(quote BORAT) wa wa wee wa

I noticed an extraordinary amount of 4WD's parked in my street and more roaring up the hill which gets to where I live.

Then I just remembered the Wallabies were having a family day at Manly Oval.

Was there a game on.

Counting the range rovers around Subiaco before an Eagles final is hilarious.

Australia v Wales at Telstra Stadium.

Said national sporting team was training this morning at said venue.

With no one watching them.

Well there were rugby fans in the area, so probably not.

ha ha ha rubgy sux




Updated 4pm Sunday May 27
Channel Nine has won its first ratings week of the year, thanks to rugby league. To put it another way, Channel Seven has lost its first ratings week of the year, thanks to rugby union.

As of last Wednesday morming, Seven was ahead of Nine in prime time audience share, but the huge numbers watching the State of Origin match in Sydney and Brisbane pushed Nine to the front by Thursday morning. Seven was able to claw back viewers on Thursday and Friday nights, so that on Saturday morning the stations were neck and neck, each averaging 28.6 per cent for the week.

Everything depended on how viewers in Sydney and Brisbane responded to Seven's coverage of the rugby union match between Australia and Wales on Saturday night. Well, 252,000 watched it in Sydney and 144,000 watched it in Brisbane (compared with 856,000 and 734,000 who watched the league on Wednesday). Union may be the game they play in heaven, but it's not the game they watch in Australia.

The prime time audience shares for the week ended up thus: Nine 28.3 per cent, Seven 28.2, Ten 21.2, ABC 16.4, and SBS 5.9. Seven will be scrambling to shore up its end of week programming before the next State of Origin -- and it may decide to leave future rugby union to Pay TV.

Ch.9 were very lucky, if they lost the week with SOO then they'd look pathetic, moreso then they look now.

Those figures for sydney and brisbane are sooooo crap. nobody tells you what the Perth figures were but the game was on at a bad timeslot then. Not exactly primetime.Even so those figures in Sydney suggest Perth has more Rugby fans per capita then any other city in Australia.And what about the crowd. 40,872. That's less than what Subi can hold. They should have had it at Subi. It would have got more than the Dockers did this weekend. ROFL - Rugby wouldve been the biggest show in town here. Perth fans are starved of top class Rugby. You watch Perth Spirit get 15,000 people to all there games.

The Wallabies didn't play particularly well against a second string Wales squad. Their form is not good and I think John Connolly is still the Frank Farina of Oz rugby - I confidently predict that their 8 game losing streak against the ABs will be extended to 11 by the end of the tri-nations.

I also think the 40,000 crowd was deserved. Interest is definitely on the wane. If the unsourced tv figures are accurate I can't see a commercial station bothering to pick up the FTA contract when it next comes up for review.

But most rugby fans are watching the test in pubs. I was in Northbridge on Saturday and it was packed with Wallabies and Force noobs (myself included). Channel 7 or someone will pick up the fta rights because it's the biggest thing in Perth and there are a few people in Sydney and Brisbane that like it too.

The State of origin figures for sydney are hopeless.

Ch7 already have the FTA rights and don't bother showing it live in Perth anymore

does anyone like the current wallabies coach?

but the wallabies have never been a world class no.1 side, and wont be while under his management.

The TV audience in Perth for the same test was 34,000.

Although in all fairness, those figures suggest it was probably shown at around 10pm.

Sydney figures where good.