No crowds and commentators form a hub... AFL about to be exposed for lackluster sport it is.

#246 with the brain dead insight. Yeah most popular sport in the country is lacklustre. Job Einstein

I really want to see Roaming Brian in the Hub.

"#246 with the brain dead insight. Yeah most popular sport in the country is lacklustre."

Just because there are rusted-on footy supporters out there, it doesn't mean the sport hasn't lost its appeal.

I'm just looking forward to the daily news update on when they will predict AFL will be back

if posting a thread about the AWFL please tag it

#249 - popularity is a point of view.

AFL in Australia is like Curling in Canada. Incomprehensible to the rest of the world with no scope for an increase in popularity beyond its isolated group of rusted-on fans.

Why it's popular isn’t relevant really. The fact it dominates the Australian sporting landscape and has clearly the highest attendances by a mile is all that matters.

The afl gets much media coverage in all forms it would not be that hard to be popular. At a guess I'd say the nba and premier league is more popular in Australia with minor media coverage. Nsw and Queensland the afl popularity is very poor considering the media coverage.

I'd suggest when clubs have over 70,000 paying members you’d probably be wrong. In 2019 the Sydney Swans had 61,000 members. Guess AFL is popular in Sydney

5.5 million people in Sydney, I'd say 61000 ain’t that many and it was a one off year and they have buddy who is one of the most entertaining players. That mob out in the inner west talk up members but lucky to get 10000 to games. Gold Coast get nothing and Brisbane only when there winning.

2018 60,934
2019 61,912

Buddy has hardly played both years. Do you have anymore excuses? How many NRL teams have that type of membership?

Buddy always playing when memberships go out. What's the percentage of 5.5 million to 61,000... not much. Melbourne have three sides with more members on there own. Most people in Sydney call it gay fl.

Sorry how does that compare to NRL memberships? AFL fans know buddy ain't playing all year. You’re struggling to make any point here mate. If it’s gay AFL, Sydney would be all over the gay. The reality is your argument of "it was a one off year" looks kinda stupid. Like you!

You haven't looked at the percentages mate explain how that shows it popular, the kings get bigger crowds than the giants with no media coverage.

You still don't answer the question muppets. How does it compare to NRL? How does that % look ? Kings don’t get greater crowds than the Swans. If you just answer the question you can slink away quietly

Let me help, 3 out of the top 5 NRL memberships are not from NSW. The highest NSW membership last year was 29,614 to South Sydney. Yeah I don't think the AFL and the Swans are popular!!!

Greater Western Sydney has more members than all NSW NRL teams except South Sydney and Parramatta. Yeah not popular

What are the swans average crowds, the afl talk memberships up, fuck me the giants start selling one game memberships halfway through the season. That's not a membership, the swans might have 60000 members but don’t even sell out the SCG. You might be a swans- South Melbourne tragic but it hardly makes much talk up in Sydney. Re the NRL I don’t give a rats and it get miles of cover in Sydney but attract not many.

As I said 60000 out 5.5 million is hardly great.

3 x greater than any NRL team. South Sydney have 29,000 out of 5.5 million. 2 afl teams have over 86,000 members. That's like 6 or 7 NSW NRL clubs. What’s the average NRL crowd....about 16,500 (across all states) . Sydney Swans averaged 31,000 in 2019. AFL is and will continue to be the most popular and most well attended sport in the country. Sorry to upset your attempt at a different narrative

When people get to work in Sydney on Monday mornings, they ain't discussing afl, as much as your dream world mind thinks they are.

But they probably are...

Illawarra has been trying to get a netball, basketball stadium down in their region but no success, get screwed by the WEC or go back to snake pit. Basketball gets nothing while the afl gets government hand out in hundreds of millions. Blacktown council spent a bomb to get giants out there but spoilt players who wanted to live in the eastern suburbs, northern beaches areas inner west areas would not go out there so the nsw government spent millions on upgrade to the Sydney show ground plus a brand new training centre and oval next door.
As the rock star says half Sydney's support base is in Melbourne, they hardly ever get capacity crowds to the SCG. Afl is hype by the media but Sydney still is not that solid on afl unless they are winning.