And yet in no way does that have any relevance to the AFL's overwhelming financial success in this country.

BTW 90%....lol. Pull the other one.
India, Pakistan, USA, China, Bangladesh represent 45.5% of the world population on not one of those countries is Football the dominant sport.

Looks good for cricket though.

his salary wouldn't be far off of it and a few personal endorsements thrown in would push it around that imo.

I don't see anywhere in my post where I disputed AFL's financial (and, I'll add, political) utter dominance here in Aus, or perhaps at least where I'm from in Melbourne.

And I didn't say that football is the #1 domestic sport in the specific countries that you chose to name.

What I did say is that "90% of the world ... never [has] heard of AFL". While I think that may well be literally true, colloquially speaking my contention is that AFL is not the dominant domestic professional football code in countries totaling 90% of the world population. If you have any legitimate surveys or studies to disprove either my literal or colloquial point please go ahead and post the links.

Am I incorrect?

I am not much of a fan of cricket, the summer weekends of my childhood spent watching my dad in the Ballarat district 3rds from the car can attest, but I won't shy from paying the game it's dues for its fanatical support in the Subcontinent, which will only improve in sporting status with the eventual economic rise of India. But to compare whichever version of the cricket world cup they have to THE World Cup? Please.

Oh, and which sport is more dominant in attendance, participation or economic terms than football in China, by the way?

And for the record, no, I will politely decline to pull anything of yours, thanks for asking though, hope your Friday night improves elsewhere.

Edited by paladisious: 15/12/2012 12:15:40 AM

who cares. football is the most dominant sport in the world while afl is backwater

at least in those countries there are millions of people kicking footballs and playing soccer

unlike the propaganda written articles made by afl sympathisers in the herald and telegraph trying to convince people that afl is being spread and becoming "increasingly popular" in such countries:lol:

filthy creten

Well If you want to completely change what we're talking about with pointless information, I can do that too.

Who cares about Football when American Football rakes in 80,000+ people a game and is steadily growing in England with a regular season game being played there once a season.
We have the best stadium in the world that fits over 100k at a cost of 1.3B

In the last TV rights we scored a nice $20B!


Enjoy your Thugby muppet.

Edited by Synthesized: 15/12/2012 12:29:40 AM

nfl also has a 16 game regular season, lack of worldwide proffesional leagues and will never have the global outreach of football. no sport compares! the combined revenue and turnover of every european club alone superseeds it, nevermind the rest of the world!

dont get all mad because i speak the truth. afl is backwater. you silly new dawner that jumped on the soccer bandwagon(man city supporter even worse, disgusting) within the last 2 years getting all offended by my words of wisdom. what are you even doing on these forums peasant!? :lol:

thugby? what is that supposed to mean? some indirect knock at rugby? rugby can lick my nads for all i care LMAO! football is all im interested in

I expected Mark Webber to top it by miles. Dunno who the basketball player is. American Football is as steadily growing in England as its economy, nobody cares. PS. You've all got your head in the sand if you reckon AFL does not have political and financial clout. It's successful but so what? Stop caring.

hello ken

hes just another butthurt multi code fan that comes onto these forums expecting to have his testicles stroked. i for one, am not having that since it's such a pitiful sport and the child needs to learn his place

Who needs global reach when you have self sustaining dominance worth tens of billions! But then again with so much success global reach is eventually inevitable. NFL on free to air Aus TV, every tom dick and harry walking around with some for of NFL merch (mainly caps) local leagues popping up across the world.

I ain't mad, just having fun on your behalf.

If you think because you watch just one sport in some way makes you a superior supporter. I'm seriously laughing at your stupidity.

You contribute nothing to this game by sitting at your computer while poorly attempting to construct forum arguments.

:d

Edited by petszk: 15/12/2012 01:10:34 AM

Synthesized wrote:

In the last TV rights we scored a nice $20B!

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A reply to my last reply to you would be nice.

Cool story bro. How are the London Monarchs travelling these days, anyway?


Is that the stadium who's grand opening was Costa Rica vs Guadeloupe? Don't sound like NFL teams to me :-k

Yep apparently if I'm not a one eyed Football fan I'm against football. Might as well embrace the "enemy"

About as good as GC United. Football is perfect right?


Har, har, har...

Edited by Synthesized: 15/12/2012 01:36:31 AM

What you actually said is



Well I mention AFL is "doing pretty well" in regards to local finance, Attendance, TV etc.
So not sure how you got 90% or how your now arbitrarily defining "doing pretty well". And yes to the second part of the sentence, 90% of the world don't know about Australian football but that hasn't stopped it rise to the top of the Australian sporting food chain.

And I would say the combined athletics/ olympic themed sports are the biggest in China but if your going to make me pick one western sport Basketball is currently the biggest with over 300million players.

Edited by Synthesized: 15/12/2012 01:40:36 AM

Luke wilkshire! That's so suprising.

AFL is shit. Only a part of one country play it.

The NFL failed and collapsed in Europe - not just a team, an entire league.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Europe

It's great that Australian kids can grow up and aspire to play the great Australian game professionally, and make a very good living out of it.

900 professional contracts, and an average annual salary of $300k, with 18 year olds starting at between $80k and $100k per annum, and where the top quartile will earn between $500k and $1.2m per annum.

It's a good news story for Australian sport.

We should all be proud.

I've never watched a match from start to finish, but this is an excellent point. =d>

Also worth adding, that Luke is one of the highly regarded and well respected Aussie footballers (amongst players). Tipped for the socceroos arm band and to play til he's 40.

I don't support codes, I support my football club the Arsenal. It's something that people on this forum would do well to take on board.

He'll be lucky to make the World cup squad tbh

This. :D

I'm guessing the 900 professional contracts include all the state leagues? and the average annual salary doesn't include state leagues? and the 18 year old starting salary doesn't include state leagues and surely the top quartile only includes the top division?

Otherwise it really wouldn't make sense that with a salary cap of $9M by 18 clubs there is a total possible wage of around $160M where 900 contracts by 300K is $270M p/y (more than the broadcast rights deal).