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Sadly there are some posters who follow a different code that somehow manage to deny Origin, preferring to compare GFs to get a managed victory for their sport of choice.
We all should know that without Origin the NRL media rights would be nothing to get excited about.
To be fair, this is a heavily AFL based forum. And having folks tell them stuff they already know but really dont care about - repeatedly - will be interpreted by some as trolling.
The other thing that folks fail to mention in this discussion is that of the top rating AFL/NRL matches this year, while the AFL only has 2 in the top 5, they had 17 games this season cross the million audience mark during the season and another 9 during finals. The NRL had 2 during the season and 5 during the finals.
Its also worth noting that in almost every instance where a stand alone AFL game was up against a stand alone NRL game, the NRL lost.