Quote: Kosh "To be fair, whenever the RFL try to give out positives about the game they are shot down in flames by many RL fans. What hope do they have of convincing people out side the sport when so many within it are unconvinced?
There is also the issue that no matter how good the message you want to give out, or how hard you try, you can only work with what the media are willing to give. And in the case of RL that's generally precious little.'"
This. It really doesn't matter what the RFL say or do, even if they invented a cure for cancer and ended child poverty, there are loads within the game who couldn't wait to slag them off. Even something as genius as getting the sainted Wiggo to defer to ours as a harder sport produces queues of doomsayers itching to list the ways in which the RFL has "failed".