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Are you familiar with the concept of confirmation bias?
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I really don’t think you do live in Sydney.
RedV3x
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So 68% DO follow AFL. Probably higher if you include Australian Rules Football in general.
You Do realise that 68% is a phenomenally high percentage.
No other sport in the world commands such domestic interest.
He's referring to the 22% of people with an interest in the AFL in Sydney.
He thinks that objectively based esitmate is wrong and that his deeply jaded subjective opinion is actually correct.
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No metric suggests there's anywhere near that number but believe some random survey
RedV3x
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Crap, and he writes crap so he gets the answers he deserves.
RedV3x
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Translate that into English.
The last Swans GF in 2016 involving your club (
) So a peak of 705K in home viewers in addition to probably 20K at the ground in Melbourne and people not "in home" on a saturday arvo
Also, easily the biggest football club in Sydney
Presumably the same survey also has the Swans (your club
) with over 1 million supporters Your problem is you have nothing ("metrics" or otherwise) to come back with rather than your baseless assertions
No, 1 million was the average audience for the AFL last night.
A league was not far behind on 13k.
A survey is a metric.
This is why you think there are no metrics showing it. If it does show it, you ignore it, or you don't know what a metric is?
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Why not. That’s what you base your whole football rules Sydney diatribe.
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Surveys are known to be inaccurate & participants usually provide answer they expect questioner wants. Questions also can lead subject to certain answers. There's no indication that a million ppl in Sydney are actively following the sport.
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The last Swans GF in 2016 involving your club (
So a peak of 705K in home viewers in addition to probably 20K at the ground in Melbourne and people not "in home" on a saturday arvo
Also, easily the biggest football club in Sydney
Presumably the same survey also has the Swans (your club
Your problem is you have nothing ("metrics" or otherwise) to come back with rather than your baseless assertions
So best case scenario you can't even reach 22%.
Swans are niche club without widespread support. Look at ratings - Melbourne Storm do same or better numbers in Melbourne if all things equal.
Metrics like ratings, membership, crowds show interest nowhere near 22%
Dismisses a metric that disagrees with his views, validating my point totally.
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lol
Storm's last FTA rating in Melbourne was 20k. In prime time with no AFL competition on free to air.
Swans just rated 59k in Sydney with the NRL on another channel at the same time.
RedV3x
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Surveys are surveys.
There's no indication that a million ppl in Sydney are actively following the sport that you will accept.
There have been a number of surveys that that have suggested widespread support for the Sydney Swans
and of course they have been joined by the GWS Giants further bolstering the support for Australian Rules Football.
That 13k viewership was for the Macarthur Vs Brisbane Roar game that only attracted 2.7k spectators at the ground, despite Macarthur coming off a 3 game winning streak and in the top 4.
Even GWS in it's first year when they were getting flogged each week on-field were getting more interest locally than MacArthur are.
Except curiously there seems to be little in the way of criticism/ridicule for MacArthur compared the hammering from trolls that GWS used to get, and still does.
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because, outside the fact that that a direct A-league is like comparing a baby carrot to an actual carrot, MacArthur isn't even the worst team in the league. Most soccer commentators target the homeless Western United instead. It is also a 3rd team in the city instead of a 2nd.
AFL/GWS deserve some ridicule, says this Tasmanian. Perhaps if you asked a Canberran soccer fan (significantly lower in number to Tasmanian AFL fans) they would be more willing to dig the boots into A-league flawed expansion..
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You seemed to have hit a nerve there
I think it is probably more a case of battered expectations more generally with the A League
This is heading to its 8th birthday this October
'Football will be the biggest sport in Australia,' says FFA chief
The FFA chief executive David Gallop has declared that the game will become the biggest and most popular sport in Australia
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so, you essentially agree with one of my points......You seemed to have hit a nerve there
I think it is probably more a case of battered expectations more generally with the A League
This is heading to its 8th birthday this October
'Football will be the biggest sport in Australia,' says FFA chief
The FFA chief executive David Gallop has declared that the game will become the biggest and most popular sport in Australiawww.theguardian.com
but yet, you still throw in a petty insult or 2..... quite funny, but your obsession is showing
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Pippen you forgot to log out of your alternate account here mate.
Haha, to be fair I reckon they are two different people serving up the same flavoured bitterness....so very bitter
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Sydney's North Shore FC, formed 1903 (playing mainly at Gore Hill synthetic oval, St Leonards- first game starts 8.10 am, last of 7 games starts at 7.20pm!), in 2021 has 14 snr teams (inc. 6 adult men's teams, 2 U19 male teams, 5 women's teams, & a Masters team)- with over 440 snr players.
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(Go to 8.4.21 for full details, & results of Rd.1 for NSFC, player bios etc. in later posts).
AFAIK, it is the biggest snr GR AF club in Australia- & the biggest of all time. In season 2020, it had 12 teams, with 400+ players- in 2016, it had a total of only 6 teams (& no women's).
In Melb. the big snr GR clubs are Xavier, St Kevins, Fitzroy, & Melbourne Uni. Women's FC. They are all Amateurs, in the VAFA.
In 2021, Fitzroy FC has 119 snr adult male players in 4 teams- not including multiple U19 males, & women's teams (latter joint venture with the Fitzroy-based Aust. Catholic University).
None are close, however, to North Shore FC.
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Sydney Uni. FC is the next biggest snr GR club in Sydney, with 10 teams- 1 NEAFL, 4 SFL adult men's teams, 2 women's, 2 U19 male teams, 1 Masters
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AFAIK, it is the biggest snr GR AF club in Australia- & the biggest of all time. In season 2020, it had 12 teams, with 400+ players- in 2016, it had a total of only 6 teams (& no women's).
In Melb. the big snr GR clubs are Xavier, St Kevins, Fitzroy, & Melbourne Uni. Women's FC. They are all Amateurs, in the VAFA.
In 2021, Fitzroy FC has 119 snr adult male players in 4 teams- not including multiple U19 males, & women's teams (latter joint venture with the Fitzroy-based Aust. Catholic University).
None are close, however, to North Shore FC.
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Sydney Uni. FC is the next biggest snr GR club in Sydney, with 10 teams- 1 NEAFL, 4 SFL adult men's teams, 2 women's, 2 U19 male teams, 1 Masters
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RedV3x
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OK, so is this a good thing w.r.t the size of the club.
Would splitting the club be better ?
I remember when there was little at Manly and now it has come up through the divisions and is a powerhouse.
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