You want to tell me what is untrue?

that the game at the stoop wasnt a storming opening?

In the same article he admits that Rugby Union is boring, which is quite funny.

I think we knew most of what he would say, but I'm not quite sure why he's included it in his top ten Autumn Attractions if he then has a pop

Should this sentance read;

He doesn't refer to the game at The Stoop at all, just that using two small-scale grounds to launch a supposedly major international sporting tournament is a bit disappointing.

Bit like opening the 2018 football World Cup (if England win the right to host it) at Oakwell and The Valley.

stephen jones is a first class t!t

he see's rugby league as a threat, bbc coverage on saturday will no doubt show many people still prefer to watch league to onion on the box with ratings

Stephen Jones sees rugby league as a threat?

A threat to what exactly? When rugby league in the UK can manage to convince 70,000 people to come through the doors to watch an international then it might, just might be perceived as a threat.

As it is, Premiership attendances are matching and in many cases overtaking SL ones and the international game enjoys a profile rugby league can only dream of. It's as much a threat to Union as Azerbaijan is to world peace.

Yawn, yawn. Boring as per usual. Maybe he should stick to journalism on rugby union and stick to letting Chris Irvine do the rugby league coverage.

Union is totally and utterly dominant at the moment. He is doing nothing but having a slight dig. He also has a fair point, why the Aus-NZ game wasn't played at an appropriate venue is beyond me. It's the pinnacle of rugby in either code as pointed out by Brian Carney on Sky, so why we can't get 50,000 along to it I'll never know.

England - France is another matter because it's just unmarketable here. It should have been played in France. That would have made it even closer.

Because your average insular club fan has no interest whatsoever in a game in which none of their club's players or their own national team is involved, The 2000 World Cup taught us that lesson.

The only feasible place to play it was in London where at least the expat/backpacker contingent would ensure a decent crowd if the locals couldn't be bothered turning up.

Becareful : Saddened is a Rugby Union fan posting on league sites. Ban him or get him to come out from the dark side.