You seemed to imply that 7 would put pressure on the AFL to move the game to prime time.What? Point?
I am very very clearly talking about the AFL's actions not channel 7s
I doubt 7 cares when it's held.
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You seemed to imply that 7 would put pressure on the AFL to move the game to prime time.What? Point?
I am very very clearly talking about the AFL's actions not channel 7s
You seemed to imply that 7 would put pressure on the AFL to move the game to prime time.
I doubt 7 cares when it's held.
Very good crowd considering the terrible weather forecast and playing a low supported Pakistan team!Boxing Day : Australia v Pakistan @ MCG = 62,167
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The winners in the crowds over Xmas has to be the NBL doesn’t it? Strong crowds and ratings endorsement of their innovative mindset. Well led, this league is securing more and more fans without lots of noise. Creeping up on AL and even cricket. It’s been a real success story the last 3-4 years.Very good crowd considering the terrible weather forecast and playing a low supported Pakistan team!
But but but you cant blame terrible weather and low supported team is what I learnt from perth test.Very good crowd considering the terrible weather forecast and playing a low supported Pakistan team!
Perth also still get 40k + to the BBL unlike most other states maybe because this is not much in the way of sporting entertainment available over summer?But but but you cant blame terrible weather and low supported team is what I learnt from perth test.
Timeslot. Its all it is. Perth wants genuine night timeslots. Cricket. Footy. Basketball.Perth also still get 40k + to the BBL unlike most other states maybe because this is not much in the way of sporting entertainment available over summer?
That pink ball test ended at 8pm. The sun had barely gone down.Perth had a pink ball Test and still got 7k less a day in attendance than a comparable Adelaide fixture.
If the Melbourne Stars were 5-time champions at this point, they'd be averaging double the Scorchers crowds.
Sunset about an hour before the end of play (given the extra 30 mins is always used) is the case for both Adelaide and Perth.That pink ball test ended at 8pm. The sun had barely gone down.
I know why - east coast tv audiences. Just that it wasn't a real day nighter.Sunset about an hour before the end of play (given the extra 30 mins is always used) is the case for both Adelaide and Perth.
2 to 9.30pm is genuine day-night cricket, which is exactly what that Test would've been if WA didn't pretend to be 3 hours behind AEDT.I know why - east coast tv audiences. Just that it wasn't a real day nighter.
Play should be 3 to 10, not 1 to 8.
Yep so make it 2-930 WST with optional extra 30 mins taking it to 10wst2 to 9.30pm is genuine day-night cricket, which is exactly what that Test would've been if WA didn't pretend to be 3 hours behind AEDT.
Make bed, lie in it. Reject daylight savings, have things start at weird times.Yep so make it 2-930 WST with optional extra 30 mins taking it to 10wst
Fun fact: todays Matildas game is at BC Place in Vancouver.
BC Place has been home to two VFL/AFL post season exhibition matches. On the 9th October 1987, Melbourne played Sydney there in front of a still record non Australian VFL/AFL crowd of 32,789 (this was followed 9 days later by a much more sedate 7,980 for North Melbourne v Melbourne)
Fun fact: todays Matildas game is at BC Place in Vancouver.
BC Place has been home to two VFL/AFL post season exhibition matches. On the 9th October 1987, Melbourne played Sydney there in front of a still record non Australian VFL/AFL crowd of 32,789 (this was followed 9 days later by a much more sedate 7,980 for North Melbourne v Melbourne)
Bruce McAvaney called VFA Sunday football on CH 10 first when he moved from Adelaide along with Eddie Mcguire and Rex Hunt = not a bad line up!Only just dawned on me, that is probably the first "VFL game" Bruce McAvaney called on TV.
Bruce moved from Adelaide to Melbourne just after the 1983 SANFL season and from 7 in Adelaide to 10 in Melbourne, basically so he could go to the Olympics with 10 to call athletics, who at the time were owned by Murdoch, and he won the Oz TV rights for 1984 and 1988 Olympics in 1983.
In 1987 Broadcom got the rights to the VFL after 7 stuffed things up, and the ABC also got TV rights to 1 or 2 games. Broadcom and 10 came to an agreement, but Broadcom didn't use 10's sport's commentators they basically employed the old gang from 7 and a couple of other newbies.
After the 1988 Olympics, 7 won the rights to 1992 Olympics in January 1989 and Bruce then negotiated his way out of his contract with 10 network and went to 7 so he could do the Olympics. I think he transferred either during or after the 1989 VFL season and didn't call games on 7 that season. He hosted Sportsworld on a Sunday morning on 7 from the start of 1990 and was definietly calling games for 7 in 1990, but didn't get to call the 1990 GF.
Edit - He didn't call the footy for 7 in 1989 because he had signed for 7 during the footy season but didn't move over until the start of 1990.
Bruce McAvaney previews Seven's AFL grand final coverage
Bruce McAvaney is very much a part of AFL grand-final day, not only for those watching on the Saturday but also for those who flick on a replay in the decades ahead.www.smh.com.au
McAvaney says this will be his "16th or 17th" grand final call, but there's one he missed just before he joined Seven that he wished he had been in the booth for. That was the epic 1989 clash between Geelong and Hawthorn, considered the greatest of the modern grand finals.
"Before that grand final, I knew I was going to Channel Seven and I was sitting back in Adelaide here watching it with my father and brother and my mother. They were both alive at the time, mum and dad, I remember watching and thinking I wish was calling this match, knowing I was joining Channel Seven (from Ten) the next year," he said.
An iconic lineup in terms of media personalities certainly, but I have no doubt that call would’ve been a train wreck.Bruce McAvaney called VFA Sunday football on CH 10 first when he moved from Adelaide along with Eddie Mcguire and Rex Hunt = not a bad line up!
It actually wasn't as they worked very well together and had veteran VFL caller Bill Jacobs as a mentor as well.An iconic lineup in terms of media personalities certainly, but I have no doubt that call would’ve been a train wreck.
Don’t care how their careers turned out, you couldn’t pay me to listen to Rex Hunt in any combination with Eddie McGuire.It actually wasn't as they worked very well together and had veteran VFL caller Bill Jacobs as a mentor as well.
They all went on to have stellar careers calling VFL/AFL matches for other networks.
That’s an interesting set of numbers. As you point out though, not like for like.There's not a lot in it really but here are some facts:
Home crowds at Docklands since 2000:
STK - 31,553
WB - 29,845
NM - 28,496
Win-loss record at the stadium:
STK - 160-126
WB - 144-135
NM - 124-121
North have sold interstate more of their low drawing matches in that period than the other two clubs. They were also a very competitive team for most of the first 20 years at the stadium. They have been complete rubbish the last four but two of those were Covid affected with significantly fewer attended matches at the venue.
As for the 2018 AFLW GF at Carlton:
2018 AFL Women's Grand Final - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The attendance was smaller than all of the Whitten Oval matches that year.