Quote: Psychedelic Casual "Doesn’t do all teams in the NRL who play in the ANZ any harm.'"
Indeed it doesn't.......but they have multi billion dollar TV deal and an audience of 3,200,000 paying customers who over the season average 15k... and tune in to watch in many millions as well as 3 games a year that stop the country.......meanwhile, we've given the pinnacle of our international game to a guy who in his first foray into the US market, has failed miserably IMHO and this isn't a good start to anyone who thinks that RLWC 25 USA is going to be anything other than an abject failure.
NYC/Toronto/Boston etc......awarding them the RLWC before most of them have proven to be anything other than an idea with a rich backer but little else is insanity...the 2017 competition took us backwards with 3k fewer fans per game averaged....we have a stated target of 30k in 3 years time.....and then after that, do we expect a sport that is UNKNOWN IN THE CONTINENT to fill stadiums?
5k in Denver is the death knell for the RLWC 25