Play Nice 2022 Non AFL Crowds/Ratings/Finance/Development thread

[Aussie in exile]

50,000 turn up in Bangkok to watch a pre season soccer game friendly in pouring rain to watch Liverpool v Manchester united

Perfect start for Ten Hag as United trounce Liverpool in Bangkok

Manchester United got their pre-season off to a flying start with a 4-0 rout of a lacklustre Liverpool at Rajamangala Nation Stadium on Tuesday, giving new manager Erik ten Hag a big boost in his first match in charge.

www.bangkokpost.com

 

[Kwality]

'The third and final match of 2022’s State of Origin between NSW and Queensland brought in an average metro audience of 1.792 million viewers to Nine on Wednesday night.
It was the top program in overall TV viewing and entertainment, with the game also winning all three key advertising demos.'

'The game was the highest rating match since game one in 2019, with a live BVOD audience of 463,000, and a total TV audience of 3.048 million viewers.'

'The metro audience was up on the 2021 final game which had 1.746 million viewers, while the 2020 series-decider final was watched by 1.882 million viewers. An average of 2.002 million watched game three in 2019, also a series-deciding game.

'... the State of Origin pre-match, watched by 835,000 metro viewers. That was followed by State of Origin post-match coverage brought in 706,000 metro viewers.'

State of Origin finishes with 1.792M metro viewers, up from last year

The third and final match of 2022’s State of Origin between NSW and Queensland brought in an average metro audience of 1.792 million viewers to Nine on Wednesday night.It was the top program in overall TV viewing and entertainment, with the game also winning all three key advertising demos. Be a...

mumbrella.com.au

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

Melbourne Victory vs Manchester United at the MCG.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Melbourne Victory vs Manchester United at the MCG.

i have no idea why people attended these pre-season games in huge numbers.

I guess watching world class footballers jogging around is interesting for some people.

 

[Rob]

It must drive soccer administrators in this country batty. These overseas clubs come over, milk local fans of all their cash with a half arsed practice match and leave.

Meanwhile they need to give away tickets to the A League grand final just to fill seats.

 

[weewilly]

It will be interesting to see if the MU v Crystal Palace match can pull more on Tues night?

 

[Cmarsh]

It must drive soccer administrators in this country batty. These overseas clubs come over, milk local fans of all their cash with a half arsed practice match and leave.

Meanwhile they need to give away tickets to the A League grand final just to fill seats.

And those MU players obviously didn't care. Their reactions after they scored goals was that they were practically catatonic. They know its all just a marketing exercise.

 

[Cmarsh]

Anthony Albanese throwing his support to his PNG counterpart for a 18th NRL team based in PNG. No doubt Australian taxpayer funds would go into the new PNG franchise to support its sustainability.

If a Aussie PM was so gushing in throwing their weight behind AFL in the ear of a foreign leader, the NRL keyboard code warriors would lose their collective minds.

How Anthony Albanese came to back PNG's bold bid to become the NRL's 18th team

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape may have been speaking on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum on Thursday. But what they said will be felt across the playing fields of the NRL and regional geopolitics.

www.abc.net.au

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

i have no idea why people attended these pre-season games in huge numbers.

I guess watching world class footballers jogging around is interesting for some people.

It must drive soccer administrators in this country batty. These overseas clubs come over, milk local fans of all their cash with a half arsed practice match and leave.

Meanwhile they need to give away tickets to the A League grand final just to fill seats.

You’re not the only ones wondering.

The ‘festival of football’ nets profits for some but devalues the A-League | Paul Williams

This week’s exhibition matches are money spinners for governments and the European clubs involved. But how much value do they offer the local game?

www.theguardian.com

 

[weewilly]

You’re not the only ones wondering.

The ‘festival of football’ nets profits for some but devalues the A-League | Paul Williams

This week’s exhibition matches are money spinners for governments and the European clubs involved. But how much value do they offer the local game?

www.theguardian.com

Good article that sums up the situation perfectly!
The local A League and A League teams gain very little from these marketing exhibition matches.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Good article that sums up the situation perfectly!
The local A League and A League teams gain very little from these marketing exhibition matches.

Soccer’s strongest asset in Australia is the sport’s enormous global appeal.

Australian soccer’s most intractable headache is the sport’s enormous global appeal.

I suspect in Australia it will stay pretty much this way forever now.

Simultaneously huge, and not huge at all.

 

[Billy ray]

World cup later this year will be huge in australia as its perfect time of the year ie after footy finishes

 

[Aussie in exile]

Anthony Albanese throwing his support to his PNG counterpart for a 18th NRL team based in PNG. No doubt Australian taxpayer funds would go into the new PNG franchise to support its sustainability.

If a Aussie PM was so gushing in throwing their weight behind AFL in the ear of a foreign leader, the NRL keyboard code warriors would lose their collective minds.

