Mungoball

Quote: Call Me God "47,000 people watched the All Blacks defeat Australia in Japan in October......7,000 more than witnessed Australia defeat England in the RLWC final in 2017 in Brisbane.........read that back again and let it sink in. Brisbane is supposedly a RL hotbed, but there were 12,000 empty seats at the RLWC Final, featuring the home side.....whilst 47,000 curious Japanese were prepared to watch a neutral test.
You may not like Union, or One Direction, but your attempt to belittle the bigger and more popular code just underlines your insecurity and uneasiness when it's compared to League.

For a game that we often describe as The Greatest, it is strange that we struggle to attract fans, sponsors and TV viewers whilst "one direction/Union" don't have that problem Comparing the two codes of rugby and the music industry is a perfect analogy. You can fool the masses easily by putting time, money and effort into promoting something inferior to appear superior.

Not just One Direction but all modern pop and RnB chart music is awful but they are all household names and sell out gigantic stadium tours. There are no redeeming features to most of the songs in the charts, it is all instantly forgettable and they will no way on Earth still be played on the radio in fifty years’ time.

Then on the other hand there are fantastic bands around that play to small audiences in small venues who 97.5% (maybe more) of the population have never heard of. Take the band who have produced my favourite album of the year this year; The Fernweh (and their self-titled debut album). It wipes the floor with any album by any artist in the year’s top40 pop/RnB chart, I mean, FFS, I believe LadBaby was the UK Christmas #1. But the Fernweh only played upstairs in the pub Gulliver’s on Oldham Street when they came to Manchester.

Rugby union could be a good game, has got better as it has sped up in the last five years or so, but a good game of rugby league is miles better than rugby union. Just because the TV companies’ bias as well as investment and promotion of the game is bigger, thus, they get more exposure and greater crowds, it doesn’t mean it’s a better game than rugby league. Just means the old boys network who are at the head of these investment companies and tv companies push the two sports in the direction they want them to go in.