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Push for grand final change after ratings drop - CtrlF.XYZ

Push for grand final change after ratings drop

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AFL broadcaster Gerard Whateley believes the 2022 expansive last should beryllium the past premiership decider to beryllium played successful the accepted day timeslot.

Geelong's 81-point triumph implicit Sydney astatine the MCG connected Saturday was the lowest standing expansive last of each time, with conscionable 2.96m viewers tuning in.

With a build-up including 1 of the closest finals bid connected record, a large TV assemblage was expected, but according to OzTam's authoritative tv ratings, lone 2.18m radical watched from the 5 metro markets.

The 2 erstwhile expansive finals were played successful primetime, mostly arsenic a effect of the matches being moved to Brisbane and Perth due to the fact that of COVID-19 lockdowns successful Melbourne.

With the numbers down adjacent to a cardinal viewers, COVID-19 restrictions could person had an interaction with much radical going retired to ticker the crippled this year, oregon gathering successful groups astatine home, than successful erstwhile years.

The NRL preliminary last betwixt Penrith and South Sydney besides raked successful 414,000 viewers successful Sydney compared to the 375,000 that tuned into the AFL's closer.

In aftermath of the standing drop-off, Whateley said the expansive last should ne'er commencement earlier twilight again.

"That volition beryllium the past day expansive final," helium told SEN's Whateley.

"I'm amazed by the astonishment astir the standing driblet arsenic if nary 1 understands however tv works. More radical ticker primetime – that's wherefore it is called primetime.

"We had 2 nighttime expansive finals wherever much radical watched. The work of the codification is to person the maximum fig of radical ticker the biggest crippled of the year.

"This finals bid was played wholly with the yellowish Sherrin successful twilight and nighttime slots. We had each agreed that [this] was perfectly awesome and it was the highest standing September connected grounds and past we bowed to outdated normal and returned to the day with the reddish Sherrin and the viewership collapsed.

"The expansive last should ne'er again commencement earlier 4:30pm and the cupful should ne'er beryllium presented successful thing different than nether lights.

"We already knew this and the crushed is elemental – much radical with beryllium watching and surely that is the full purpose.

"No much silly surveys and absorption from those who deliberation they talk for the alleged fans, the grounds is empirical, unequivocal and undeniable.

"The aboriginal the expansive last starts, the much radical ticker and surely that's the intent of the showpiece game. I expect a 4:30pm [start] adjacent twelvemonth and I expect it gets aboriginal arsenic the years spell by."

Outgoing AFL brag Gillon McLachlan has antecedently said the commencement clip could alteration successful the aboriginal depending connected altering user habits.

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