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    Rugby Australia to target top NRL talent

    100% correct. Fumbleball can have a draft because their players aren't going anywhere else. Rugby league players can go to Super League or Rugby Union to avoid the draft and go where they can get the most dollars. The salary cap is the best equalizer for talent distribution and for creating a...
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    2024 TV and Streaming Ratings Discussion

    I think you're overestimating 9's competency there. Prior to the merger Stan was a joint venture with Fairfax, so it could be a leftover from that. But yeah Stan = 9. When I talk about a 9/Stan bid, it would be 3-5 games on 9 and 8-9 games on Stan simulcast. But 9 Entertainment (the new merger...
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    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I wonder what the future southern stand capacity is and what the cost projections are. With all the future growth out west, I can see a lot of sold out games even in a 25,000 capacity stadium.
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    2024 Crowd Watch

    I was out of the country and wasn't paying any attention to AFL (not that I really did before or now that I'm back). Here's some of my posts way back in 2012 and 2013 calling for a Canberra Raiders Anzac Eve game (as well as an ANZAC game in NZ funnily enough)...
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    18th club, whose next?

    Like I said, it's outpaced population growth 3 to 1 over that same time period. Interstate migration and immigrants from New Zealand combined are an even smaller subset than the overall population growth rates. I agree with you about FTA. As much as you'll hear me criticise FTA, you still need...
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    18th club, whose next?

    Nope I was in the states then. I know the name but we haven't met. I'll have a listen when I can.
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    2024 Crowd Watch

    100%. Raiders playing in Canberra, our national capital, on Anzac Eve. It just makes sense. You'd have a lot dignitaries there and it would be a big event. I was saying that 15 years ago on here. Now I see the AFL is doing an Anzac Eve game.
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    18th club, whose next?

    Sure. We're talking about 10s of billions of global searches in 2000 to a couple of trillion each year now. Modern smart phones play their part in term of increasing accessibility (see PNG) but remember people have been using the internet on their phone since 2001 (I was one of them). Google...
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    18th club, whose next?

    A-League isn't in the same league as NRL & AFL. Super Rugby still has some interest in NZ Interest in Super Rugby in NZ is what it was in 2008. Whereas the NRL is now as popular in NZ as Super Rugby was at its absolute peak in 2006. The NRL has almost double the interest of Super Rugby and for...
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    2024 TV and Streaming Ratings Discussion

    The Sharks are probably the worst supported Sydney club too that generate the least amount of neutral fan interest. And the Swans got about a quarter of their TV audience in Sydney. It shows you how the Swans rate when there's no Melbourne club involved to boost the ex-pat Victorian interest in...
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    18th club, whose next?

    Just while I'm explaining google trends to people, this is an important graph to see: Now just to explain, I use worldwide for this because if I only use Australia it cuts off the NRL support for the Warriors in NZ. Basically NZ, NSW & QLD are for the NRL what VIC, WA & SA are for AFL. That...
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    18th club, whose next?

    Of course. But in that case you're talking about people who were fringe fans turning into more hardcore fans, which is also a good thing. We can't break the data down any further without doing a proper survey. But the reality is likely an increasing number hardcore fans as well as an increasing...
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    18th club, whose next?

    Pretty much. The problem actually is there's a lot of locations with similar booms in NRL interest (see that similar NZ data set). If anything, there's too many choices.
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    18th club, whose next?

    I hope it's the Perth Bears just so his brain finally explodes.
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    18th club, whose next?

    Look at the 10 year timeline: 2023 - 80 average and 100 peak 2015 - 35 average and 44 peak For people who don't understand how google trends data works, that's basically more than a DOUBLING (228% growth) of interest in NRL in WA over that period. And as you say, they're now on par with a...
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