I will be looking forward to the figures.....interestingly barb had no figures for we Oct 2nd for ITV for over 2 weeks after the end of that week.....I wonder what the hold up was on getting then confirmed>? Maybe the IRB have their spies in BARB as well eh


Or maybe....just maybe, the bit below as published on the BARB site explains it....

But the figures for the w/e 16th of October have already been published on the BARB site with no mention of the Wales vs. France game for the top 30 on ITV1? One RWC game for the w/e the 9th is already in the BARB figures so not sure why we will have to wait the six weeks this time and not last

With regards to the transmission logs... why would those be an issue when we are talking about a live sporting event, the Wales vs. France game actually took place when it was advertised didn’t it?

Lovely turn of phrase from Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu regarding Owen Farrell.

He's right though. Farrell is as much of a turnip as his father. The evil flows through him. He's got one of those faces you would have to really hold yourself back from punching.

Ok so I will hold my hands up the figures I get to see are as follows ave of 4.3 m peak of 6.8 at 10.40am.

The good news is for the Eng v Wal league game that was the most watch programme at the time. Ave of 1.3 peak of 1.6

[url=http://www.sportal.co.nz/rugby-union-news-display/cardiff-set-for-2015-145654Games in the England 2015 Rugby Union world cup will be held in Cardiff.[/url

they got a bigger crowd in cardiff for the semi than Eden Park..

Shaun Edwards looking as though he wil be the next England coach when Johnson goes.

Jesus, that will be a dilemma - will I start to feel a pang of sympathy for them? I'll be voting Tory next.

The resignation of Martyn Thomas and the scrapping of the Cotton Review may yet save Johnson's skin.

I don't see Edwards being establishment enough to work with the blazers that run the RFU.

That's just an outdated stereotype though, isn't it? I thought the RFU had long since moved away from the classist old boys brigade that their supporters and indeed themselves worked so hard to deny existed in the first place.

By establishment I wasn't so much meaning Edwards isn't of the right social standing or went to the right school, more that he hasn't been part of the RFU establishment in the same way the likes of Johnston, Woodward, Andy Robinson, Brian Ashton, Dick Best etc were.

The stereotype was usually not true except in the governing body itself. What was argued against was that it was a classist sport since that is simply a factually incorrect rewriting of history which is still perpetuated today. Edwards is far more establishment than the likes of Woodward, Ashton, Andrew, Robinson, Mitchell and Johnson himself.

Given the choice of Brendan Ventner, Jake White, Gatland and Eddie Jones I am sure the Blasers would much rather deal with Edwards.

I get you

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/15620544.stm?The much heralded scrum isn't as pure as we thought.[/url

[url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=10764553Union used Cup like 'massive holiday' - Samoa captain. While Tongan and Fijian players received $1,500 each week, Samoan players got paid only $1,000 per week. This is despite the Samoan public raising more than 6.5 million Tala - around NZ $3 million - for the team's Rugby World Cup campaign.[/url

Sad and worrying. Thought they'd stopped those kind of antics long ago. Could it be true what they say about leopards?

And yet, this is being allowed to pass unnoticed by the national media.

Can you imagine the outcry if the RFL did something similar along the M62 corridor? The OBN would have questions in the House and Sport England cutting off funding in a heartbeat.

This is very worrying though isn't it.

I thought this type of behaviour had stopped about 20 years ago,I think you hit the nail on the head Catalancs,they obviously don't.

Firstly, if this is true, I will use every trick I have learnt over the years to get this covered by a national paper, but before I do, I would very much like to see documented proof of this:



As I say, if it is true, I will look to get at least one national paper to cover this....or I will run up a massive phone bill from NZ trying.
Last time I got this angry was when SLY TV moved a quins away fixture in France at short notice......I believe if I reappear again a number of sports editors will print stuff just to get rid of me



If anyone has documented proof of this, please PM it to me in confidence. I will not do anything or publish it anywhere without express permission first.

Thanx

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I would suggest that if anyone has any evidence of these RU underhand tactics in the North East (and I can't find the original post by The Clan on this - is it on another forum or has it been deleted?) that they mention it in the comments section on The Guardian website - Under Rugby League the latest 'Set of Six'. Andy Wilson will probably pick up on it and if there is any substance to it, give it a wider audience.

It's on the Joel Tomkins to Saracens thread on the VT mate.

When I spotted this headline, I thought it was about a football European super league again, but on closer inspection: www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/no ... remiership Utter madness. Especially the bit about "expanding the heartlands"- not a shocker to find out that this means Eastern Europe and not the North and Midlands.

When I spotted this headline, I thought it was about a football European super league again, but on closer inspection: www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/no ... remiership Utter madness. Especially the bit about "expanding the heartlands"- not a shocker to find out that this means Eastern Europe and not the North and Midlands.

Shaun Edwards to sign new four-year deal to remain Wales defence coach.

=#FF0000BUMP. Surely there is documented proof? Copies of emails, scans of letters?

Firstly, if this is true, I will use every trick I have learnt over the years to get this covered by a national paper, but before I do, I would very much like to see documented proof of this:



As I say, if it is true, I will look to get at least one national paper to cover this....or I will run up a massive phone bill from NZ trying.
Last time I got this angry was when SLY TV moved a quins away fixture in France at short notice......I believe if I reappear again a number of sports editors will print stuff just to get rid of me



If anyone has documented proof of this, please PM it to me in confidence. I will not do anything or publish it anywhere without express permission first.

Thanx