Quote rover49="rover49"I was just thinking the same thing, he often spouts $hit, but there is truth in his remarks, even if they are deliberately aimed through his bile and hatred for our game.'"
So what if there is truth in what he says, what is it to him if RL gets 200 or 200K to games? How does it affect him? It doesn't.
Jones is a bully who doesn't compare like with like. He likes pointing out how small RL is, which it is, big deal, but he couldn't hack it if a soccer writer started pointing out the reality of RU compared to soccer and how global that is compared with the few countries that play RU (and how many of them are not empire connected?) Because RU is itself a minority sport, so he better be careful when ridiculing people.
He also says 'the mighty Lebanon'...well I don't recall anyone saying that, nor do I remember them being in the 4Nations but they [iare[/i Lebanese, playing in Lebanon, so again, what is it to him? Does he point out how low netball crowds are? What he neglected to say was that the curtain raiser to that game was a kids game featuring a UAE side. This sort of stuff is happening in loads of places now. It doesn't mean RL will take over the world but it means it is developing pretty well.
Personally, I don't give a frig what this clown thinks of RL, (the fact he is STILL going on about it tells you the real story) but he is in a position to trash RL and does so regularly. Do you think the readers of his stuff actually check out what is really going on?
Only speculating
