Originally Posted by
jargan83
I would just like to point out that i am writing this while I have my Perth Glory jersey on, so hold back on the muppet calls
Euro 2008 and may have been big in Europe, but it wasn't even televised here, unless you had access to Setanta sports, which most people don't have. I couldn't even tell you who won it. (Who did win it by the way??)
I think you will find SBS did about half the games and having said that I was under the impression that only a handful of RWC games were televised by 10. But back on topic its terms of Interest..TV Audiences and money its pretty difficult to even compare the RWC to the Euros lets be honest.
Which will further dilute the competition, thus affecting the spetacle. The salery cap wil still force our best talent overseas, which is good for the national side, but a bad thing for the A-League. The A-League cannot be taken seriously untill crowds are 20,00 plus everywhere and the best talent is staying in Australia
True...But i am pretty sure the A lot of teams get around 20 000 i know perth doesn't
My local cricket club has also picked up in junior memberships and we have had 3 teams, with leftovers for the first time in years. I dare say it has to with the encouragement towards children to get off their asses and actually go play some sport and turn into little fatties.
Junior Football is however alive and well, i belive it has the largest player base into the country, in front of every sport in every state, at least that was the last report/statistics i saw.
Like i said previously ARU and AFL have small fees and play santa giving out lots of goodies to get kids to play. Soccer slams parents with huge fees and has to turn kids away
In fact the Perth Glory's crowds were slightly up last year on previous years. Perth is a renown city for "being on the bandwagon" and only supporting while a team is winning. West Coast can't even drag 38,000 people to a game lately, and Fremantle are struggling as well. The Perth Glory were shafted from the start of the A-League but i won't go into that.
In Fact Force crowds were down this year, which was pretty disappointing. I know the stadium played a part in this, but whether it was due to results not going the way of the Force as well is unknown in only their 3rd season
That totally explains my mates who are through and through West Australians (i'm from Sydney) who think AFL is shithouse and love Rugby.
It also doesn't explain some of my mate at the Cricket Club who had no idea what Rugby was untill the Force came along (through and through AFL nuts) and now they are always asking me questions about the game, they went to their first couple of games this year.
I remember when the Dockers and Eagles were getting sh*t crowds I was late into High School sometimes the dockers would only get 15000 and the eagles maybe 25000.
Perth is a bandwagon state
6 AFL clubs are only surviving because the AFL gives them $1 million a year, they have token markets in Sydney and Brisbane that largely don't care about them. Go to Sydney and NSW where it is still very much Rugby, both League and Union
Yes but with a Big TV deal they can fund this
Tocc has answered these so i won;t bother reapeating him, but i agree with him
Funnily enough AFL was the only sport to have a downturn in Junior participation and Senoir particpation.
I think you will find Rugby and Union to be in the same boat the majority of the time.
Soccer will always be growing in Australia, the route through Asia ensues that we play more games, therefore more people are going through the gates, tell the 75,000 people that turned up a month ago for a dead rubber that Soccer is crap.
A-League gets a mention in Perth, just not a very big one thats for sure, i believe Soccer/Football was mover to the summer timeslot originaly to avoid competition with the likes of Rugby Union, Rugby League and AFL. I know several Asian Leagues are currently in competition now if not all. I'm definately not English, neither are any of my mates. I can't put up with their whinging, i can see why you hang around with them BLT. But having said that, like i said above, Soccer will never be taken seriously, at least domesticly untill they are reguarly pulling 20K plus crowds, and we stop the flow of our best players overseas, which the Perth Glory and most of the other clubs DON'T do
Theres no such thing as a Test match in Football/Soccer. Theres Friendly's, in which the whole team can be substituted at half time, and the only time international football is taken seriously is World Cup qualifying or the actual World Cup tournament.
I havent read those reports. Last time i read something ragarding ARU sponsorship i heard that Vodafone were willing to step up again and 2 other unnamed companies as well. But that didnt matter becasue QANTAS re-signed for another 4 years i think?? You tiried that arguement 2 or 3 posts ago as well, so obviously you are a bit thick
There were reports last year of having poor sponsorship relationships...O'Neill commented on it a few times i remember.
The ARC failed becasue certain influential elements in the game here in Australia, more to the point NSW such as the powerfull Sydney clubs. It was never given a chance to succeed
The ARC was modelled on the Currie Cup and NPC and was potentially one of the biggest sporting failures ever.....
France could have won the 6 nations had they beaten Wales in the last game?? England are just crap and have been since they won the world cup. I don't care about their problems.
I was at the match They needed to win by 17 points and gave some kids a run....Great for a so called decider
Obviously you are a bandwagon supporter like i mentioned above. There for great times, but when your team is struggling or starting out you bag them out. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I am over the RWC debarcle. I suggest you do the same.
Yes I still have my force membership and spend thousands watching the wallabies overseas yes I am a bandwagoner...grow up tool! I am not saying I am more of supporter than anyone its just I am not a bandwagoner.
[COLOR="Blue"]I don;t know why you seem so determined to discredit a game that you claimed to support or have previously supported. You have no idea as to the status of the Australian sporting landscape and i also question your abilty to write a coherrant sentance that succesfully argues your point as you have contradicted yourself several times. I may enjoy both games, and have argued for both games but I don't see the point of shooting down Rugby on a Rugby forums website. Further more if you love the round ball game so much i sugeest you go find a round ball website. Every game has it's problems mate, but i belive that Aussie Rugby is on the up again after a few years in the doldrums. I left several arguements alone because my fellow Rugby supporters answered them for me.
I also apologise if none of this makes sense, it did in my head, but i'm sure it makes more sense then Weebies feeble arguments