Not enough to get onto FTA in the first place - so imagine is all you can do.Egan wrote:Imagine the Force if they got coverage on Channel 7 in Perth and people could watch them, not just those with pay tv.
The only useful conclusion - rugby union supporters are generally drunks!Egan wrote:...Rugby supporters generally go to pubs to watch the games in Perth, these numbers don't reflect pub numbers either.
The numbers actually avidly watching the game at pubs wouldn't add up to much. Bearing in mind the comparativley few that attend the S14 games, and with no FTA coverage at all, those ratings provided by Rob and Ricardo reveal what a deep hole S14 RU has fallen into.
In fairness, the RU purists (believe it or not, I know a couple) do point out that S14, with its bonus points system is only a gimmick competition, much like what 20/20 is too cricket, and they would happily ascede to its abolition - which is slowly becoming ever more likely at the expiration of the current News Ltd contract. Of course, Perth doesn't have many RU purists - thus many over there are still under the delusion that the nonense competition known as Super 14 is the real deal. In fact, S14 is to RU what the NSL was to soccer.