Perhaps I did not express myself too well.

The regional TV stations put on the same games as the capital cities.

For example we, in Hervey Bay, get all the Brisbane and Gold coast games every weekend, as does Cains and yet we have nothing in common with Brisbane and Gold Coast.

By broadcasting mainly games based in each state capital on all state TV stations and very little other games they are virtually forcing people to support the teams in their state capital. Other teams get very little publicity.

It may be fair enough to Broadcast all the games played by the local state teams in the area serviced by the capital city TV stations but people outside that area should get more variety in what is shown.

I do see this as an attempt at social engineering in using publicity to get people to support only their state AFL teams.

Some of you not getting football on TV ? There's your perfect chance to look around for some culture !

HenryL, look into Telstra TV. They have a little box that feeds into
the TV set. It picks up the wifi signal from your internet modem.
You will have to check with Telstra if you are not a bigpond customer.
My wife is a netball fanatic and it is the only way she can see all Swifts games.
From memory it was $100, no monthly charge.

HenryL,

Yep, go with Telstra. You don't even have to go with Telstra TV. I've just got Telstra as my service provider for my mobile phone and that gives me access to live streamed AFL. I don't use it often and when I have the quality depends very much on where you are and the quality pf the mobile service, but at a pinch its OK.

OTOH you haven't missed much this year. With injuries and retirements its been a bad year for the Swans. Still we diehards watch every game and rejoice at the closeness of the loss. Its been a long time since that happened.

Still, its rather interesting to watch a team in rebuild mode and at least, 5 years down the track, we'll be able to remember when so-and-so, now a superstar was just a kid learning how to play in the top leagues.

Kirby yes get your point
But please know some, a few, are so far away from reality they are forever lost
Stick around w need you

Tragedies can get less air-time than Sport & that is the real Tragedy !