The hefty arrogance from the rugby fraternity towards rugby league is nothing new, but if only the rugby folks would declare the shaky foundations from which they cast their opinions.And they should know. However nice stats at the end, wherever they came from.
Rugby is not the "world game" it boasts of being, and anybody who tries to push this argument is wrong.
It is certainly a bigger game than league worldwide, but it is hardly enjoyed as widely as it pretends to be, either.
One of the barriers rugby faces as it strives to be admitted to the 2016 Olympics is whether or not it is in fact a world game. Olympic bosses are certainly doubtful.
Rugby fans chest-thump that 33 million people watched the 2007 World Cup final between South Africa and England.
This is presented as overwhelming evidence that rugby is a world game.
However as Olympic bosses know, rugby's proud boast does not stand up under closer scrutiny.
There were 20 nations playing in the last World Cup, picked from, as rugby people proudly tell us, more than 200 countries around the world that play the game.
Yet of the 33 million that watched the World Cup final, a July report revealed an overwhelming 97 per cent came from rugby's eight foundation countries
4 billion my , if the final had the most viewers at 33 million and if every other game had 30 million, it still wouldn't reach 4 billion.
My god unionites are dumb.
and the 
in the inane belief that they look big and clever.......
