Codarmysaint wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attendance_figures_at_domestic_professional_sports_leagues
Over 6 thousand more in 2008.
Rugby league, Australias number 1 sport if you take away Rugby and AFL
Noticed your wiki link mentions the NRL and AFL are regular season games only, yet the S14 has them all.
Do you think the plays offs for the NRL would add to the overall average seeing as one game had 75,000 to a semi, another had 50,000 in Brisbane, 28,000 in Victoria, an 18,000 lockout in Sydney, followed by anther 25,000 in Sydney?
Then there is the Grand final which had 82,000.
Also, the S14 home teams have 6 or 7 games only in the warmer months so if you want to watch a match, you can't afford to stuff about and say, I'll go in a week or so's time, you either have to turn up, or miss out.
The NRL plays over double the games the S14 plays and they play right through winter.
We'll see how big the s14 is next year when people can pick and choose which games they will attend when the season goes for a proper length instead of this kick n giggle 7 weeks BS.
They'll be going head to head with RL and AFL, something they don't don't do much of now.
Then we can look at the TV ratings where the NRL gets more people watching it a week than the s14 gets when you combine all 3 countries, there's the truth mr RAH RAH, a liitle old comp like RL out rating the S14 shown in 3 countries, that's bloody embarrassing for Union
And since when is it right to use wiki?
Anyone can go in there and change the figures.
One thing I have noticed is it's bloody hard to find crowd figures for the S14, for some reason the poor dears don't like to publish them, so I'd take your figures with a big pinch of salt.
NRL in Australia alone without rep footy and other grades = 3 million+ a year through the gates, Union in Australia with everything combined = 500,000 at most.
Who's the bigger code out here again?
Friday night footy out rating the Union internationals, who's the b1tch huh?
