Quote garethtaylor15="garethtaylor15"seems my guess aint that far off after all..!!! and another good stat is that shirt sales out sold real madrid... linky www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... Union.html'" So why was this huge brand so poorly supported in SA then with half empty stadia for midweek games and not one single test selling out - and since when did numbers equate to quality anyway -millions of flies love sitting on ...

Quote garethtaylor15="garethtaylor15"seems my guess aint that far off after all..!!! and another good stat is that shirt sales out sold real madrid... linky www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... Union.html'" So why was this huge brand so poorly supported in SA then with half empty stadia for midweek games and not one single test selling out - and since when did numbers equate to quality anyway -millions of flies love sitting on ...

It is relvant if you have read the whole thread.

I pointed out Alfie(thats gareth thomas by the way) was captian of the Lions.

THen someone said that no one in england knows who the lions are and they aint a big deal.

So i just proved that its a loud of rubbish.

By the way the crusaders should try and sign a current welsh international namely Andy Powel while they have a chance, if you havent heard of Alf i doubt you would know him... or have you heard of any golf buggy jokes recently.?

Thats becuase of the SA public the tickets where all out priced for the SA general public which was a huge mistake as you could imagine the SA public are very poor. Instead they concentrated on ripping off the British public with huge ticket prices.

Also i do beleive all the tests where sold out.!

Again i hope alf signs but i cant see it been told today hes goin to ospreys shows how highly rated he still is.

And again i say we should be signing Andy Powel now while we have a chance his style would suit league down to the ground .!

PS - how come england couldnt sell out a game against OZ at wigans ground in your own back yard.?

lol, union calculator at work again.

The barmy army was first mentioned in regards to RL, yet it doesn't stop union rewriting history does it.

theres only one alfie

he played in a maroons shirt and was a star australian RL player

Not Interested in other sports.......RL is my fav got it?






So who was he again?

To be fair you only had to Google him to find out.

60,000 South Africans....

Few people in England give a cr4p.

In other words, he was better than any available English union back after playing half a dozen games of union.

I don't recall any Welsh league converts playing for GB so quickly.

No, I said that few people give a cr4p and that Jason Robinson had never heard of them before playing for them. You chose to twist it to something else because it is easier to knock.



No, you proved that the South Africans do care about the Lions. They do, we don't. Not too hard a concept.

I also think it should need pointing out that "British and Irish" isn't the same as "English".

When I've been in Wales, fair enough I did see a fair number of Lions shirts being worn in public but they are very rare sight in England. England tops - yes, Lions tops - rarely.