watched the entire replay

hmmm
some home town reffing certainly assisted Wigan , but the poms were gritty as hell .. they had no ball & no territory with the panthers enjoying enough possession to win 2 games , but they looked rusty & klunky , that being their one & only hitout since the GF last ...

both Warriors trials in NZ have been sellouts in Christchurch & Auckland
WCC was a sellout this morning in England

Vegas is looking like a crowd of around high 30's to low 40's ... 35K tickets sold as of yesterday
round one sellouts or near sellouts predicted for games in
Newcastle V Canberra ...

Non paying juniors included in the NRL club membership numbers reported. No doubt other NRL clubs are fudging their numbers too.


‘We have a problem’: CEO says Tigers had been guilty of inflating membership numbers

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We will soon finally see the true picture with the tv ratings this year ...

Skippy Steve wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:44 pm

American's call nRL Rugby lol.

at least they call it something
they don't call AFL anything , they like the rest of the planet have never heard of it

oh oh
i forgot , AFL games will also be played on paddocks used for live stock

been or will be played in

Australia
New Zealand
Fiji
UK
USA

AFL games will have been played in

fitscray, footsroy ??

essenwood ?
collingdon

The AFL probably " ordered : foxtel to not publish figures so as not to continue the embarrassment for them
getting murdered by another sport is not a good look for them & the ridiculous overs foxtel is paying for them ..

fact is the NRL was pulling further , & further away each year , it wasn't ...

Wigans 5th WCC win .. Penriths 4th attempt to win one failing... again ( 2nd loss to Wigan)
English teams now winning the WCC 19 times & Australian teams 18 times

amazing

GlobalRugbyLeague wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:07 am

WIGAN WARROIRS 16 -12 PENRITH PANTHERS

Sellout crowd 44,000

dunno where you got the crowd figure from

it was 25,000 , but was sold out 6 weeks ago so probably would have got 44K if the ground was bigger

Non paying juniors included in the NRL club membership numbers reported. No doubt other NRL clubs are fudging their numbers too.


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