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Why would they take it to a 25,000 stadium when they can get 80,000 in Sydney?

what about melbourne idiot

Because the original idea was to take it to England and you've no chance of filling Wembley.
RE: American Football, no its not massive over here but everybody has heard of the NFL. If I asked the man on the street what SoO was he wouldn't have a clue, even in a league town.
If you could somehow fill Elland Road I reckon you'd earn as much with the exchange rate as you would for 80,000 in Melbourne or Sydney

Interesting idea.

The English don't tend to do tribalism though, we can't be bothered getting off our backside for Lancashire and Yorkshire, let alone some state breeding 4 armed people in an old backwater of the Empire.

Leave them to play with each other in their big games in the convict colony I say.

nope i dont.

if you didnt care/were interested you wouldnt watch it.

and then people complain about poor quality debate.

is that right is it?

so why does the WCC get such good crowds.

clearly theres interest in the nrl then.

and perhaps this will attract a lot of fans that arent traditional RL fans.

you know, this could be a "promotional tool"

hang on, promotional tool and RL in england.

ive realized my error

its got nothing to do with getting english fans tribalistic for the game.

as i said before, we got 8000 with zero marketing for the game in LA.

as other sports can sell out wembley (life NFL) why not origin.

people would go to watch to see the best quality RL on the planet

perhaps the large amount of players registered to the BSL not to mention the ever increasing number of university and college teams dotted around the country.

then of course you have the ex pats. in the 80's there was a big push by the nfl to promote the game in the uk with a number of exhibition matches plus in the season we get better coverage of the nfl than we do of NRL.

i can get 4-5 games a week between sky and channel 5.

but what would be the point? We already have a RL game that sells out Wembley. If you want to use SOO to spread the game lets worry about making RL a national game in Australia first!

since the yanks are going pro why not play the SOO there? seeing as you can get people to attend in LA with no marketing perhaps with marketing you could sell out the big stadiums.

Or they could have their own state of origin or west vs east. Which they would probably turn into some kind of all star game! which i suppose SOO essentially is considering the players in the 2 teams.