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I would have thought it self-evident that West Coast has the biggest supporter base. How could a single Melbourne-based team compete with one of two teams in a pretty big (and footy mad) market?

It's largely a combination of a) multi-culturalism and b) alternatives. We are increasingly a multicultural country and technology has opened up the door to a range of different entertainment options. If I wanted to follow sport in the 1970s I either followed the VFL or the WAFL or the SANFL...

Given the constraints of Docklands I don't believe it would be possible. Even ~80k strikes me as surprisingly high given the seat limitations. Hard to see any team that isn't MCG-based getting there in the near future.

1. 3rd WA team 2. 3rd NSW team 3. Tasmania 4. New Zealand Not necessarily in that order.

Gambling ads and segments have made for a thoroughly tacky viewing experience. Add in the social damage caused by gambling addition and banning these ads and segments is a no-brainer. I find it a bit hypocritical that the AFL tries to be progressive on so many social issues and yet they are so...

It is fascinating that Geelong were in the league from the beginning since travel back then would have been a) more time consuming and b) quite costly. All the other teams were pretty closely positioned. Geelong also benefits from proximity to Melbourne and its bigger population. They played 8...

This is surely an important factor. On BigFooty we won't have to deal with a tonne of arrogant supporters so tolerating their success will surely be easier than if it came from a bigger football club.

I'd expect next season to be higher purely due to a more competitive Essendon line-up. Essendon had their lowest home attendance since moving away from Windy Hill at the end of 1991. I'd expect their home attendance to jump by between 140k and 160k with probably another 30k to 40k from away...

The AFL would view this as precisely why they need 100k stadium - keep your commercial interests happy. If the game was played at, say, Etihad there would be far fewer than 30k members getting tickets.

Strikes me as merely a continuation of the current agreement - albeit with a few minor changes. It's still an agreement that is firmly backwards-looking. The AFL continues to treat living streaming with neglect which will eventually bite them in the arse. Of course by 2022 both FTA and Pay TV...

I'd wager that the next team will be in New Zealand. For all the talk about Tasmania and a 3rd WA team, no option provides as great an opportunity as NZ - it would be more enticing prospect than either Western Sydney or the Gold Coast. Particularly given the AFL's expansion plans are more about...

Not absurd given what other CEOs earn but absurd if you consider his personal contribution to the league's revenues. But you could say the same of a vast majority of CEOs.

If that is all you took out of the post then you are missing the point entirely. Your post which rates St Kilda's players cannot have any credibility if you cannot recognise Jack Steven's ability.

I think it is silly to forecast over the next decade. The fortunes of a club can fall, rise and fall again over such a long period as we have seen countless times. St Kilda will probably be pretty bad over the next few years. But free agency allows far greater player movement and St Kilda...

I don't think they'll finish last next season and I wouldn't be surprised with five wins or thereabouts. The loss of Buddy from a marketing view is not great but I think with Shaw and Mumford they have managed to add a bit of experience that will help them a lot. I'm really impressed with Shiel...

Given what I was initially replying to, it should be clear that my intention was to say that the tactic works better in a salary cap environment than in the environment faced by Oakland. However, the tactic will naturally work even better if a team is in a no salary cap environment (that faced...

I specifically stated that it works better in a non-salary cap environment when you are a big spending team. Clearly that situation is a subset of the non-salary cap environment. That is why Oakland's advantage eventually disappeared. To think of it a different way, you could say that the more...

As a tactic it works better in a salary cap environment and even better again in a non-salary cap environment when you are a big spender. Essentially it is just the notion that you try to maximise output for a given level of salary expenditure. Oakland's advantages declined when other - bigger...

Although it is a long way away, NZ will be the next expansion market. WA could easily support a third team but it is hard to see who would support them, I get the feeling that the state is largely locked up by WC and Fremantle. The small population and weather in NT would make that area...

Yeah I'm glad we changed the final series this year to screw over those pesky interstate teams. I'm trying to work out how your post could be any less insightful and I have nothing. It's irrelevant, silly and not even amusing - you've won the trifecta.

Thanks Roger. Not quite as large as I had anticipated.

Although I suspect that would change if you excluded the first few decades of the competition. Average lower scores means that the likelihood of a game being decided by under a kick should be higher. I suspect the number of games decided by under a kick would be much lower in recent decades...

This idea that players will only play in Sydney if they are offered subsidised housing (and that is what the CoLA implies) is ridiculous. People choose to buy a house or to rent a property, a choose whether to share with others or live alone. The AFL should not be subsidising the housing...

It is mostly impossible to know without being in the negotiations. Andy D may have provided some real value, had no effect or alternatively even lowered the deal. Without being in the negotiations nobody can know for sure. In the business world the CEO or Board usually gets attributed with all...

Wonder what the real crowd was at Skoda. Was way more than 11k.

Nobody knows what the real crowd was but I was there and there must've been at least 15k. I interpreted the announced crowd as the crowd that actually had tickets and didn't include those who just turned on the day with a ticket to the soccer.

Bombers have 55k. Just received a text message from the club.

Wookie, I might be missing something but the Cumulative Rd12, 2012 sum for Foxtel and Seven does not add up to the Total, which I assume it is meant to since the 2013 Cumulative Average does.

Docklands has had a massive impact on the Bombers crowds when you consider than the Bombers set a home crowd record in 1999 that was not broken until 2008. When they started playing at Docklands Essendon had the top 3 highest crowd aggregates in history. I have no idea what type of crowds the...

This cannot be repeated enough. The higher number of meaningful games in the second half of the year the higher the crowds - you only need to look at the round with the highest crowd aggregate (Round 22) to see what can happen when a number of games have a lot on the line.