Much consternation about AFL scheduling this week. Rohan Connolly has picked up on scheduling as one reason for clearly lower attendances, but the AFL has a hospital handball cocked ready to avoid being caught holding the ball.
AussieRulesBlog was posting about critics of a 30-minute delayed broadcast back in 2009 and it has been a couple of years now that we’ve had wall-to-wall live football.
Not so long ago, live broadcast was THE biggest issue in AFL football. So many people HAD TO HAVE the game broadcast live, because they couldn’t avoid a news source for two and a half hours.
Given that the game takes around 2.5 hours to get started and then play itself out, there are limited slots available so that all games will be broadcast live to air.
THAT’s why we have games scheduled at 7.10pm on Sunday nights — that and the power of particular clubs to pull a primetime TV audience.
The hospital handball? Vlad will say the AFL have only done what the fans demanded.
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