World cup destroying the GGA in the TV ratings war

Little_Lord_Fauntleroy · July 13, 2018, 10:12am

You follow spurs?

GeoffreyBoycott · July 13, 2018, 10:14am

I do.

myboyblue · July 13, 2018, 10:15am

What a revelation!

anon78624367 · July 13, 2018, 10:15am

and here you are on an Irish sports forum

GeoffreyBoycott · July 13, 2018, 10:17am

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy is on his A game this morning.

gilgamboa · July 13, 2018, 10:50am

French rugby game? What do I care about french rugby? Have you the irish ratings for that game please

anon61956325 · July 13, 2018, 10:52am

Lads - fuck up.

mikehunt · July 13, 2018, 12:14pm

The global nature of football will always mean it’s more popular than rugby. The rugby lads have awful difficulty accepting this.

myboyblue · July 13, 2018, 12:17pm

Rugby needs someone to bang the drum for their sport

Tim_Riggins · July 13, 2018, 1:21pm

Not correct.

GeoffreyBoycott · July 13, 2018, 3:41pm

You mean the European dominated soccer. The rugby World Cup is a truly global tournament.

mikehunt · July 13, 2018, 4:12pm

At the next Rugby World Cup Oceania will have 4 teams. Oceania has a population of 40 million or 0.5% of the world’s population. 0.5% has 20% representation. Care to explain why representation is so lopsided?
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Tim_Riggins · July 13, 2018, 4:22pm

The population of South America is 422m and the population of Europe is 740m, approx 14% of the global population.

They make up 56-59% of the total places at the comp. No team has won outside those continents.

Go figure.

Mac · July 13, 2018, 4:22pm

In fairness to @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy, I don’t know how he manages to do this every time. He has the lads hopping like sausages on a hot tin roof and cats in a frying pan

Tim_Riggins · July 13, 2018, 4:31pm

Here Mac, you were out counting the number of cars on the N11 during Euro 2016 when talking about tv ratings so you’re one to talk.

Mac · July 13, 2018, 4:33pm

There were no cars on the N11 during the England Croatia game

Tim_Riggins · July 13, 2018, 4:34pm

So you’re saying the England association football team are more popular than the Eire one?

Mac · July 13, 2018, 4:36pm

Based on N11 traffic ratings, yes

GeoffreyBoycott · July 13, 2018, 4:40pm

Soccer World Cup Final weekend, rugby is out for the summer and all the Eire soccer types want to discuss is rugby. This truly is rugby country.

Tim_Riggins · July 13, 2018, 4:52pm

It’s like the way the NFL has become a year round news dominator in the US despite only being on for 6 months a year.

We don’t even need free agency or a draft to be consume the hearts and minds. BOD playing a drum sets them off.