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Same as last week, but for NRL prelim final football. NRL together with Ticketek are running their finals charity promotion again. You can purchase a ticket to any finals game this week for $20 and 100% of proceeds go to rural aid.
All NRL Prelim-Finals Tickets $20 @ Ticketek
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The NRL can't fill a 45k venue for an all-Sydney preliminary final.
Meanwhile in Melbourne thousands of Collingwood and Richmond members missed out on a ticket at a 100k venue.
SADThere were 50k people at the Saturday night final with south's and saints.
That's because there's nothing else happening in Melb :-P
AFL fans feel betrayed by finals ticketing system as demand outstrips supply
That many supporters of two teams with enormous official support (Richmond has more than 100,000 members, Collingwood 75,000) will be locked out is inevitable and hardly new.
Images of disappointed fans missing out on finals tickets are as much a staple of September media coverage as mystery injuries and politicians in club colours, even if the aggrieved supporters are now at the end of a virtual queue instead of a real one.Nrl is a joke when you compare it with the afl. It never gets its stadiums full like the afl games.
NRL scheduling was for a long time dictated by tv networks which was terrible for fans who attend but great for ratings, combined with sydney being a royal pain to get around for most part let alone park (or get out of the area you parked in
It can be ridiculous), higher costs of living, most of the big clubs (parra, dogs, dragons, tigers, penrith) having little consistency, super league war etc most fans just cbf putting in the time and money to go and the culture of watching on TV or pubs set in quite a while ago now. Its a real shame but as someone who lives in Sydney and actuslly goes to games regularly i certainly understand why ppl are fickle. To show how dumb NRL still are though they don't even promote things like $20 tickets or cheap hot dogs etc with any coherent, loud, let alone upfront strategy. Most fans never even know. Im a member and i found this here…. lolyea your spot on.
Nrl is a good tv game as 95% of the action and important stuff hapoens around the ball. Its fairly slow moving (compared to afl) so you don't miss much by no being there. AFL is better at the ground, theres lots happening off the ball, which tv misses.
Then as you said there's the ease of getting to/from venues. MCG/Docklands is so easy via PT.
Lastly AfL dominates sport acriss all classes. In Syd/Bris NRL was working class, union was upper class/elites.
And of course Suoer League killed the enjoyment for a whole generation.
How embarrassing, discount finals tickets lol.
I'm not going to defend the NRL but to be frank they are completely different entertainment 'products'; one being much more conducive to the 'live' experience while the other one is best experienced on the couch. There are many reasons behind this I'm not going to bother discussing (the aerial nature of the AFL, the advantage line hit ups of league, the layout of the respective fields etc. etc.)"
I purchased a ticket to the Roosters/Souths match but will probably watch on it on TV later, I watched a couple of world cup games and it isn't the same really. The AFL live experience is not because of the capacity stadiums and 'atmosphere' (I attended the 2000 Olympics opening and closing ceremonies - now that's atmosphere) but because the actual game is based around much more around quick periods of possession and unstructured possession, talls and scavangers going for the ball whereas league has a lot more brute power involved (not that there isn't shocking collisions in rules footy) much more suitable to zoomed in cameras. Also since AFL is end-to-end (generally) there isn't long spells where the crowd on one side gets a little 'bored'. League can also be 'end to end' but quite often since it's a game of advantage and territory; you often see play focussed on one end and even in one zone (if a team keeps ploughing through the middle and not spreading it side-to-side).
TL;DR both extremely different products and it's a no-brainer AFL attracts more crowds =/= necessarily a superior product.
Fair enough but then how do you explain tv ratings of 3.2 million for afl vs 2.4 million for nrl last week?
http://www.footyindustry.com/?p=4336
I got this one.
If you compare the two viewership numbers, it would seem that approximately 0.8 million more people watched the AFL, than did the NRL
Think it would tend to support that NRL is better watched on the TV (or at least as a relative measure many more prefer to watch the game as a ratio of those attending).
As a metric to assess whether AFL is a 'better' game or product both crowds and ratings can be used but to me any calculation would have to take into account the marketing of it, how it is promoted on a grassroots level etc. etc. all the standard rhetoric the tv pundits spout. It really is impossible to say one game is definitively superior to the other, more popular on TV (maybe) and through crowds (seemingly invariably) but does that make it necessarily better? I don't know. I think how it is 'seen' is just as important.
That's national figures?
NRL will be dead within the next decade. I say this as someone who was once a fan. Between the thug players, terrible management and pathetic refereeing it’s no longer watchable.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is caused by head injuries. Removing dangerous contact from Rugby and headers from soccer will fundamentally change those games. In contrast, AFL have been modifying the rules to protect the head.
Not 'all' finals tickets. Only Category 3 (the lowest) are $20.
Saves $5 from the normal price lol - you would be buying this to support the farmers not score a bargain
This debate has been done to death.
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Wow they must not think there will much of a crowd there
Even at a final!