The newspaper will print what it wants and in general what it believes it's readers want to read. Their failure to place a RL moment in their top 10 of the year is hardly going to alienate its readership and therefore as far as they are concerned is not a hanging offence that some narrow minded fans of a minority sport would have you believe. There were no spare seats in Dublin by the way whilst 2 games left close to 30% unsold seats......and events in Dublin Drew a bigger BBC audience......but shame on the guardian for not pandering to the desires of people who don't read it.
Fuck me........only RL fans would complain about lack if RL coverage in a paper they DON'T read

where are you getting the bbc viewing stats from?

The bias from the southern based media is there as you have admitted, wether it is due to perceived readership interest, old school RU tie connections of editors or some other reasoning the bias is very clear and obvious to anyone other than a Union troll.

Could someone provide some factual examples of old school RU connections of current national newspaper editors. I would be very interested to see those....

Wether there is bias or not, and whatever that reason is or isnt, there isnt any benifit using it as an excuse for bad management, what difference would it make to RL if they had included the WC match in the list ?

Absolutely nothing

Start filling stadiums,build a truly national competition with a strong competitive spread, start winning International competitions against the Aussies and then you would have complaints

I'm guessing the editor of the Guardian didn't get exposed to League in his education years lol!

was educated at Lanesborough Prep School, Guildford, where he was also a chorister at Christ Church, and Cranleigh School, a boys' independent school in Cranleigh, Surrey. At Magdalene College, Cambridge, he read English Literature.

Scott Moss Guardian sports writer:
"I grew up with rugby, and loved the way the game defined Newport"

Not surprising, but also irrelivant

Oh for Gods sake, even you don't believe that rubbish. England lost to New Zealand, in a competitive match. The Union game was Ireland. A passing interest in a friendly game from however many people does not equate... Italy v Ireland? Deary me, must try harder, chomp chomp - yawn.

One state? Riiight. Even the Aussie Rules trolls would give us 2... OK, I'll give Victoria and WA to the AFL any day, but the idea that Union is ahead of League in ANY state of Australia AT ALL is a joke. Your beloved game is dying here - certainly by the benchmarks you set RL in the UK - and I've really enjoyed watching it since I arrived. Like I said, you can't help yourself on the Black is White stuff like that, which is why nobody even hears the rare valid points you make any more.

At least Dutoni had a sense of humour back in the day mate...

Very relevant. Believe me, as a lad who moved south at 13 and experienced the institutionalised League hatred in even state Union-playing schools (honestly, you couldn't make some of the crap I saw up) let alone the private ones, this stuff sticks and will take at least another generation to wash out amongst southern-educated professionals, be they journalists, sponsors or whoever of influence.

Seriously

The Guardian will write what its readers want and no amount of whining is going to change that.

It was the majority that changed those things, if you can convince the majority, change away

Oh sorry, I thought you were Joking

The Guardian lost is way years ago - it now panders to the not too intelligent, trustafarian, public school set. It's a crap paper. I couldn't care less what such an unrepresentative rag feels is important.

spot on 6.271484375:5