The Australian Rugby Union have been criticised for sacrificing some of the Wallabies' home advantage by taking the first two tests to firstly a cricket ground and then the home of Aussie Rules, as the ARU general secretary John O'Neill says: "Hey, our job is to spread the game here in Australia." The television viewing figures have been a further boon for the game's ever-improving profile. Audience figures for last Saturday's first test peaked at nearly two million, a mere 50,000 behind the comparative figure for last Sunday's State of Origin match, the decisive third in the series. The record for a rugby union match in Australia is 2.3 million for last year's Bledisloe Cup match between Australia and New Zealand, but O'Neill says: "I think we'll break that record on this tour."