Dear Dave,
As an ardent RL fan, l search the Media, fot anything and everything RL, in none heatland media, often you get a jurno wanting to fill some inches in his rag, maybe he,s having a quiet day or his boss has given him something to practice on. Often the nationals like to pretend they promote RL while simply having a snidy go at us.
6 Nations, he,s having a laugh, England 2nd team? at the moment the best 25 English players play for England, yeh! the rest search the records to see if their Granny by chance had an Irish wolfhound, a Welsh terrier or a Scotty, so they can pull on the appropriate jersey. S with 2 English teams, that will narrow the player pool down somewhat yeh!
England played 5 won 5
England 2 played 5 won 4
The rest, yeh right!.

This jurno then found something re Dave Valentine, a Scot, who captained GB, he knew where he came from, but either didn,t know or couldn,t be bothered to find out who he played for. as a child i watched Dave play at Fartown, top player, and proud to have seen him.

Viewing figures for the aviva premiership are much better than for superleague. Super league gets about 80,000 a game, massively down from the halcyon days when Saints and Leeds were wowing the audiences of 250,000 viewers. Who wants to tune in and watch a load of average players knock on for 80 minutes? no wonder the rfl just Bent over, spread its legs and took whatever deal Sky offered. The decline is terminal

Regards

King James

No ones fault but the clubs (including Saints and Leeds) If the chairmen didn't have their own self interest at heart then the game could have moved forward instead of standing still.

NO they are not.

if you look at the BARB website you ill see that the Rah Ra figures are at best similar.

Rugby League has admittedly gone down but the Rah Rah certainly hasn't gone up. Who wants to tune in and watch a load of blokes kick the ball into touch for 80 minutes !

I did get my figures from BARB. 80k for super league the past 2 weeks. 142k for the aviva premiership, which is even more impressive given that there are less subscribers to BT sport than Sky Sports.

You obvsioulsy havent watched union recently. The days of kicking into touch vanished circa 2004. The game is much more skilful and exciting than rugby league is these days. But as the esteemed hull kr fan said above, its the chairmens fault for letting our game stagnate

Regards

King James

BT sport happens to be free to a lot of users whereas Sky Sport certainly isn't as you have to pay the nancy ballers. Big difference that.

Touch kicking may have declined in yawnion but its being replaced by a pile of fat chaps, where one wobbles a couple of yards, falls down and the pile up forms again. Keep repeating and going nowhere until finally one of the multitude of rules is broken and we get a penalty kick. Real skilful and exciting, its a poor game getting worse because its far too easy to stop the opposition playing unless there is a horrendous mismatch in ability.