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Rugby league football is one of the most popular sports in Australia,[1[2[3 where it has been played since 1908. It is the dominant winter sport in the states of New South Wales and Queensland as well as the Australian Capital Territory, which together comprise around half of the country's population.[4 In 2009, it was the most watched sport on Australian television, with an aggregate audience of 128.5 million viewers
As I said,
" =#FF0000For all intents and purposes Rugby League is Australias National sport"
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Rugby league football is one of the most popular sports in Australia,[1[2[3 where it has been played since 1908. It is the dominant winter sport in the states of New South Wales and Queensland as well as the Australian Capital Territory, which together comprise around half of the country's population.[4 In 2009, it was the most watched sport on Australian television, with an aggregate audience of 128.5 million viewers
As I said,
" =#FF0000For all intents and purposes Rugby League is Australias National sport"
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The fact it is onlY popular in half the country means it is not Australia's NATIONAL sport.
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It's popular all over. When NRL teams play in Perth or Darwen or somewhere (thousands of miles away!), they attract very decent crowds indeed. All the more so when you consider few local fans will make the trip because of the cost and distance. Bigger crowds than Wigan or Saints would attract if they staged games in London, Southampton, Glasgow, wherever.
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That's because those cities are full of ex pats. Imagine 550k wigan ers and St. helens folk living in the outer Hebrides and taking a SL game there. RL gets very little attention and is well down the sports pecking order in half the country. It is not by any stretch a national game, yet, never mind THE national game.
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| Quote JB Down Under="JB Down Under"That's because those cities are full of ex pats. Imagine 550k wigan ers and St. helens folk living in the outer Hebrides and taking a SL game there. RL gets very little attention and is well down the sports pecking order in half the country. It is not by any stretch a national game, yet, never mind THE national game.'"
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Plenty of ex-pats in Perth, I wouldn't have thought there were too many in Darwen. But no real reason why many English ex-pats are likely to be league fans, though.
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None of the major sports give a cr*p about Darwin except to pick up the odd indigenous player. RL is big in NSW and Queensland, a bit player in Melbourne (easily the second biggest market in the country) where AFL rules, and nowhere at all in Adelaide or Perth. By comparison AFL has two sides in Queensland and NSW, and rules Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
However, the NRL dwarfs SL - financially, number of players at a high level etc. Its also been helped a lot by the financial problems in RU. Its not that long ago that the ARU was raiding the NRL for talent - Sailor, Tuqiri, Rogers etc. They would have continued that game forever and a day had they not run out of cash.
My main issue with increasing the Salary Cap is that the very first thing that would happen is that existing players at all the teams that could afford to pay more would get pay rises - for doing nothing at all more than they already are. Basically we'd see wage inflation for precisely zero benefit to the sport as a whole. You also cannot and should not allow clubs to bankrupt themseleves, so SL should definitely retain elements of the cap aimed at keeping clubs solvent.
Rather than an across the board increase, I would look at marquee player allowances (plus potentially homegrown player discounts).
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saints weren't particularly poor they tried hard, never gave up but were just slaughtered by a far superior team with class all over the field.
i doubt any team northern or southern hemisphere could have got close to souths!'"
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Quote The Avenger="The Avenger"Rugby league football is one of the most popular sports in Australia,[1[2[3 where it has been played since 1908. It is the dominant winter sport in the states of New South Wales and Queensland as well as the Australian Capital Territory, which together comprise around half of the country's population.[4 In 2009, it was the most watched sport on Australian television, with an aggregate audience of 128.5 million viewers
As I said,
"=#FF0000For all intents and purposes Rugby League is Australias National sport"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_le ... _Australia'"
Firstly, Wikipedia is about as reliable as an IRB calculator.....beware, because regardless of what criteria the author wants to use, the Facts are often a different matter. TV figures from 2009 for TV? Really? TV figures that no doubt include State of Origin?
ACT is a RL dominated state eh? Someone tell the Brumbies, because they've owned the Raiders attendance wise for a few years now....30% bigger average last year.
Here's a FACT for you. Not a Wiki-fact, but an ACTUAL fact.....Twice as many fans attended 207 AFL games as did 201 NRL games in 2014.
Break these fans down across the NATION....as we are talking about THE NATIONAL SPORT OF AUSTRALIA.
Over 800,000 attended 22 AFL games in Perth averaging over 36,350. .......2 Games of NRL averaging 16,500.
Over 1,000,000 attended 22 games in Adelaide...averaging over 45,000...0 games of NRL averaging 0
Over 390,000 attended 22 games in Queensland averaging 17,727.....36 NRL games averaging 20,300
Head to head, in their dominant states,
NSW delivers 2,000,000 fans to 120 home games 16,666 a game
Victoria delivers 4,000 fans to 88 home games at 45,450 a game
6,971,000 AFL fans with 40% of these outside of Victoria v 3,376,000 NRL fans with 29% outside of NSW.
I still say Cricket is the National Sport of Australia, but if you are looking for a dominant code of football across the nation, then currently the AFL is the biggest based on actual attending fans. NRL is second followed closely by soccer, which is growing at an alarming rate and also has teams in exotic places like Perth and Adelaide
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Quote The Avenger="The Avenger"Rugby league football is one of the most popular sports in Australia,[1[2[3 where it has been played since 1908. It is the dominant winter sport in the states of New South Wales and Queensland as well as the Australian Capital Territory, which together comprise around half of the country's population.[4 In 2009, it was the most watched sport on Australian television, with an aggregate audience of 128.5 million viewers
As I said,
"=#FF0000For all intents and purposes Rugby League is Australias National sport"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_le ... _Australia'"
Firstly, Wikipedia is about as reliable as an IRB calculator.....beware, because regardless of what criteria the author wants to use, the Facts are often a different matter. TV figures from 2009 for TV? Really? TV figures that no doubt include State of Origin?
ACT is a RL dominated state eh? Someone tell the Brumbies, because they've owned the Raiders attendance wise for a few years now....30% bigger average last year.
Here's a FACT for you. Not a Wiki-fact, but an ACTUAL fact.....Twice as many fans attended 207 AFL games as did 201 NRL games in 2014.
Break these fans down across the NATION....as we are talking about THE NATIONAL SPORT OF AUSTRALIA.
Over 800,000 attended 22 AFL games in Perth averaging over 36,350. .......2 Games of NRL averaging 16,500.
Over 1,000,000 attended 22 games in Adelaide...averaging over 45,000...0 games of NRL averaging 0
Over 390,000 attended 22 games in Queensland averaging 17,727.....36 NRL games averaging 20,300
Head to head, in their dominant states,
NSW delivers 2,000,000 fans to 120 home games 16,666 a game
Victoria delivers 4,000 fans to 88 home games at 45,450 a game
6,971,000 AFL fans with 40% of these outside of Victoria v 3,376,000 NRL fans with 29% outside of NSW.
I still say Cricket is the National Sport of Australia, but if you are looking for a dominant code of football across the nation, then currently the AFL is the biggest based on actual attending fans. NRL is second followed closely by soccer, which is growing at an alarming rate and also has teams in exotic places like Perth and Adelaide
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