Really

So Hull playing the Dobbins is the same as Hull playing the Dragons?? Get real!!!

The Derby preseason friendly is a money maker and chance for the coaches to get the combinations working. The games for Wigan and Hull in Australia were treated the same by the NRL teams. If it meant more to Hull FC & Wigan fans then thats fine but you can't pretend it meant the same to the NRL teams.

I knew somebody would bite at this reading through the thread, but using a modicum of common sense surely you understand the point he was trying to make.

This was a pre season game for the NRL teams, trying out different combo's and different players - Hell, even mitch allgood got a game.

In the same way a Hull pre season derby does the same thing here, while still attracting good crowds and a good level of intensity.

The comparison was correct on aims & achievements of the event, not the skill/intensity level or anything like that

This.

The OP stated it was humiliating. Why? because 3 UK teams got beaten by superior opposition in on their own soil? hardly the stuff of collapsed empires.

Quite how only Albert Kelly gets mention when he wasn't Hulls man of the match, only Jean knows. Liam Watts was very much the MOM

Massive positives for Hull were seeing Matongo, Fash, Lane, Logan, Abdull take on seasoned professionals and come out with their heads held high.

at least st george treated the game a bit more serious than souths who named a squad of reserves virtually

Because he's sad with no social life and takes his pleasure from winding people up.

Had Liam Watts been born an antipodean, he would have been.

Quote Psychedelic Casual="Psychedelic Casual"I don’t have an answer to that. Other than maybe - finances. Or maybe they are living so far in the past and not in the real world that they can’t see that those same amateur clubs in those same RL towns are not enough to keep the player pool going anymore. The RFU have spent millions and put this: www.englandrugby.com/about-the-r ... l-schools# into action and it’s got real legs. Wythenshawe (South Manchester, population 100000) have now got a RU amateur club off the back of it with all four local high schools providing players. Previous to this Wythenshawe had no RU links at all. RL has done nothing like this in high schools in South Manchester and a mate of mine works in a school in Liverpool and said RL aren’t in schools in his area neither. Manchester Rangers does have links to MMU but you’d imagine by that age they would already be RL players from RL areas. Plus they are a seventh division club (despite having money for five/six divisions higher if needed).'" And yet when the play Rugby at my sons RURAL Oxfordshire school, they play Rugby LEAGUE. Go figure that one out? Maybe the RL are trying to promote RFL in areas that are NOT in the heartlands, and RFU are trying to do the same thing.... You know JUST maybe?

Quote Psychedelic Casual="Psychedelic Casual"I don’t have an answer to that. Other than maybe - finances. Or maybe they are living so far in the past and not in the real world that they can’t see that those same amateur clubs in those same RL towns are not enough to keep the player pool going anymore. The RFU have spent millions and put this: www.englandrugby.com/about-the-r ... l-schools# into action and it’s got real legs. Wythenshawe (South Manchester, population 100000) have now got a RU amateur club off the back of it with all four local high schools providing players. Previous to this Wythenshawe had no RU links at all. RL has done nothing like this in high schools in South Manchester and a mate of mine works in a school in Liverpool and said RL aren’t in schools in his area neither. Manchester Rangers does have links to MMU but you’d imagine by that age they would already be RL players from RL areas. Plus they are a seventh division club (despite having money for five/six divisions higher if needed).'" And yet when the play Rugby at my sons RURAL Oxfordshire school, they play Rugby LEAGUE. Go figure that one out? Maybe the RL are trying to promote RFL in areas that are NOT in the heartlands, and RFU are trying to do the same thing.... You know JUST maybe?

Dubai really isn't a good example seeing as their coach was thrown into jail over there for trying to promote the code:

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You have missed my point entirely. My point is that RL in Dubai is never going to work if the powers that be are going to throw anyone trying to promote it in jail! Sol Mokdad might not have a bad word to say about the UAE or RU, but the facts remain that RL in Dubai is a really bad example for expansion lol

My bad.....