'Super Rugby' 2021
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@antipodean right, and cutting advertising funding for a product will do what to viewership numbers?
As someone above said, there is next to no visibility for Rugby in Aus. I don't think it's particularly crazy to suggest that it's to Fox's advantage to keep it that way until they secure the rights again.
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@Derpus said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@antipodean right, and cutting advertising funding for a product will do what to viewership numbers?
As someone above said, there is next to no visibility for Rugby in Aus. I don't think it's particularly crazy to suggest that it's to Fox's advantage to keep it that way until they secure the rights again.
Was it to Fox's advantage while they had the rights and people weren't watching nor attending?
How hard is it to understand Fox don't see the value? Apparently neither does any other broadcaster. Why would that be do you think?
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@antipodean maybe you are right. But if so, why did they bid for it initially?
They still plumped for A-League who's figures are significantly worse than Rugby's. I'm not really convinced.
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@Derpus said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@antipodean maybe you are right. But if so, why did they bid for it initially?
They still plumped for A-League who's figures are significantly worse than Rugby's. I'm not really convinced.
where do you see the figues? i thought i had read A-League/football had overtaken rugby in the sport hierarchy
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@Kiwiwomble Just as an example: 'OzTam reported the A-League’s season restart saw just 12,000 viewers on Fox Sports for the Friday night matchup, followed by 9,000 the next day for the second matchup on Fox Sports.'
A-League Ratings Are “Disappointing” - Ministry of Sport
A-League competition chief, Greg O’Rourke, has said the ratings for the season restart have been “disappointing”, after being bested by Super Rugby and Formula One qualifiers.
Even the Rebels have been pulling 40-50k plus an additional (rumoured, no official figures) 25% -40% on Kayo.
I think the Semi-final attendance figure will be telling. It's reportedly open to 25k people. TV figures for the final will also be interesting. A-league final got about 84k supposedly.
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so, in short, there is absolutely nothing wrong with rugby in Australia, it's strong and peachy and a desirable product
it's all NZ's fault, and Foxtel's fault, and Rupert's fault, and the ex-Wallaby Captain's fault. If they all fucked off it would be the '90s again.
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@mariner4life fucken hell, i never said anything like that? There's loads wrong - the majority of it self inflicted by RA. I've never said anything other than this. Fox are being dicks though, and cutting a team won't fix the underlying issues.
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@Derpus said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Kiwiwomble Just as an example: 'OzTam reported the A-League’s season restart saw just 12,000 viewers on Fox Sports for the Friday night matchup, followed by 9,000 the next day for the second matchup on Fox Sports.'
That's misleading - those A-League games were also on free to air live in Australia so people just watched them on free to air instead of Fox.
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@KiwiMurph It's not misleading when talking about the value to Fox - which is what we are discussing.
What do Fox care about FTA figures?
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@Derpus said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@KiwiMurph It's not misleading when talking about the value to Fox - which is what we are discussing.
What do Fox care about FTA figures?
I meant just in terms of overall numbers viewing - of course FFA would get broadcast $ from Free To Air too.
Regarding the A-League Grand Final ratings see below (the maths seem out by 1k though).
A Foxtel spokesman informed the Herald 151,000 people watched the match on Foxtel. Of those, 84,000 watched via the Linear box services while 66,000 watched on either Foxtel Now, Foxtel Go or their over-the-top sports streaming service, Kayo. -
@KiwiMurph That's a way higher percentage streaming than i had heard previously, which is interesting.
It will be interesting to see how the semi-final and final of SRAu compare with those figures.
And, yes, i believe following Covid the TV deal for A-league was renegotiated from 50 odd to 25 odd million PA.
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@Derpus said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@Kiwiwomble I can't really be bothered to reiterate why. I've said it before in this thread.
But you've just massively, MASSIVELY contradicted yourself!
You can't be bothered reiterating why RA should persevere with the Rebels in Melbourne, but you admit the NRL is "pushing shit uphill" with massively superior resources and an already successful Storm side??
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@shark said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
The thing is, I've advocated for the Rebels. But holy fuck, that was the mother of all contradictions.
AUSSIE RUGBY IS FINE YOU ARROGANT KIWI!!
VIVA LA FORCE!
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@shark I didn't mean to delete it.
I said that i don't think that not being able to be the top team in a city means that the sport is not worth pursuing at all in that area. Just have to accept it's going to be small.
But, regardless, it still does not contradict the reasons that i gave as to why RA would never agree to cut another team. I mean, how could a sport with 5 teams averaging 50k a game x 2 a week cut one of the teams contributing to it? madness. RA would not survive another cut. Hell you could argue that RA going bankrupt might be better for rugby in the long long run. But RA itself would never facilitate it.
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@mariner4life righto buddy. I have been trying to engage meaningfully, and you are in fact acting like an arrogant kiwi.
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@Derpus said in 'Super Rugby' 2021:
@mariner4life righto buddy. I have been trying to engage meaningfully, and you are in fact acting like an arrogant kiwi.
I think I get where you are coming from.
I've hated the rebels since their first ever existence. The whole thing felt very corporate, from their signings to their management. They were saved in that hey had some really good players in their early years. Correspond that with the Force, who always seemed to get decent crowds, were fantastically placed for teams going to/from SA and seemed to be more about establishing rugby in the region. I was gutted when they were cut & the Rebel's continued.
Corporate led teams are always going to prosper in the short term, but eventually go to shit in the medium - long. Where as I thought the Force were doing the opposite.
What would I know, I suppose.
