Talking Footy

Here is a wonderful message from NRL legend Phil Gould. It highlights how the ladies SOO SMASHED the AFL FTA broadcast last night among many other marvellous achievements. Well done Phil. Well done Peter The Great. Well done ladies. Well done Rugby League.

Wowers!!!!! Check this out sports fans: Last nights ladies SOO had 234k watching on FTA in Brisbane. The AFL had a GF replay featuring the fumbling Lions and it rated a paltry 56k in Brissie. An absolute and utter flogging handed out to the fumbling game in Brisbane by the NRL's elite girls football. Booootifoool to watch.

Wow, a big night for the AFL Sir Doug Nicholls Round last night, up against the NRL Magic Round. A big win in reach and average tv ratings for the AFL over the NRL. Check out the reach figures with nearly a million more viewers for the AFL.


Friday 15 May

Sydney came from behind to narrowly beat Collingwood. The game was shown on Seven’s main channel in Sydney and Melbourne and 7mate in Perth. In the other Friday night game, Gold Coast defeated Port Adelaide in Darwin, with main channel coverage in Brisbane and Adelaide.



SEVEN’S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Seven 2,115,000 695,000 88,000



In the NRL, Magic round continued with Nine’s coverage of the South Sydney Rabbitohs vs the Dolphins.



FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Nine 1,281,000 627,000 123,000

Here's a great wrap up of the two games played on FTA so far this weekend. The NRL smashing the fumbling mess. Up by 400k over 2 games. Sensational.

RichitiGrub

I’ve seen many people comment online that his figures and his interpretations of tv ratings data is suspect/dodgy.

Beaussie wrote: Sat May 16, 2026 3:45 pm

RichitiGrub

I’ve seen many people comment online that his figures and his interpretations of tv ratings data is suspect/dodgy.

Of course you do pal lololololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Except the numbers he used are the exact same numbers your dear friend sookie uses. So I'm gonna have to call you out on this one pal. You're a dill!!!!!!!

Another big night on FTA for Australia's most watched sport. A massive rise on the corresponding game last year. Rugby League on fire!!!!!!!

No wonder beatup hasn't posted yesterdays FTA numbers. Its a monumental flogging handed out to the fumbling game. 1 game of NRL V 2 games of fumbling and but still a titanic smashing lololololol!!!!! Its a big big year for Rugby League.

big ratings for that Broncos v Warriors game, Could of been massive if Broncos gave it a crack and not be down 22 - 0 at HT
expecting big figures in NZ for this game too (sunday night)

UP 15% on last years MAGIC (NRL) exploding this season.

Surely that crowd figure isn’t correct??

Fred wrote: Mon May 18, 2026 8:53 pm

Surely that crowd figure isn’t correct??

what is wrong with it ?

it is 3 days attendance for each day x 3

its the total attendance of the round over 3 days

a few random games from that round are claimed to have attracted crowds of that size and it goes in to the crowd attendance record. eg cooking the books so Temu Pete and co can cook the numbers to claim they are better than what they really are

https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... s-v-storm/
Attendance: 48,692
https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... v-knights/
Attendance: 42,098
https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... v-dragons/
46,752

makingnrlfansgowacko wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:25 pm

its the total attendance of the round over 3 days

a few random games from that round are claimed to have attracted crowds of that size and it goes in to the crowd attendance record. eg cooking the books so Temu Pete and co can cook the numbers to claim they are better than what they really are

https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... s-v-storm/
Attendance: 48,692
https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... v-knights/
Attendance: 42,098
https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... v-dragons/
46,752

Thanks for that makingshitup. Its boootifoool numbers ain't it pal. Just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!

Terry wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 6:34 pm

makingnrlfansgowacko wrote: Tue May 19, 2026 4:25 pm

its the total attendance of the round over 3 days

a few random games from that round are claimed to have attracted crowds of that size and it goes in to the crowd attendance record. eg cooking the books so Temu Pete and co can cook the numbers to claim they are better than what they really are

https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... s-v-storm/
Attendance: 48,692
https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... v-knights/
Attendance: 42,098
https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiershi ... v-dragons/
46,752

Thanks for that makingshitup. Its boootifoool numbers ain't it pal. Just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!

direct from the official web site there terrence