AFL crushes NRL finals attendence, NFL spectacle - Andrew Voss | Across the Divide! (15.09.26)
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Why does Andrew Voss claim the AFL is crushing NRL finals attendance?
Look, the AFL have always looked at uh down their nose at rugby leg. They treat us as second class citizens. It's obvious we've got 'em rattled. And the figures and the facts speak for themselves.
We measure ourselves on traditional metrics like people turning up to games, um, people watching, how long they watch for. They can huff, they can puff, but they won't blow our house down. Um it's solid brick. We're gonna get stronger and we're gonna take some of their fans.
Fossey, Fossey, Fosse, are you there? Or have you been taken by the people snatchers as well?
Jared, you can see my arm, that's my view, like from the MCG watching the NFL the other day, so I I've I can see you just. I've just got the binoculars up. Good to be with you. So I'm gonna give you
I'm gonna give you the terms of engagement here, Vossi, and you can play or pass or play. Parse or play. You can either acknowledge that Melbourne is the sporting capital and the AFL is the number one code in the country, or we can fight. Which one?
I thought uh sorry, I must have got a different rundown. I thought we were talking about Australia Zimbabwe at five thirty this afternoon, first match of the ADI. I'm prepared to fight. All right I choose to fight. I'll come back in view. I'll even come back in view like an A lister, uh Tom Cruise at the NFL today sitting alongside of Taylor Swift. Yes,
that is power packed.
A are you seriously going to push all the line? You need this constant as a caller said earlier, you need this constant validation. Melbourne is the sporting capital. You really need us to all bow down today collectively on behalf of
the city. Good manners too. Just to acknowledge having all the empty claims that have been made across the past eighteen months. And and I feel like I've played fair as we acknowledged the the power of your T V deal along the way. And I admired Peter Vellandis the way he has united the code. But enough already. Enough. Where did all the people go, Vossi, for the first week of your final series? No,
they were busy. They were busy. The weather was not. The weather was
nice in Sydney and then they went to the harbour.
P possibly, yes, we do have a harbour, that's right, a beautiful harbour with a harbour bridge and an opera house.
How do AFL and NRL compare on traditional metrics like crowd numbers and TV view‑time?
Do they place Earth? We have the Boxing Day. They don't I don't know of the Melbourne to Hobart, how big's it these days uh
we're calling that playing sport, are we?
No, I don't actually. No, look, I'll say this, Jared. May I say this and I cannot resolve I cannot distort the facts. I have said and I've held this theory for as long as I've been an adult football fan, the Sydney fan as opposed to the Melbourne slash AFL fan. And I say this seriously and and and I hope those that are saying, Vossi, go in there and throw punches. No, but I do believe this. The Sydney fan will find an excuse not to go that is inbred in many And the Melbourne AFL fan will find an excuse to go. Yeah.
We love going. And and that
is that is part of it. Um so we're left at that. As for sporting capital, as for clinging to the MCG as being the home I i you haven't done the NFL justice.
It's a beautiful
it's a beautiful aerial shot. Tell me. Your comment the commentary was great. The coverage was great. The aerial shot, I thought, my God, what what is that the best we can do here in Australia? No. It's the best we can do. Did you see did you could counter them? Did you see did you you could counter them? Get
that aerial shot up and count them and you'll get to I'll tell you the number you'll get to. You'll get to one hundred thousand and twenty one people. Twenty
one. I'm not sure I would trust you to get forty five thousand
at your rectangle.
Oh, I think so. How many i just in the NFL, can we just do a quick fact check, how many circular grounds or rectangular grounds are in the NFL? If they build an NFL stadium, do they model it on the M C G?
Tell me this, Bossy. You didn't have a pommy come on and say it can't be at the MCG again, did you? Tell me that didn't happen.
Uh a pommy on the MC Oh what? You're tourist? You can't tourist a pommy, he's a Scotsman!
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does Andrew Voss claim the AFL is crushing NRL finals attendance?
0:05–2:04
2
How do AFL and NRL compare on traditional metrics like crowd numbers and TV view‑time?
2:04–4:00
3
What arguments are made for Melbourne being Australia’s sporting capital?
4:00–6:05
4
How did the NFL broadcast perform against AFL and NRL in the recent finals week?
6:05–7:53
5
Why do Voss and Whateley think rectangular stadiums are wrong for showcasing sports?
7:53–9:34
6
What proposals are discussed for moving major events like the Australian Open to the MCG?
9:34–11:13
7
How do ticket pricing and discount strategies affect attendance for AFL, NRL and NFL games?
11:13–13:05
8
What is the final verdict on the future of cross‑code collaboration and ‘Across the Divide’?
13:05–14:37
Speakers
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