RL independence day arrives - NRL Independent Commission announced for November 1

[andrew057]

if they have such a big bank balance why are they scabbing millions of every state government?

Thought that would be pretty obvious. Why pay for something, when you can get someone else to?

 

[_Johnsy]

double

 

[_Johnsy]

Maybe that should be triple

 

[_Johnsy]

pretty sure it's a lot cheaper to go to fumbeball games

Maybe, it was just a stab in the dark. Seems like a reasonable average price. Anyone here actually paid for a fumbleball ticket.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

AFL 2010 crowd attendances = 7,145,488
NRL 2010 crowd attendances = 3,490,778

3,654,710 more people. Hypothetically average ticket price $30 = $109,641,300

First of all, the average ticket price is much lower in AFL. More people have memberships for AFL and some membership packages are quite cheap.

Someone else mentioned merchandising. NRL destroys AFL in this capacity. If I remember correctly, AFL sells 68% less merchandising than NRL.

The only difference between the AFL and NRL is management BUT this advantage will end soon as NRL brings in the IC and AFL continues to make massive blunders like the GC Suns and GWS.

 

[Perth Red]

Who gives a f**k about the AFL and where it gets its money from besides perth red (JB).

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aren't we the sensitive one (eels fan)? Personally I think measuring ourselves up against our biggest and closest competitors is a useful thing to gauge how well we are travelling. I also think it is relevant to find out why we are so far behind our nearest competitor in terms of income generation and have our CEO explain this. We claim to be the biggest code in the country yet financially we aren't close to our nearest rival, you might consider this irrelevant to a RL discussion forum, I do not. This has nothing to do with AFL, it could be the ARU, soccer Australia or Netball if they were competing against us for jnrs, fans and $'s. As it happens AFL are our biggest competitor and have put out the war flag with their continued push into NRL territory. Time to start askign the tough questions and stop thinking that a bigger TV deal is going to solve all the games financial issues.

 

[_Johnsy]

aren't we the sensitive one? Personally I think measuring ourselves up against our biggest and closest competitors is a useful thing to gauge how well we are travelling. I also think it is relevant to find out why we are so far behind our nearest competitor in terms of income generation and have our CEO explain this. We claim to be the biggest code in the country yet financially we aren't close to our nearest rival, you might consider this irrelevant to a RL discussion forum, I do not. This has nothing to do with AFL, it could be the ARU, soccer Australia or Netball if they were competing against us for jnrs, fans and $'s. As it happens AFL are our biggest competitor and have put out the war flag with their continued push into NRL territory. Time to start askign the tough questions and stop thinking that a bigger TV deal is going to solve all the games financial issues.

I can't ever remember hearing this claim.

 

[adamkungl]

RL sh*ts on AFL in merchandising

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/grand-time-for-izzy-and-hunt/story-e6freye0-1225929420212

Well who would want to wear a lame singlet...

 

[El Diablo]

Victorians

 

[adamkungl]

Victorians

Evidently not even them

 

[El Diablo]

Maybe, it was just a stab in the dark. Seems like a reasonable average price. Anyone here actually paid for a fumbleball ticket.

nope

but here's an example http://membership.collingwoodfc.com.au/2011-packages/season-ticket-membership

 

[Perth Red]

nope

but here's an example http://membership.collingwoodfc.com.au/2011-packages/season-ticket-membership

Dockers range from $260-605 adult depending on seat for a season membership.

Not sure prices are much difference and seeing as that money goes to clubs, not the AFL it still doesn't explain where the AFL is making $115mill more than us every year.

 

[docbrown]

Well who would want to wear a lame singlet...

Talking to AFL cultists, I believe this is a major factor.

 

[manoj p]

aren't we the sensitive one (eels fan)? Personally I think measuring ourselves up against our biggest and closest competitors is a useful thing to gauge how well we are travelling. I also think it is relevant to find out why we are so far behind our nearest competitor in terms of income generation and have our CEO explain this. We claim to be the biggest code in the country yet financially we aren't close to our nearest rival, you might consider this irrelevant to a RL discussion forum, I do not. This has nothing to do with AFL, it could be the ARU, soccer Australia or Netball if they were competing against us for jnrs, fans and $'s. As it happens AFL are our biggest competitor and have put out the war flag with their continued push into NRL territory. Time to start askign the tough questions and stop thinking that a bigger TV deal is going to solve all the games financial issues.

Try and keep your AFL chat to other forums in the future.

 

[Pj,Rj,Hj]

pretty sure it's a lot cheaper to go to fumbeball games

Depends on the Team and State.
West Coast and Freo fans pay through the nose for Memberships (full ticketed 11 home games with reserved seat as the only option, unlike most of the mickey mouse Vic memberships). There are limited cheap memberships so most Eagles members pay in the $300 + range. The severely limited General Admission tickets are $40+.

I haven't been to an NRL game in years. Whats the rough price for General Admission at say the SFS or Suncorp?

 

[adamkungl]

Depends on the Team and State.
West Coast and Freo fans pay through the nose for Memberships (full ticketed 11 home games with reserved seat as the only option, unlike most of the mickey mouse Vic memberships). There are limited cheap memberships so most Eagles members pay in the $300 + range. The severely limited General Admission tickets are $40+.

I haven't been to an NRL game in years. Whats the rough price for General Admission at say the SFS or Suncorp?

iirc, SFS GA is $28 walk up, $23 ticketek

 

[Pj,Rj,Hj]

^^ Cheers, so they're not to different in cost.

 

[Brutus]

Fumbleball games in Melbourne are cheap as chips.

Overall much cheaper to go to the fumbleball.

 

[Gippsy]

Fumbleball games in Melbourne are cheap as chips.

Overall much cheaper to go to the fumbleball.

Sure is. I knew it was cheap so went searching and found it is even cheaper than I thought.

http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/default.aspx?newsid=89252

Adult admission prices are now $20 from $19 in 2009, with concession $12 from $11.50, junior $2.50 ($2.20) and family $40 ($38).

The increase in junior prices from $2.20 to $2.50 represents the first rise for this ticket since 2001.

 

[Perth Red]

that's great value, must be able to do it from A) the stadium deals they have and B) the volume they sell?

In the UK SL,children can get into any game for 1pound ($1.50) if they have a season membership to a club .