02 said:

For us who have grown up going to AFL matches, we can visualise what is happening out of camera.  We understand the overly complicated set of rules and it just makes sense to us. I now live in Qld and my partner describes watching AFL on tele like ants madly running around but with less structure 🤣. She says it is chaotic and the umpire seemingly randomly stopping play for no apparent reason every two seconds. Our game doesn’t translate well on TV to the unitiated 

NRL is much easier to understand. A rectangular field with the two sides running at each other. Simples. 

 

Agree

Would be helped if you could choose different camera angles. Understand why they concentrate on the ball carrier but it doesn't show you the whole game by any means

[jnrmac 20,286]

When it was decided to introduce GWS and GC, 62% of the advertising revenue came from NSW and Southern Queensland.

NRL viewership dwarfed AFL in the top 20 watched games (excluding one offs like the Olympics) most years. They accounted for something like 18 out of the 20 most watched sporting events.

Hence the decision was made to expand the AFL. It was all about money, ad revenue and broadcasting rights. And increasing the number of games on TV.

NRL has a low attendance numbers but huge TV audience. And of course gambling.

That's the key to it all.

[greenwaves 498]

You have to go through five uneventful tackles before something interesting might happen.  Then you have to get through another five tackles again and again.  It does my head in.

I don't read replies or reactions 

[picket fence 18,011]

16 hours ago, rpfc said:

You’re posting on a fan forum dedicated to the AFL…

Must be doing something right.

Regardless of your personal anecdotes of your friend group minus those who don’t like sport and minus those that are already invested in the code - it’s hard to argue the sport isn’t doing well.

There are those that long for the glory days of the unsustainably brutal and increasingly foggy past - but they are the lenses of rose colour.

Thugby a JOY to meatheads IMV

[Diamond_Jim 12,708]

2 hours ago, picket fence said:

Thugby a JOY to meatheads IMV

It's actually a very good game to watch. I used to be a rugby union fan until it was ruined by overly technical umpiring, long penalty kickers and All Black dominance.

[Demonstone 23,379]

I'll watch Melbourne Storm games without taking much interest in other games or the sport in general.

[Brownie 6,069]

11 hours ago, Robbie02 said:

For us who have grown up going to AFL matches, we can visualise what is happening out of camera.  We understand the overly complicated set of rules and it just makes sense to us. I now live in Qld and my partner describes watching AFL on tele like ants madly running around but with less structure 🤣. She says it is chaotic and the umpire seemingly randomly stopping play for no apparent reason every two seconds. Our game doesn’t translate well on TV to the unitiated 

NRL is much easier to understand. A rectangular field with the two sides running at each other. Simples. 

 

A simple game for simple blokes as Roy and HG would say