I don't have an issue with them struggling with who Bruce Forsyth is to be fair! I did have an issue with Adam Blair not being able to name a single Wigan player when asked who he thought our danger men were at a dinner at the DW on Wednesday. It's the second year on the trot Wigan have played Brisbane and Blair played for NZ against England including 5 of our players only 2 month back. It was disrespectful I thought although maybe his memory isn't back in full working order after O'Loughlin smashed him in to next week when scoring at the KC.

I've found that many Australian RL fans have very little knowledge of British Rugby League, particularly any who are under 40 years old. They seem quite insular in that respect. They could probably name Wigan and Leeds and struggle to name any other teams.

How many Australian Football (soccer) teams can you think of off the top of your head?
Snap.

No I would'nt know their TV celebs but I would Know most citys landmarks, But not the "three apposles" last time I was there it was the twelve appostles on the great ocean road.

Your comparison is ridiculous and makes no sense!
So the initial aspect of asking RL players to name players in the only other professional league in the world from a team that is not only well known (pretty much globally within RL) and one that you played against 12 months back and indeed against players from that team in an international. ..compared to
Asking a British RL fan to name a team in a third rate sport that they'd have little if any interest in with next to zero global recognition wirhin its own, that gets next to zero coverage here that most Australians couldn't name or be interested in either...just lol

One , Central Coast Mariners, but then again I don't follow soccer in any country. My point is that a lot of Aussie [uRL followers[/u don't know much about UK RL. The percentage of UK RL fans knowing about Aussie RL is I believe far higher.

To be fair Thurston has always come across not the most intelligent guy. Watch him whenever he is on the footy show or being interviewed on channel 9. He comes across like s big kid who always loves to joke around!

On the field though he has to be one of the smartest guys around. Game intelligence he is up there with the best.

I was not replying about the players interviewed, I was replying to LyndsayGill
Just because its the same sport does not automatically generate interest across the globe.

to become a citizen I had to be labotomised first, so my ability to read wickpedia fell apart...

I don't know many Aussies TV stars and I've been here for a long time. Mainly because Australian TV is so horribly bad and I avoid it like the plague.

I've been to Melbourne and Adelaide a few times and wouldn't recognise anything from either city. I wouldn't expect anyone to remember much of Brisbane either to be fair. Its hard to remember anything of note even when you live here. Sydney has the only world famous man-made landmarks in Australia.

So Adam Blair couldn't name any Wigan players who would pose a threat to the Broncos? Spot on, Adam.

Not sure if that is a trick to test people - but i'll take the bait.
Miller is a proud son of Victoria - born in the oddly named Melbourne suburb of Sunshine (which is the most dismal industrial suburb in Australia possibly). He was also a star Australian rules player.
He might have died in Queensland. Half of Victoria go to Queensland to die.