Great game by the swans. 
Hopefully Rowan is back next week. 

Gonna be a great game against the cats. 
Hopefully an all Sydney grand final. 

Thats funny, can I play this game?.  https://mumbrella.com.au/nine-takes-week-sevens-afl-coverage-owns-saturday-night-396260

Why didn't you use ratings from the previous weekends finals to make a point?

Then you would have been able to point out lots of interesting little statistical crumbs.  
Like the worst ratings for an AFL game in Brisbane was more than the rating for all the NRL games in Adelaide put together.  
Or, the ratings for NRL finals in Melbourne were worse than the ratings for AFL finals in Brisbane, despite  Melbourne having a team in the NRL finals.  
Or, one game of AFL in Sydney outdrew all the NRL games in Melbourne put together.
Or, one AFL game in Sydney had higher ratings than the combined totals for all the NRL games in Perth and Adelaide put together.
As a bonus, we finally get a chance to see how Fox ratings compare like for like.  Finals means we do not have to compare Fox exclusive NRL games with simulcast AFL games.  And lo and behold  NRLs best ratings on FOX 349, AFLs worst 368.  AFLs average ratings on FOX over the finals so far are about 70k higher than NRLs best game.

But you rest easy, you managed to find an article saying the NRL is `winning`, all is right in the world.
You should take your musings on ratings to the LeagueUnlimited site, they could do with a good ratings musing about now, as they seem to have stopped talking about them.

Football ratings for last Saturday:

FTA (5 City metro)
Sat TV #AFL #AFLSwansCrows #AFLFinals Seven 789k (Syd 114k Mel 448k Ade 227k) 7mate 162k (Bri 56k Per 106k)
Sat TV #NRL #NRLRaidersPanthers #NRLFinals Nine 488k (Syd 305k Bri 184k) Gem 52k (Mel 26k Ade 10k Per 16k)
Sat TV #Rugby #TEN #AUSvARG Wallabies v Pumas 181k
Sat TV #EPL #SBSWorldGame #HULARS @HullCity v @Arsenal 62k

Fox
Sat STV #AFL #FoxFooty #AFLSwansCrows 403k
Sat STV #NRL #FoxSports #NRLRaidersPanthers 319k
Sat STV #Rugby #FoxSports #RugbyChampionship #NZLvRSA 145k #AUSvARG 134k

Total ratings (Fox plus FTA 5 City Metro):

AFL:  1,354k

NRL:  859k

Massive gap.

Why don't you start a new thread for tv figures and leave this thread for talking about AFL games? 

I'm happy to read tv viewers but would rather read this thread for AFL news like it used to be  

Noble sentiment.

What a world-class stat...that's sure to warm the cockles of any media buyer

A paltry 6k tickets taken by GWS fans, fair chunk of that would be scalpers too. Embarrassing.

Shocking

Source?
Scalpers probably trying to on-sell it to desperate Dogs fans

^ Patrick keane afl tweeted it, also coverage in the age

.Horrible, NRL like levels, not worth the AFL persisting with it, sure to be wrapped up next year

All Jokes aside it is pathetic. 
Under 50% of members purchased tickets. 

Massive dogs fan.  Dad grew up in braybrook,he was there in 54 with his mum and he dragged me through the preliminary final bullshit of the 90s and 2000s with 1997 by far the worst.
Can't believe they made it... Probably 2 years early as well.  Didn't rate them vs geelong but massive chance against sydney. But I'm just happy to be there 

Come on swannies. 
Bring it home AGAIN!!!! 

Half the members are from Canberra though, so only some of them would have travelled.

More importantly, great game for a neutral to watch.

Glory have members that drive from Bunbury on a regular basis to regular season games. For a finals game of such importance you would travel. So I don't believe that can really be used as an excuse.  But screw them,  as you said it was a brilliant game. One of the best of the season. 

How many would drive up if it was Perth's second team in the comp?

I'm really not sure what people are expecting, crowd looked pretty good on TV - and the game absolutely rated through the roof - the highest ever AFL ratings on Fox (and 5th largest ever in Fox history).

Patrick Keane ‏@AFL_PKeane  1h1 hour agoGWS Giants v WBulldogs prelim final was 2nd most-watched match in AFL history outside of a Grand Final.

Giants/Dogs drew a total average audience of 2.387 million and a peak of 3.65 million, behind only 2.47 million who watched '07 Cats v Pies.

I know of 3 families that drive up for dockers games.  So I'm guessing quite a few would do it for finals. 
Think about it. 2 hour drive to see your team pay for the grand final. You would do it. And I think a minority of members would be from Canberra anyway. 

It is a minority from Canberra, but it is a pretty substantial minority, in the region of 5 - 6k from memory.  While there will be some that made the trip, it would be a much smaller percentage than from Sydney.  Not trying to overstate it, there is still a long way for them to go in terms of membership, and attendance, I just think criticism of them is overstated based on where they come from.

My son to be one of them from this year

Footscray defeated Casey in the VFL grand final.
17.4k attendance

Liba was one of the dirtiest players to ever play the game. Absolute flog of a bloke. 

Previously I've only ever watched the Grand Final of AFL.

Over the last few weeks I've just so happened to be in places on a Fri/Sat night that have AFL games going. 

I've never watched closely enough to appreciate how truly brutal the sport is. Three quarters of what I do in my football games and am considered a dirty/thug player for, seems to be standard play by all players in AFL. These guys are athletic machines! 

I've been really enjoying watching the games. I think over the last few weeks I've caught Hawthorn v Cats, Hawthorn v Dogs, GWS v Dogs. What I can 100% say in such little viewing time is I hate Hawthorn :lol: they're all just mega jerks. 

My sister used to live in Central-West WA and every single person seemed to support WCE over there, so I told everyone I supported the Dockers to wind them up. And Sydney has always been my "local" team. So I consider myself a Dockers & Swans fan. 

Will definitely be heading to a game in future, and plan on watching more games on TV next season. I'd love to play it but my body couldn't cope with the injuries :lol:

The main thing I consider AFL to lack that I love football for is the ideal of possession of the ball. That's where football just reigns supreme IMO. It is nice watching AFL teams spread wide and find kick/pass between players all the way up the field though. 

Dogs by 11 
Dalhaus for the norm. 

fire out some predictions

Sydney by a few goals. Parker for NS

Wrong again, fortunately I am used to it.