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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.

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 #nrlfinalsBang! 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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The facts
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.

the video's first day
usual first day here
8,384
this video
122,535
subscribers
636,000
total views
585,347,637
views per day
510,099
the video
views
103,771
likes
1,943
comments
125
days online
1
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As of September 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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