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Would be nice to give Hooper a bit of a break at some stage - he must be on track to play well above 30 games this year. Injury follows that volume of playing time.

Disagree with that mst. GWS, Western Bulldogs, Canberra or Melbourne, even Leicester have nowhere near the level of local support as those TV numbers would indicate (obs not ManU!). In fact the vast, vast majority of viewers of all of those games would be "neutrals" watching because they know...

Meanwhile, GWS v Western Bulldogs last night set the highest foxtel afl rating ever. 534k Total of about 2.2m with Fox, FTA and regionals with 162k on FTA in Sydney NRL did 1.6m total and Man U v Leicester 200k

Who is losing out here though? If done right these kids (and men) are getting more education, opportunity and money than they would at home Our Sport discriminates financially against those who are from a smaller country. I don't think that's particularly fair

I don't disagree, but the one time he did keep his head down in the third English test, Vunipola strolled past him from a 5m scrum,

When is TPN off overseas? Is that him done in gold for a while?

check the TV ratings thread here http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/rugby-tv-ratings-2016.16395/page-19

yep - France to South Africa. There were rumours somewhere that we'd have some kind of combination of Italy and Scotland, or even a mini tournament with the above and some of the PIs and Japan etc, but that may have been pier in the sky thinking Edit - Here's a link - getting pretty old now...

One of the reasons that we will never have a "coach's or captain's challenge" system. Referee's interpretation and strict law definitions aren't the same thing

http://www.sanzarrugby.com/superrugby/news/2017-super-rugby-schedule-announced1/ I reckon Australia contributed about 5 million viewers. 10% of the market for 30% of the revenue is a pretty good deal. You'd imagine a large portion of that 50 mill is close to the GMT timezone and shows why...

Inspired by Forcefan, I rewatched the first half and only focussed on our locks, Coleman and Simmons. 2nd half lost a fair bit of structure as well as Coleman so more difficult. It was hard work and much respect to FF (Folau Fainga'a) for doing it every week. My impressions (and this only applies to defense -...

Thanks FF (Folau Fainga'a) - do your ruck stats include the tackler and/or ball carrier? So using Hooper as an example, his total work for the night would be 23+2+20 = 45?

England game is out of the test window. Would those guys be able to play even if selected?

Hi FF (Folau Fainga'a) - terrific as always. Is there any chance you could roll in the tackler and ball carrier stats as well - which would give the total picture of work at the breakdown (I'm assuming you only count "ruck" stats at the moment). Is it more complicated than that?

I wonder if the SANZAR could look at Sunday arvo games for the September home games in Australia. The issue is always the relatively poor TV ratings - but we are already plumbing the depths with these Saturday night games clashing with finals

At least a couple of the matches will be outside of the International window too, I think, so we may have to take enough players to put out a team without any Giteau's law guys.

Thanks The_wookie. Happy to be corrected!

There's a lot of truth in your post, but I'm not holding the teams to different standards. The ABs missed 13 tackles last week - 10% of their attempts. The Wobs missed 31 - at nearly twice the percentage. Now obviously there is not a huge correlation between missing tackles and losing games -...

Great to see another win, and a few old faces and some new ones played very well. We saw a few glimses of the future there as well. Another 31 missed tackles last night though! Our defence has had plenty of plaudits over the last day or two, and the Argies were held well with all of that...

Yep that's right. Approx 1.3m for the AFL and just under 1m for NRL. All excluding regionals which will add on a couple of hundred k. Thewookie may be able to conform but I think that's probably the lowest Fox rating for a domestic test and slightly better than the worst FTA Argie Gold Coast.