Sport / Sydney, NSW

NRL and NRLW grand final day has arrived. Here's what you need to know

4 Oct 2026 07:08 AEDT Summary

From the report

The final day of the NRL and NRLW seasons is here. In the men's grand final, the Sydney Roosters are facing the Newcastle Knights.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

ABC News (Sport) NRL and NRLW grand final day has arrived. Here's what you need to know plain
ABC News Five things to know ahead of the NRL and NRLW grand finals plain
Brisbane Times NRL Tips - Grand Final plain
Brisbane Times The final countdown: Everything you need to know ahead of the NRLW decider plain

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How it is written

Niral Score 13.1 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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grand13final11finals7season6day4decider4played4finished3shark3defeating2exception2face2game2held2home-and-away2including2know2ladder2losing2matches2men2need2preliminary2set2since2undefeated2week2women2

Sentiment +0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 2 unattributednamed sources Mood 55.2 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Measured on ABC News (Sport)’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by Brisbane Times, The Age, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
ABC News (Sport)as they published this story	13.1	7	2	0.1	55.2
ABC News	15.1	8	4	-0.1	56.1

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The same event elsewhere

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ABC News Five things to know ahead of the NRL and NRLW grand finals Niral 15.1 · mostly calm political 0 Brisbane Times NRL Tips - Grand Final Niral 8.9 · calm political 0 The Age NRL Tips - Grand Final Niral 8.9 · calm political 0 WAtoday NRL Tips - Grand Final Niral 8.9 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald NRL Tips - Grand Final Niral 8.9 · calm political 0 Brisbane Times The final countdown: Everything you need to know ahead of the NRLW decider Niral 2.7 · calm political 0 The Age The final countdown: Everything you need to know ahead of the NRLW decider Niral 2.7 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald The final countdown: Everything you need to know ahead of the NRLW decider Niral 2.7 · calm political 0