Only just seen the advert, the Brownlees come over negative and it looks like a winter sport.
Johnny Vegas for all his faults showed a bit of enthusiasm in his promotion of the sport.

Disagree. Preaching to the choir is pointless. We are "egg chasers' to most of the sports fans across the UK. The Wiggins/Tompkins advert was genius, because if you weren't a RL fan, you were still captivated by what Wiggins was talking about....you'd have no idea who the "jogger' was until the end, when the (at the time) Nations sporting hero declared that RL was too tough for him!

Showing tackles (as far as your average soccer fan thinks) is just Rugby...and then we get lost in the mistake that there's only one egg and we all chase it. Leeds v who? Old footage interlaced with new of what....tackles and passing and tries.....is it Union?Is it League....no, to your average sports fan it's RUGBY.....and to me a generic ad is worthless.

Like Wiggins, I'd have aimed for a more renowned sporting hero for the country.....Anthony Joshua maybe? The Brownlees are brilliant at what they do but they aren't superstars.

How does this sport sell itself if it doesn't have any personalities?
a year ago it was the Bradley Wiggins advert before that Jonny Vagas now the Brownlees, and you guys want a bigger star?

So what any neutral person can tell is league has no personalities to follow!

and you all moan rugby league doesnt know how to market the game but obviously you guys haven't got a clue either.

By using personalities that are know, like Wiggins and Vegas

no...that was 5 years ago.....keep up.

No...he was last year
now the Brownlees, and you guys want a bigger star?'"

The brownlees actually follow rl, as does wiggins as does Jonny vegas. Who does AJ support? I'd say it's arguable that the Brownlees are near on a par with wiggins, and the choice of 'celebrity' isn't a problem.

I understand preaching to the choir is pointless, but when an advert such as the Brownlee brothers one which comes across as patronizing and does not showcase our sport at all does more harm than good. And it annoys the choir very much as you can see by the reaction towards it. Wiggins was a different kettle of fish. On the back of a highly successful 2012 (especially the home Olympics) we had a national hero promoting our sport with positive terminology. Many think Wiggins is a tough bloke due the nature of his training and sport and the mindset he needs for his races. To essentially 'give that up' by proclaiming RL is too tough for him got people talking. The Brownlee brothers one attempts to re-create this idea but it should have been off the back of a successful 2016 Olympics, however timing apart, it just comes across as an amatuerish and quite frankly patronizing attempt.



Yes it does come across as just rugby. And that there is only one egg. But at least there's action from our sport being showcased to entice someone to maybe just give it a look. The Brownlee advert was boring at 3 minutes of just talking really with no actual rugby action. I'm not a fan of generic adverts at all, but a generic one would have been much better than this. It would have had action, yes, maybe outsiders would not know which code it was, but in 3 minutes of the Brownlee one, unless you were a fan, how would viewers differentiate between the two codes anyway? Apart from the ending where it says SUPER LEAGUE Starts 1st February 2018. Which would have been on the end of an action packed generic one anyway?



Maybe Joshua would be a good fit. But if we are going to market it right in my opinion we need to go away from other sports stars. I don't think any other sport (I probably am wrong here so please correct me if I am) well from what I have seen anyway, no other sport uses athletes from other sports to promote their own.

As daft as it sounds in my opinion the best 'celebrity' we had to promote the sport was a quick 20 second interview in the rain with Russell Crowe. Deep down I want to be a rugby league player.

Maybe he'd be willing to do a proper advert for Super League. Not this Johnny Vegas or Brownlee type attempt but a genuine advert very much like The Rock did for the NFL's AFC Championship game.

How can you pluck a name to advocate RL that weve no knowlede has any interest in the game. The game would then be a laughing stock for just paying someone to say a few lines and i doubt the money offered would touch the sides of AJs bank balance, so again it comes down to someone whos got a genuine interest in the game.

Whats Tina Turner up to these days?

AJ will have responsibilities to the television companies covering his fight with Parker later this year...SKY SPORTS BOX OFFICE, so any promotional work that gets him in front of a camera for SKY would count......so no, it wouldn't cost the earth and maybe even gratis......remember, this is a SKY advert for a SKY product, but let's say it is cost restrictive. Then Spend the money saved on paying Joshua on a decent script writer or marketing design bod, because the current video with the Brownlee Brothers is as bad a promotional video as I have ever seen and stands more chance of being ridiculed and making us a laughing stock than having one of the most recognisable sportsmen in the world promoting the game.

Aren't the Brownlee brothers big Rhinos fans?

It's kind of amusing as a fan, but is unlikely to generate much neutral interest. The short, snappy ones are best, but as someone said, why would the BBC be interested in advising people to watch a different broadcaster every Thursday and Friday? I expected more from Sky though.

yep