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We need a second Brisbane team first before the Coast. Bring in Southport in about 10 years another team playing out of the Gabba should be high priority.

I agree that Hodgey has the potential to be better than CJ, I can't work out why people bag him.

Laidley can do as he pleases these days. Look at the ladder :thumbsu:

There has been nothing on the Sydney news tonight about Sheedy. So frustrating.

It was heartening to see footy rule the back pages of the Sydney papers for once with the news of the great man's axing at the Bombers. I noticed it has dominated all forms of Sydney sports media for the past 24 hours. About bloody time.

I've heard the live NRL game on Friday night in Sydney gets beaten by Big Brother on occasions.

What absolute crap. Imagine if the AFL had exclusive Monday night football. The NRL wouldn't get near the top 20.

Re: Brisbane crowds are falling All the more reason to have a second Brisbane team in the AFL. It would be an easy 42,000 at the Gabba every time. To make it a fairer comparision what would the Broncos average be minus the artificial derby games?

It looks pretty full to me. Not bad for two lower ranked Melbourne clubs. Footy is strong on the Gold Coast as always.

Instead of being a smart twat watch the game on TV and you tell me if it's a sell-out.

If the Roos v Carlton game at Carrara is not a sell-out then I'd be very surprised.

A key indication of a support for a code or team in a particualr area is how far fans are willing to go to cheer for their team. You would be lucky to see any support at all for Gold Coast Titans away games and I wonder what their crowds will be this time next year when the public have...

We met when???? Goose.

Now tell me what gets the bigger crowds out of IR and international NRL. The final the of Tri Nations last year pumped in a fat 20,000 into Aussie Stadium. The world cup next year will be funny.

I'd go with that.

What makes you think you can beat the Pies when Melbourne almost beat you. Dogs will always be Dogs.

Shit crowds and I feel people need to know about it. The AFL needs to muscle in more on the Sydney media and ram home the fact that real interest in NRL is a lot lower than the media makes out.

There were 125,000 seats available for sale at the two NRL games today. Only 19,000 of those seats were taken on a fine Sydney day.

But this isn't an NRL bashing thread. It's merely a snapshot of footy fans' preferences of the two codes. I'd say rugby union is well in front would you?

As soon as the word NRL is mentioned you are in here quicker than light. Insecure are we?

With all the money the AFL is throwing into NSW and QLD I don't think we have to worry about the NRL being a force for too much longer.

Wells for me too. The guy is a stand-out.

NRL + rugby union = David Helfgott + Barry Mannilow.

NRL is big in all the dumb suburbs.

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/refreshing-wells-works-for-roos/2007/05/10/1178390469615.html Interesting article.

Wallaby internationals are great events that the entire country gets into but thats where the slow game of rugby starts and ends for most people. League is the most repetitive sport in the universe.

From my walkabouts I would say footy fans are more taken by rugby union over NRL. I don't know too many footy fans who can hack NRL.

How is western Sydney considered so NRL dominant when only 18,000 bother to turn up to a local derby game between two WS heavyweights (Bulldogs and Tigers) the other night. Another WS club, the Panthers, attracted 7,000 last night. Bring on a 2nd Sydney AFL team immediately. The Swans...

18,000 last night for a clash of two so-called massive western sydney NRL clubs. Is western sydney really that much of an NRL stronghold? Bring on a west sydney based NRL side immediately. The Swans attract the biggest crowds of all football clubs in the east and west of Sydney.

What do you mean little competition? If the NRL had any guts to ensure its Anzac game was on freetoair then the AFL would have competition. The NRL knows it will get blown out of the water so it hides on Pay TV.