If Brisbane and Sydney somehow, against all odds manage to not choke during this finals series, they could be there on the last Saturday of September. Ratings won’t be too indifferent compared to last year and 2020 if the local teams get in.
The Bledisloe Cup match does not kick off until 5.05pm AEST when the AFL GF is in the final quarter, so the rugby should not affect the GF’s ratings very much in Sydney and Brisbane.
AFLW BROADCAST GUIDE - ROUND TWO
This is going off the TV guide.
Friday, September 2
Melbourne v North Melbourne, 5pm, 7mate (VIC/NSW/QLD/SA/WA}
Saturday, September 3
Fremantle v Geelong, 11:40am local, Seven (WA)
Richmond v Adelaide, 11:10am local, 7mate (SA)
Port Adelaide v Western Bulldogs, 1:10pm local, 7mate (SA)
Sunday details TBC.
So 3 games for SA and only one for VIC? Surely that can’t be right!
Victoria will get 1/2 games on the Sunday.
Victoria will get two matches next Sunday.
Seven will show both VFL semi finals this weekend.
Brisbane v Carlton
September 3, Moreton Bay Sports Complex, 12:05pm
Sydney v Gold Coast
September 4, Blacktown International Sportspark, 1:05pm
Is this the first time Seven has shown a VFL game not involving a Victorian team?
Well, they did broadcast Sydney Swans games live every Sunday from 1982 in the original VFL… and would have broadcast their games against the Bears and Eagles in 1987.
I’d say no but not be surprised if yes.
If counting the old VFA, then yes.
They showed Casey v Sydney last weekend
I was meaning the current incarnation of the VFL which is the old VFA, not the old VFL which is now the AFL
See post before this
and would have broadcast their games against the Bears and Eagles in 1987.
Not in 1987, they didn’t have the rights.
Thats still involving one victorian team
Ah sorry read it wrong. Then yes.
Not in 1987, they didn’t have the rights.
1988 then. But for VFA/VFL the only interstate teams have been Tasmania, Gold Coast and GWS (one year before AFL entry) until the NEAFL merger.
Did Seven start playing the wrong team song at the end of tonight’s game?
Seven don’t play the song, the ground does.