Kalyn Ponga's finals hit on Leota clears a hundred thousand
A few seconds of defense, posted as a hashtagged short, is moving well ahead of anything the league's own channel usually sees on day one.
NRL - National Rugby League
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 122,535 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (8,384).
Bang! Ponga puts Leota on his back! #nrl #nrlfinals
"Bang! Ponga puts Leota on his back! #nrl #nrlfinals" passed a hundred thousand views barely a day after the NRL posted it. The title does most of the explaining: Kalyn Ponga, one of the Newcastle Knights' best-known players, taking an opponent to the ground during the finals.
A new upload on the league's official channel usually starts with a few thousand views on its first day. This short is running about fifteen times faster than that, and on its own it is drawing a real slice of what the entire channel collects in a typical day.
Finals footage is the league's everyday business at this time of year. A single tackle carrying this much of the load is not.
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- Channel
- NRL - National Rugby League
- Subscribers
- 636,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 510,099
- Video published
- September 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 103,771 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 122,535
The numbers
Here is how one short tackle clip compares with a normal first day on the NRL's channel.
