Talking Footy

Stewie wrote:

214Four wrote:

The streaker in last nights state of origin game 3 i think was good for the game on a promotional perspective, the game has been the talk of the nation.

It's been more talked about than the actual result of the game. It shows what a meaningless gimmick SoO is.

Rabbit wrote:

Origin III breaks television records



NRL.com

Thu 18th July, 2:46pm

Last night’s 2013 Holden State of Origin Series decider has become the highest rating Rugby League game of all time with 4.232 million Australian viewers tuning in through the Nine, WIN and NBN networks.

With QLD beating NSW 12-10 to win an unprecedented eighth consecutive Origin Series in front of a record crowd of 83,813 at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium:

the 2013 Series became the highest rating in history with a cumulative total audience of 11.966 million viewers watching over the three games (11.897 million in 2012)*;

the Series recorded the biggest attendance in the event’s history with 215,883 fans across the three games (203,309 set in 2004);

the Game III audience (4.232 million) surpassed the 2005 Telstra Premiership Grand Final (4.102 million) as the highest rating Rugby League match of all time;

Game III was the highest rating Origin match in history (previous best: 2012 Origin Game III, 4.063 million).

The match peaked at 3.103 million viewers across the Five-City Metro last night and achieved the highest regional rating ever for any Origin game with 1.533m viewers (previous highest: 2013 Game 1 - 1.466m).

An average of 1.165 million viewers watched the game in Sydney on Channel Nine,with a peak of 1.292 million; while in Brisbane, there was an average audience of 865,000, peaking at 952,000.

In Melbourne, where the game was the highest rating Origin match of all time in the Victorian capital, there was an average audience of 464,000, peaking at 576,000 viewers.

In Adelaide, the game averaged 95,000viewers and peaked at 129.000; while in in Perth, an average audience of 110,000 watched the game live on GEM, with the audience peaking at 154,000.

*Figures based on overnight data since the inception of OzTAM in 2001.

214Four wrote:

^^^ haha like i said earlier... the talk of the nation! :P

i like your optimism stewie...
thanks for your thoughts.
i like reading opinions from 'the other side of the fence' so to speak...

214Four wrote:

the game has been the talk of the nation....

214Four wrote:

^^^ haha like i said earlier... the talk of the nation! :P

i like your optimism stewie...
thanks for your thoughts.
i like reading opinions from 'the other side of the fence' so to speak...

cos789 wrote:

214Four wrote:

the game has been the talk of the nation....

NSW and Qld aren't the nation.
Sydneysiders have to stop using Sydney and nation as if it's interchangeable.
Nothing about it on WA TV.

214Four wrote:

cos789 wrote:

214Four wrote:

the game has been the talk of the nation....

NSW and Qld aren't the nation.
Sydneysiders have to stop using Sydney and nation as if it's interchangeable.
Nothing about it on WA TV.

you need to preach that to the rest of the world

cos789 wrote:

214Four wrote:

the game has been the talk of the nation....

Nothing about it on WA TV.

cos789 wrote:

214Four wrote:

cos789 wrote:

214Four wrote:

the game has been the talk of the nation....

NSW and Qld aren't the nation.
Sydneysiders have to stop using Sydney and nation as if it's interchangeable.
Nothing about it on WA TV.

you need to preach that to the rest of the world

. You need to have some accuracy in your statements,

NRLCrap1 wrote:

Did anyone notice that 214 ignored my question? Gee whiz I wonder what I said wrong......