Originally Posted by
shasta
Not just addressed to you in particular hopep but to the few others taking these figures to have another swipe at the Mungos. You are all living in a fools paradise. If RU is so much more popular in Australia why don't the FTA networks fight to get it to air? It's all about the money - TV ratings=advertising dollars end of story.Another good guide is the subscriptions to "footytips" - 251,000 for AFL, 81000 for NRL but only 35000 for S14. Don't worry about the low crowd numbers, low season memberships etc. Rugby League wins hands down on general popularity if we're just talking the two rugby codes. If we're talking all sports, none of them are within a bulls roar of AFL. I don't like that fact because I prefer Rugby. But I'm not going to delude myself that it's more than third or possibly even fourth in the Aussie football popularity stakes.