After 4 years living down in the god awful state of Victoria(and before that Queensland for 4 years and NT for 2 years), man it feels good to be back in NSW. For 4 very long and painful years I had to put up with AFL been plastered over every media outlet that Victoria has; yes I understand that AFL is their main sport down there; however, rugby league doesn’t get a mention in the papers until after the golf, horse racing, tennis, lawn bowls, darts, hockey, local junior sports, show jumping, greyhounds, hotdog eating, camel racing, three legged racing and egg and spoon races have all been covered, and then it was only a small mention on how well the storm are travelling and or how awesome Billy (dog) Slater is ....f..k the STORM. We didn’t even get free to air NRL games until 2014 on GEM. Yet Sydney papers have mass write ups on the Swans and other AFL teams regularly.
Everything down there is AFL, AFL this and AFL that. 1 to 2 pages almost everyday is dedicated to every AFL team.... so my question to you, is this the reason why AFL teams have huge membership numbers and why most games attract over 40,000 spectators? Is it the constant in your face publicity (good publicity) that the media outlets are producing causing the fans to sign up as members to their favourite teams and all so get out and watch the games? I’m interested to know what some 1eyedeel fans think.
But on a happier note, god its great to be back in NSW, Shellharbour is a gorgeous region on NSW, and I can’t wait to watch a few Eels games live in the next 3 years that I’m here.
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I agree cost can be an issue, but I took my 16 yr son to a game with me to watch the eels play the storm and it only cost $40 for both of us.
They're writing to their audience. Plain and simple. Victorians only seem to have one sport during winter and so it would be counterproductive to splash the back-pages with rugby league news. In Sydney though, we seem to read basically anything on sport.
I couldn't stand being a Storm player. Anyone take them serious down there?