Tonga v Samoa - 7 May 2016 @ Parramatta

[Farmduck]

55min: Ricky Leutele scores for Samoa. Fa'amanu Brown converts. 14-6

[Farmduck]

64min: Frank Pritchard crosses again but forward pass. Fatigue setting in now and both sides making handling errors.

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75min: Matthew Wright scores for Samoa. 18-6

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77min: Erin Clarke crossed for Samoa but the idiot who played the ball held the marker out of the play. NO TRY

 

2½ minutes left Samoa have it in the bag 18-6

[Farmduck]

FT: Samoa 18 - Tonga 6

 

Crowd: 15,200

[Farmduck]

I found these numbers on The Roar so I can't vouch for them:

 

Great TV ratings for international RL on FOX. Beating all the AFL and Union games. Even the Jr Kangaroos v Jr Kiwis beat the Waratahs TV ratings

FoxSports

RL Tonga v Samoa 164k
RL PNG v Fiji 111k
RL Kangaroos v Jr Kiwis 80k

Super Rugby WARvCHE 68k

AFL Swans V Dons 154k

AFLSuns v Dees 109k

AFLCats V Eagles 118k

 

 

Aus v NZ Rugby League Test match National figures for Friday night.
852,000 5 city metro. Regional added another 503,000. = 1,355,000

[Barry64]

This game even had a mention in the Sunday Times miscellaneous sport column!And a Chis Irvine report on Cas v Salford!

[USRLFAN]

This game had amazing atmosphere!  I find it very odd that Australian NRL fans usually sit on their hands for the whole match unlike in England.  They remind me a lot of MLB fans.

[Futtocks]

Crowd: 15,200

And sounded three times louder! Howls of delight every time a particularly big hit went in.

 

Best atmosphere of the weekend and an exciting match, even if there were a lot of errors.

[Futtocks]

Highlights.

 

[Yosser]

With that atmosphere and level of rivalry I think they can really build on those viewing figures.

 

And yet the talk is of scrapping Rep weekend in two years.

 

A very good advert for the game and it bodes well for the world cup.