I get the hatred that some RL fans have for Union, the same way that RL in wales will always be strangled at birth because of the League raids in the 70's and 80's......but to compare the RLWC with the RWC is just stupid.....it dwarfs our comp...even their world rankings change regularly, whilst we will ALWAYS have the same top 3......even with the Kiwi second string masquerading as Tonga and the Aussie b team as Fiji


The set themselves a target when they won the right to host 2015 of 2,500,000 tickets......they missed it by 22,195. We set ourselves a target of 1,000,000 which has already been reduced to 750,000 three years out........chalk and cheese....chalk and cheese.

The history of the split. Northern England being deeply entrenched in unionism/socialism vs the middle class capitalist and conservatism of the south. Old habits die hard.

tosh.....utter tosh
Hundreds of thousands of Northern men and women died in WWII fighting fascism, yet millions voted for Brexit because of Immigration......selected memory and harking back to the split or the miners strikes is no reason to hate another sport whilst voting to keep johnny foreigner out.......it'sealousy, pure and simple

You can be a RL fun and simply not like the sport of rugby union and vice versa. The idea that if you like RL then you should also watch RU is ridiculous and the same if the roles were reversed.

I don’t mind RU as a game, it’s slower and there’s a hell of a lot of standing around doing nowt, but it’s watchable.

It’s the sport I hate, the institution. The banning of RL in France “rugby league XIII is a game for rogues” they said there; the total non-recognition if rugby greats from Wales because they were league players (some couldn’t even get jobs back in Wales when they moved home after retirement); the Welsh racists not giving black rugby players a chance to play and refused to let them play for Wales so they came to league and could never play union again; the middle class belittling of our sport by the posh buggers who love ruggers in England... There’s the same rivalry of the two codes in Aus, but in Aus RL wins hands down.

lol.....RL in Australia is like the teenager who won the lottery.........they have not a single clue as to what to do with the game. Onion on the other hand has started to realise that it needs to be smarter....... it'll never be big in NSW.......but everywhere else it is just as big and internationally.......well, let's just say tht the Wannabees sell more jerseys than the Kangaroos......meanwhile, in Australia LITE........there's 2 codes and we all get on fine thanks

Thugby Yawnion is pretty well dead in WA mate. Twiggy's experiement maybe about keeping the seat warm, but when he's dumped a bit of coin he'll get bored.
I can't understand why he isn't behind a WA NRL bid.

Game, set, and match!