Daily Telegraph promotes Football!!

[wikipediaAFLproject]

Shock Horror

The DailyTelegraph is well known for its anti-football editor (and most sports journalists).
However on todays DailyTelegraph website we see a story about how to play football and apparently there was a poster in the paper about what the various skills are required in football.

Im thinking of buying The Daily Telegraph tomorrow to see what its all about. I encourage everyone on here to also buy it if they have another poster on how to play ... and then cease buying it when they revert back to their old ways.

 

[MaddAdam]

Ummmm ... you do know this was paid for by the AFL?

Its a Murdoch paper. You pay them money, they'll run your ad.

 

[ChrisFooty]

Why bother. They are promoting the swans. It's a mad rugby league city, you can not expect the Daily Telegraph to contain several pages of AFL when hardly anyone is interested.

 

[wikipediaAFLproject]

Ummmm ... you do know this was paid for by the AFL?

Its a Murdoch paper. You pay them money, they'll run your ad.

Yeah i guessed as much. However if we show them that they will sell more papers by being postive about football they will continue being positive.

Why bother. They are promoting the swans. It's a mad rugby league city, you can not expect the Daily Telegraph to contain several pages of AFL when hardly anyone is interested.

Football is ALOT bigger in Sydney than you might think. Nowhere close to the popularity of league but most people actually know what its about compared to Melb where people still confuse the rugby codes. I almost as many AFL shirts around during the week as NRL ... though that changes on w/e.

 

[stupidlikeafox]

A "how to play"...?

Bit demeaning to the public isn't it considering the Swans have been there for ~30years?

There is plenty of AFL coverage I am sure the rules and premise of our game are known.

 

[speedpeck23]

Is there a groundswell of interest in AFL actually developing in NSW? Tomorrow night Hawthorn v Essendon is live on 7 mate and now the Telegraph promotes it.

 

[Pie eyed]

Shock Horror

The DailyTelegraph is well known for its anti-football editor (and most sports journalists).
However on todays DailyTelegraph website we see a story about how to play football and apparently there was a poster in the paper about what the various skills are required in football.

Im thinking of buying The Daily Telegraph tomorrow to see what its all about. I encourage everyone on here to also buy it if they have another poster on how to play ... and then cease buying it when they revert back to their old ways.

Now you see how it works.

 

[MrPresident]

Now you see how it works.

Yes capitalism is awesome, also, if we make it worthwhile for them to run with Footy content, they'll do more of it. The more footy in the DT the better for it's exposure in NSW.

 

[stefoid]

Jesus look at the thighs on Foloua, it looks like a turkey leg

 

[roosRool]

Daily what now?

 

[parano1a]

Is there a groundswell of interest in AFL actually developing in NSW? Tomorrow night Hawthorn v Essendon is live on 7 mate and now the Telegraph promotes it.

This live broadcast on 7mate is only out of contractual obligation due to Wimbledon on the main network from 11pm. But seeing as Friday night footy will be live on 7mate every week from next season, they might as well start promoting it and try and build up an audience..

 

[Harvey_35]

Sydney siders have an odd way of showing support for their code.

If i'm not mistake (may have changed in last yr or so) the Swans have a larger support base than any NRL team apart from the Broncos.

The final a few years ago between the Swans and North had something like 21,000 which was the lowest AFL finals crown in aeons yet that same weekend 3 NRL finals game were played and the combined total didn't trump it.

 

[tonk]

Why bother. They are promoting the swans. It's a mad rugby league city, you can not expect the Daily Telegraph to contain several pages of AFL when hardly anyone is interested.

Sydney isn't 'mad' about rugby league, its just that the people who do follow it read the Telegraph.

 

[finders]

Sydney isn't 'mad' about rugby league, its just that the people who do follow it read the Telegraph.

And the media types that live off the game and promote it way past what the actual interest is in the local club games.

The only time the interest is the same as the AFL support in Vic,Tas,SA.and WA is SSO and the GF.

As the saying goes "any publicty is good publicity" so what if the AFL paid for the promotion.

The NRL types would be spewing to see a full page spread promoting the hated Australian Football!LOL

 

[cos789]

Bit demeaning to the public isn't it considering the Swans have been there for ~30years?

Maybe you could take that slant but the article is probably aimed at kids especially kids in the GWS catchment area .Some adults might get something out of it too .You might find a similar article in Melbourne targeting the "multi-cultural" adult .

There is plenty of AFL coverage I am sure the rules and premise of our game are known.

That's the problem - not a lot of coverage .

 

[Baldur]

Buy the Daily Telegraph Would have to wear a berka as a disguise.

 

[cos789]

Im thinking of buying The Daily Telegraph tomorrow to see what its all about.

I would buy a Sydney newspaper whenever there was an Australian Football feature and would have gladly bought any newspaper that had some sort of decent coverage of AR even on an add hoc basis .but they didn't so Sydney newspapers missed out on 22 years of patronage from me .

