The Roar Supporters Federation (RSF) run regular polls on their members and no, no ones yet been publicly shamed and sacked (see, it can be done FFA). 

Since the arrival of Kayo we’ve polled where people watch the A League, in the latest poll nearly 300 people responded with:

53% watching on Kayo/Telstra 
47% on Fox Sports 

(a concurrent poll on twitter gave 40% Kayo, 18% Telstra, 42% Fox Sports - with 67 respondents)

so today, it’s 1:1 ... for everyone that watches on Fox someone else is watching on Kayo/Telstra. 

At the end end of last season the ratio was 3:1 with a little over three people watching Fox for every one on Kayo. 

About last March the ratio was 5:1 with five watching on Fox for every single viewer on Kayo. 

A few observations - these are just random polls, there’s no control/science/rigour behind them so they always come with a pinch of salt. The question asks where they watch not how often - so although the ratio is 1:1 today, we’ve no idea if that translates to 1:1 viewing 

so what does it mean? 

Well it paints a clear picture - Kayo is popular and increasingly more popular than Fox Sports. 

It means Kayo/Telstra are significant viewing platforms for the A League. 

It means attempts to minimise or dismiss alternate viewing platforms to Fox are flawed. 

thats fascinating. and encouraging. 

thats fascinating. and encouraging. 

That’s certainly encouraging. 

But with a total of 67 people surveyed, it’s a bit, well ........

If you read the post it’s nearly 300 people surveyed plus 67 on twitter so it’s a bit, well .... more than enough? 

Definitely more than enough to get statistically significant data if the sample matches what the actual breakdown of A League viewers are.

I would guess that getting people on Twitter to answer a poll would probably skew results a bit (being on Twitter means you're likely to be more tech-savvy and online than the average punter, so you're more likely to stream a game yadda yadda).

However, if you've just randomly selected 300 Roar fans then that's a pretty fair reflection and a good sample size. 

I'm sitting at my desk, listening to Radio Continental live from Buenos Aires as they run through the pre game getting ready for the Velez-Huracan match that will start in a few minutes, and listening to all of the ads, and it gets me thinking about radio in Australia for the A League.

I wonder what sort of ratings we get here for radio broadcasts of matches?

I wonder what the rights are worth?

I'm sitting at my desk, listening to Radio Continental live from Buenos Aires as they run through the pre game getting ready for the Velez-Huracan match that will start in a few minutes, and listening to all of the ads, and it gets me thinking about radio in Australia for the A League.

I wonder what sort of ratings we get here for radio broadcasts of matches?

I wonder what the rights are worth?

The Roar Supporters Federation (RSF) run regular polls on their members and no, no ones yet been publicly shamed and sacked (see, it can be done FFA). 

Since the arrival of Kayo we’ve polled where people watch the A League, in the latest poll nearly 300 people responded with:

53% watching on Kayo/Telstra 
47% on Fox Sports 

(a concurrent poll on twitter gave 40% Kayo, 18% Telstra, 42% Fox Sports - with 67 respondents)

so today, it’s 1:1 ... for everyone that watches on Fox someone else is watching on Kayo/Telstra. 

At the end end of last season the ratio was 3:1 with a little over three people watching Fox for every one on Kayo. 

About last March the ratio was 5:1 with five watching on Fox for every single viewer on Kayo. 

A few observations - these are just random polls, there’s no control/science/rigour behind them so they always come with a pinch of salt. The question asks where they watch not how often - so although the ratio is 1:1 today, we’ve no idea if that translates to 1:1 viewing 

so what does it mean? 

Well it paints a clear picture - Kayo is popular and increasingly more popular than Fox Sports. 

It means Kayo/Telstra are significant viewing platforms for the A League. 

It means attempts to minimise or dismiss alternate viewing platforms to Fox are flawed. 

5,000 watched the first session of that WBBL match. Fox Cricket switched from the Australia v Sri Lanka match to the WBBL during the second session and there was no play for about 30 minutes due to rain. Were there really that many people watching filler content while the covers were on. How long does someone have to tune in to a match to be counted as a viewer?

Honestly there would be more 'clear air' in the middle of winter. Again tonight has the Rugby World Cup final, multiple Rugby League internationals etc.

Western Sydney Wanderers v Brisbane Roar 53k
on abc highest of the season and they have gone up every week. Only problem it what a terrible match 

We need to stop with this clean air nonsense, we are competing with sports that have little overlap with ours in terms of dual interest, how many union, cricket and horse racing fans really follow the A league?

Id buy the argument if we were up against the winter codes, where historically many fans of those sports follow ours as well. But this just sounds silly.

I would have said there was a fair cross over.  People that like a punt on the races seem to be pretty broadly distributed through society, so I would have said the proportion of football fans that like the horses is about the same as it is for the population at large.  Unless you can come up with a reason that would make football fans less likely to be into horses than anyone else?
As for cricket, your own logic says there must be overlap.  There is a huge overlap between AFL and NRL fans, and cricket fans, and you have said there is overlap between the football codes.  So, again, unless you can come up with a reason that says only AFL fans that dont like cricket, like the A league, I would have said the proportion was broadly similar.

Any argument that relies on football fans being unlike all other people in society is dodgy as fuck imop.

I'd say the majority of football fans have a non-anglo background when compared to the traditional Aussie games

I'd say the majority of football fans have a non-anglo background when compared to the traditional Aussie games

Western Sydney Wanderers v Brisbane Roar 53k
on abc highest of the season and they have gone up every week. Only problem it what a terrible match 

Both games yesterday failed to make top 20 cutoff at 35k. For comparison sake, round 4 Sunday games last season: mvc v ccm 61k adl v per 34k