so a bunch of RU 'friendlies' gets more column inches/pages and air time than a WORLD CUP in every paper and on free-to-air and subscription TV...if thats not media bias I don't know what is?

There IS a media bias in this country...end of. FACT. It isn't a level playing field...for many reasons...some self inflicted..most not.

If England win the rugby league World Cup they'll be 2 inches in the rag, half a try and 20 seconds in the news and the queen will send a pack of sherbet lemons, then it'll be written out of history in 10 years.

Did the media make more people tune in to watch the Union friendlies than who bothered to watch the RLWC Quarter final featuring England?
Did the 1.2 million who tuned into SKY for the England v All blacks secretly want to join the 260,000 who watched the SL GF but were kept away by the media?
Do the BBC report a 4,500,000 average across all 15 6 nations games simply to highlight the chasm in public interest or is that again more media bias?
Do the Editors of the UK papers say "sod it" and print less league than union, not caring about the potential loss of sales as a result?
The lead RL story on the BBC is not a good news story......was it the IRB that done it?

If you love union so much why don't you just marry it.

Where did I say I loved anything? Paranoia and insecurity is rife in certain sections of RL fandom!

Sky Sports have made a piece on the semi's, which those of us with balanced views predicted.

It was a good 4 minutes and summed up the tournament very well, not biased one way or the other, just the reality of our sport.

Seems they don't have an agenda after all, available online if anyone wants to see it.

And that's because relatively few people actually care. Sorry to have to break that to you.

Simple answer...yes....its called publicity.



eh? England didn't play the All Blacks on the night of the Grand Final did they?



If its on..People watch it.....the more you put on...the more they watch it...especially blanket coverage at peak times on BBC 1...backed up with pages and pages of publicity in the broadsheets and tabloids....that isn't rocket science is it.



No actually what they do say is..I don't want any of that northern 3 in my paper....none of them wear the right school tie.



not sure what your point is here? The fact that a badly run club is in administration or the fact that the BBC chose to cover it....both are true. Good news, bad news whatever...just make sure its reported fairly and proportionally.

RL does not get a fair crack at the media circus....thats the choice of the biased people that run the media.

If Sale RU were playing Newcastle RU in the Premiership final at Twickenham on the same day Wigan played Leeds in the challenge cup final...who gets most coverage? Based on what?

Seems a bit quiet media wise this week, the RFL should be twisting the BBC's arm to have a feature on BBC News tomorrow, we need to be plugging this as 'England RL's biggest game for decades' and get a bigger TV audience in.

Hard to care about something when your exposure to it is miniscule.

Quiet on the RL world cup front, but five live were making a massive deal out of Clive Woodwood watching a re run of the 2003 union world cup for the first time and the fact its ten years to the day since England won it.

Jack FM (Bristol) mentioned, during their 0700 news bulletin this morning, that the England RLWC Semi Final squad was due to be annouced today, .

The RLWC twitter account was busy today, highlighting all the advertisements dotted around London and the coverage we'll be getting on talksport etc

Oh ok, so if only people were given the chance to see it then they'd immediately see what they've been missing - the self styled "Greatest Game" - and demand for RLWC tickets would far exceed supply?? I see where we've been going wrong now for 118 years.

Fellas, some of you have got to get a grip. The paranoia you have is unbelievable. The fact is you're fighting battles that aren't being fought anymore....in fact the "other side" aren't even aware there is a war!