2023 TV/Fox/Streaming Ratings

[The_Wookie]

You are so afl...soft. Go and give your cat a hug you sook.

You're an idiot. At least if nothing else I know who to ignore going forward.

 

[The Penguin #6.]

You're an idiot. At least if nothing else I know who to ignore going forward.

Ignore me all you like, you f**king lonely soft cock.

 

[marshall stalin]

Mate that`s a bullshit answer that bloke gave you. The cross over between winter sports esp. League and cricket would be minimal. I know blokes who prefer to play Touch football in the off-season than boring f**king cricket.
Cricket would be dead if it weren`t for the new short forms and even with them we`ll see how long the novelty lasts. They may well go the same way as 50 over, which is dead now as well.
BTW. you don`t need to be fit to play cricket.

You don't need to be fit to play Cricket ???

mmm all that running up and down the wicket in full kit countless times/chasing cricket balls around the ground and fast bowlers with those long run ups bowling 20 plus overs all in hot and humid conditions.

No they don't need to be fit

Try the 1800's and up to prior to full time professionalism

Cricket has been played in one form or another since the 1500's

It was fairly common for players of any of the football codes to play cricket and even Baseball in Summer prior to full time professionalism coming in.

It didn't have to be at 1st class level either

Cricket changed as well as they play a lot more during a calendar year than they did 20 or 30 years - tests/ ODI/ T-20's and T-20 tournaments

Could not play both nowadays even if you were very good at both - you would have to choose one over the other.

No time anyway - 8 or so weeks after an NRL season finishes they are back at pre-season training

To name a few that did combine playing league and then cricket at 1st class and International level during their careers

Graeme Hughes played top flight League and also Cricket and played Cricket for NSW.

Herbie Collins an Eastern Suburbs League premiership winning player in the early 1910's played cricket as well - 19 tests for Australia.

Ray Lindwall played for St George in League and Cricket for Australia

 

[Vibing]

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@Vibing origin hangover

excellent ratings for a cricket affected round & QLD only getting 7 of the 8 games covered
cost us at least 500K viewers for the round

origin effect ?
hilarious

 

[Vibing]

that extra nationally televised game ( 4 instead of 3 ) certainly bumped the aflols numbers up this latest round eh
by 400 to 500K

 

[Wb1234]

excellent ratings for a cricket affected round & QLD only getting 7 of the 8 games covered
cost us at least 500K viewers for the round

origin effect ?
hilarious

Cricket only affected the nrl average not the afl ?

lmao

 

[Wb1234]

You're an idiot. At least if nothing else I know who to ignore going forward.

@Perth Red “national competition”

 

[Wb1234]

Plus nz 300k

average gap 900k a round

 

[Harry O]

@Perth Red “national competition”

And yet the afl claim that the whole of Australia are all afl fans. Like my ass they're

 

[Vibing]

Cricket only affected the nrl average not the afl ?

lmao

Who said it didn't ?
it affected them too , with them losing about 100K on their Thursday & Friday games , but they had 4 nationally covered games on FTA , one extra
covering this & then some

heres 20c
buy a clue

 

[Wb1234]

Who said it didn't ?
it affected them too , with them losing about 100K on their Thursday & Friday games , but they had 4 nationally covered games on FTA , one extra
covering this & then some

heres 20c
buy a clue

So they beat us by a record amount for this season and the fact it’s during origin is a coincidence

Lmao

 

[Vibing]

So they beat us by a record amount for this season and the fact it’s during origin is a coincidence

Lmao

Absolutely it is
our ratings would have been about 5..3 mill with no cricket & a holiday in QLD on Monday( season av)
theres would have been the same without their 4th nationally televised game

nothing to see here ...

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

So they beat us by a record amount for this season and the fact it’s during origin is a coincidence

Lmao

AFL had a holiday on Mon in AFL states .
Rl didn’t have a hol in QLd. Hence the viewing numbers were down .

 

[Wb1234]

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Imagine offering a player that deal in league it’s crazy

 

[Pneuma]

AFL had a holiday on Mon in AFL states .
Rl didn’t have a hol in QLd. Hence the viewing numbers were down .

They also had one of their highest rating games on Monday on fta which was unaffected by cricket. The comparison he is making is pointless but that won’t stop him.

 

[Harry O]

TikTok - Make Your Day

vt.tiktok.com

Imagine offering a player that deal in league it’s crazy

Soccer players get the best contracts, but they're the best Hollywood actors when it comes to injurys. So this is where they're heading after soccer is over.

 

[Dark Corner]

FA Cup final yesterday. I forgot that was on. City won. Couldn't care less anymore.

English Soccer season still going in June. They'll start pre-season in July.

FA Cup final used to be on in the 2nd week of May and the tradition was most people, fans and families would sit down and watch even if their team wasn't in it and it's what got me into Rugby League as remember when I was a kid turning on the TV at the start of May thinking it was strange that the FA Cup final was on early in 1993 but lo and behold it was Wigan v Widnes Challenge Cup Final and that started by love affair of Rugby both high's and Low's X

 

[Wb1234]

 

[Perth Red]

Apparently it drags the good teams down to the level of the crap teams, and somehow the NRl consider this a positive lol

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Apparently it drags the good teams down to the level of the crap teams, and somehow the NRl consider this a positive lol

The NRL have never claimed that clubs losing players to Origin is intrinsically positive. They've just decided that the current arrangement brings more positives and fewer negatives than any alternative.

One option is to shut the comp down mid-season. Those on this forum who believe crowds and ratings take a hit during Origin might like to set out the benefits of reducing NRL crowds and ratings to zero for several weeks. I'm struggling to see how that would help maintain momentum for the year.

The other option is to play Origin post-season. In that scenario, we could kiss goodbye to international RL.

A wide disparity of game-time between the best and the rest is not practical. In such a physically demanding sport, the top players cannot be available and firing for Origin, internationals, finals, and every regular-season game. Something has to give.

I've heard teachers and coaches of school and junior club teams who've toured Oz in the past decade or so report that some of their opponents expressed surprise that English people play RL. Pundits talk of "developing" the game in NZ as though they think RL arrived there in 1995 with the Warriors. There seems to be a generation, maybe two, who have grown up assuming that RL is a uniquely Australian game in the same mould as Aussie Rules.

The resultant binary code-war mindset prompts insular fans to use Origin and internationals as a stick to wave at AFL when it suits but then be the first to bemoan the disruption to the NRL schedule caused by rep fixtures. Last year there were even complaints about a possible impact on the NRL pre-season from the RLWC.