If top level RL stands up to any sport why was the NRL dropped by SKY Sports in the UK.

If RL is such a fanatastic sport why is it only relatively successful in one insignificant desert continent in the southern hemisphere?

If the premier league is overhyped then so is state of origin and the NRL. Association Football is a global sport, RL is not.

A few epic posts from some of the Aus posters, I wonder if they are feeling a tad insecure?

Anyway I came across this new fangled business software (from Australia actually) the other day so I did a SWOT analysis on the state of Aus RL:

It appears that the rot started when this “pom” called Moz knocked seven bells out of a bunch of over hyped Aussie RL players. He had gone to Aus on the assurance that he would find lots of much tougher games, but after spending several years in his unsuccessful search he gave up and came home.

The next traumatic event for the aus libido was when Keef the “machine” arrived and received a resounding 10/10 from one of their “enjoyment experts”.

The aus men were so infuriated that they could be seen gathered together in bars comforting each other, partaking vast quantities of various substances, performing a variety of unsavoury acts and doing strange things in hotel corridors.

So the ladies decide they have had enough of aussie men and since there aren’t enough Brits to go around they look for alternatives. They all form ladies football teams to take out their pent up aggression and spend several hours in the communal bath afterwards fulfilling their various needs.

I hope you are still with me here cos this is the important part – To spite their hubbies they enrol all their sons in football teams and shun everything RL.

All the dejected ex RL payers become 22 stone boorish drunks watching re-runs of what used to be state of origin and thinking what could have been.

Tis true I tell you - well it’s as accurate as any of the aussie posts anyway

Former Salford fringe player David Gower made his NRL debut this weekend

The Aussie backs for the upcoming four nations will probably comprise - Slater, Hayne, Folau, Inglis, Boyd, Lockyer & Thurston. Against SL's
Briscoe, Fox, Shenton, Atkins, Hall, McGuire & Burrow.
Our SL players wouldn't get a shirt in an NRL first grade team, let alone Origin or International.
If we were as good as people are saying on here we'd have won at least something since 1972.
As for Gould, I wish he'd have come to coach at Wigan.
If he had we'd certainly have won more than we have this last ten years.

Oh you boring realist

I don't think anyone will deny the talent and strength in depth of Aussie RL.

We just get bored with overbloated egos costantly chelping on about it.

Some fans think that because their team is superior it rubs off on them. That incidently, is not uniquely Australian, it pervades some British teams also

Simple, let all SL clubs build a casino on their car park, especially the ones in run down deprived areas, and pump the money into Jnr RL. It works for the Aussies!

That wouldn't be hard mate...

As I said right at the start mate, very very small cocks.

...and not forgetting the highly publicised constantly reducing sperm counts of Aussie males.

Yes, I think your right about that. But it would also require a state of fair play with RU amongst the media and sponsors in this country and I can't see that happening soon. It hasn't in the last 114 years.



Yes, I'll give you that one. RL in this country has been mismanaged since after WW2. And until they get it right at the top the rest of the sport will struggle on. But I'd like to have seen the Australian game handle the same amount of competition from other sports and the ingrained bias of the establishment as RL has over here. That's why so many British fans take the hump when our antipodean cousins stick the boot in to our game which of course is not as strong as the NRL or the junior comps in Oz. How could it be?

As I've said on other threads before, sometimes I get the distinct impression our cousins would rather see a RL world without an English competition. And wouldn't that be fun, eh?

Run down areas like Bondi, St George, Manly, Noth Sydney, Balmain, JB's an Idiot......

Yeah...thats the name of an entire suburb in Australians wealthiest city. JB is an Idiot!

Look at all these pommy idiots getting damp because lower grade youngsters take up paid holidays in England before heading back home and getting stuck back into play real football!

Quote: The Glorious League Freak "Run down areas like Bondi, St George, Manly, Noth Sydney, Balmain, JB's an Idiot...... Yeah...thats the name of an entire suburb in Australians wealthiest city. JB is an Idiot! Sydney's West has the poorest suburbs. Oh guess what it also has the most pokie machines and strongest Jnr RL! www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n ... 1116028741

Quote: The Glorious League Freak "Run down areas like Bondi, St George, Manly, Noth Sydney, Balmain, JB's an Idiot...... Yeah...thats the name of an entire suburb in Australians wealthiest city. JB is an Idiot! Sydney's West has the poorest suburbs. Oh guess what it also has the most pokie machines and strongest Jnr RL! www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n ... 1116028741