Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:03 am
Gozu wrote:No doubt and lets say the SANFL went it alone and the AFL started up a reserves comp you would never hear about the SANFL again as unfortunate as that is.
Cobblers. The media will give a level of coverage which is commensurate with their estimate of the level of interest in the SANFL. Those hardy folk who remain fans of SANFL teams would remain so if the garbage teams left; Smears and Clowns fans largely do not give a shit about the SANFL in the first place. The media's coverage of the league would thus remain at the same level: A page of short match reports and a token photograph buried in the back half of the sports section of the paper, and a ten-second readout of the match results on the telly each night. They couldn't realistically do anything less.
I suggest that the local media's coverage of a hypothetical AFL reserves league would be on par with the coverage of the garbage teams in the SANFL: a weekly summary of standout players in the Smears and Clowns games only - with an occasional mention of a big-name player in another team making a rare appearance in the reserves.
Do the traditional SANFL clubs get more exposure now?
Less. One need look no further than the coverage of today's game - a Grand Final replay no less - to verify this. A small token preview in today's paper, no real-time FTA radio or TV coverage, and the official SANFL website and SANFL app both prone to locking up. I myself was forced to resort to This August Website for any scores from the game. (and on that note, my account is still FUBAR, admins. How about activating the other account I registered a few weeks back?)