Just seen Martin Offiah being interviewed on the BBC. Did ok and mentioned that the games were selling really well. The reporter, instead of saying how a 50,000 plus crowd is expected said "there will be about 20,000 empty seats here today... Not sure if other matches will sell out, if any of them."

Talk about negativity, and after such a positive week from the Beeb.

Thanks

No.....I blame gus!

Last night the BBC World News TV (international service) blundered in its headline intro, calling the winners of the rugby league World Cup "the Wallabies." However by the time they got to the story itself they had converted to winners to "the Kangaroos."

36k watched it Live (3am) here in NZ with another 63k watching the replay at 6am and the replay on FTA not rating .....all figures less than last weeks semi-final figures?
Full page "post-mortem" in the Dominion Post (Wellington based National paper ) here today....half of it speculating about Stephen Kearney's future, the rest about the dangerous in-goal areas and Thurston dedicating his MOM award to Alex Elisala.....no match report?