sometimes you post some dribble, but that is a great post!

P*ss off.

Australia's Largest Urban s by population

Places on BOLD text have NRL representation.

1 Sydney, New South Wales 3,641,422
2 Melbourne, Victoria 3,371,888
3 Brisbane, Queensland 1,676,389
4 Perth, Western Australia 1,256,035
5 Adelaide, South Australia 1,040,719
6 Gold Coast-Tweed Heads, Queensland/New South Wales 454,436
7 Canberra-Queanbeyan, ACT/NewSouthWales 356,120
8 Newcastle, New South Wales 288,732
9 Central Coast, New South Wales 282,726
10 Wollongong, New South Wales 234,482
11 Sunshine Coast, Queensland 184,662
12 Geelong, Victoria 137,220
13 Townsville-Thuringowa, Queensland


Not bad, especially when you consider Perth, Adelaide and Geelong are complete sh*tholes.

As i said "the ONLY code not to have a team in 4 of the 5 major capital cities".

ps where are those figures from? Perth's population was that over 12 years ago and is now nearly 1/2million more!

Your attempt to evade the comment at hand by making a bizarre and inaccurate post about the team I support has been duly noted.

See your problem JB is that you are stupid. Now, I make allowances for this, but when you start to misrepresent the game, I need to step in.


The NRL has blanket coverage of the Eastern Seaboard of Australia. Some marks on the map that are capital cities actually have a population less than areas of other cities that have an NRL team.

For instance Adelaide doesn't have the same population as say the area between Parramatta and Penrith. Or when you take in the combined population from the area of South East Queensland that is serviced by the Broncos and Titans....you see that all but a few of the major population are well catered for by the NRL.


Now lets look at the sports we have in Australia that have any profile.

The AFL does well but in NSW and QLD they have nothing. For a country of just 20 million to not have market share in the first and third biggest media markets is devastating. Thats why they are burning money to even make a ripple.

A league soccer has teams in a few different places, but they get 5,000 to most matches, they are so badly in the red that its just unbelievable, and their profile has dropped like a stone in just 12 months.

Basketball in Australia is just about dead. No Sydney or Brisbane teams....they might as well not exist.

Rugby Union has a grand total of four professional teams, one of which is financially viable, four of which are non factors on the field and two of which (Including their last expansion team) are thinking of relocation.

Cricket, yeah, its played everywhere. But they are lucky to get 100 people to Shield games.

So that leaves the NRL is its dire position.


Saturation coverage across the Eastern Seaboard and with a team in NZ. A marketable sport to overseas buyers, the biggest TV sport in Australia....


Yeah, the NRL is screwed!

as I said the ONLY code ........

I just named two others that arent.

What a deadset drop kick!

Thats what everyone's been trying to tell you

really Basketball and ???

rugby union you tard!

I've....I've just never seen it before.


My god, he's right.


Or...not!

Please answer.

well done

did you write it in your little black book

theres a report showing that advertising on TV in RL areas comprises 2/3rds of all ad revenue generated

gould last night did a special segment where they analyzed the upcoming finals series and teams from a tactical viewpoint

the way he talked about the game was so knowledgeable and informative

its good to see RL in australia has such knowledgeable commentators

Shame the international set up doesnt have anyone as informative as him, given you lost to a nation with no professional league

They will be in Melbourne by 2012 ,and sadly probably drawing bigger crowds.

F-ing hell, yet another load of cr*p from LF (who should know better if he IS an Aussie) including the Gold and even Sunshine Coasts in the same list as actual CITIES like Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne. There is no such place as "Gold Coast City" or "Sunshine Coast City" - they are amalgamations of a number of smaller towns into a city purely for the purpose of running councils more efficiently. The fact that there aren't even moderately-sized popul;ation centres on the Sunshine Coast will IMO forever preclude a major sporting team moving/being located there.

I'd also suggest that anyone who calls either Perth or Adelaide a 'hole' hasn't actually been to either city -both far, far nicer places to live than Sydney.

The cities which count in terms of media exposure are the state capitals - Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide - and Canberra. Of those, league has NO position in Adelaide or Perth, and just the one team (and very little media presence) in Melbourne. AFL has Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne sewn up, with plans for a second team in Sydney and the new 'Gold Coast' team effectively providing a second competitive team in SE Qld.

RU may be on its uppers a bit at the moment but is probably going to add a franchise in Melbourne - leaving Adelaide the only capital in Aus without a major RU team.

In any event a real test of the games will be the respective deals made for the next round of TV rights - the NRL got far, far less than AFL last time (viewing figures not apparently counting for much) and this was exacerbated by the massive amount of 'contra' revenue from Foxtel (ads for the NRL on Foxtel itself being counted as part of the 'revenue' the NRL receives).

One thing that can't be easily estimated as well is the long-term impact of continuing unsavoury stories emanating from NRL players.

The NRL is doing well this year, and growing crowds is brilliant. But writing off either Union or AFL as 'no threat' would probably be the dumbest move in the history of dumb moves. Luckily Gallop isn't as big a pillock as LF.

the NZ Warriors play in the nrl.

the population of the gold coast is now approaching 700,000 and it is now a city.

in terms of media ad dollars, sydney and brisbane make up 70% of total revenues.

union is a joke in australia. AFL is trying hard and still failing to grow in nsw and queensland despite millions being spent

What's Darwin done to upset you?

Who Coached the Kiwis?
Kearney was the figure head but who really pulled the strings?
Look at Kearney's comments after the game and subsequently.

Ah, so there isn't a team in Melbourne?

Yes of course it does.

All those RL global sporting icons like who?

UK football teams are global brands. Australian RL teams are nothing.