Tour de France gets more viewers IN FRANCE alone than all RL competitions do around the world all year......it's true because the IRB paid for it to be so




Cricket eh? Not popular you say eh?





yes they do.....they paid for 6 games at the RLWC and almost got their monies worth

Absolutely spot on - and there is some evidence that this fact has been accepted at the top of the game with current (professional) expansion taking place through the Championships.

Don't know about paid for it but your clearly using the IRB calculator!

French audience Tour de France = 61mill
Australian audience NRL/SOO/RLWC2013 = 120million

Hmmmmmm

Sorry to disappoint you but, the Aussie viewing figures aren't the b-all and end all in world sport and cycling isn't just watched in France.
Having said that, I'm sure that RL features heavily on the BBC equivalent in Aus, Although RL is only 5th on the ABC website

Minority sport, given the coverage a minority sport deserves. Whats the problem?

Regards

King James

bored children with to much time on there hands.

Warm Regards,

Grown ups.

Rather than mock my post in a playground kind of way, prove me wrong. Around 90,000 people play rugby league in the UK. Compare that to tennis (400k) and cricket (1.7million) and whilst participation rates in cycling are hard to come by, 200,000 people took part in sky rides across the uk last year.

So yes, rugby league is a minority sport, played in the main, by lower socia-economic groups.

Regards

King James

Yep, bar the English expats abroad and some other Commonwealth people having a read of English cricket news, I can't see it being that popular. I don't believe many Mexicans or Russians would know what Cricket is, let alone read about it.

are we counting POTENTIAL audiences now? Quick, someone tell the IRB and their 4 billion......

Cricinfo.com is, I believe, the busiest sports website on the planet.......The BBC is one of, if not, the largest news organisation on the planet.
I find it funny that certain insecure RL fans expect global coverage because 8k people in Bristol attended a game

A lot of people play Tennis recreationally, rather than joining a club or league. It's the same as saying someone who goes down to the pool for a swim counts towards participation for swimming in the UK. You may now realise cycling is classed as the no.1 sport in England, again mostly due to recreational activities. 1.7m Cricket players? Try 148, 300.

Probably down to India's huge population, but Cricinfo is fourth btw Yahoo is number one. I don't expect global coverage you numpty, but fair is fair. I don't agree with the claims that cricket is a huge global sport, just because India has a huge population. Where are the teams outside of the Commonwealth? All I see is mostly teams full of expats, yet if that was RL you'd be mocking them.