I have been living in Brisbane for 9 months now and the amount of league coverage is great although when i visited Melbourne there wasn't half as much coverage with AFL being the page filler there. Soccer in Australia doesn't normally get much coverage i think the average crowd the Brisbane Roar got before the playoffs and final was only around 7,000.

Afl is far bigger in NSW and Qld than rl is in Vic, sa and wa.

To suggest otherwise is ridiculous.

Are you actually reading my posts?

AFL has had a 25 year head start. Over the next 5 years RL has a significant opportunity to claw back that ground if the ARLC make the right decisions about investment and expansion. Perth NRL viewing figures currently matches AFL Sydney viewing, that gives me hope that a well run, well financed WA Reds/WARL will be bigger than the Sydney Swans and the joke that is GWS and that (popualtions taken into consideration) RL will have more Jnrs, more TV viewers and more people supporting RL in WA than Sydney has supporting AFL within a few years.

RL has had both hands tied behind its back for 15 years, the shackles are about to come off!

The shackles are off, but give it 2 years.

You either have a bizarre understanding of afl in sydney or nrl must be booming in wa (underground).

RL will be booming in WA IF we get a fraction of what the AFL has pumped into Sydney. AFL viewing figures sub 50K, AFL attendances around 20k and 10k. I am confident we can do better!



Not yet , lock has been removed with the ditching of ARL old farts and the kicking out of the News stooges but we still need that $billion pay day and announcement of expansion to get us moving in the right direction

Lots of IF's, BUT's and MAYBE's in this thread..........

The average gates at the NRL are 17,191 and at AFL 34,761.......

Just 1 AFL team averages less than 15,000.........the NRL has 9 teams with sub 15k averages

The AFL currently has a TV deal that is more then the NRL....the previous TV deal that the AFL got was, coincidently, bigger than the NRL as well.

Rugby League enjoys a much better media presence in Australia than it does in the UK, but it is the 2nd football code.
Mondays papers.......
National rlhttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/sportrl
New South Wales rlhttps://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sportrl
Western Australiarlhttps://www.perthnow.com.au/sportrl
Southern Australia rlhttps://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sportrl
Northern Territories rlhttps://www.ntnews.com.au/sportrl
Tasmania rlhttps://www.themercury.com.au/sportrl
Victoria rlhttps://www.theage.com.au/sportrl
Queenslandrlhttps://www.couriermail.com.au/sportrl
Auckland rlhttps://www.nzherald.co.nz/sportrl
Wellington rlhttps://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rl