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I guess it avoids the awkward release of foxtel ratings each week showing some games falling below 5 figures

Yup. The it's the same old roller coaster of out of control expectations followed by crashing disappointment (replete with squealing about being persecuted) The fact that on the eve of the new season the focus is still obsessively on the new tv deal, and more so just how apparently bad the old...

Can you explain? I thought you just needed to pay the $100 for social club membership to be eligible

This is significant point with the par parity for women's SoO players. Jumping to equal pay seems a short term PR gain for the QRL but it raises the price considerably of moving to a 3 game series. It's funny though the difference between how RL women's conversations go in the media compared...

Well, unless the season ticket comes with voting rights then it is clearly a membership. The fact that so many people maintained their memberships when they couldn't use them during Covid demonstrates the fundemental difference between memberships of member owned clubs and season tickets of...

There's a difference between that and having your board appointed by a football commission. The reason there are rarely contested elections (for the regime rather than just one or two spots) is because when credible tickets are put together they end up being resolved through a peaceful handover...

So? Your point was this... I demonstrated that was nonsense. So? Another purely domestic one country sport is more popular globally than the AFL? How is this relevant to supporting your completely wrong claim ? It just reinforces my point - in the US as well as Australia, the dominant...

129K apparently.... https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/monday-15-november-2021/18956 Decent given when it was held. Certainly in cricket, as much as any sport, the international competition is the pinnacle of the game. True also in rugby union. So true in the two traditional sports of the English...

But.... Australian football doesn't have international representation and yet it's the pinnacle of Australian sport !

I might have better qualified this....

The fact that they can put a team on the park full of AFL players is enough. NSW would be more than competitive against SA right no I would have thought The main reason you would bring it back is to leverage the concept in NSW and Queensland. You basically add another layer of interest...

....which I suspect would have the number of males in their 20s with an Australian parent below 1,000 Point was remarkably easy to follow I thought.... Many an Australian soccer fan has tried to claim that raw participation rates mean there is more athletic sporting talent in Australian...

I've got no problem with it personally - play for wherever you have an affinity or can get game. It demonstrates something that shouldnt really be in doubt anyway.... ..... Any claim that Australian soccer through perhaps marginally higher club participation rates necessarily produces better...

I had just assumed it was limited capacity. It wasn't? Fair enough when the Socceroos are playing Yemen in the 2nd round but that has got to be disappointing for the final group phase in the qualifiers when you are playing at home to the other top two team Just checked the ratings. 447K metro...

For it to be worthwhile it would need to provide enough overall benefit to WA football and economy purely from having 11 more games (including up to 2 extra away games for freo and the eagles) to sustain weak off field success for a long time

I suspect as many kids are doing an AF in Winter, Basketball in Summer combo now rather than cricket

It will precisely be the local taxpayers who will subsidise it.

He probably means that, at best, she withdrew her accusation that there had been a sexual assault and so the police dropped the charges. TBH, and I say this as a Collingwood supporter genuinely dirty on De Goey, your post he was responding to was a bit ridiculous. There is every chance the...

Regardless of the "truth that comes out", here are facts from which Collingwood made that decision on: JDG has had at least four separate "confrontations with the law" previously that had caused reputational damage to himself and COllingwood JDG had received a travel exemption to go the US JDG...

The Fujak charts clearly make the link between interest and participation

BBT, any spend has to come from somewhere else Some clubs would already be spending that much on the elite pathways / grass roots. The ones that aren't wouldn't have the coin to. I wouldn't be expecting some massive step change

You don't even know what a strawman is do you? You could not possibly be that obtuse 1. I read it on at least two occasions referenced by a journalist probably most recently the best part of a decade ago about an action perhaps two decades ago. I googled a few phrases and realised it is...

*Split post. Insert strawman, glib comments or requests after each fragment. Rinse and repeat until target gives into to the tedium

Well said on both counts An interesting side note, the AFL have previously defended the use of the term "AFL" to describe the sport as motivated by not wanting to use "football" so as to avoid antagonising potential new adherents north of the Barassi line. To the extent that had any influence...

What's a "gero company"?

Strange post. Presumably an attempt at humour?

Adam Selwood and Des headland all over again

This is what the press release says Obviously "resources" and "staff" will have a more immediate effect

Don't want to get in the way of sad loser feeding time but it would also include legal support etc

Just to pick up the mood of the time, here is Simon Hill's "smell the fear" article from 16 years ago, very much focussed on Rugby League for whom the move into asia had somehow "really browned the trousers of the egg-ball scribblers" Let's not pretend everything was sanguine between other...