Spot the boo boo

[Shaun Hewitt]

Note: The boo boo has nothing to do with what players are selecting int his top 10

Warriors stars Shaun Johnson and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck are proving a big hit with female fans of rugby league.

The pair have made the NRL's top 10 players in terms of popularity with women audiences.

Melbourne Storm star Billy Slater heads the list followed by Johnathan Thurston, Matt Moylan, Sam Burgess, James Tedesco, Aaron Woods, Johnson, Greg Inglis, Tuivasa-Sheck and Brett Morris.

Tuivasa-Sheck has been made captain of the Warriors this year under new coach Shaun Johnson. The pair will be central to the club's hopes of returning to the playoffs.

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NRL bosses are desperately seeking a wider female audience as they look to clean up the game's image.

They see females fans as the big growth area in terms of TV ratings and match attendances.

They are doing extensive research and figures suggest the women can't be ignored.

The numbers show that last season 47.2 million women watched rugby league on TV, significantly up on the 42.1 million recorded in 2015.

And women now represent 37 per cent of the overall TV audience. State of Origin is even more popular with females making up 42 per cent of that TV audience.

The NRL's marketing and commercial boss Andrew Abdo says it's an area his team is heavily focused on.

"We have always had a huge group of men who love rugby league who are rusted on fans and cannot get enough of it," NRL marketing and commercial boss Andrew Abdo told the Daily Telegraph.

"Now we have more women and girls switching to our game and loving every minute of it. That's why it's important to have the research and know who and what they like."

Abdo believed the increasing number of women's personalities on TV league shows and their high profile in the administration reflected the growing numbers.

The NRL are looking at ways to operate a separate women's championship.

- Stuff

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league...uivasasheck-make-nrls-top-10-with-female-fans

 

[Scott]

New coach Shaun Johnson... #fakenews

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

Zing, we have a winner!

 

[Meth]

This sort of editorial sloppiness is what happens when journalists are more concerned with immediacy than accuracy.

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Their name is 'stuff'. 'Stuff' the news reporters.

 

[TheDMC]

It's very rare to read a Stuff article that is error free. I see them all the time (used to be a professional editor) and it does my head in. NZ journalism is just awful these days.

 

[MKEB...]

There is sod all sub-eds these days, that is for both Fairfax in general and stuff. It is all part of Greg Hylands master plan of consolidating costs. It is rather detrimental to the standard of news we are getting from them.

But that booboo is a shocker.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Sam Burgess being in the top 10 is a bigger error.

 

[Diesel]

Does Tuivasa-Shock not have a first name or is his first and last name hyphenated?

f**king arrogant rugby mad journalists







Melbourne Storm star Billy Slater heads the list followed by Johnathan Thurston, Matt Moylan, Sam Burgess, James Tedesco, Aaron Woods, Johnson, Greg Inglis, Tuivasa-Sheck and Brett Morris.

Tuivasa-Sheck has been made captain of the Warriors this year under new coach Shaun Johnson. The pair will be central to the club's hopes of returning to the playoffs.

 

[WellsNZ]

Does Tuivasa-Shock not have a first name or is his first and last name hyphenated?

f**king arrogant rugby mad journalists

Melbourne Storm star Billy Slater heads the list followed by Johnathan Thurston, Matt Moylan, Sam Burgess, James Tedesco, Aaron Woods, Johnson, Greg Inglis, Tuivasa-Sheck and Brett Morris.

Tuivasa-Sheck has been made captain of the Warriors this year under new coach Shaun Johnson. The pair will be central to the club's hopes of returning to the playoffs.

When you've already mentioned his full name in the article it's fine to then later only refer to him by his last name.

"Warriors stars Shaun Johnson and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck are proving a big hit with female fans of rugby league."

Is at the start of the article, so you then leave his first name out for the rest of the article, that's the proper way to do it.

Obviously they double up on "Shaun Johnson" but that's because they f**ked up putting his name where it shouldn't be.

Also I'm pretty surprised Morris is up there.

 

[Izz]

Also seems that no journalist can spell 'focused' anymore...

 

[Meth]

Sam Burgess being in the top 10 is a bigger error.

I know.

Has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp

 

[TheDMC]

Does Tuivasa-Sheck not have a first name or is his first and last name hyphenated?

Technically, when your name is as cool as his you don't use a first name.