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I binned Sky Sports NZ this year in exchange for super fibre and access to everything online......I have seen nothing on domestic Freeview in regards to the RLWC here. I am a stadium member at the Westpac in Wellington and usually I am offered the chance to sell my Box for major events that I don't want to attend.....I've had nowt for the QF in a few weeks.....but I get regular offers to sell it for the Phoenix soccer side who get less at games than I do to a family BBQ......Perspective wise, I was offered NZ $45,000 for the Lions test here earlier this year......the box doesn't cost that for 4 years!
It's not apathy....it's arrogance. They (the NRL) really do believe that we should flock to games....even the dark side marketed the booty off the RWC11.....if you don't ask people they won't come.....It's not brain surgery.
I am tempted to start a thread on how badly this WC has been run but I'll hold off, purely because I'll be accused of being negative (or a troll), but the reality is that it's been terribly run!'"
I guarantee that most people here don't give a toss about it, most administrators are going about organising something in the faint hop it will just suffice, they'd rather be on holidays too, i'd say half the players are happy enough they are making a quid but would probably rather also be on holidays
We the fans have had enough, the season is over, its getting warm, the competition is e, why flog a dead horse? i'd actually rather see another extended world club series, i'd rather a whole season of one big world club challenges like 97
wether you like it or not, & i'm sick of reiterating it, SOO is the best RL on the planet, people here buy into it & enjoy the theatre of it because they are discerning purveyors & this is what they choose to consume | | |
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| Quote: downo "yeah but who cares?? it could go to poop & i wouldn't care, i reckon half the people who watch RL couldn't give two hoots, its just there, its something to do if you want to go, something to watch if you want to watch, its not the be all & end all
Why are you worried anyway?, you immerse yourself in substandard RL & a third world lifestyle, if nobody goes to our games & crowds diminish, so what?? there are only two professional AFL & two professional football teams in Sydney btw
there are thousands of things to do, go online & check it out, i'm not your mother, its all there
creating an atmosphere? sit around singing? you're grown men!!! grow up!!! too busy singing songs & not watching the games, no wonder the average supporter has such a basic, lacking RL IQ, i actually watch the game, no time for singing frigging songs, i hate that, i'd walk out if all these strange people started singing silly songs around me, or at least i'd need noise cancelling headphones or something! how childish...singing at the footy lol haha
I still remember many years ago, i was at the stoop watching the Broncos, my mate was playing for them, we were standing around after the game having a beer when a couple of middle aged men wandered over begging for autographs, so my mate signed their jerseys & told them i played too, well being pretty big & a bronzed Aussie god like being, they believed it so i signed them also, its always been a source of amusement to me & him that there are a couple of London fans with my signature on his shirt'"
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| Quote: leedsnsouths "Obviously you care as you post on a RL forum ![]()
No he doesn't care, he's just a troll and a poor one at that.
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| Quote: downo "yeah but who cares?? it could go to poop & i wouldn't care, i reckon half the people who watch RL couldn't give two hoots, its just there, its something to do if you want to go, something to watch if you want to watch, its not the be all & end all
Why are you worried anyway?, you immerse yourself in substandard RL & a third world lifestyle, if nobody goes to our games & crowds diminish, so what?? there are only two professional AFL & two professional football teams in Sydney btw
there are thousands of things to do, go online & check it out, i'm not your mother, its all there
creating an atmosphere? sit around singing? you're grown men!!! grow up!!! too busy singing songs & not watching the games, no wonder the average supporter has such a basic, lacking RL IQ, i actually watch the game, no time for singing frigging songs, i hate that, i'd walk out if all these strange people started singing silly songs around me, or at least i'd need noise cancelling headphones or something! how childish...singing at the footy lol haha
I still remember many years ago, i was at the stoop watching the Broncos, my mate was playing for them, we were standing around after the game having a beer when a couple of middle aged men wandered over begging for autographs, so my mate signed their jerseys & told them i played too, well being pretty big & a bronzed Aussie god like being, they believed it so i signed them also, its always been a source of amusement to me & him that there are a couple of London fans with my signature on his shirt'"
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| Quote: supersuperfc "France not doing too well Bazza?'"
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| Quote: downo "yeah but who cares??'"
Obviously you do....
Quote: downo "I still remember many years ago, i was at the stoop watching the Broncos '"
You watched the Broncos at the Stoop? 2012 & 2013 saw that side win 6 Home SL games over the 2 seasons. As a self proclaimed CONNOISSEUR of Rugby League I am surprised you'd have bothered trecking out to Twickenham....unless of course you were working as a pot-man at the Cabbage Patch?
As for your claim to having been mistaken for a player, I sincerely doubt it, given that most of the handful of fans in attendance were all on first name terms with the playing staff......
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Despite all the money in the game in Australia, the sport is arguably diminishing, largely down to the arrogance of its administrators and so called fans, and the lack of coverage of a home world cup is even more evidence of how deluded they are'"
depressingly I have just figured out that the 9 games so far in Australia (including 2 double headers) are averaging 8k a game.... they really don't give a toss and they should never host another one. We can only hope that Perez et al manage to create a North American league and we can leave the 'stralians to their own devices. | | | |
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HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. 
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