Quote Lebron James="Lebron James"which has never stopped rugby proclaiming that rugby league is played in khazakstan because some kid found a rugby ball on the beach and threw it to his friend. '" Eh? 148,300 see here: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/25346493.

Quote Lebron James="Lebron James"which has never stopped rugby proclaiming that rugby league is played in khazakstan because some kid found a rugby ball on the beach and threw it to his friend. '" Eh? 148,300 see here: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/25346493.

Quote Pinkerton="Pinkerton"Eh? 148,300 see here: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/25346493.'" www.ecb.co.uk/development/get-in ... icipation/ Regards King James

Quote Pinkerton="Pinkerton"Eh? 148,300 see here: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/25346493.'" www.ecb.co.uk/development/get-in ... icipation/ Regards King James

If we're counting all forms of a sport then let's compare oranges with oranges and include touch footy/rugby in the RL participation rates as it is a form of RL. Woohoo, RL is a global game played by millions of people!

Which 2 countries of the 14 at the Cricket World Cup provided 55% of the players? In fact, add two more from the 14 and tell me which ones delivered 85% of the players

Lol

[i"The game-wide study of grassroots participation revealed that a total of 908,000 people aged over 14 played cricket in teams – with a further 792,000 people playing cricket informally in the garden or on the beach."[/i

Why have you taken the Sport England figures for some sports and not others? The Sport England figures aren't brilliant (they don't include under 16's and disproportionately favour sports like athletics and cycling) but the calculations are at least constant when using figures from the same source. So why take the 400k figure for tennis but not the 148k figure for Cricket?

Did it not suit the argument?

I don't know because I didn't watch it and I'm not going to look through the various squads to count up where they were all from and then do a %. I saw the Ireland team featured on Sky Sports News and there were a few Aussies accents, so it's not just RL where they have Australians playing for other countries.

55% from two countries? Really? Seeing as the French, PNG, NZ, Fiji and Wales had many homegrown players in their ranks, I'd disagree.

English and Australian born players made up 55% (185) of the 336 players....there is a detailed list somewhere on here in a RLWC thread......you saying you disagree is hardly a defence!



Australia, New Zealand, England, France and PNG were the only sides with a majority of their players born in the country they were representing........Ireland had not one player born in Ireland, there were 2 Italians, 2 Scots, 2 Cook Islanders, 8 welsh, 9 Samoans, 8 Tongans, 12 Fijians, 6 Americans. Outside the top 5, 49 players in 9 teams were "local" whilst 167 were ringers. 167 ringers + the 45 in the England and Australian squads is 212....which is 63% of the entire list of players.

There was one player from Ireland actually, but I agree there were too many heritage players in the tournament. Countries like the USA and Italy could have picked more locals, were it not for stupid bans on certain players and I disagree with the common belief that if you're Australian, you must be good at RL. My beef is that the heritage aspect only comes up with RL, but you see Cricket teams (like England for example) with several heritage players, yet no one says a thing, but RL is continuously mocked over it.

How did we get here from 'BBC and RL'?


As for the BBC website/news channels, has no one ever noticed that RL drops down the rankings during the off season every year?


Tis true.

No there wasn't.....6 Aussies, 1 Kiwi and 17 English Born players.


Yep......Australia, New Zealand, England, France and PNG delivered 85% of the players......and 2017 will be exactly the same




A strong RLIF that stands up to the NRL and individual countries would be a start....



Hmmm....I suspect if any other sport had 35% of the teams supplying 85% of the players then that sport would get slammed. Even more so if some of the players were able to switch countries in between tournaments

Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"No there wasn't.....6 Aussies, 1 Kiwi and 17 English Born players. '" + This guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Hadden Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Yep......Australia, New Zealand, England, France and PNG delivered 85% of the players......and 2017 will be exactly the same '" + Wales and Fijians (barring they qualify of course.) We don't know who's going to qualify yet, so we don't know who will be from where. I thought RL was only played in three countries though, will we have to include France and PNG now as well? Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"A strong RLIF that stands up to the NRL and individual countries would be a start....'" And pigs will fly...

Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"No there wasn't.....6 Aussies, 1 Kiwi and 17 English Born players. '" + This guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Hadden Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Yep......Australia, New Zealand, England, France and PNG delivered 85% of the players......and 2017 will be exactly the same '" + Wales and Fijians (barring they qualify of course.) We don't know who's going to qualify yet, so we don't know who will be from where. I thought RL was only played in three countries though, will we have to include France and PNG now as well? Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"A strong RLIF that stands up to the NRL and individual countries would be a start....'" And pigs will fly...