midfielder
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Over the last three / four weeks of the Socceroos I have been applauded by the lack of general media interest or reporting.
Before the RL test match against NZ from about a month out it was being talked about on radio and in newspapers with a calling to arms of the RL faithful to go and watch the match.
The Ghana and Iraq matchs had no build up, and even on the night when we went to the matchs the three oclock news did not have the Socceroos their sports reports. Even FIFA came with over two thousand delegates and Kevin 07 address the FIFA congress with little to no reporting on the congress aside from the fact that 2018 was probably a no go. Any other gathering of overseas delegates looking at Australia would have been a massive news story in itself.
In prior years the excuse of well there is no product .. well according to many in the media the Socceroos are now Australias leading brand, and I have read that if you count people at live sites / clubs / pubs / number in each household watching, that the Uruguay match and a audience of 8.75 million, and the Italy match on a cold midwinter morning had 6.85 million. The Australia V Japan match was the biggest pay TV audience by far peaking at 562, 000 boxes out of about a million Australia wide. The Matildas during the womens world cup in their match against Brazil on SBS out rated the Australian Rugby Union world cup match against Fiji on channel ten, both matches broadcast at the same time only 30 mins difference in there starting times.
Other stories IMO news worthy in there own right were the Austrade stories shown the 32 million well spent Austrade issued press releases about the how via football Australian could do a lot with the Socceroos The Australian Trade Commission has organised a series of business breakfasts in the Middle East to capitalise on local interest in the team's qualifying games in Dubai on Saturday and Doha a week later.
Austrade's chief economist, Tim Harcourt, said the popularity of the "world game", the profile of players such as captain Harry Kewell and Australia's World Cup finals success in 2006 provided a springboard into huge markets.
Common interests and cultural ties are an important part of the business potential of football, said Mr Harcourt, pointing to the role of migrants in the development of both the game and overseas trade..
I suppose it proves the wisdom of playing the A-league in summer, but it does make you wonder what football has to do before we get reasonable electronic media. In the print media we have our own journalist but outside fox and SBS (aside from the A-League) there to me seems a long way to go. Channel 7 tonight ran an sports item about a kid from India I think who was now playing AFL and interviewed his Dad 8 mins or whatever latter Channel 7, gave less time to the Socceroos match against Qatar.
I realize it is about the money invested by 7, 9 & 10 in the other codes, but F me I have been disappointed in the coverage. Radio also has been no better at least the TV stations can claim to have heaps invested in the other codes.
Makes me wonder how far off internet down streaming is where you can connect a computer to a plasma display screen easily and if this is the way of the future affectively bypassing existing electronic media.
Before the RL test match against NZ from about a month out it was being talked about on radio and in newspapers with a calling to arms of the RL faithful to go and watch the match.
The Ghana and Iraq matchs had no build up, and even on the night when we went to the matchs the three oclock news did not have the Socceroos their sports reports. Even FIFA came with over two thousand delegates and Kevin 07 address the FIFA congress with little to no reporting on the congress aside from the fact that 2018 was probably a no go. Any other gathering of overseas delegates looking at Australia would have been a massive news story in itself.
In prior years the excuse of well there is no product .. well according to many in the media the Socceroos are now Australias leading brand, and I have read that if you count people at live sites / clubs / pubs / number in each household watching, that the Uruguay match and a audience of 8.75 million, and the Italy match on a cold midwinter morning had 6.85 million. The Australia V Japan match was the biggest pay TV audience by far peaking at 562, 000 boxes out of about a million Australia wide. The Matildas during the womens world cup in their match against Brazil on SBS out rated the Australian Rugby Union world cup match against Fiji on channel ten, both matches broadcast at the same time only 30 mins difference in there starting times.
Other stories IMO news worthy in there own right were the Austrade stories shown the 32 million well spent Austrade issued press releases about the how via football Australian could do a lot with the Socceroos The Australian Trade Commission has organised a series of business breakfasts in the Middle East to capitalise on local interest in the team's qualifying games in Dubai on Saturday and Doha a week later.
Austrade's chief economist, Tim Harcourt, said the popularity of the "world game", the profile of players such as captain Harry Kewell and Australia's World Cup finals success in 2006 provided a springboard into huge markets.
Common interests and cultural ties are an important part of the business potential of football, said Mr Harcourt, pointing to the role of migrants in the development of both the game and overseas trade..
I suppose it proves the wisdom of playing the A-league in summer, but it does make you wonder what football has to do before we get reasonable electronic media. In the print media we have our own journalist but outside fox and SBS (aside from the A-League) there to me seems a long way to go. Channel 7 tonight ran an sports item about a kid from India I think who was now playing AFL and interviewed his Dad 8 mins or whatever latter Channel 7, gave less time to the Socceroos match against Qatar.
I realize it is about the money invested by 7, 9 & 10 in the other codes, but F me I have been disappointed in the coverage. Radio also has been no better at least the TV stations can claim to have heaps invested in the other codes.
Makes me wonder how far off internet down streaming is where you can connect a computer to a plasma display screen easily and if this is the way of the future affectively bypassing existing electronic media.
