Plenty

More very good news on viewing figures.

England v Ireland on BBC1 had figures of 2.12m (16.4% audience share). The England v Australia Union international's figure was 804k (6.2%).

great viewing figure that!

Even better when you consider that a lot of Sky/Premier Sports subscribers will have watched it via Ch428 rather than on the BBC.

My copy of The Observer (bought in South Wales) has three quarter of pg 7 in the Sport section dedicated to the England v Ireland match report (albeit preceded by 6 pages of Union).

more than the 2m that watched the England v Aus game then...

hope the BBC are happy with the figures and stick with us!

2million is a decent number. Hopefully it picks up for the semis and final.

It'll never beat the 8.26 billion that watch the onion world cup games.

The Sun - 2.4m
The Sun on Sunday - 2m
Daily Mail - 1.8m
The Mail on Sunday - 1.7m
Daily Mirror - 1m
Sunday Mirror - 1m
Sunday Times - 885k
Evening Standard - 700k
Daily Telegraph - 555k
Daily Star - 535k
Daily Express - 530k
Sunday Express - 471k
Sunday Telegraph - 475k
The People - 429k
The Times - 400k
Daily Star Sunday - 346k
i - 294k
Sunday Mail - 284k
Financial Times - 275k
Daily Record - 251k
Sunday Post - 243k
The Observer - 225k
The Guardian - 204k
Independent on Sunday - 114k
Independent - 78k

& News of the World used to be 2.8m

Depressing that 2.4m buy that sh*t rag that is The Sun

I'm sure they'll be happy. These days just six million is enough to get a programme into the Beeb's weekly top ten. Match of the Day pulls in around 4m as do teatime programmes like Pointless. Two million on a Saturday afternoon is very good.

More worrying that 1.8m buy (& believe) the Daily Fail.

about 9,000,000 per day.

..it is in terminal decline, but at the moment is in remission.

2.4 Million is, I believe the peak figure with the average at 1.9 million. Very good viewing figures which I would expect to top 4 million if England make the final which would be fantastic. As for viewers on SKY/Virgin Platform, are they susceptible to barb scrutiny?

I had a barb box until I moved house. Its goes down to your age sex location and you equate to 10000 viewers. Whatever package you have is secondary.

Sally forgot this morning to say anything about the World Cup in her Sport news on BBC Breakfast. Too busy banging on about Tennis, squash etc etc

The station broadcasting in Australia, 7mate, replayed the minnow games from last night today for the first time. They have only been replaying the Australian games, but we now seem to be getting all games live and in near prime time replay.

True, but Wales' elimination got a mention on the 0630 hrs news on Radio 1.

what about the huddersfield daily examiner?

Looking at uS papers, nothing that I could find about the Tomahawks sadly

have had a few listens to 5live sports extra with their live coverage of every game, commentaries have been decent with woodsy and tulsen tolett but richie myler has been excellent as the expert summariser - can see a future in the media for this boy when he packs the game in - he's a natural

Interesting, I thought he was pretty awful on the BBC TV highlights show! Must have been an off day for the lad

shame... thats why maybe them getting to the qtr final stages is wasted.

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just about to post that, nice to see it's made some waves

I agree Ivor - he has been terrible. Kept looking at Nobby every time he spoke for support and never really said anything other than the obvious and safe. Haven't been impressed with any of the "expert summarisers" on the radio to be fair.