Fish oil can't tell the difference between spectating and playing sports...

Who would have thought?



Talk about having nothing...



The big three spectating sports throughout NZ history are rugby league, cricket and union (again, no particular order).

FO, feel free to post all the massive crowds since 1908 for the other 10 sports in your "playing" list.

Thanks for the admission you were wrong. I'll add it to the massive pile of shy te you have previously added here.

Rugby league IS a major sport in New Zealand and HAS BEEN since 1908.

Which part of that are you struggling with, retard?

Otherwise, please outline all the sports that got more than 19,000 at a game on the weekend in NZ?

If you weren't a troll, this would be obvious even to you, Mong boy.

RU may be in decline but what is RL doing to capitalise? More games need to be taken to Wellington, some Warriors "away" games would be good. oh and the Warriors need to win a GF!

Imagine the dramas for the NZRFU when the Warriors do win it one day...

Funny stuff.

Just gutted it wasn't last year. On the back of the WC win it would have taken RL to a new height in NZ and if the Wellington bid team had got their act together they could have been seriously in with a chance in 2013.

Warriors also have to create some "stars". One or two players with massive profiles who they get out into the public view as often as possible. Maybe signign SBW will be the one? NZRL needs to do more to promote the Kiwi stars in the game like Marshall.

rugby league was bigger in nz in 1990 than it is now, there were couple thousand more registered players than there are now about 20,000 0r so. Aussie league began being shown on free to air tv in 1989 after the canberra/blamain grand finak in 1990 they were showing 3 games a week. as well as tha test matches, uk challenge cup final and and local lion red national club final were on tv.

wanui vs upper hutt grand final was huge 10,000 at the basin reserve! fox memorial in auckland and canterbury also had similar grand final crowds. auckland vs wellington and canterbury rep pgames got crowds of several thosand. kiwi's beat oz in melbourne and then ritichie balckmore famous "mening i'll get u meninga" ads were on tv to promote other 2 test in series (which we got smashed in by the way) everyone was talking about dean lonergan get samshed an doing the spastic shakes on the ground an getting up to play on!

i could keep going on gutterfax and i dont wont to be rude to you but i dont think you know what your talking about!
league playing numbers have always gone up and down and league has been able to attract good crowds albiet in cycles if not consistenlty!

i remember visiting my grandad in auckland in 1990 when he heard i liked rugby league he said i see they are saying rugby league could be the no1 sport in nz i remember when they were saying that in the 1950's. my grandad was scottish immigrant to nz never played himself but my father and uncles all played league as kids in 1950's becuse he took tham along to the local club!


league has never been as big as union in nz and at time the participation rate has slipped to worring levels, but when it has had good administration backed with decent top level results it has always captured nz sporting public's attention. league has always had a hardcore diehard following in nz. has always been in the top 1 - 5 ranked spectator sports. and has beenranked number 1 tv sport on many occasions!

to sum it up when people play informal contact rugby in school at lunchtime after school 90% of the time it's a game of rugby league! discrimination by school systems partly because of union supporters and partly becasue league had/has a bad rep as a game for coal miners, bouncers, truck drivers, gang members, etc has stopped its growth combined with long periods of poor administration have seen games fortune fluctuate dramatically!

gutterfax im a bit ed off at your post to be honest where you in new zealand or wellington in 1990?

He has no idea...

End of story.

with the expansion of the salary cap to 6 million the warriors will be in a position to raid the S14 at will.

together with improving their finances it will improve RL no end

if you are a kid in nz now, you will be looking at people like benji marshall to emulate

Yeah thank God it is now so different to the bad old days of 1990.

gutterfax were you aware that when aussie league expanded to have teams in auckland, perth, north queensland and 2nd brisbane side, wellington dolphins bid just missed out, wellington side were jacking up games against nrl side like canberra. super league war and resulting bad media coverage, poor warriors results after being overhyped and failing to deliver the hype, and bad administration and incidents such as a drive by shooting occuring at wellington grand final, saw game go downhill in wellington after the mid 1990's.

a 2nd nz nrl side is a matter of time

if it wasnt for the sl war wed already have it

queensland and nz are where well go too next

BTW, the official regions of New Zealand Rugby League:-

1. Northland (comprising Far North, Bay of Island, Whangarei).
2. Auckland.
3. Waikato.
4. Bay of Plenty.
5. Gisborne - East Coast.
6. Taranaki.
7. Hawkes Bay.
8. Manawatu.
9. Wellington.
10. Nelson Marlborough.
11. Canterbury.
12. West Coast.
13. Otago.
14. Southland.

Please note trolls how the entire country is involved...

Oh yeah...I forgot.

Rugby league didn't exist in NZ around 1990 either according to you.