IMO they're complete idiots ."Expats" are a significant part of newspaper patronage .Most thinking newspapers cover the minor sports ,regional sports and overseas sports because they realise that newspapers are are a great source of news and sometimes the only source of news .

Because I live in WA now i don't need a newspaper because of the wealth of football news on TV etc ,but if I resided in NSW or overseas then I'd reach out for more information .Unfortunately (for newspapers)that needn't be newspapers as the internet more than adequately serves that purpose now .Congrats Sydney newspapers you've educated not to buy newspapers .

As a postscript to newspaper coverage .The local newspapers are carrying more and more AR coverage .This isn't that surprising with the growth of junior participation in AR .For example $9 million is being spent on Waverley Oval (Bondi) facilities to allow AR to be played there .People don't realise the importance of that fact .

.

 

[J_Moore]

Todd Balym (the journo in the videos) has been doing a pretty solid job covering the Swans this year. Much better than the Fairfax press, who've been giving the Swans\AFL pretty short thrift, though that's been changing in the past couple of weeks.

SMH website now has an online editor who hates the AFL, which isn't helping.

 

[stupidlikeafox]

Maybe you could take that slant but the article is probably aimed at kids especially kids in the GWS catchment area .Some adults might get something out of it too .You might find a similar article in Melbourne targeting the "multi-cultural" adult .

True.

That's the problem - not a lot of coverage .

What???

Every Swans game has been live in Prime Time without another sport on FTA (Saturdays) for the last 10years....

 

[cos789]

Every Swans game has been live in Prime Time without another sport on FTA (Saturdays) for the last 10years....

The article is about newspaper coverage not TV coverage .
TV coverage needs newspaper buildup .
Saturday arfo is not "prime" time .
Has AFL been in prime time in Sydney ?

 

[LightTower4]

I just had a look at the TV rights thread on LU and read a couple of posts to which basically said:
:spade:Fumbleball
:spade:Victard
:spade: GayFL
:spadeoesn't rate
etc etc.
Went on about turning off Fox if an AFL show comes on as it'll register as a viewer.

However, I had a chuckle at a thread marked as 'non trolling' called 'Crowd Watch'.
Not the content of the thread itself but just that they have to identify that particualr thread as a troll free zone.
Seriously, these morons are pnwed.

 

[wikipediaAFLproject]

Todd Balym (the journo in the videos) has been doing a pretty solid job covering the Swans this year. Much better than the Fairfax press, who've been giving the Swans\AFL pretty short thrift, though that's been changing in the past couple of weeks.

SMH website now has an online editor who hates the AFL, which isn't helping.

I had a feeling that the SMH had reduced its football content.
It is very clear that they judge the popularity of football in Sydney on the popularity of rugby league in Melbourne. The two are poles apart and the first paper to realise that football is much bigger than a page a day in the back of the sports section that paper will grow its readership substantially.

 

[Pie eyed]

I just had a look at the TV rights thread on LU and read a couple of posts to which basically said:
:spade:Fumbleball
:spade:Victard
:spade: GayFL
:spadeoesn't rate
etc etc.
Went on about turning off Fox if an AFL show comes on as it'll register as a viewer.

However, I had a chuckle at a thread marked as 'non trolling' called 'Crowd Watch'.
Not the content of the thread itself but just that they have to identify that particualr thread as a troll free zone.
Seriously, these morons are pnwed.

It's an entertaining read, that thread.
LOL's at the OP counting double headers twice, as two separate crowds.
AFL goes twice as long so our crowds should be doubled too.

 

[Rocky_Star_Pro]

I just had a look at the TV rights thread on LU and read a couple of posts to which basically said:
:spade:Fumbleball
:spade:Victard
:spade: GayFL
:spadeoesn't rate
etc etc.
Went on about turning off Fox if an AFL show comes on as it'll register as a viewer.

However, I had a chuckle at a thread marked as 'non trolling' called 'Crowd Watch'.
Not the content of the thread itself but just that they have to identify that particualr thread as a troll free zone.
Seriously, these morons are pnwed.

That's the problem with most League supporters in NSW and QLD, they are too stubborn to accept another sporting code without insulting it. Seriously the posters of LU have an IQ of less than 20, as proved by the constant GAYFL, Victard posts, and their delusion that the NRL will get $1 billion on the TV rights deal. Almost every topic on that site will have the AFL mentioned in it, I wouldn't be surprised they spend more time slagging off Aussie rules than posting about League.

 

[sparklig]

That's the problem with most League supporters in NSW and QLD, they are too stubborn to accept another sporting code without insulting it. Seriously the posters of LU have an IQ of less than 20, as proved by the constant GAYFL, Victard posts, and their delusion that the NRL will get $1 billion on the TV rights deal. Almost every topic on that site will have the AFL mentioned in it, I wouldn't be surprised they spend more time slagging off Aussie rules than posting about League.

Ignore them. Is it that hard? Or maybe come to terms with the irony of slagging off people who waste their time slagging off what you love. Who cares?