I don't find any of those suspicious, top 3 are one town teams, bottom 3 are big traditional sydney clubs. The numbers are about what I would expect. Pressing like is not much of a commitment.
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In Perth you really notice a lot number plates, stickers etc of Victorian teams, on WA cars, I would say a lot these associations were formed prior to WCE or Freo, I don't really think it would work the other way, for EX in Melbourne I would expect hardly any WCE or Dockers number plates etc.
ATM I have noticed a lot of Hawthorn membership stickers on cars ( surprise surprise) but over the years North Melbourne, Collingwood and Carlton seem to the frontrunners ( North in particular) and that probably stems from the Krakours, Glendinning, Cable etc.
The Victorian teams playing in what was the best comp in the country ( VFL) always had a much larger national profile than any WAFL team etc , eyeballs are always dragged to the highest standard league.
WCE and the Dockers are huge local teams, people know about them all over the country and they have a high profile, but they lack a Australia wide fan base like Collingwood, Richmond, Carlton and Essendon etc
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I guess, the population of Perth is comparable to Brisbane, yet the combined total of Perths 2 AFL teams is nowhere near Brisbane's RL Team.
I guess, the population of Perth is comparable to Brisbane, yet the combined total of Perths 2 AFL teams is nowhere near Brisbane's RL Team.
Perth is still more than 300k smaller than Brisbane, SE Qld is more than a million bigger than greater Perth and Qld is nearly double the population of WA. The Broncos also have a strong following in NZ and throughout the pacific islands. If anything the Broncos should really have more followers.
Yep, that would be the reasons then.
72.5% of the Broncos FB followers are based in Australia.
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Brisbane: 527,800
Melbourne: 380,375
Collingwood 311,235
Essendon 301,092
yeah nah those figures for the Storm and Broncos are crap
doona
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You get skewed results though. Everyone was searching for Essendon because of the drug scandal, not necessarily being a fan.
Same goes with the good teams, I know I will google more about teams that are competing with Sydney. I know sydney news/stats/etc... without needing Google, Where as I will google to learn about opposing teams like hawks, geelong, west coast (from the mid 2000's), etc....
I think that the Google results from AFL will indicate teams that can sell newspapers apart from a supporter base.
Why? Because they are higher than two Victorian afl clubs based in a state shared with another 8? Crazy...Brisbane: 527,800
Melbourne: 380,375
Collingwood 311,235
Essendon 301,092
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yeah no,
here are the merchandise sales from last year
collingwoods isn't listed in their annual report
Essendon $3,249,850 million & they didn't make the finals
Brisbane Broncos $1,316,125 million
taken from the clubs annual reports 2013
there is something seriously wrong with those numbers from the storm and broncos
yeah no.
What has that got to do with people clicking a like button?
The Broncos are one of only three NRL clubs in a rugby league state of 4.6m people and the only club in a city of over 2m, they are also popular in NZ and the pacific islands. They are the premier club in Qld and there is zero surprise that they have half a million people willing to click a like button.
The storm are the only NRL club in Victoria and clicking like suggests nothing more than people getting behind the only club from Victoria, it doesn't suggest anything about how active their engagement is.
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Pity a thread dedicated to AFL support has turned into a AFL v NRL thingy. Maybe all offending posts could be directed into the appropriate thread The_Wookie
What are you talking about ?, how in the hell are these 'offending' posts, seriously !!.
Simply pointing out the number of facebook likes is offending now ?.
I don't even think it is an NRL v AFL debate, at least not for me it isn't, all I have done is offer a number of reasonable explanations for the number of likes of particular clubs in relation to the number of likes achieved by others.
I am not on facebook, so maybe it is easy to find that stat, but where did you find it.
http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-pages/99453774630-brisbane-broncos
Here you can sort by category, ie. Sport;
http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/australia
Does Richmond seriously have that large a national fanbase?
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No issue with your replies, just not sure why NRL likes even needed to be mentioned (not by you) in a thread dedicated to AFL support.
Fair enough mate.
Well TBH, I have not noticed a big one in Perth, but I knew a heap of Richmond fans in Canberra and Sydney.
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richmond are a weird club, when they start winning, they do have fans that come out of the woodwork
Dunno, but they've got bugger all fans in Perth. I'd guess only the Dogs and Melbourne would have less over here of the Vic clubs. Maybe St Kilda as well.
Op is conciliatory about hawthorns future but it is entirely possible that hawthorn could plateau out nearer the very top teams than the following pack. Even after success eases a bit. Not certain of course
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