All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?

@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@Dan54 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

Well as I haven't watched Wahs/NRL in well over 30 years, and I always watch rugby and tests , guess I will watch the test.
I not against League or anything, I just don't watch it. I haven't watched any WC soccer either, not because I got anything against it, just no real interest.

What the fuck could you possibly have against an entire sport Dan? Just a redundant comment.

I'll have both on, with more focus on the ABs hopefully just stuffing the Irish, God I hate them. I hate the whole country. Stupid whiney accent. Guinness is shit. Inferior whisky. Zombies is a shit song.

I'll have the wahs on a 2nd screen to make sure we don't fuck up against an ordinary side.

Ordinary is being kind to the Dragons.

@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@Dan54 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

Well as I haven't watched Wahs/NRL in well over 30 years, and I always watch rugby and tests , guess I will watch the test.
I not against League or anything, I just don't watch it. I haven't watched any WC soccer either, not because I got anything against it, just no real interest.

What the fuck could you possibly have against an entire sport Dan? Just a redundant comment.

I'll have both on, with more focus on the ABs hopefully just stuffing the Irish, God I hate them. I hate the whole country. Stupid whiney accent. Guinness is shit. Inferior whisky. Zombies is a shit song.

I'll have the wahs on a 2nd screen to make sure we don't fuck up against an ordinary side.

Wahs on delay for me. I don't like to multitask my sport, it's hard enough watching and posting on TSF in real time!

@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

I am betting @chris-b will be setting up his VHR for Saturday so he doesn't miss a thing.

I can't - because that effing @Tim, never told me how to set the whole thing up.

But, to be fair, many years ago I decided I hate losing more than I like winning - so I rationalized the teams I support.

At that point, supporting Nelson Bays and the Black Caps were as much as I could stomach.

The Warriors have been largely been relegated off the radar - I watch their results from afar.

If they make the play-offs, I'll watch them in the same spirit as I watched England in the football World Cup.

To paraphrase The Exponents, "Zero Hopes, Zero Expectations" .

Watching ABs exclusively tonight.

@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@Dan54 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

Well as I haven't watched Wahs/NRL in well over 30 years, and I always watch rugby and tests , guess I will watch the test.
I not against League or anything, I just don't watch it. I haven't watched any WC soccer either, not because I got anything against it, just no real interest.

What the fuck could you possibly have against an entire sport Dan? Just a redundant comment.

I'll have both on, with more focus on the ABs hopefully just stuffing the Irish, God I hate them. I hate the whole country. Stupid whiney accent. Guinness is shit. Inferior whisky. Zombies is a shit song.

I'll have the wahs on a 2nd screen to make sure we don't fuck up against an ordinary side.

I have nothing against entire sport, maybe why I said I not against it? Is that hard to understand? Or did you read something I didn't write? It's just not a sport that interests me, I actually went to a SOO when I first moved to Aus, been to a test before that and a couple local club games, and they did nothing for me. Same as soccer, hockey etc I have try to watch a couple of games, doesn't do it for me. I also don't get into horse racing, show jumping etc etc. You may like every sport. I don't .
Pleased they there for people that like them, and good on them .

Pleased to see that the Warriors won.

In terms of viewers, the RWC is the third worldwide event after the Olympics Games and the Football World Cup. League is not in the same ... league.

How was the crowd at the Warriors? Should they have mived the kick off?

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

How was the crowd at the Warriors? Should they have mived the kick off?

It was sold out a while ago.

A Warriors sellout though, which means lots of empty seats on the broadcast.

23,895 at Go Media 96% of capacity according to Ausstadiums.

Can't find figures for the All Blacks. Will surely be less.

@cgrant are you sure Rugby is 3rd ?
I would suspect cricket world cups ,motor racing ,MMA possibly the big golf tournaments would trump rugby

Re last nights game i suspect the sky figures will tell you Last nights rugby I reckon out did the Nz Warriors game by 5-1 ratio

@Steven-Harris said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@cgrant are you sure Rugby is 3rd ?
I would suspect cricket world cups ,motor racing ,MMA possibly the big golf tournaments would trump rugby

Re last nights game i suspect the sky figures will tell you Last nights rugby I reckon out did the Nz Warriors game by 5-1 ratio

You’d be surprised at the RWC numbers. The last one was huge - over 1.3 billion apparently. Slightly more than the cricket World Cup. The F1 has more over the course of the season, but that format isn’t comparable to an event like an Olympics or World Cup.

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

23,895 at Go Media 96% of capacity according to Ausstadiums.

Can't find figures for the All Blacks. Will surely be less.

48,153

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

23,895 at Go Media 96% of capacity according to Ausstadiums.

Can't find figures for the All Blacks. Will surely be less.

Considering it was a sell out, it was always going to be more. And the test match tickets were a lot more expensive than the Wahs, one guy I know sat right up top and still paid over $200 a ticket

@Steven-Harris said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@cgrant are you sure Rugby is 3rd ?
I would suspect cricket world cups ,motor racing ,MMA possibly the big golf tournaments would trump rugby

Re last nights game i suspect the sky figures will tell you Last nights rugby I reckon out did the Nz Warriors game by 5-1 ratio

There were some really silly figures from WR previously which were laughable, but the media growth has been huge in the last 10 years or so and it's now certainly in the top 3 or 4

@canefan said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

23,895 at Go Media 96% of capacity according to Ausstadiums.

