I'm glad the RFL and League Express have taken it upon themselves now. I just hope they push it properly.

There's something peculiar about Rugby League fans that has to react to everything, no matter how harmless, with distrust and dislike. It was the exact same with the NRL, fans couldn't understand why they couldn't just use #rugbyleague. Now it is not questioned.

The A-league in Australia is the 4th biggest sport (a bit like RL) and they have adopted these and got them trending worldwide. This is just a bonus to a much better way of tweeting.

Indeed we are. Brothers. I am Paul Sculthorpe to his Danny.

I am more Sam Tomkins to his Joel Tomkins.

Sky should show the hashtag at the start of the programme like Channel 5 have done with #CBB and ITV did with #Imaceleb

Yep, I've tried to contact them about this before only to get nothing back.

I'll keep trying, hopefully the RFL's backing should change this.

I didn't think even you would stoop that low.

Yep, simple. 'Please use the #SL(insert) hashtag on twitter' read out by Eddie Hemmings, Phil Clarke could read out some tweets at half and full time and use them as discussion points for analysis. Could even have tweets featured in game where we might normally see scores from other matches. Can just see Phil Clarke saying 'Joey Barton has got in touch via twitter and thinks Rugby League has set the standard for video technology, and urges to FA to take note'.

I know some people don't like the thought of such things, but Twitter is a powerful tool, and if managed correctly can attract large audiences on the 'Top Trends' section, more publicity and all that.

Love it.

Get it sorted RFL!

Actually, Clarke is more likely to say something like [i "Y'know Eddie, that's the forty-third tweet we've had on that on the last twenty minutes ... Stats show that Saints fans are more prolific with their twittering in the last twenty minutes of a game than any other team in Super League ..." [/i

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Towards the end of the season almost every game would trend #1 in Australia. The most amazing thing was that this was born completely from the NRL Twitter community. The NRL is more involved this year so it can only get bigger.

The main reasoning behind match specific hashtags is that it presents a live stream which can be very handy for someone who can't get any other form of commentary. #RugbyLeague would not trend due to it's high use already (has already been said). The amount of people who were asking what #NRL....... meant, was incredible. As fans of the Greatest Game of All we have the ability and the duty to give something back.

Wait till the games expands to Wansford and Kerroogaroo (Isle of Man)

#WanKer ?

Great post, I hope you don't mind but I've posted this elsewhere. There is a great deal of scepticism around using these hashtags. From what I remembered you had some of this scepticism too but it has disappeared.

The thing that most annoys me about over here is that it was a very grassroots campaign that was doing incredibly well getting clubs, fans and media onside and far from bolstering it, the RFL set it back considerably. On the eve of the Grand Final they decided to release their own opposing hashtag which created considerable confusion. This took the wind out of the campaign as people decided to use neither. There hasn't been the same enthusiasm this time round or the same drive from people to push it.

How about our game threads use the titles #SLwidwak? We can do our bit!

Quote: Conorgiantsfan "How about our game threads use the titles #SLwidwak? We can do our bit!'" Yep, they are already doing this on TotalRL and League Express are adding them to their games. As an aside, the most common complaint about the hashtags is that we should just use #rugbyleague instead. I've wrote a blog explaining why the hashtags are a better way to go. It just makes it easier to direct to if somebody is complaining on twitter, instead of having to explain why. maxdecimus13.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... htags.html

Quote: Conorgiantsfan "How about our game threads use the titles #SLwidwak? We can do our bit!'" Yep, they are already doing this on TotalRL and League Express are adding them to their games. As an aside, the most common complaint about the hashtags is that we should just use #rugbyleague instead. I've wrote a blog explaining why the hashtags are a better way to go. It just makes it easier to direct to if somebody is complaining on twitter, instead of having to explain why. maxdecimus13.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... htags.html

Well, I'll certainly start every game topic with the hashtag from now on.