Just need to update Adelaide's rd 3 average. 105.6, or 106 rounded up.
Sydney and Adelaide up. Fox breaking even. Metro down 1%. Oh yeah.
C7 never paid for the right to control the schedule, I think it's bad for football in general scheduling WA away games on Friday night though, the perfect Sunday night game would involve a Melbourne team and a WA-SA team, but as I said C7 have to pay if they want the AFL to schedule more ratings friendly games, C9 paid plenty to control the NRL schedule.
Now who is being silly here, C7 just aren't as blatant about it as Nine, why do we have 3:15pm start times in Melbourne on a Sunday then?
I never for one moment said that Nine don't have a major influence in the NRL fixture, the NRL has even admitted so, just look at the fixture and the match times are only set 5 weeks in advance, so don't try and falsify my comments.
I was refering also to the fixture. The draw is compromised to ensure that the big clubs with larger supporter bases are given prime spots. Just look back to when the Bulldogs were making preliminary finals and even then sides that were not finals contenders like Essendon got more Friday night games than them. C7 have given the AFL a set of guidelines for the fixturing and the AFL has then gone about doing a draw to meet those guidelines, it's not quite to the Nine deal with the NRL, but they still have more influence on the fixture than the ladder or the clubs do.
You said "C7 just aren't as blatant as it as C9", I'm not sure what you're on about TBH mate.
, well thats the end of that then!!
It's defintiely a catch 22 situation, whereby the AFL needs to find a balance, the current system has major flaws in it, but do a fair and even draw for all clubs would also create issues with media partners. I just think that some need to accept that the AFL has gone down the path of equalisation through financial support to clubs over a fair draw to maximise the value of the tv rights, it is really not that much different to most major sports in the world. The only exception to bowing to the tv stations is in European soccer competitions where in UEFA competitions all games in the final round must start at the same time because of the issue of promotion and relegation.Supporters surely cant expect AFL handouts to their clubs & to also get the fixturing they want. Fixturing is how the AFL get the big media deals. You cant have it both ways.
It would be interesting to see if we actually had an even & fair fixture. Would that increase attendances? If not then costs would need to be cut, footy department, administration & maybe player payments,
Fox Footy is the reason the 8.30 FTA games rated higher than the 7pm FTA game. If 7 had exclusive live FNF then that would smash what the 8.30 delay game used to get.
I factored in the Fox numbers, and remember regional Fox viewers are added to the overall Fox numbers as well.
