Probably dealing with the truants.
The provinces combined get far more than any loss of club attendances. Far more.
Schools rugby is played all over the country and gets big audiences, North and South. It is a major part of glassroots rugby.
'm hearing reports that Sean O’Brien will miss game v Argentina after picking up a 2 week suspension, it’s been reduced to 1 week
Treviso.
Is it your contention that 1.6m is not roughly the same as 1.6m? Because that’s a very curious argument to be making.
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Justice for the Carlow 1.
Reach is not viewership Rocko. Peak and average is what advertisers look for.
The rugby, as shown above, crushed the pivotal international football games shown at Primetime,
Advertisers? That’s nothing to do with my point. I made a point that they both had 1.6m people tuning in. You don’t want to accept that for some reason.
It’s funny that England v Australia, despite being on a Saturday night outrated Ireland v Germany on a Thursday at primetime.
The Rugby World Cup has captured the heart of the nation and when the UTV ratings come in, the island.
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It was 1.69 vs 1.6 for rugby of people who tuned in at some stage
Peak and average are the important audience barometers.
What’s funny is that the British soccer fans in here claim that rugby football fans don’t even enjoy the game and don’t watch it - the spike in audience for the ROI football came after the goal. The rugby annihilated both international football games in viewership. Unthinkable 15 years ago.
You’re ignoring the RTÉ player. The same number of people roughly watched both shows. Anyway, you’ve accepted the point, albeit in your odd style of trying to make a different one to distract from the fact the point doesn’t suit you.
I watched on the player as I had NFL on the go on TV…only a Langer wouldn’t factor this in.
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Sound. So the point of you scoffing at soccer followers not following local clubs doesn’t apply to rugby followers who don’t follow local clubs because the provinces get the crowds. Big attendances at school games alright. Hardly inflated by the schools giving a day off and bringing students.
TV3 don’t have a Player do they?
People tuning in for a minute is worth sweet fuck all. The masses getting a text off their mate to flick on RTÉ because Ireland just scored shows the fatigue for the sport in Ireland. Indeed even after that famous win the association football was crushed by an even greater margin on Sunday, despite Ireland’s passage to the Q Finals already being assured the ROI requiring a result to get through.
Face facts, kids these days aren’t interested in being ROI players. Growing up we had heroes all over the place with Ireland playing at the top level- Brady, to McGrath, to Roy Keane, to Robbie Keane to Damien Duff. These were the heroes of their time who played for major English clubs and strutted their stuff playing for Ireland. More kids today will want to be Séan O’Brien, Jamie Heaslip, Jonny Sexton, Paul O’Connell ect than Shane Long or any of the other assortment of star men from the Norwich City and Unattached. The Irish fans who ignored their own domestic league helped create the monster that is the English Premier League and that monster has eaten Irish football. In it’s place a new sport is rising, a 32 county sport with an anthem to unite the Island.
It’s beautiful and I hope you enjoy it.
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Where are the provinces located mate, certainly not in post Industrial Revolutions shitholes in the North of England.
Why would kids want to be people with heads like cows and bodies like silverbacks?
Rugby has made very little inroads in the O6, I’m unaware of any major Catholic schools who play rugby today.
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