In comparison with the rest of the world, yes.
The numbers are so low, it really doesn't mean much either way.
It's also about the quality of the player. Francois has been with Fulham for years, but he doesn't actually play for the senior team but for charity minutes in a cup game. Souttar doesn't play for an EPL team anymore as Leicester got relegated, but in any case he hasn't made an appearance with them this season.
Souttar has an Aussie mum but was born and bred in Scotland and he had not even stepped foot in Australia until he played for the Socceroos. He's not now in a EPL club but anyway he's not a good example of the strength of local Australian soccer.
What about the other European league?
It was one of the biggest cases of bandwagoning in Australian sports history, if not, world sports history.
I've seen some pretty decent ALW crowds reported, although I know they do have a lot of games as curtain raisers to ALM games, so who knows when they measure it. Probably the 90th minute.
I missed out on all the hype, froth and bubble that evidently occurred here. I was in Germany and France for the WC, where (as I like to do to help reacquaint myself with the local languages) I watched the local German and French language TV news bulletins - and when it came to the sports segment, well if the WC was mentioned at all (it most often wasn’t), it had to wait behind the cycling, F1, moto GP, tennis and, once they started, the local pre-season (mens) soccer friendlies. In Germany, even the German gridiron (American football) league (I’m surprised how popular it’s now become) was prioritised over the women’s WC in the local news.
I suspect Roy is trying to get the siege mentality happening amongst the rugby league community in Sydney as it's absolutely killing the game there WRT playing numbers.Roy Masters supports the view that soccer will take over everything.
One code to rule them – why soccer may be the last survivor in world footy
It may take a century, but soccer is on a path to turning league, union and AFL into niche sports in Australia.www.smh.com.au
I love basketball but it has as many downfalls as any sport. It’s probably one of the most stop, start sports in the world. Almost 3/4 of an NBA game they aren’t actually playing. Also I’d love to know the actual ratings in Australia (NBA) So many follow the sport while watching it very rarely, that’s the American hype which they do so much better then anywhere else in the world. The amount of hype the athletes of Basketball get, considering almost 99% of the population is ruled out because they are too short is ridiculous. Boxing and UFC are other sports who overhype athletes because of weight divisions, Floyd is arguably the GOAT and their are thousands out their who would destroy him in the exact same sport. F1 another.
TBF, that is more about the American Sports than basketball. The NBL would be just under 2 hours long for 40 minutes of game time, which doesn't include FT's or things like that which stop the clock.
If football was invented today then I seriously doubt it would go as long too. I was more comparing it to soccer in that post though, Soccer is brilliant in the way the ball is in play for the vast majority of a game.
No. They are higher because their games go for under two hours and none overlap.
Soccer may be a continuous countdown clock but i think recent reports on game length indicate that the ball is only in play for about 60 mins out of the 90 mins. That is why we have seen higher extra periods at the end of halves.
No doubt the ball is dead for large periods of time in soccer but that would still make it in play for about 50% longer then basketball (NBA)
But half the time the ball is in play in soccer, players pass the ball between themselves in the back half, while opposition players stand and watch.
