38% of what?
38% of people watched SOO over the utter garbage on the other tv stations?
If we can't have State of Origin...
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38% of what?
38% of people watched SOO over the utter garbage on the other tv stations?
They already do that I think.
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I remember them doing the VFL v WAFL. Herald Sun Cup IIRC. Not sure if they still do it.
Looks like a game between VFL and SANFL happened last weekend.
http://www.foxsportspulse.com/comp_info.cgi?a=ROUND&compID=415872&c=1-5062-0-0-0
Seems all these people so eager for SOO football missed it...
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Suggesting it's world's best was stretching it. There's a not small number of teams that play in front of Origin-level crowds and audiences a lot more than 3 times a year.
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Has to be an all star game of some sort.
Games are so average with so many average teams with talent spread out its absurd.
Actually gets to see the better players compete and show what they got!!
AFL teams are getting less relevant under the communist rule these days to.
So many flat track bullies out there its absurd!!
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I was quite happy with the Masterchef / Madame Secretary double and then watching the last 2 minutes of Origin.
Equating second tier state games with SoO is just ludicrous. Sadly the AFL has destroyed all interest (outside SA, and put a serious dent there) in the sport outside of the AFL itself.
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It's bullshit, means nothing in some fantasy survey.
Push comes to shove, they won't play. End of story.
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Why do people keep talking about State of Origin during the bye rounds.
Why not just replace NAB Cup with SoO and friendlies. Or have All-Stars/SoO after the Grand Final... end of October?
Why not just replace NAB Cup with SoO and friendlies. Or have All-Stars/SoO after the Grand Final... end of October?
It's interesting to compare NRL and AFL and the views of SOO NRL have built it up to a huge event so much so that it even rates in Adelaide, with the whole competition behind it and it probably builds their brand nationwide, yet AFL simply aren't interested
Got a problem reading the article ?
Quoting for your edumecation:
Nine’s share last night in Sydney was 52.1% and in Brisbane 53.9%. Nine also won in Melbourne, narrowly came second to Seven Adelaide while Seven also won in Perth. In the West Origin was on Gem with Gem recording a primetime share of 10.0% to Nine’s 8.9%.
In non-sport news, Seven narrowly outrated TEN for second place with both channels over 13%.
It may come as a surprise to you that NRL is the dominant code in 3 of Australias top 4 largest FTA TV markets & Origin is a big deal as the figures above would show the most blinkered of sports followers.
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It is because Origin is so big on the sporting scene in Australia and game one of three has been an outstanding commercial success. AFL footy has no equivalent where the best of the best are on show in a dinkum contest.
I think the best chance (and it will still see players pul out and kill the concept) would be at the end of the season. Have the hybrid series every second yesr and SoO the other years.
eg.
Year 1 tour Ireland
Year 2 SoO preliminary games
Year 3 host Ireland
Year 4 SoO final + promotion/relegation game
Seven teams. Vic, WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Tas, NT. The problems is how to get a seven team comp to work when the 4th team is likely to be a long, long way behind the big 3 most years.
ACT, offshore territory (not that we have Norfolk or Cocos&Keeling Islanders playing professionally), and overseas players play for the first eligible State (including NT) they played in. Other than that use that rules as they were at the end of Origin.
But there is zero chance of anything other than another one-off Vic v TheWorld piece of crapola.
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Apparently there will be a city v country game in nab 3 2017 to open the new perth stadium.
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Because the NAB Cup is when teams practice their skills and strategies for the season ahead.
I still think the best place for State of Origin football is the Friday night before the grand final. Sure, there will be some stars in the grand final sides, obviously, that won't be able to play. But you will still have a healthy mix of stars. It's post-season, so the injury concern is less. And it will enhance the grand final weekend, make it seem like a whole weekend event (parade during the day, SoO at night, grand final on Saturday).
Similarly, if they go for a twilight grand final, what about Saturday afternoon SoO?
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I've always thought that they should try to cash in on the NSW vs QLD rivalry, and do a trial run for a full-blown SOO between the main states, by playing a NSW/QLD SOO game at some point in the season, maybe in the pre-season or in the bye round or something like that.
Market it in the same vein as the Rugby League SOO, have the players actually get to wear the sky blue and the maroon, make it a huge QLD/NSW rivalry thing. Have the players involved in the game promote it like the Rugby League version, state pride etc. Market it heavily on TV in the non-traditional states, and play it in one of QLD/NSW, big marketing, cheap tickets etc. so it's a capacity crowd. The game will actually be fairly competitive, as long as the players commit 100%, and it has the two-fold effect of marketing the game in those states effectively but also as a 'trial' to see whether people are receptive to the concept of SOO. Plus there's enough decent players in the team - even more with the academy producing more and more first-round draft picks - for it to be a high enough quality game.
Market it in the same vein as the Rugby League SOO, have the players actually get to wear the sky blue and the maroon, make it a huge QLD/NSW rivalry thing. Have the players involved in the game promote it like the Rugby League version, state pride etc. Market it heavily on TV in the non-traditional states, and play it in one of QLD/NSW, big marketing, cheap tickets etc. so it's a capacity crowd. The game will actually be fairly competitive, as long as the players commit 100%, and it has the two-fold effect of marketing the game in those states effectively but also as a 'trial' to see whether people are receptive to the concept of SOO. Plus there's enough decent players in the team - even more with the academy producing more and more first-round draft picks - for it to be a high enough quality game.
