Re: he is coming : Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:10 pm  

theredshed wrote:

A few years ago Salford v Leigh in a cup game drew a TV audience of 21 Million on BBC grandstand.

Re: he is coming : Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:41 am  

I think you'll find that figure is extremely accurate. IIRC there was a bus strike in Leigh that day and no away fans made it to The Willows. 98.4% of the the viewers were Leigh fans

Re: he is coming : Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:03 am  

Jim Jalfrezi wrote:

21,000,000 !!!!!
Your havin a laugh, surely ?

I don't know how they calculate the TV audience figures these days but in the early 90's the numbers were determined by the number of people spread throughout the UK with special channel monitoring boxes, watching a certain channel at a certain time. If 1 in say every 2 households who had a box just happened to switch to BBC grandstand that afternoon it explains why the figure published was so high. The figure may be total b*ll*x after all it was just an average estimate based on a small percentage of the population.

I too would be taking the p*ss and laughing about it if I hadn't read it for myself!

Re: he is coming : Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:05 pm  

theredshed wrote:

I don't know how they calculate the TV audience figures these days but in the early 90's the numbers were determined by the number of people spread throughout the UK with special channel monitoring boxes, watching a certain channel at a certain time. If 1 in say every 2 households who had a box just happened to switch to BBC grandstand that afternoon it explains why the figure published was so high. The figure may be total b*ll*x after all it was just an average estimate based on a small percentage of the population.

I too would be taking the p*ss and laughing about it if I hadn't read it for myself!

What I find surprising is that the figure you quoted was only slightly lower than the audience for JFK's assasination. Over the years I've heard many people claim they'll never forget where they were when JFK was killed. I have yet to hear anyone say the same of a Salford - Leigh Regal Trophy encounter.

Say what you wish about the way TV ratings are calculated (I believe it's no different now) but you'll never convince me that Salford v Leigh is one of the highest rated TV events in UK history. Sorry.

Re: he is coming : Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:31 pm  

Yorkshire_Red wrote:

What I find surprising is that the figure you quoted was only slightly lower than the audience for JFK's assasination. Over the years I've heard many people claim they'll never forget where they were when JFK was killed. I have yet to hear anyone say the same of a Salford - Leigh Regal Trophy encounter.

Say what you wish about the way TV ratings are calculated (I believe it's no different now) but you'll never convince me that Salford v Leigh is one of the highest rated TV events in UK history. Sorry.

Oddly being to young I don't remeber JFK getting shot by the magic bullet but do remember being on the couch with a monumental dose of the 10 bobs the day of the Leigh game, think if you'd have timed my runns (pun intended) to the crapper that day I'd have been the fastest winger on the pitch.

Re: he is coming : Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:36 pm  

The only time I can remember Salford playing Leigh on Grandstand post mid 80s was that time they beat us in the mud in the mud at Hilton Park about 2000. I remember us playing Leigh at home about 1989 on TV when Granada used to show live Saturday afternoon games and it may have been Kevin Tamati's first game as coach. As far as I remember reading, RL cup finals on Grandstand used to peak at 5-6million, and the average cup tie was 2-3 million. Wasn't 20 million about the audience for England V Germany at Italia 90?

Re: he is coming : Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:52 pm  

theredshed wrote:

I too would be taking the p*ss and laughing about it if I hadn't read it for myself!

Sometimes numbers are separated by a small dot. This is often called a 'decimal point'.

It changes that magnitutde of a number quite considerably.

They are quite easy to miss when reading quickly though.

Re: he is coming : Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:44 pm  

did we win in the 1980s i know we lost in the mud in the cup which was gutting @ the time because we are a ready made underdog so getting beat by leigh who @ the time were 1st divison was a kick in the teeth cos we were favourites then started our rivalry imo.........


[size=85]That and the massive kickoff in town later that night might have had somthing to do with it[size=85]

Re: he is coming : Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:53 pm  

Iain wrote:

I remember us playing Leigh at home about 1989 on TV when Granada used to show live Saturday afternoon games and it may have been Kevin Tamati's first game as coach.

Yep was 1989. First time i ever watched Salford that. Use to watch the TV games and remember being surprised and excited we had a team near by when it came on. Think we drew 8-8 IIRC?

My mum took me to the next home game and thus began my love affair with Salford Rugby.

Re: he is coming : Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:39 am  

Ayres Rock wrote:

Yep was 1989. First time i ever watched Salford that. Use to watch the TV games and remember being surprised and excited we had a team near by when it came on. Think we drew 8-8 IIRC?

I'm sure we won the game I'm thinking of. The days of Clive Tyldesley doing the commentary.