McNamara to stay for NZ Series 2015

Quote: Him "Deliberately disingenuous? You mean like quoting attendances when people are talking about the on-field product?

Certain people wanted the discussion to go in one particularly way. I'm just going with the flow.

You're just a conspiracy-theorist, bitter, Union Moonie who can't take criticism of their beloved small sport so attacks a bigger, infinitely more popular, infinitely better run sport to make yourself feel better.

Did that have anything to do with what you wrote? Nah. But then neither did your or Gutterfax's posts on here either.'"

Opinions are like s mate. And it would seem that more people are if the opinion that they prefer to watch union than league..............and more sponsors would prefer to be attached to union, the tv companies pay more and the press write about it more.
As I say....best not to mention union at all.

Furthermore......if people insist on bringing up Union with it's ponderously slow set pieces and multiple collapsed scrums, it goes without saying that whilst nobody doubts that RL is by far the better product, the FACT that the general public prefer, sponsors prefer, TV companies pay more for and press pays more attention to Union will be repeated. And then, the tin-foil hat brigade will pipe up that the restriction of League in the media is not down to the fact that most of the pro team are within 50 miles of each other, but instead part of a secret Nazi plot to promote one code ahead of another. The 250,000 people who attended the victory parade in 2003, like the 15,000,000 who watched the final were either paid agents of the IRB or mindless sheep who know nothing. In addition, the 70,000,000 viewers the BBC claim for the 15 x 6 Nations games each year are actually BARB bots, sponsored and paid for by the Italian RFU in an attempt to further marginalise League in its' Milanese heartland.
France, where the IRB are still hiding Nazi collaborators, is another area where League is on the cusp of domination, if only they could sort out funding, a business plan, a TV deal and enough players to negate the need for a load of ANZAC back packers to make up numbers.

Let's discuss Union some more shall we?

The average attendance of the Aviva Union is greater.....but as the SL had more games, it actually had more people in attendance. This, to the tin-foil brigade is proof that "if only we could get exposure in the daily mail, we would dominate the globe". The reality is that whilst Twickenham is regularly full for the opening of an envelope, the RFL will be flogging tickets for a tenner to fill the Olympic stadium...because those s at the daily express won't publish SL scores

Then there's the TV deals. £44,000,000 a year across France, Ireland and the UK for 12 weeks action in the european comps......not sure how much that impacts the £38,000,000 a year BT pay for the Aviva, but at a combined £82,000,000 a year for the Euros and UK coverage of the Aviva, it's fair to say that Union commands a "tad" more TV cash than the Red Hall game.

What's that I hear you say? Nobody has said union's not bigger? Then why in christs name mention friggin Union in the first place then? Don't tell me it was simply a critique of the game, not designed to make it look foolish and league better, because it's the only reason any of you dabble with it.
I have to say, I've learnt more about Union by researching the utter bollox claimed on here by the SAD than I ever did playing it......