State of Origin - the greatest game of all

[King-Eliagh]

Wookie, can you put this thread up as a sticky thread so we can discuss origin and it’s fantastic wholesome history throughout the year?

Thanks

[SportCapital]

With little else to celebrate I can understand why you'd want this.

[AFLcrap1]

Lol

Little else .
Oh my .

[notaleaguefan]

With little else to celebrate I can understand why you'd want this.

You’d think with all the other SOO threads currently active & only been created in the past month or so that would be enough!
Nup! When you are being hammered in all those threads it’s best to start a new one so that little insular bubble world can start again

[King-Eliagh]

Jesus, this thread has been quickly injected with a strong dose of bitterness!



Wookie hurry up and put this in the sticky section will ya.

Thanks

[AFLcrap1]

Lol the emo runs in to rant .
Yep agree
This Thread will be great comedy reading

[notaleaguefan]

Jesus, this thread has been quickly injected with a strong dose of bitterness!



Wookie hurry up and put this in the sticky section will ya.

Thanks

no comment about the need for endless threads of soo!
i guess when you get 95k across a full round of nrlol H&A back to usual pathetic levels
you gotta keep living back to that one game

[King-Eliagh]

Wookie, can you put this thread up as a sticky thread so we can discuss origin and it’s fantastic wholesome history throughout the year?

Thanks

no.

Don’t have an emo meltdown dude, just support the fight club and do yer job bro

SOO is clearly the biggest most watched event of all the codes. It clearly illustrates that rugby league is the most important game in the nation. It occurs thrice, every year and it’s, well it’s here to stay.

So common now Wookie, be a good admin do some meditation to clear the mind of all bitterness and post it up there in the sticky section for us will ya

There’s a lad

[King-Eliagh]

Jesus, this thread has been quickly injected with a strong dose of bitterness!



Wookie hurry up and put this in the sticky section will ya.

Thanks

no comment about the need for endless threads of soo!
i guess when you get 95k across a full round of nrlol H&A back to usual pathetic levels
you gotta keep living back to that one game

It’s state of origin season so Shut yer yapper banned boy. You’re lucky just to be in here at all given the number of lifetime bans you’ve copped.

Just respect and listen to your King.

Wookie, get this in the sticky section... pronto!

[notaleaguefan]

Jesus, this thread has been quickly injected with a strong dose of bitterness!



Wookie hurry up and put this in the sticky section will ya.

Thanks

no comment about the need for endless threads of soo!
i guess when you get 95k across a full round of nrlol H&A back to usual pathetic levels
you gotta keep living back to that one game

It’s state of origin season so Shut yer yapper banned boy. You’re lucky just to be in here at all given the number of lifetime bans you’ve copped.

Just respect and listen to your King.

Wookie, get this in the sticky section... pronto!

That was two weeks ago self confessed king of the basement dwellers
There was a normal round of nrlol played last weekend believe it or not! And funny how it had little interest

[AFLcrap1]

Oh dear .
This is about SOO
Can you please stay on topic

[Quolls2019]

State of Origin

The first 'state of origin' game was an Australian Rules Football game between Western Australia (WA) and Victoria, at Subiaco Oval in Perth on 8 October 1977.
In 1989, a crowd of 91,960 saw Victoria beat South Australia at the MCG.
This is the highest attendance for any SOO game of any code.
The last AFL SOO was in 1999. Support dropped after the introduction of a National league and fans preferred club football to state football, however there was no year in which a SOO game exceeded the highest attended club game.

After Queensland lost the first two interstate matches in 1980 (35–3 and 17–7, the second game in front of only 1,638 Sydneysiders) it was announced that a 'state of origin' match would take place on 8 July at Lang Park in Brisbane. The SOO concept was not fully adopted until 1982.
The highest attendance for a RL SOO game is 91,513, at Victoria’s MCG.

There are several seasons where the RL SOO was the highest attended game that year.

The MCG also has the 3rd highest attendance for a RL SOO, 87,122, in 2018.
And of course RL SOO hold the current attendance record at Optus Oval.

[AngloFootballLeague]

State of Origin

The first 'state of origin' game was an Australian Rules Football game between Western Australia (WA) and Victoria, at Subiaco Oval in Perth on 8 October 1977.
In 1989, a crowd of 91,960 saw Victoria beat South Australia at the MCG.
This is the highest attendance for any SOO game of any code.
The last AFL SOO was in 1999. Support dropped after the introduction of a National league and fans preferred club football to state football, however there was no year in which a SOO game exceeded the highest attended club game.

After Queensland lost the first two interstate matches in 1980 (35–3 and 17–7, the second game in front of only 1,638 Sydneysiders) it was announced that a 'state of origin' match would take place on 8 July at Lang Park in Brisbane. The SOO concept was not fully adopted until 1982.
The highest attendance for a RL SOO game is 91,513, at Victoria’s MCG.

There are several seasons where the RL SOO was the highest attended game that year.

The MCG also has the 3rd highest attendance for a RL SOO, 87,122, in 2018.
And of course RL SOO hold the current attendance record at Optus Oval.

AngloFL fans prefer RL SOS

[Fred]

Yes agreed. I think it is hard to get the same rivalry when you have more than two states where players are drawn from to play soo. The rivalry is great and adds to the excitement. Plus getting a crowd adds to the whole thing. Apparently there is nothing like being there. Although I am told rl is best to watch on tv.... hence poor crowds h and a bit you just can’t beat a large crowd atmosphere with passionate supporters.

[Quolls2019]

There is no doubting the popularity of SOO in the non Rugby League states, and the Perth attendance was fantastic and now holds, not by much, the Optus record.
I think there are several reasons for it, including some great promotional work by the NRL and they are marketed as events more than a game and we all should be aware that Melbourne audiences love an event.
It is a mute point but I don’t think the attendance or popularity would be maintained if the series was not shared between cities. Nor do I believe that SOO has led or will lead to an increased interest of the code in the non RL cities, I could be mistaken.

2015, 91,513 only the AFL grand final had a greater attendance
2018 , 87,122 8 Melbourne AFL games exceeded the SOO attendance
2006, 54,833 (Docklands) 18 AFL games had a higher attendance