Agreed Eerlee Berd. One or two posters seem intent on bringing their warped or blinkered view to bear on every thread.

Roopy's contribution is factually correct which to me reflects an amazing development of RL around the world at grass roots level made to happen by enthusiastic hard-working and pioneerng people of many nationalities.

Guttersnipe is a stingy English pensioner living off the fat of rugby union mad New Zealand. He is trolling in order to suck up to his neighbours who bring him cheap milk, butter, cheese and lamb to consume on his generous British pension.

Nz Milk butter cheese and lamb are more expensive here
Than in the UK, I hold an Irish passport and alas, I am not yet of pensionable age. As for trolling, I believe I wasn't the first to raise the spectre of Anzac expats being behind this "expansion"........so all in all, a post up to your usual standards my pseudo French Internet buddy

As long as people are playing the game of Rugby League does it matter where?

From big oaks do mighty crashes come

Jumpers for goalpost stuff is brilliant, but meanwhile, the game in the UK is up to its elbows in debt and struggling to attract either sponsors cash or media attention. Pub teams from around the world really isn't going to change that.

I see that the GAA are holding a Gaelic Football 'WORLD CUP" in Abu Dhabi next year and given they already have teams that compete in their domestic comp from London and New York, maybe they can claim to be planting for the future too


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Take this thread for what it is, a good news, albeit it quite insignificant in the grand scheme of things, story.

Derailing it into having a pop at RL in the UK and a load of claptrap about GAA is exactly why nobody takes your guf seriously.

My guf?
It's an expat pub side.
Claptrap and the GAA is interesting given the GAA generates more revenue and viewers in the NH than RL

Gutters trolling a thread with more Union drivel, who'd haven predicted it?

Singapore RL also launched last year, RL is slowly starting up in Asia which is great to see.
Any true RL fan celebrates RL being played at any level and to see new countries being exposed to our amazing game is very positive. You can't grow a crop without preparing the soil and planting seeds.

accuracy is everything

We do really need to get into rich and first world countries a lot more.
PNG has more genuine fans of the game than any other country, but because they are a very poor, third world country, it does us no good.
On the other hand, there are maybe a few thousand fans in the USA and Italy, and already they generate enough income to fund regular internationals without the RLIF needing to chip in anything.
Having the game played in the UAE and Hong Kong is a good thing, because those countries have money.
The Pacific Islands produce lots of players and good teams, but no money for the game.