Whats this got to do with football ratings. 

It was a good timeslot though and showing Man Utd obviously helps.

But lets be honest, there wouldnt be many EPL fans here following the likes of Hull City or Stoke..... 

lol Mister Football is really taking you guys to the cleaners. 

Ted Turner has the best quote :

"Life is a game. Money is how we keep score" 

Guess which sport has it in spades in this country and which one doesn't ? 

Is there anything sadder than using a multi to back yourself up when you've repeatedly been proven full of shit?

You seemed to be bragging about Swans ratings in Sydney.

I showed you that they are not that good.

Storm 188k in Melbourne
Swans 103k in Sydney

AFL ratings in Sydney are alright but nothing special.

Now you can move the Goal posts again if you want but your bragging about AFL ratings in Sydney on a football forum sorta makes you look silly.

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I'm saying the Sydney ratings are good enough, for sure, especially when you throw in the Fox ratings which have absolutely killed the NRL ratings over the finals series.

It's been a non-contest.

Hasn't even been close - and the Sydney ratings are part of that mix.

I'm just looking at Wookie's figures now.

The 8 finals games to date have had a combined TV audience of 14 million, an 11% increase on last year.

The 8 finals games have had total Fox ratings of 3.6 million, that's huge - and Sydney is part of that mix.  Fox ratings are up 22% on last year.

This is why the AFL has a $2.5 billion deal.

Who was talking Tv deals..?

See what i mean, you dont like when you get proven wrong so you move the goal posts.

You brag about AFL tv ratings in Sydney then get shut down when the Storm rate more than Both AFL teams in Sydney and now your going onto TV deals lol

Now your moving onto Total finals ratings for 8 games.......who the fuck cares haha

You are on a Football forum and your talking this crap, your a goose.

As this thread is about Football ratings,for my two cents worth,the SBS ratngs to date for EPL indicate a huge variation.This is possibly due to the likeability of the game being shown.But still a 150k variation is huge.
One thing i would suggest is if people watch big epl games in numbers bit half of those drop out when one of those epl teams is not so big,then people arent watching because of the quality of play.
People are watching more because of the theater of the big guns facing off.
So any eurosnobs watching are extremely fickle or maybe lower in number than we believe.As a eurosnob surely you shold be watching any epl game that SBS shows.If not ,you can't complain you don't watch HAL because standard is too low.Because even when games are of a high standard in the epl,you arent watching.

Mr AFL lets see if you can comment on football matters without quoting AFL.

Lol. 11% increase.

Let's skim over it's 400% decrease on swans finals audience in Sydney.

Ahahahahahahaha

Mate, the Storm is Melbourne's only League team, and its Melbourne ratings were marginally higher than Sydney's 2nd AFL team in Sydney, and the Storm were playing prime time - big deal!

This finals series, the AFL has absolutely smashed the NRL, seriously, absolutely smashed them - game by game it's been a few hundred thousand difference.

The most recent game, the Giants outrated the Storm by some 700k - it's an absolute smashing.

We are on a Football forum who gives a flying f about comparing AFL n NRL rating.

 

I understand, and fortunately, the A-League season is yet to start, so we can have a civil discussion about related matters.

I know you'll have an interest in these numbers.

These are the total TV ratings for the two finals played on Saturday:

AFL - 2.387m
NRL - 1.652m 

That includes Fox, FTA Metro and Regional, a gap of 735k, which is enormous.

This is the interesting thing, the NRL game was played in prime time, while the Giants game was on earlier in the evening.

It's also quite incredible that that AFL rating is for a game between the Giants and one of the smaller Melbourne clubs.

Now he's talking about 2 codes and none of them involve football or the A-League?? 

This is the market, and the standard by which  FFA deals will be judged.

Well said. And nice to see the conversation stay about football. 

In advance, sorry, its more AFL shit again, but I just cannot let stupid go unresponded, its a character flaw.

2014 (INCLUDING 550k+ for GF), Sydney final ratings averages 262.  Total ratings 785
2015 Sydney finals average 120.  Didnt play GF, Total ratings 241 (2 games)
2016 Sydney Swans (minus GF still to be played) average 114.  Total (3 games) 374
2016 GWS average 159.5 Total (2 games)  319
2016 Total Sydney finals average 126.  Total 536

If we assume something like 550k for the Sydney final again (its usually more)
Swans Average 231, total 924
Total Average 217, Total 1086.

So 2015 to 2016 for Swans finals audience goes from 241 to 924.
Explain to me what sort of math you used to get a 400% drop out of that dipshit.

AFL fans launching into personal attacks. Relax, I'm not black, a Muslim, an Asian or a pregnant female etc so you can tone the aggressive attitude down.

I never mentioned any dates, but while your multis are googling, look through previous swans final audiences at peak times. For example when Daaaasvis come good - then contrast that with Friday's laughable fta audience in nsw.

And please, when you see the results - keep your cool.

Sorry, you hadn't made it clear you just picked a high point at some point in time, then a low point at some other time to get an arbitrary reduction.  I thought you meant some sort of meaningful trend.  Continue as you were, I am sure the AFL are terrified by the 400% plunge in their popularity in NSW.

What does that have to do with anything?

No, I didn't just pick a high point and correlate to a low point - it was based on Friday's sydney ratings V previous ratings for finals matches. But if we want to just pluck a year let's do it - I have landed on 2005, the year of their prelim final in Vic so a good comparison, compare that with Friday's result - 1 million viewers less (nationally). 

You're kidding yourself if you think the AFL are not concerned with drop off in Sydney audiences for such a big game, because their media agencies would be.

Jatz has made 34 posts, all AFL. Obviously another of Mr VFLs multis.

Sat TV #EPL #SBS Swansea City v Liverpool 171k (Syd 57k Mel 56k Bri 28k Ade 15k Per 15k)

Another rating that proves people turn into a vegetative state when the AFL grand final is on and cant focus on anything different....not

Or maybe the strength of the EPL is stronger than you give it credit for

Not saying your wrong about the A-league starting sooner (I have agreed with you on this before), but using the EPL to prove the point is like saying "The Bachelor" had great ratings as well. during its finally, which was during the finals.

I still don't think the EPL and A-league can be treated as Apples for Apples.

So if the EPL is rating a bit better than the A League, and the EPL is more popular than the A league, then why do people think our rating numbers are a portion of what they should be, and would lift if we were shown on another network?

maybe beacuse those same people think the EPL would get an even bigger lift if they were on a bigger network.

Not saying i agree with them or you but thats the argument.

The EPL was shown at 9pm, long after the AFL GF had finished so it's a bit of a pointless post.

The AFL apparently got over 3m which is massive.

Pretty sure the news said they got a lot more than 3m viewers.  Supposedly over 5m were watching in the final quarter. 

I think there should be cross promotion between A league clubs and AFL clubs. Try and get fans to be members of both codes. Rather than detest opposing codes. 

There's numbers here, you're trying to make a point, I don't have the slightest clue what that point is, and basically fuck off.