RU the least watched footy code in Australia lol

Who gives a shiit

I think I am supposed to

It's a game the more insecure RL fans among us play to make themselves feel better about how small RL actually is when compared to the slower, but bigger and more popular code.

For example:
Point out that the Irish Rugby Football Union, who run a sport that is behind Gaelic Football, Hurling and soccer, generates a bigger turn over than the RFL and the stock response is $1,000,000,000 for a TV deal in Australia.
or

Point out that the Welsh RFU generates more than the RFL, as does the Scottish RFU too and the stock response is State of Origin gets 4,000,000 viewers.

One of the problems with this game is that most of the "proof" delivered to show how MASSIVE RL is in Australia and how the media Bias is keeping RL down in the UK is actually only opinion. AFL is bigger in Australia and is actually a NATIONAL sport as to the NRL which has 62/5% or 10 of it's 16 sides in one state (and that's counting ACT as a state ), whilst in the UK 12 of the 14 (86%) of the teams are along 1 motorway. That means that 22 of the 30 (73%) professional clubs in RL around the world, come from 2 core regions......but this fact is ignored when discussing the supposed IRB/RFU led media bias against League. The actual viewing figures of actual viewers who tune in in greater numbers to watch Union everywhere other than Australia FTA (the pay TV records in Australia belong to Union by the way).

Aviva feel the need to pay 4 million a year for naming rights of a competition that delivers comparable attendance and viewing figures as Super League, whilst BT pay double for the rights, The RLWC delivered cut price RL to the British public but the 160,000 increase in fans didn't deliver the financial clout expected, the recent All Blacks match v England attracted 1,000,000+ viewers on Pay TV........that is 4 times the audience for the SL grand final in 2013.....but these FACTS, if the self declared defenders of the RFL faith are to be believed are not important.....well, not as important as the Guardian Newspaper, whose readership are not interested in RL, omitting a game of RL from its 2013 sports round up!