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This is intended so the Swans game can be shown live on Channel 7 in NSW for maximum ratings. The Swans v Giants game would normally be on Saturday night however under the current broadcast deal this would mean a Foxtel exclusive telecast, and a 2 hour delay on FTA in NSW.
Why not just show Swans vs Giants nationally then?
Cats v Dogs will rate far higher in Victoria. This would be a Channel 7 decision.
I can understand the Geelong game in Victoria but the all-Victorian game is everywhere else around the country too. Clearly Channel 7 thinks that the Swans vs Giants game wouldn't rate well outside of NSW.
They can't just pick and choose which game to air into each state. Swans-Giants is a Foxtel produced game, which Seven is able to simulcast live into NSW/ACT under the home state coverage provision of the broadcast deal. This is why most of the games selected for "national" coverage heavily skew towards Victorian teams; all non-Victorian teams are guaranteed FTA coverage of every game into their home market anyway.
I guess this is true, just as the NRL is effectively NSWRL with some token sides thrown in there.
That's backwards logic trying to justify the scheduling. The AFL could have scheduled this as the only game on a Friday night and played the Geelong game on the weekend. They chose not to. The answer is obvious as to why. They think the Swans vs Giants would be smashed nationally on its own.
Nope wrong again fumble boy, Storm and Broncos are two of our top rating teams - neither of which are from NSW.
It's because the AFL doesn't trust these teams to pull decent ratings.
If you go off combined social media adding up TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook last year it went:
Maximum ratings .....I love that.... like 30k people.
And then there`s Reece Walsh, just the fact that one League player can have a bigger social media presence than any individual club of any code says something about the potential of the sport in this country.
The exciting thing is and something the AFL won't ever have is it's not just this country.
Exactly, we saw how the pommies were creaming their pants over him when he was over there for the Ashes and we know the union media salivate over the thought of him playing their game.
Yeah but think about it this way. An AFL player appeals basically to their own club. A player like Reece Walsh is not just followed by Broncos fans, but also Maroons and Kangaroos fans.
I was at Parramatta Westfield recently, JD Sports have got a giant television screen out front of their store, maybe 3m x 3m, Brian To`o was on loop dancing and carrying on with about a 30 second ad for sports shoes, fumbles just don`t have anyone that can do that stuff. Isaac Heeney, Toby "hardman" Greene. The propect is laughable.
Is that the guy who drinks out of the toilet bowl or the guy who urinates in his own mouth?
