and not your opinion either..documented factual posts please, or just don't bother.
FACTS like these.....
Total Cumulative Television Audience 1987-2007

1987 New Zealand 230 million
1991 UK and France 1.4 billion
1995 South Africa 2.3 billion
1999 UK and France 3.1 billion
2003 Australia 3.4 billion
2007 France 4.2 billion

Total Attendance

1987 New Zealand 600,000
1991 UK and France 1,000,000
1995 South Africa 1,100,000
1999 UK and France 1,700,000
2003 Australia 1,900,000
2007 France 2,240,000

My original post was to agree that the RL management need to be on the right wavelength and could learn a lot from the old farts in Dublin .........but the more dikwads like you argue, the more FACTS like those above, available in most media publications and websites, I will throw back at you.
Give up....you really won't win. The entire basis for your opinion is based on AUSTRALIA.....well guess what? There's a big world out there and regardless of if you believe it or not, when you mention RUGBY to the majority of them, they only know one code and it isn't ours.
I love League, but jesus wept.......what I wouldn't give for those figures for a RL world cup

Christ you are an idiot.

You are like the guy who sees the last 10 minutes of the movie and wants to come and in and tell everyone who has suffered through 2 hours of the shy te what it was all about...



How many times have we been through this cumulative bullshy te about union WCs re- TV?

Eels? DM? EA?

10? 15? 20?

If I could be d I would post the IRB's own report that showed how 97% or something of the total audience for the 2007 RUWC Final was in 8 countries...

And they weren't the big nations re- population - figures off top of head - like China (1.2 billion), India (1 billion plus), Russia, Indonesia, USA, Brazil etc. etc. either.

They make those claims look like the lies they are.

BTW, the 1987 union WC had a massive semi-final crowd of 16,000 in Sydney.



As for three soccer tournaments, all of the FIFA World Cup, European Champions League and the European (Nations) Championships would all outrate the rah rah WC.

My knowledge of rugby league is based on the world of rugby league; much of which I have travelled to. And I have travelled very, very widely. As a result, I am truly aware of the massive gap between a global sport like soccer and the rah rah - which wishes it was.

And you are still a troll...

....for an intelligent person you really let yourself down at times. Is it normal to call someone an idiot because they quote FACTS to show up how far off the mark your opinions are? I mean to say, I already showed you that RLNZ has reorganised it's regions into ZONES and all you could say was I was a troll? How very odd you can be....especially for one so well read.

oh look, another thread truned to RU!

Still nothing coming out of Welllington re 2013. Seems there big money backer must have taken his money else where. i would have expected with Gallop's recent talking up of expansion to have heard a rumble of they were going to make a bid. Are there any NRL games being taken there this season?

Hold on there.....I simply replied earleir about how the IRB had made a good job of turning a then minority sport into the 3rd biggest tournament on the planet.....I didn't drag this down to the level of the chipped shoulder brigade. My initial comment was in reply to this...



As for Wellington. Not sure about a bid for an NRL team yet and I haven't heard of any planned games down here apart from the international v England later in the year. What I can tell you is Manly are strengthening their ties with the Maori population with their games being shown on Monday night on FTA Maori TV...either live or re-runs from the weekend.....all good IMO.
BTW.....I like the way you have moved us back on topic

i dont know why he just doesnt give up

i cant be bothered reading those long posts they are so full of s**t.

Cumulative.

He posted it.

LMAO

It's all the usual Union bull. The actual audience is not what they post. The frigging IRB do it and every little Union-loving ant puts any modicum of commonsense they have in their back pocket and lap up the IRB's crap up. For example; www.rwc2003.irb.com/EN/RWC+Histo ... C+1991.htm "The Rugby World Cup was here to stay, having captured the imaginations of a television audience of 1.75 billion viewers across 103 countries, compared to 300 million in 17 countries in 1987." They think their fans are morons and guess what? They're right.

It's all the usual Union bull. The actual audience is not what they post. The frigging IRB do it and every little Union-loving ant puts any modicum of commonsense they have in their back pocket and lap up the IRB's crap up. For example; www.rwc2003.irb.com/EN/RWC+Histo ... C+1991.htm "The Rugby World Cup was here to stay, having captured the imaginations of a television audience of 1.75 billion viewers across 103 countries, compared to 300 million in 17 countries in 1987." They think their fans are morons and guess what? They're right.

union needs to lie

succesful sports dont need to lie

thats why im proud to be a league fan

hell, id be dead set ashamed to be a union fan with all their lies, bigotry and the vichy thing

but then again we have a conscience

Us...



Should I mention cross examination is part of my brief.

You could write 1000 words but don't dare put the wrong one in the wrong place like that again, sunshine.

the funny thing about trolls is they cant help themselves

when someone consistently defends another sport it becomes obvious.

or the other cliche is they enjoy both sports which is code for im a union fan, but watch some league as well

they sprout BS about the past doesnt matter, union doesnt lie etc

idiots

Here little gutterfax....

Kitty, kitty...