Everyone else beside RED4VX knew what you meant - it was obvious. RED likes to read one post and argue against it without any consideration of the context of what was said before. Best to ignore like everyone else does.I feel like you've gotta be on the wind up. I wasn't talking about tv ratings, participation, AFLW, attendance as I already agree the AFL wins in that department. I was simply talking about which sport is more visible on free to air tv in its non heartlands.
I believe the NRL has overtaken AFL in this regard in the past year, as NRL gets put on the main 9 channel into Melbourne more than the nsw and Queensland teams get put onto the 7 main channel into Sydney and Brisbane. It's pretty simple really, hopefully it sinks in eventually.
Not sure if the wookie has stats on this, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if there were more AFL games on 7's main channel in Sydney and Brisbane (despite them having double the amount of local teams than the storm), than rugby league games on the 9 'main channel' into Melbourne during 2022. That's what I mean by fta tv presence, being on the 'main channel' so that people actually see your product and can't avoid knowing it exists.