10 biggest sports markets in the world (by country)

[mjk45]

HomokHarcos said:

mjk45 said:

Aussie rules I live in Tasmania. I was surprised you knew about the barrasi line you must be well informed or someone who likes tolookinto info presented to them.

Yes, I do like to read about sports and Australia is really fascinating when it comes to sports. But unfortunately living in Canada I've never met another AFL fan in my life. I don't get why Tasmania doesn't have an AFL team but Gold Coast does (Sydney I can understand because of how many people are there). I'm a Richmond fan. If we had enough fans on here I would consider starting an AFL thread.

The reasons pretty simple really , Tasmania is a captive market and offering nothing in regards to adding extra games to sell to pay TV since they don't want to go to an uneven number of teams so a relocation is the only way forward unless we became rugby converts overnight then something would happen.

Also vestered intests play a large part , Just like the AFL and the VFL before it benefited from some of the greatest players of all time coming from Tasmania so do today's, Victorian based teams reap considerable benefits  from the Tasmanian supporter base in terms of membership and merchandise sales , that's not taking into account Hawthorn who plays 4 games a season in Launceston they went from near bankrupt to where they stand today and that change of fortune both financially and on field coincides with the Tasmanian deal,  they have well over 10,000 paid up Tasmanian members and according to the club to make the same income they get from a single Tasmanian game they would  need a 70,000 home crowd at the MCG .

Did you follow fellow canadian Mike Pikes career at the Swans and iirc there is AFL Canada check their website  and the national side calledNorthwinds play in an international series.