Can't find figures for the All Blacks. Will surely be less.

Considering it was a sell out, it was always going to be more. And the test match tickets were a lot more expensive than the Wahs, one guy I know sat right up top and still paid over $200 a ticket

Think i should have used an Irony emoji.

As union fans, it's not in our best interest for league and the Wahs to do well. They're already a threat to rugby, and this new TV deal means their clubs will raid our junior ranks even more than they do now. I might be in the minority, but I hope the Wahs start losing.

@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

As union fans, it's not in our best interest for league and the Wahs to do well. They're already a threat to rugby, and this new TV deal means their clubs will raid our junior ranks even more than they do now. I might be in the minority, but I hope the Wahs start losing.

They don't raid our junior ranks as much as the media tells you, or at least the players don't choose to go as much as the media tells you. The media hangs on to stories of the Warriors junior teams stealing from rugby, and they're mostly just league kids at rugby schools because our schools are all league schools. Or they hype a guy who can't get a start for Ta$man as the best young rugby player in NZ gone to league.

I don't like soccer, lots of kids play soccer in NZ, but I still want our soccer teams to do well.

@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

As union fans, it's not in our best interest for league and the Wahs to do well. They're already a threat to rugby, and this new TV deal means their clubs will raid our junior ranks even more than they do now. I might be in the minority, but I hope the Wahs start losing.

what?? i hope the Wahs go on a Penrith-like run and win 5 comps in a row.

It'll make fuck all difference to NZ rugby and lots of kiwis will be deliriously happy.

@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

As union fans, it's not in our best interest for league and the Wahs to do well. They're already a threat to rugby, and this new TV deal means their clubs will raid our junior ranks even more than they do now. I might be in the minority, but I hope the Wahs start losing.

what?? i hope the Wahs go on a Penrith-like run and win 5 comps in a row.

It'll make fuck all difference to NZ rugby and lots of kiwis will be deliriously happy.

As insufferable as the media will be if this happens I too want this - I also want it combined with the same for the Magpies in the NPC and the ABs in the next two RWC's.

My dickey hard couldn't take that much excitement so not sure I should be too hopeful.

@Nepia said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

As union fans, it's not in our best interest for league and the Wahs to do well. They're already a threat to rugby, and this new TV deal means their clubs will raid our junior ranks even more than they do now. I might be in the minority, but I hope the Wahs start losing.

what?? i hope the Wahs go on a Penrith-like run and win 5 comps in a row.

It'll make fuck all difference to NZ rugby and lots of kiwis will be deliriously happy.

As insufferable as the media will be if this happens I too want this - I also want it combined with the same for the Magpies in the NPC and the ABs in the next two RWC's.

My dickey hard couldn't take that much excitement so not sure I should be too hopeful.

This is a first-rate typo.

@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

As union fans, it's not in our best interest for league and the Wahs to do well. They're already a threat to rugby, and this new TV deal means their clubs will raid our junior ranks even more than they do now. I might be in the minority, but I hope the Wahs start losing.

I hope the Wahs do well because I’ve been a long suffering fan since they started.

As a rugby fan, the way I see it is that some public pressure (not the OTT talking head hot takes) when the Wahs are doing well can be a good thing to keep rugby administrators and organisations on their toes, to keep them evolving in how the game is governed etc. If league or basketball or soccer success can influence that, then that’s a good thing for rugby.

I think it is the likes of B-ball that is a bigger threat, well along with kids playing no sport at all.

I mentioned elsewhere, there are not alot of.tall players running around Northland club rugby, but i do know alot of kids play B-ball and there seems.good development programmes, with tournaments and kids going on trips overseas (parents doing alot of fundraising)

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

I think it is the likes of B-ball that is a bigger threat, well along with kids playing no sport at all.

I mentioned elsewhere, there are not alot of.tall players running around Northland club rugby, but i do know alot of kids play B-ball and there seems.good development programmes, with tournaments and kids going on trips overseas (parents doing alot of fundraising)

Basketball is massively advantaged by the fact it requires fewer numbers per team and can be played as an after school activity rather than on the weekend, and at a casual level, really doesn't require any extra training etc. I'm sure parents must love it.

@WoodysRFC said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

I think it is the likes of B-ball that is a bigger threat, well along with kids playing no sport at all.

I mentioned elsewhere, there are not alot of.tall players running around Northland club rugby, but i do know alot of kids play B-ball and there seems.good development programmes, with tournaments and kids going on trips overseas (parents doing alot of fundraising)

Basketball is massively advantaged by the fact it requires fewer numbers per team and can be played as an after school activity rather than on the weekend, and at a casual level, really doesn't require any extra training etc. I'm sure parents must love it.

You can also go down to one of the many local courts on your own and shoot hoops. There's no comparable rugby activity.

