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    For all the good of this season, we've played for 18 weeks, seen some great upsets, but at the end, two New Zealand sides have been clearly better than the rest of the competition, and the Australian sides have fallen flat.

    The Brumbies were good for large patches, but at no stage did you expect them to lose. The Hurricanes would have put up more of a fight - I'd even go as far to say as a full-strength Highlanders team would have been no worse.

    If the Aussie sides can't compete at the business end, it is always going to hold back the competition, because there is no way to build hype for a semi-final, which everybody knows the result of before it is played.

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    • F frugby

      For all the good of this season, we've played for 18 weeks, seen some great upsets, but at the end, two New Zealand sides have been clearly better than the rest of the competition, and the Australian sides have fallen flat.

      The Brumbies were good for large patches, but at no stage did you expect them to lose. The Hurricanes would have put up more of a fight - I'd even go as far to say as a full-strength Highlanders team would have been no worse.

      If the Aussie sides can't compete at the business end, it is always going to hold back the competition, because there is no way to build hype for a semi-final, which everybody knows the result of before it is played.

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      @frugby Four Australian sides rather than five has made them more competitive, but it would need for them to go down to three sides IMHO to challenge the top NZ sides for the title.

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                This is a ripper story about Jamie Joseph.

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                  There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

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                    There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

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                    @Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:

                    There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

                    but people are turning away from the game and not bothering to watch

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                      @Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:

                      There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

                      but people are turning away from the game and not bothering to watch

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                      @Bones said in Super Rugby 2025:

                      @Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:

                      There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

                      but people are turning away from the game and not bothering to watch

                      'Unions gay, League's way better'?

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                      • A African Monkey

                        @Bones said in Super Rugby 2025:

                        @Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:

                        There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

                        but people are turning away from the game and not bothering to watch

                        'Unions gay, League's way better'?

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                        @African-Monkey said in Super Rugby 2025:

                        @Bones said in Super Rugby 2025:

                        @Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:

                        There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

                        but people are turning away from the game and not bothering to watch

                        'Unions gay, League's way better'?

                        Up da Wahs

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                          @Bones said in Super Rugby 2025:

                          @Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:

                          There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

                          but people are turning away from the game and not bothering to watch

                          'Unions gay, League's way better'?

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                          @African-Monkey played golf with a work colleague on Saturday and he rushes off to watch the Wahs, I get home, no rugby so decide to have a watch for the 2nd time this season...15 mins.

                          Probably not a good match to try and reignite watching league (I think everytime I do they shit the bed...)

                          Sorry Wahs fans.

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                          • taniwharugbyT taniwharugby

                            @African-Monkey played golf with a work colleague on Saturday and he rushes off to watch the Wahs, I get home, no rugby so decide to have a watch for the 2nd time this season...15 mins.

                            Probably not a good match to try and reignite watching league (I think everytime I do they shit the bed...)

                            Sorry Wahs fans.

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                            @taniwharugby said in Super Rugby 2025:

                            @African-Monkey played golf with a work colleague on Saturday and he rushes off to watch the Wahs, I get home, no rugby so decide to have a watch for the 2nd time this season...15 mins.

                            Probably not a good match to try and reignite watching league (I think everytime I do they shit the bed...)

                            Sorry Wahs fans.

                            Aside from using that stupid name you have nothing to be sorry about, they broke last weekend.

                            Also, on Planet Rugby someone posted a Cully article where he was claiming that there were less viewers this year than last year, but the final had the most viewers in 10 years. There was also some confusing stuff about digital viewership that didn't make sense. I had to check it wasn't a Gregor Paul article. I'll see if I can find it.

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                              @taniwharugby said in Super Rugby 2025:

                              @African-Monkey played golf with a work colleague on Saturday and he rushes off to watch the Wahs, I get home, no rugby so decide to have a watch for the 2nd time this season...15 mins.

                              Probably not a good match to try and reignite watching league (I think everytime I do they shit the bed...)

                              Sorry Wahs fans.

                              Aside from using that stupid name you have nothing to be sorry about, they broke last weekend.

                              Also, on Planet Rugby someone posted a Cully article where he was claiming that there were less viewers this year than last year, but the final had the most viewers in 10 years. There was also some confusing stuff about digital viewership that didn't make sense. I had to check it wasn't a Gregor Paul article. I'll see if I can find it.

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                              @Nepia this one?

                              https://www.thepost.co.nz/sport/360711468/sky-reveals-flat-super-rugby-pacific-audience-numbers-across-regular-season-black-ferns-surge

                              Might be reading it wrong but they mention an increase in attendance despite a reduction in games - but don't factor in a reduction of games when talking about total TV viewership.

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                              • ToddyT Toddy

                                @Nepia this one?

                                https://www.thepost.co.nz/sport/360711468/sky-reveals-flat-super-rugby-pacific-audience-numbers-across-regular-season-black-ferns-surge

                                Might be reading it wrong but they mention an increase in attendance despite a reduction in games - but don't factor in a reduction of games when talking about total TV viewership.

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                                @Toddy said in Super Rugby 2025:

                                @Nepia this one?

                                https://www.thepost.co.nz/sport/360711468/sky-reveals-flat-super-rugby-pacific-audience-numbers-across-regular-season-black-ferns-surge

                                Might be reading it wrong but they mention an increase in attendance despite a reduction in games - but don't factor in a reduction of games when talking about total TV viewership.

                                That is similar but slightly different, I may have seen a non updated version, I definitely don't remember reading the discussion about the decrease in the number of games.

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                                  @Nepia this one?

                                  https://www.thepost.co.nz/sport/360711468/sky-reveals-flat-super-rugby-pacific-audience-numbers-across-regular-season-black-ferns-surge

                                  Might be reading it wrong but they mention an increase in attendance despite a reduction in games - but don't factor in a reduction of games when talking about total TV viewership.

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                                  @Toddy said in Super Rugby 2025:

                                  @Nepia this one?

                                  https://www.thepost.co.nz/sport/360711468/sky-reveals-flat-super-rugby-pacific-audience-numbers-across-regular-season-black-ferns-surge

                                  Might be reading it wrong but they mention an increase in attendance despite a reduction in games - but don't factor in a reduction of games when talking about total TV viewership.

                                  Not surprising, I felt Super Rugby this year was the best we've seen for about 10 years.

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                                  • M MacDazzler

                                    Get ready for the most boring tip of all time.

                                    Even after their loss I still think the Chiefs are winning the SR Title this year.

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                                      Here's the other article from Cully. Fuck me they're two poorly written articles. In one part he compares viewership of TV and digital with only TV.

                                      If Gregor Paul wrote these I wouldn't have been surprised as he is generally anti NZ rugby.

                                      https://www.thepost.co.nz/sport/360736402/sky-reports-dip-super-rugby-pacific-audience-tv-channels-digital-numbers-rise#:~:text=Sky revealed on Thursday that,increase of 15%25 on 2024

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                                          @gt12 said in Super Rugby 2025:

                                          A bit weak compared to a competition like the Top 14, apparently, they had 5 million people tune into the final alone.

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