[Other Sport] Bad day to be an Aussie....

[pauli cee]

All I have heard this week is AFL, WC and a woman murdered in Melbourne. Not one mention of cricket.

I could list 500 facebook friends pages, 0 mentions of cricket.

Geelong FC compared to Geelong CC is worlds apart in locals interest and bums on seats and spectators.

you really are that bloke in your picture aren't you?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Given that he lives in Victoria I suggest that might be the case.

Unless you live there, of course.

Not a lot in the Melbourne Age

https://www.theage.com.au/sport

That's the main one I think (I lived in NSW) [MENTION=4800]Tyrone Biggums[/MENTION]

Age is the secondary paper, Herald Sun is Melbourne's and Australia's biggest selling newspaper.

It'll give cricket a heap of coverage in summer, in winter it's dialed right back. Comparatively speaking AFL gets more summer coverage than Cricket gets in winter by a fair margin.

 

[Audax]

And South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.

Australian Rules is huge in those States and Territories.

And the population of those states (combined) only makes up a "4th" big state, and at the low end of the scale even then:

NSW - 7.9 mill (and let's include ACT here, so actually over 8.2 mill)
Vic - 6.3 mill
QLD - 4.9 mill
Other - 5.1 million

Total population where Rugby is "dominant": 13.2 million
Total population where AFL is "dominant": 11.4 million

Not trying to deny here that AFL is a massive sport in Australia: it clearly is. But trying to minimise the appeal of the Rugby codes outside the AFL heartland is ridiculous.

Despite having the Swans in Sydney for a long time, it wasn't until 2005 that AFL managed to gain enough traction amongst the Rugby hungry fans in Sydney that a second team for the city was deemed viable. Even then, it wasn't until 2012 that the GWS Giants actually played in the AFL.

 

[Audax]

Age is the secondary paper, Herald Sun is Melbourne's and Australia's biggest selling newspaper.

It'll give cricket a heap of coverage in summer, in winter it's dialed right back. Comparatively speaking AFL gets more summer coverage than Cricket gets in winter by a fair margin.

And if you look at the Sports section of the Sydney Morning Herald, AFL is relegated to a distant 5th place on the page - behind NRL, World Cup, Rugby Union, and Cricket. Same for the Brisbane Times version of the online paper.

The Sydney one has some NRL articles in the top-most featured articles section. Brisbane version has State of Origin (rugby league) plastered in that area.

And even today, looking at the Melbourne Herald Sun sports section - the top area dedicated to Featured sports articles has very little AFL present. There's more articles for Basketball, Cricket, Tennis, and Surfing. Grant you though that the first section devoted to a specific sport is for the AFL.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Thick people in "cricket is shit" non shocker.

 

[Change at Barnham]

An interesting video. Well worth 2mins 20 secs of your time......

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/sports/australia-philippines-fiba-brawl.html