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  • Feb, 2013

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    Personal actions

    Q. If players in a sporting team you supported were found to have taken performance enhancing drugs would you –

     

    Total

    AFL

    NRL

    Cricket

    Soccer

    Basket
    -ball

    Attend fewer games

    27%

    26%

    25%

    33%

    24%

    28%

    Stop attending games altogether

    19%

    16%

    20%

    23%

    20%

    21%

    Watch fewer games on TV

    28%

    23%

    27%

    34%

    23%

    33%

    Stop watching games on TV altogether

    15%

    9%

    16%

    18%

    17%

    26%

    Change my support to another team

    18%

    7%

    18%

    19%

    22%

    23%

    26% of AFL followers said if players in their team were found to have taken performance enhancing drugs they would attend fewer games and 23% said they would watch fewer games on TV. However, only 9% said they would stop watching games on TV altogether and only 7% said they would change their support to another team.

    NRL (18%) and soccer (22%) followers were more likely to change their support to another team.

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