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Message: [QUOTE="Mustafur, post: 3677432, member: 10189"] Memberships is also not a like for comparison because AFL has been doing it for significantly longer so it's head start is decades ahead, now you could say the new teams don't have that advantage but the culture surrounding AFL has it, and it's more than likely the fans of those AFL clubs were fans of other clubs before hand and probably members, similar to how Dolphins when they came in. It also has significantly more options on those memberships. Swans according to alot of Metrics have them as the most followed team in Australia but it's misleading, as like with Storm until recently being the NRLs most followed team, because there is next to no engagement of them in the cities they play in. Outside Eastern Sydney the acknowledgement of their existence is near non existent even. AFL will always beat NRL in crowds due to the nature of the sport being much better to see in person where it's the opposite in NRL but that's not really the side of the isle you would want to be in as a sport as Stadiums have capacity's that can't be exceeded before a new stadium needs to be made, where as TV is exponentially higher. I Don't see any evidence of AFL taking over any league heartland areas, it might be growing in NSW and QLD but NRL is also growing too, Last season for example had the highest TV audiences and attendances in history and this year was on track for that too until Broncos bowed out which definitely would have hurt both big(but it is Number 1 for both in the Regular season). NRL definitely felt the hurt this Finals not having Broncos in the finals at all, while AFL got the perfect demographic scenario of a Sydney and Brisbane team to their grand finals, so they will get a boost in QLD and NSW whilst getting their normal base who will watch any GF. But just because say a Broncos fan watches a Lions GF it doesn't make them still not a Broncos fan first. I'm sure If Broncos played Storm again in a Grand final you would be getting a similar boost, could even happen if say the new Perth team makes a GF. [/QUOTE]

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