HG Nelson

Now, Wednesday night's spectacle had a record number of eyeballs that witnessed it as a win for NRL, which boasts that rugby league is the most watched sport in Australia.

It also proved nine can retain and build audiences despite an increasingly fragmented media market.

That's my point.

Yes, and what a... I mean, it's been such a week of...

intense rugby league action.

I mean, so many, the generation of issues through State of Origin is just amazing.

And, of course, the women's State of Origin was a clean sweep to New South Wales.

Wasn't it wonderful?

It was.

And the quality of the game just improved and improved.

Yeah, it does.

And your issue about, you know, records, and thank goodness that's, you know, record-watching viewers, thank goodness that's online so you don't miss a thing about rugby league at the moment, you know, across the whole spectrum of the game.

Now, talkback topic, last week and this week.

Now, do you think if you'd asked that question, say,

Before the Iran war, I'm using that word advisedly here, it would have got a different result?

I think so.

Yeah, so the war, that's a casualty of the war.

It's a sense of it.

And, of course, Saudi Arabia's golden cash.

But, of course, they've got World Game football.