2019 TV ratings and crowd numbers
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James Pettifer
Jim Clark (26)
Pro 14 crowd update - South African Teams
- Low point - Southern Kings v Leinster - attendance 1142
That must be getting to terminal level and really strongly suggests that South Africa probably won't want to move all their teams to the Pro14 anytime soon
- Low point - Southern Kings v Leinster - attendance 1142
That must be getting to terminal level and really strongly suggests that South Africa probably won't want to move all their teams to the Pro14 anytime soon
That is just a shameful number. You could play the St Ives under 12s against Leinster and get at least 3k in Sydney I would have thought.
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Pass it to Dunning!
Bob Loudon (25)
It would seem like an exciting idea at first, but I think watching professional Irish rugby players run riot over some pre-teens would get depressing quickly.
Set piece magic
John Solomon (38)
Kayo Sports is going fantastic and is News Limited's best move in a long time.
It's actually one of the cleverest branding exercises imo too - instead of calling it fox streaming and making it super obvious you can just downgrade your fox subscription to a sports streaming package for 1/5 of the price you rebrand and give it a name like Kayo Sports, which allows you to price discriminate and attract younger people who have less money but avoid losing your full paying baby boomer market as much.
It will help ratings and has 120,000 subscribers so far, but is on a huge recruitment drive. It's got to be good for rugby.
The saddest part of all this saga about cutting teams and adding teams for ratings is we are going to end up back at the 2011 Super XV status quo more a less. IT was a setup that wasn't perfect but most people were happy with - except for the deluded South Africans.
South Africa's stupid folly with extra teams should convince Australia their administrators perhaps even worse judgement than ours
It's actually one of the cleverest branding exercises imo too - instead of calling it fox streaming and making it super obvious you can just downgrade your fox subscription to a sports streaming package for 1/5 of the price you rebrand and give it a name like Kayo Sports, which allows you to price discriminate and attract younger people who have less money but avoid losing your full paying baby boomer market as much.
It will help ratings and has 120,000 subscribers so far, but is on a huge recruitment drive. It's got to be good for rugby.
The saddest part of all this saga about cutting teams and adding teams for ratings is we are going to end up back at the 2011 Super XV status quo more a less. IT was a setup that wasn't perfect but most people were happy with - except for the deluded South Africans.
South Africa's stupid folly with extra teams should convince Australia their administrators perhaps even worse judgement than ours
liquor box
Peter Sullivan (51)
It would work better against a Brisbane U13's team, Reds fans are used to being run riot over. At least the U13's may have a game plan
Jimmy_Crouch
Peter Johnson (47)
David le Roux
Frank Row (1)
Posting for the first time just to let you know that if there is no rugby report card podcast this week, I'm cancelling Australia.
Sorry all, it will give me no pleasure to do so.
Sorry all, it will give me no pleasure to do so.
Beer Baron
Phil Hardcastle (33)
So as many expected and to prove some optimists wrong - NRL viewers apparently not only not disenfranchised with the sport but quite enamoured with a bit of casual DV, DUI, D(rugs) and Distribution of home videos. There must be a 5th D....
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...l/news-story/2acadf9d3186ffcb3cea434c8deaaa6d
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...l/news-story/2acadf9d3186ffcb3cea434c8deaaa6d
Aurelius
Ted Thorn (20)
To be fair, I think that sort of off-field behaviour is just something that NRL fans price in now. It's not like the latest controversies are telling the fans anything they didn't already know about some of the players' behaviour, so as long as fans still enjoy the sport itself I'd frankly be surprised if there was a significant downturn in their ratings.
Dctarget
Tim Horan (67)
My (perhaps slim) hope is that off field drama won't hurt NRL immediately rather it will cause much more insidious damage. No amount of controversy will stop people watching entertainment, we all know that, it's too passive. But maybe parents will be dissuaded from more active forms of support like signing their kids up to junior league etc etc. So, we won't see the damage for another 10 years.
Crashy
John Solomon (38)
on the league thing. Going by my wife and her friends recent comments about the game - I think they'll lose a chunk of the decision makers who decide if kids play . watch that game.
I'm done and don't expect to watch a game ever again - just don't want anything to do with it.
I'm done and don't expect to watch a game ever again - just don't want anything to do with it.
liquor box
Peter Sullivan (51)
Strewthcobber
Simon Poidevin (60)
Back to reality a bit with the start of NRL
Chiefs v Hurricanes 43k and Brumbies v Tahs 77k.
Crowd and ratings pretty much same as last year
Chiefs v Hurricanes 43k and Brumbies v Tahs 77k.
Crowd and ratings pretty much same as last year
mst
Peter Johnson (47)
ACT Government has made the market harder for all teams in Canberra with things like paying for the AFL to come to town. With a relatively small population even small events can have impact on what crowd the Brumbies can attract. Friday nights has never attracted big numbers. AFL W @Manuka played at the same time as the Brumbies got 4500K. Canberra is having its festival run ATM with Enlighten etc so with 3 weeks of consecutive weekend events and Skyfire on (this) Saturday night it wasn't a bad crown for a team that not really been that appealing to watch.
Beer Baron
Phil Hardcastle (33)
Forgot Nate Myles - defecating in the hallway if memory serves me correctly
Rugbynutter39
Michael Lynagh (62)
Let’s face it winters horrible in act and needs a stadium built with a closed roof.
Crashy
John Solomon (38)
but Supe is a autumn really. only a small part goes into winter.
I took Mrs Crashy and junior crashy to the Argentina test match in june a couple of years back and while freezing at 4 degrees I wouldn't have said it wasn't pleasant. Though the locals who were sitting under a mountain of blankets behind us clearly had the good oil.
Agree that the stadium is way too far out of town - a 25k seater in Civic / near the lake / swamp would be sweet.
I took Mrs Crashy and junior crashy to the Argentina test match in june a couple of years back and while freezing at 4 degrees I wouldn't have said it wasn't pleasant. Though the locals who were sitting under a mountain of blankets behind us clearly had the good oil.
Agree that the stadium is way too far out of town - a 25k seater in Civic / near the lake / swamp would be sweet.