ThunderPower_14 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 It'll be which sports get the highest crowd figures for one event, maybe? I agree with bicks the Aussie one looks ropey. Really? Aussie Rules wins here pretty comfortably as most popular sport either by tv viewing or match attendance figures. Soccer is the most popular in terms of participation. Nope, it doesn't more people watch RL than AFL on TV. Average Australian weekly viewing figures:-AFL 519,975* * denotes shown on free-to-airAssociation Football 84,072League 590,145* * denotes shown on free-to-airUnion 82,246** ** only includes Australian teams Source: The Guardian (Whole article well worth a look) Who used data via OzTAM & Regional TAM, 25/2/14, 5 City Metro + Combined Agg, Total People, AUD Again, these figures would include the three State of Origin games, which are watched by everyone with a television in Australia, even if they have absolutely no interest in League. If you're only talking about NRL games, the AFL would be ahead week to week. Not to mention that more than 100,000 people per week are actually attending AFL games live compared to the NRL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Yep, although I can't load that Guardian article, those figures are contrary to all the others I can find. TV audiences... On top of this, AFL brings in more revenue and has far higher live attendance. The figures Bickster quotes appear not to include Pay TV, which is... odd. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Lol A-League Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bickster Posted January 27, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2015 Someone should tell him that Ireland is a separate country and that it is most definitely Catholic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stevo985 Posted March 4, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 4, 2015 That's mental Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 That's mental Surely it is thermal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 shall we settle on menthol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturdaygig Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Manchester, liverpool, birmingham and london combined pop is more than half of the uk. Would never have believed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 London by itself is almost 15% of the population of the UK. It's a hell of a place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 4, 2015 Moderator Share Posted March 4, 2015 Manchester, liverpool, birmingham and london combined pop is more than half of the uk. Would never have believed it.Its not.London 13.5mWest Mids 2.5mGreater Manc 2.5mMerseyside 2.2mRoughly 21.0mUK population 63.0mThere's at least 10m missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 The blue bit of the map also includes west and south Yorkshire (Leeds/Bradford/Sheffield) the big cities in the East Midlands (Derby/Nottingham/Sheffield) and the urban but non metropolitan county areas surrounding Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. I guess if you make a rough triangle of the land intersected by the M1, M6 & M62 and attach that to the circle made by the M25 and you do have almost half the country covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 4, 2015 Moderator Share Posted March 4, 2015 The blue bit of the map also includes west and south Yorkshire (Leeds/Bradford/Sheffield) the big cities in the East Midlands (Derby/Nottingham/Sheffield) and the urban but non metropolitan county areas surrounding Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. I guess if you make a rough triangle of the land intersected by the M1, M6 & M62 and attach that to the circle made by the M25 and you do have almost half the country covered. That was kinda my point but with maths It also seems to have Watford / Luton / Milton Keynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 I was thinking of asking if anyone knew why for all those places, I know japan is mountainous so cities are restricted and the blue is pretty much the 3 historical capitals and everything in between, canada I'm gussing is the mountains / weather in the north and that's the old british / French cities, oz is the old colony and no one in the middle, Germany is the Rhineland but I wasn't sure about east to west migration after the war which hasn't balanced, NZ, SA and the Philippines I don't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 New Zealand only has a population of about 4m, well over a quarter of which live in Auckland. I guess its close proximity to Australia attracts business and work, plus it's going to be warmer up north I think. The Maori population traditionally live in the North Island as well I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted March 5, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 5, 2015 If you limited yourself to constructing by states, this should be the smallest land area which gets you over 50% of the US population: (doing it by county would be more interesting, but I can't be arsed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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