How Anthony Albanese came to back PNG's bold bid to become the NRL's 18th team

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape may have been speaking on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum on Thursday. But what they said will be felt across the playing fields of the NRL and regional geopolitics.

www.abc.net.au

It's politics and won't happen
The next NRL club will be in either of the following 3, Perth, New Zealand or another club in Queensland.

 

[Walshawk]

Anthony Albanese throwing his support to his PNG counterpart for a 18th NRL team based in PNG. No doubt Australian taxpayer funds would go into the new PNG franchise to support its sustainability.

If a Aussie PM was so gushing in throwing their weight behind AFL in the ear of a foreign leader, the NRL keyboard code warriors would lose their collective minds.

How Anthony Albanese came to back PNG's bold bid to become the NRL's 18th team

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape may have been speaking on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum on Thursday. But what they said will be felt across the playing fields of the NRL and regional geopolitics.

www.abc.net.au

Because a team in a corrupt third world country is a good idea how?

 

[Gigantor]

I was surprised at how poor the FTA ratings were for that Man Utd game.
If Man Utd can't get those ratings into the top 20 on a Friday night, the A-League has zero chance.

 

[Rob]

I was surprised at how poor the FTA ratings were for that Man Utd game.
If Man Utd can't get those ratings into the top 20 on a Friday night, the A-League has zero chance.

Why? The actual games are total rubbish with the intensity of a knitting party.

I'll happily watch a big soccer game on one of the Fox channels, but i'm not watching a practice match, irrespective of where it's played.

 

[Gigantor]

Why? The actual games are total rubbish with the intensity of a knitting party.

I'll happily watch a big soccer game on one of the Fox channels, but i'm not watching a practice match, irrespective of where it's played.

All these sorts of games are crap, but they attract a good crowd year after year (15 times that of a regular season A-League game no less).
I guess the TV ratings were still triple that of a regular season A-league game, even if still crap.

 

[BigVic]

Anthony Albanese throwing his support to his PNG counterpart for a 18th NRL team based in PNG. No doubt Australian taxpayer funds would go into the new PNG franchise to support its sustainability.

If a Aussie PM was so gushing in throwing their weight behind AFL in the ear of a foreign leader, the NRL keyboard code warriors would lose their collective minds.

How Anthony Albanese came to back PNG's bold bid to become the NRL's 18th team

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape may have been speaking on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum on Thursday. But what they said will be felt across the playing fields of the NRL and regional geopolitics.

www.abc.net.au

A team in WA would be better but our new PM prefers a PNG team instead.

Last month’s State of Origin match was the largest crowd at Optus Stadium since the 2021 AFL grand final and will be our biggest crowd all year for any sporting event.

 

[RedV3x]

Last month’s State of Origin match was the largest crowd at Optus Stadium since the 2021 AFL grand final and will be our biggest crowd all year for any sporting event.

Simply a technicality. Basically we have a huge crowd every week at Optus Stadium w.r.t. AFL
You'd probably get the same result with a NFL match.
The government's idea was for Optus to be an event stadium so it's good to see some returns.

 

[Rob]

Simply a technicality. Basically we have a huge crowd every week at Optus Stadium w.r.t. AFL
You'd probably get the same result with a NFL match.
The government's idea was for Optus to be an event stadium so it's good to see some returns.

I'd say an appropriate comparison would be the Man U game - will probably fill the joint.

Doesn't translate to big crowds to watch the Glory though.

 

[kranger]

The crowds from the recent visiting European soccer teams.

Football Results & Attendances | Austadiums

List of latest Football results including attendance figures.

www.austadiums.com

I would say Man U had the biggest drawing power.

 

[Rob]

Funnily enough Channel 10 went with the soccer again last night, showing the Man U game around Australia. I dunno exactly what it rated, but Channel 10 lost out to SBS and 7mate. Last Saturday night they went with 2 hours of a show called "The Dog House" and their audience share was nearly double.

Their execs must really love the game. More than their jobs.

 

[TWLS]

Well we think our game has a few ups and downs. Anybody checked out the Rugby Codes today on Twitter. In the NRL a very controversial finish to a game up there over the final seconds of time left. Rumours going around the result may be reversed by the Chiefs of the game. And some ex AllBlacks players say the Rugby game getting boring in NZ - Never seen those comments before publicly.

 

[Kwality]

Well we think our game has a few ups and downs. Anybody checked out the Rugby Codes today on Twitter. In the NRL a very controversial finish to a game up there over the final seconds of time left. Rumours going around the result may be reversed by the Chiefs of the game. And some ex AllBlacks players say the Rugby game getting boring in NZ - Never seen those comments before publicly.

Never seen those comments before publicly.
Twitter ....

 

[RedV3x]

In the NRL a very controversial finish to a game up there over the final seconds of time left.

The NRL thrives on controversy. Probably the only code that does.

AllBlacks players say the Rugby game getting boring in NZ - Never seen those comments before publicly.

Yes, winning is boring.