Best thing about following both AFL and NRL

[Band On The Run]

Good to see the Broncos finally win. Hopefully the Lions (and Everton) can make it a perfect weekend.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

With respective entities in both code's grand finals, one only needs to compare the coverage of AFL on the smh site to league on theage today to see the bias employed by the Melbourne media.

 

[fanatique]

With respective entities in both code's grand finals, one only needs to compare the coverage of AFL on the smh site to league on theage today to see the bias employed by the Melbourne media.

There is no bias Miguel. Media know wel they are selling a product and they give the punters what they want.

The warrington V Leeds GF drew over 70K to Old trafford Today. It got minimal coverage in the national press in England. Why? Bias? Not at all....most readers not interested and more interested in the soccer and horse racing.

The US media tends to lead with baseball in summer and football in winter. Anti ice hockey? No. following what the punters want. If the Storm were water cooler conversation across melbourne on a regular basis you'd find the The Age woudl be interested. That is how it is.

 

[papabear]

Yet the storm got higher ratings in Melbourne then the swans do in Sydney.

Sport is like a soft core religion u can take good bits of all of em or just focus on the bad. However afl of late have decided they are the one true Australian religion an will just roll over anything in its path.

 

[God-King Dean]

The trolling opportunities.

 

[BunniesMan]

Knowing you have the intelligence to follow the two best sports in Australia. Watching and enjoying twice as much football as the plebs around you who only like 1 code.

 

[Ozzy]

Knowing you have the intelligence to follow the two best sports in Australia. Watching and enjoying twice as much football as the plebs around you who only like 1 code.

So following two sports is a sign of intelligence? :lol: I follow two and neither are AFL.

 

[BunniesMan]

So following two sports is a sign of intelligence? :lol: I follow two and neither are AFL.

Then why are you even in this subforum? Have you got a program running that alerts you everytime I make a post because you're that interested in what I have to say?

 

[Munro_Mick]

It's a shame the Victorian media is not so kind vis à vis rugby league. This sort of "openess", forced, paid for or otherwise, is not to be found south of the border. Even a day after SOO with record Melbourne viewers the SOO is hidden away in The Age.

this was somewhat unfair.

The Herald Sun (as part of the News Ltd stable) was always quite forthcoming for the Storm.

Ironically the Fairfax Age was very pro Melb Victory and the FFA for somewhile whilst there was a commercial arrangement in place!!

Radio SEN, 24 hr sports station ensures that all sports gets good coverage. Obviously in Melb AFL is first and foremost - - however, if you were to measure the Storm coverage vs say North Melb or Bulldogs (Footscray), you'd probably find that the Storm get more than the other two combined.

Anything syndicated out of Sydney ensures NRL gets plenty of coverage and that's where the majority of shows such as Today, Sunrise, ABC(24) news etc seems to eminate from.

The sad thing is even then - when there's the very odd show produced in MElbourne such as "Offsiders", the accusations of bias seem never ending.

Ah well.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Bull.

The morning shows and the morning and afternoon news reports esp 9 start with AFL every day and I'm in Wollongong ffs.

 

[Munro_Mick]

Bull.

The morning shows and the morning and afternoon news reports esp 9 start with AFL every day and I'm in Wollongong ffs.

It's the folly of national syndication -

base yourself in Sydney,

and then try to make yourself seem less Sydney-centric, not do it well, and burns everyone!!!

I've given up watching those shows.

btw though - I thought they tended to alternate on the half hour news updates with NRL lead one and AFL lead the next. Doesn't that happen anymore??

AFL was always annoying because in the highlights they'd only show the set shot at goal......whereas AFL fans wanted to see the super mark taken or the brilliant snap on goal. A bit like with a try showing just the 'touch down' rather than the brilliant side step or the blind pass that set it up.

Can't please everyone.

 

[BunniesMan]

Bull.

The morning shows and the morning and afternoon news reports esp 9 start with AFL every day and I'm in Wollongong ffs.

Except the days they don't. It's pretty close to 50/50. They alternate.

But you're an AFL hater with the classic inferiority complex all AFL haters have. You notice anytime the AFL gets some kind of perceived (usually imaginary) advantage but you don't see when the same happens in reverse.

 

[Munro_Mick]

Except the days they don't. It's pretty close to 50/50. They alternate.

But you're an AFL hater with the classic inferiority complex all AFL haters have. You notice anytime the AFL gets some kind of perceived (usually imaginary) advantage but you don't see when the same happens in reverse.

Too true.

You only drive yourself bonkers trying to keep a media watch style score of it all.

However - 'old media' is less relevant with every day.

 

[Band On The Run]

However - 'old media' is less relevant with every day.

This. Mainly use facebook, twitter, online forums etc. for sports news.

 

[Munro_Mick]

This. Mainly use facebook, twitter, online forums etc. for sports news.

This is something that you can track with respect to low profile international sports like RL and Aust Footy internationally where they have little outbreaks of growth.

New media options make it easier for these sports to sustain themselves beyond just a couple of years. In the past, a cohort of expats might drag a few people in, and for a couple of years there's a club in city X in country Y. Not much for 1000 miles in any direction. It fizzles out.

Now - totally different. Clubs get established - create a facebook page (don't even need to run a website anymore). Get friended. People can google if they spot a game on at 1am in the morning and are sufficiently curious (and that happens), or backpacked around Australia and return home and are sufficiently curious (that happens). And so on and so forth.

The brilliant thing is it actually becomes the 'anti-mass-media' that avoids what I feared 20 years ago which was the Americanisation of Australia (i.e. basketball and US culture was going to take over).

I hold out hope for the little guy still!!

 

[Twizzle]

This is something that you can track with respect to low profile international sports like RL and Aust Footy internationally where they have little outbreaks of growth.

No one is going to take your discussions seriously with comments like that, if you want to troll you'd be better off in TFC

League has a proper World Cup and is not low profile. It doesn't need to grow.

This forum is not about AFL V. Rugby League

I saw AFL's attempt at a WC last year with no Aussie team and players with great great grand parents from another country scratching to get a run with any country. That pretty much fit the definition of low profile.

 

[Munro_Mick]

No one is going to take your discussions seriously with comments like that, if you want to troll you'd be better off in TFC

League has a proper World Cup and is not low profile. It doesn't need to grow.

This forum is not about AFL V. Rugby League

I saw AFL's attempt at a WC last year with no Aussie team and players with great great grand parents from another country scratching to get a run with any country. That pretty much fit the definition of low profile.

Low profile internationally is that outside of England, NZ, PNG and Australia in the main - RL is generally under the radar. It's not as professionally diverse as RU. The RLWC is a shadow of the RUWC. RU now has 7's in the Olympics and Soccer is in the Olympics.
'Rugby' per se is relatively well known.
Yes, RL has a WC which is something the AFL doesn't.
Win for RL.

The AFL tournament is an 'International Cup' - never been sold or promoted as a 'World Cup'. It has different eligibility criteria. No ex-pats. No parentage rules - otherwise I could try to play for Denmark.
2 totally different tournaments.
You bringing this into it is a bit like an inverse troll!!

re doesn't need to grow - well, I've seen plenty who want it to grow and take off in the US etc. And plenty who couldn't care. I'll leave that as a subjective call.