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There can be no more expansion in Victoria, AFL can only expand Interstate wise, and will . 22 is the goal so that will be 10 Vic 12 Interstate. There will be more Interstate interest and money poured into the system and AFL will go national . This will happen in the next twenty years and Vic's will lose their throne.
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Which changes nothing about it being a Victorian competition with invited guests
Ahhh the arrogance. Things change. We have gone from vfl to afl in 30 years . What do you think the next 20 will bring? You are to short sighted my friend.
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Does W.A have any of their own football shows on free-to-air T.V?
(to be clear,this is a genuine question)
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How much time to SA and WA programs spend talking about Victorian teams?
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Not since Basils footy show mate......
Full of rocket surgeons like Karl Langdon & Jakovich
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CakeEater
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Mate, they still think the only program we receive over here is the Winners
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Not since Basils footy show mate......
Full of rocket surgeons like Karl Langdon & Jakovich
Ok wow, say no more, although Karl Langdon nearly crippled Craig Kelly so he's not all bad
Magpies fans aside, why nobody wants a Buddy farewell
Beyond the Melbourne bubble, Collingwood are just another club. That’s why a Lance Franklin-led Swans in the grand final would be a bonanza for the league.
<<<While the AFL is all-consuming in the southern states and Queensland has a viewership that now matches South Australia’s for many matches, most people in NSW don’t care about AFL most of the time.
With that 30,000 crowd average another 60,000 in Sydney regularly watch the Swans on television. That’s 90,000 in a population of greater Sydney estimated at 5.3 million.
This highlights what those who follow the AFL in Sydney already know, that the AFL may have a national competition, but it doesn’t have a national game. That’s until the Swans are alive in grand final week. If the Swans are playing, write your own ticket. Ratings are huge. They’ve featured in the six most-watched AFL grand finals in pre-COVID history.
The 2005 Grand Final attracted 4.4 million viewers. Vince Caligiurinone
In joint first place are the 1996 loss to North Melbourne, a week after Lockett kicked that preliminary final post-siren point at a heaving SCG, and the 2005 triumph against West Coast, which featured Leo Barry’s heroic match-saving mark. Both matches came in at 4.4 million metro and regional viewers.
Then there’s the 2006 loss to the Eagles (4.15 million), the 2016 loss to the Bulldogs (4.09 million), the 2012 victory over Hawthorn (4.08 million) and the 2014 loss to Hawthorn (3.73 million).
Contrast this with the only grand final Collingwood has played over the past decade, a last gasp loss to West Coast in 2018. That attracted 3.38 million viewers.
Despite the mystique and madness surrounding Collingwood, they are really just another Victorian club whose fans already watch the grand final regardless of who is playing.
Sydney is different, as Roy Masters once pointed out while addressing a joint Swans, Roosters lunch during the week the Swans were heading into the 1996 AFL decider.
“Rugby league fans have a series of exciting affairs with clubs when things are going well. AFL fans endure a long and difficult marriage with their club,” observed Masters.
The Swans may have lost the 1996 Grand Final but it attracted a record-equalling 4.4 million viewersFairfaxnone
While this is certainly the case with Collingwood, many in Sydney hardly give the AFL a second thought but climb on board for the excitement of a Swans grand final appearance. Welcome to event city.
For the AFL, the flow-on effect is just as important as headline ratings, with NSW remaining the state with the most potential for growth.
Most corporations are based in Sydney, so when the Swans are one of the standout teams it makes a big difference to the slice of the sponsorship pie.
The Swans and the AFL could not ask for a greater tonic than a Buddy-inspired premiership, but first there’s Saturday.>>>
VFL : i know!!! We will become a national comp by just talking about victorian clubs and then broadcasting that into the other state that’s just as parochial as us with s massive rivalry with us.
Genius
Did you ever see that thread that numpty started saying every interstate fan was a turncoat because we gave up our original victorian club when our club joined the afl?
That’s what we are dealing with
Senor M
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Those programs are still typically created (especially Foxtel) for a Victorian audience, thus they focus on the clubs that draw the attention of their audience.
It’s often forgotten that due to the extra FTA games for the WA/SA markets that the Foxtel viewership is significantly lower outside of Victoria.
Thus Fox Footy focuses on Victorian teams because their viewers are supporters of Victorian teams
And the fta shows focus almost exclusively on victorian teams …. Because….?
I mean aside from the fact that everyone i know has kayo because in the country fta condemns you to standard definition
Senor M
Hookturnistan Forever!!!
Because they are made in Victoria with a Victorian audience & advertiser in mind.
The Front Bar is effectively a 60 minute commercial for Carlton Draught. What other FTA shows are nationally broadcasted (remembering that Ch 9 does NRL equivalents of Footy Classified & the Sunday Footy Show.
You anecdotal experience does not align with reality. Foxtel is desperate to get more viewers in SA/WA, that’s why changes have been made to the next TV rights agreement.
But you can’t expect a commercial entity to focus programming on an audience that simply isn’t watching.
The meltdown by West and South Australians in this thread is awesome. Massive persecution complexes - just cracks me up reading it.
Could you imagine if Melbournes seconds Casey joined the WAFL and I started spamming threads demanding the WAFL grand final be held at Casey fields, or the WA media wasn't giving a small team from another state major attention? I'd probably be suspended from Bigfooty for utter stupidity.
Love it, keep melting down, it's seriously entertaining.
Could you imagine if Melbournes seconds Casey joined the WAFL and I started spamming threads demanding the WAFL grand final be held at Casey fields, or the WA media wasn't giving a small team from another state major attention? I'd probably be suspended from Bigfooty for utter stupidity.
Love it, keep melting down, it's seriously entertaining.
This might eventually sink in but good luck anyway.
Uh Huh.....Agreed, but they shoot themselves in the foot by >>>
Putting on programmes designed for Victorian viewing. Why would Interstaters watch a programme about Vic footy?
Senor M
Hookturnistan Forever!!!
If there’s no people from WA & SA subscribing to Foxtel, there’s no point in catering to an audience that doesn’t exist.
No one signs up to Foxtel/Kayo for the Fox Footy shows. They exist purely to convince existing subscribers to watch more content (particularly content that features a higher advertisement % than live games that go commercial free for 30+ minutes
So which comes first "The chicken or the egg" Foxtel/Kayo definitely air in the West. My Mother discontinued as there was no value for money.
They get their games aired free and then pay to view Vic content.
Foxtel need these things to succeed.
1)..Be cheaper.
2)..An all WA footy show which talks about WA teams and some news about Vic clubs.
3).. commentators from WA, not old Vic footballers reminiscing about the glory days.
Good luck with that.
We could also change it to ALL Interstates.
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Yeah it's because they are irrelevant
Now here is a well thought out retort. Doing Richmond proud.
Hang on - his mother discontinued as there was no value for money. The media rights need put on hold until someone has consulted with this bloke's mum.
We need the opinion of Nanna Vicbased before a multi billion dollar contract is signed.
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