A DARWIN bloke who used social media to find a date to the footy wasn’t so lucky on the night but now has a date lined up with a different woman for almost every day this month.

Josh Hodge, 22, said he was inundated with “likes, comments and private messages” after he posted an ad on a community Facebook page seeking a date to the Parramatta Eels and Penrith Panthers at TIO Stadium on Saturday.

media_camera Josh Hodge used social media to find a date to the footy and now has heaps of dates lined up Picture: IVAN RACHMAN

“Wanted: date for the NRL tonight,” Mr Hodge wrote. “Nice country bloke keen on a good night will pay for beers.”

The ad quickly attracted hundreds of comments and more than 1000 “likes”.

Mr Hodge told the NT News he didn’t get a date in time for the footy but he’d since “had about 20 birds contact (him)” and express their interest.

“(I posted the ad because) I was at my mate’s place and I was going to be a third wheel and I was like ‘I wouldn’t mind having a date for the night’,” he said.

“One of my mates said ‘you should post on the Buy Sell Swap page and I thought ‘that is a fantastic idea’.

“I took a nice photo, one of my first selfies because I’m not really one for that sort of sh** and put that up then all of a sudden, Holy Jesus, there you go.”

Mr Hodge said he lined up a date for Monday night and had “one nearly every day for the next month”.

“I’m gobsmacked, I just wanted someone to come to the footy with me,” he said.

“I’ve never seen anything like it ... (I think the huge response was a result of me being) just a bloke that’s got a bit of confidence.”

The navy electrical technician who was born in Gove and raised near Bundaberg, Queensland, said he was a man genuinely looking for love.

“I’d love a relationship, deadset,” he said. “She needs to be a good catch with no past complications.

“My criteria is an independent girl that hunts, fishes, works, comes camping with me and doesn’t go out with other blokes on my boat.

“As long as she likes getting dirty – in the mud and dirt sense – then I’m happy

“I love my boys’ weekends but I’d rather have my missus there the whole time.”

Mr Hodge said he was a “country boy” and a “hopeless, sickly romantic”.

“I love me dogs, hunting, fishing and camping,” he said.

“I will spoil (my date) something chronic with a nice night on the beach, a couple of candles going and cooking up a lamb roast.

“We can carry on like pork chops, have some fun and sleep under the stars.

“If she doesn’t want to sleep with me, then I’ll offer the spare bed, but if she does want to get in my swag, then she can jump right in.”