@reprobate said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@Nepia said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

As union fans, it's not in our best interest for league and the Wahs to do well. They're already a threat to rugby, and this new TV deal means their clubs will raid our junior ranks even more than they do now. I might be in the minority, but I hope the Wahs start losing.

what?? i hope the Wahs go on a Penrith-like run and win 5 comps in a row.

It'll make fuck all difference to NZ rugby and lots of kiwis will be deliriously happy.

As insufferable as the media will be if this happens I too want this - I also want it combined with the same for the Magpies in the NPC and the ABs in the next two RWC's.

My dickey hard couldn't take that much excitement so not sure I should be too hopeful.

This is a first-rate typo.

I didn't even notice it. Bloody auto-correct should have fixed that.

@WoodysRFC said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

I think it is the likes of B-ball that is a bigger threat, well along with kids playing no sport at all.

I mentioned elsewhere, there are not alot of.tall players running around Northland club rugby, but i do know alot of kids play B-ball and there seems.good development programmes, with tournaments and kids going on trips overseas (parents doing alot of fundraising)

Basketball is massively advantaged by the fact it requires fewer numbers per team and can be played as an after school activity rather than on the weekend, and at a casual level, really doesn't require any extra training etc. I'm sure parents must love it.

Didn't we already discuss this in another thread and come to a conclusion that basketball numbers are a bit of a myth relying on short term tournaments rather than season long commitment numbers. Much like a lot of the league numbers are based on a week long tournament at the end of the season.

@mr-fish Isn't touch, forceback and bull rush etc comparable rugby activity? Even lunch time league at school?

@taniwharugby height is an issue in Auckland as well there’s not a lot around
However it’s a hell of lot easier to find 13 plus 4 reserves that run,pass and tackle in league as opposed to 15 plus 7 reserves with 4 specialists props,2 x hookers ,2 halfbacks and 3 and half locks and decent back up 10 and a utility that covers 12 out to 15
Props also massive gap not a lot of quality around

@Nepia said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

Isn't touch, forceback and bull rush etc comparable rugby activity? Even lunch time league at school?

doesnt mean kids play rugby on the weekend or for thier school.

Soccer numbers have exceeded rugby since forever, yet people will always use that stat to say rugby is dying, I think there are still decent numbers at youth levels, it is keeping them involved once they mature in thier late teens (>16 and beyond)

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@Nepia said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

Isn't touch, forceback and bull rush etc comparable rugby activity? Even lunch time league at school?

doesnt mean kids play rugby on the weekend or for thier school.

Soccer numbers have exceeded rugby since forever, yet people will always use that stat to say rugby is dying, I think there are still decent numbers at youth levels, it is keeping them involved once they mature in thier late teens (>16 and beyond)

Agreed, but I was just pointing out that there are avenues for "rugby" socially, just as not all kids playing basketball play for their school. My short arse played a lot of two on two and I've never played a competitive game of basketball in my life.

@Nepia It's the closest thing but you still need at least a handful of players whereas you can shoot hoops on your own or play 2 v 2 etc. 2 v 2 touch isn't particularly enjoyable.

@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@Nepia It's the closest thing but you still need at least a handful of players whereas you can shoot hoops on your own or play 2 v 2 etc. 2 v 2 touch isn't particularly enjoyable.

2x2 forceback is fun though.

@Nepia said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@Nepia It's the closest thing but you still need at least a handful of players whereas you can shoot hoops on your own or play 2 v 2 etc. 2 v 2 touch isn't particularly enjoyable.

2x2 forceback is fun though.

True - but I'd say 2x2 basketball is a lot closer to a real game of basketball than 2x2 forceback is to rugby.

@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@WoodysRFC said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

I think it is the likes of B-ball that is a bigger threat, well along with kids playing no sport at all.

I mentioned elsewhere, there are not alot of.tall players running around Northland club rugby, but i do know alot of kids play B-ball and there seems.good development programmes, with tournaments and kids going on trips overseas (parents doing alot of fundraising)

Basketball is massively advantaged by the fact it requires fewer numbers per team and can be played as an after school activity rather than on the weekend, and at a casual level, really doesn't require any extra training etc. I'm sure parents must love it.

You can also go down to one of the many local courts on your own and shoot hoops. There's no comparable rugby activity.

And you don't commonly get smashed about the head

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Wahs - what are you watching?:

I think it is the likes of B-ball that is a bigger threat, well along with kids playing no sport at all.

I mentioned elsewhere, there are not alot of.tall players running around Northland club rugby, but i do know alot of kids play B-ball and there seems.good development programmes, with tournaments and kids going on trips overseas (parents doing alot of fundraising)

I think it is maybe a "threat" in terms of participation, much less so as a spectator sport.

Pre-covid the NZ Breakers were quite popular in Auckland, now you'd hardly even know they exist. I'd suggest that in Auckland there is a fair degree of crossover between NRL fans and basketball fans, and the rise of the former might have dampened interest in the latter (purely anecdotal and I understand that this is contradicted by evidence from Australia, where the NBL has grown a lot over the last few years).

Likewise the NZ NBL attracts only a few hundred spectators to most games.

Participation definitely isn't filtering through to spectator interest, at least not domestically.