Ok...to recap.
NRL got 200,000+ for the opening round of the 2011 season
This worked out at over 25,000 a game
43.5% of these fans couldn't be 4rsed turning up a week later
71,000 less fans than the 2 opening rounds in 2010......
so, this beggars the question, where did the missing 88,009 people, who rolled up last week, go
There were 6 games in Sydney I believe.......yet 2 "home" games for the roosters has only attracted a handfull of more fans than 1 game in New Zealand
I thought Sydney was into RL?
16 games of NRL have to date attracted 19,500 as an average.
Now, over to the other codes.
AFL
As these hoofers have yet to start their kickathon off for 2011 proper, it is difficult to compare like for like, but if you use the figures from 2010, then they averaged 40,938 for their opening 2 rounds (16 games...same as the NRL).
Union
Working on the opening 2 rounds schedule as I have with the above, then we get the following results:
5 games with a total of 112,891 fans over the first 2 weeks...averaging 22,578.
I believe that $45 is about the usual ticket price for a game of ball (any ball) in Australia.........it might be more for the toffs in Union as they get less of a season with fewer games, but by my maths, that would put the AFL up, when compared to the NRL by about:
21,500 average per game and over 8 games a round 172,000 fans a round...or in cold hard currency, $7,740,000 or 15.5 million over 2 weekends.
As for Union.....hard to compare because they are State teams etc.....but if pushed, then the following is the result
Average of 3,078 more per game......but only 5 games, so a total of 15,390 or using our $45 a ticket, just shy of $700,000 over the first 2 weeks in (averaged) additional revenue for union over the NRL
Next up...TV.
I have heard how many Australians will watch NRL on TV but this doesn't translate to attending games (see above factual figures when compared with Union and AFL). I Have also been told that the next TV deal will be worth a billlion over 5 years for the NRL, but have also shown how the IRB will generate a Billion USA dollars over 4 tournaments and that is even before they have sold the individual TV rights. The AFL already have their TV deal which is bigger than the NRL.......Union, through the IRB and SANZAR already have massive deals in place.......but so long as SOO comes in just behind neighbours on the TV WEEK viewing figures, some on here will say that TV execs, the NRL and all those in powerful positions should listen the them and them alone...but back in the real world, TV deals have so many parts to their complex construction. This includes audience figures, where the NRL leads the way (especially when you bundle SOO in with them), demographic audience breakdown, game time, group viewing (clubs/bars etc) regional variations and countless other b0ll0x that the TV execs, agencies and middle men have come up with over the years. There's also the Public face of the codes....incidents involving teenage girls on facebook, dogs and peanut butter and extra helpings of knuckles with your big mac go a long way to influencing advertisers and therefore their spend.....but I have no doubt that the NRL will get its AU 1 billion for 240 games + finals (is it 10?) multiplied by 5 years......so 1,250 games at $800k a game...whilst the IRB will get its paltry US $1,000,000,000 for 192 games over 4 tournaments...or US$5,200,000 Per game
.....and that's without the TV deals on top.......so make that a round US$10,000,000 A GAME
Guys...we can argue all we like and the troll hunters will be frothing at their mouths, but in Australia, more people go to AFL games than NRL and Union gets a bigger average attendance.....only on TV does the NRL win and even then, given your TV figures trounce the other 2 codes, relitively, the NRL is the cheapest deal in town for the TV companies.
AFL is a local hobby, League is a local hobby in 2 locals and Union is the biggest con trick of the lot....but also the richest of the 3 by far
You're welcome BTW
