Then on reflection I apologise unreservedly. It was in bad taste and I am sorry

Call Me God, whilst making his point in the wrong way, does actually have a point though.

We can live in a little RL bubble sometimes and not realise how little attention most people pay to RL.

Whilst there’s lots we need to do in RL, I think it’s worth realising the same is true for other sports. Even football is losing some of its wider appeal in my opinion. People don’t sit down and watch the FA Cup Final for instance like they used to.

Most people’s exposure to sport is on tv and tv viewing is becoming much more compartmentalised as people cherry pick what they watch rather than just watching what is on. They also want to watch it when they want, not just when it’s on.

So it’s not just RL that’s losing some cross appeal but we’re not able to withstand it well or make it up elsewhere. The only exception to this appears to be international sport. That seems to still appeal. Which is why I think we need to prioritise internationals over the domestic game.

It was a somewhat stupid post and certainly in bad taste, but why the comments now 4 hours after he's apologised for it? We all do and say daft things, and let's move on now.

Fair play. No one’s perfect and I’m sure, in hindsight, that you didn’t mean it in the way it came across.

Football losing some of its wider appeal?

You must be joking. It's just had its best ever World Cup. Nothing in the whole of sport is bigger or better.

You missed the bit where I said about international sport and I was talking about sport in the UK. The World Cup was a success here primarily because England played well and played exciting football. If England had slogged their way to draws instead then there wouldn’t have been nearly the same appeal.

But as I said, I was talking about domestically anyway.

And you're a Rugby League supporter??

There was a lot more entertainment in the Russia World Cup, then there has been in the past few International Rugby League events. Anyone with eyes could see it's better.

Certainly the way to raise the profile of RL in the UK would be for England/GB to win an international series against Australia (or the World Cup)
In the early 90's we were nearly there and the game had a much higher profile nationally than it does today. At the time when Offiah was moving from Widnes to Wigan, I was working in Nottinghamshire, and the transfer was certainly a topic of conversation in the canteen. I doubt whether it would be today.

So true, and to be truthful, it's not actually even paid that much attention in the 'heartlands'. It is, I believe, one of the reasons the game struggles to expand and grow and is most definitely the reason for the vast majority of pie in the sky, fantasy expansion posts.

Todays news on the BBC at 6 sport had a report on the irish amateur womens hocky game, (not even our country) but failed to mention Rl at all, this us how far down the pecking we have become that a womens team from another country who are amateurs gets reported and we dont.

It's a disgrace!!!!
Why aren't they at home, cooking the family Sunday dinner?

Very true. When the Super League deal was done in 1995, it led the 6-00 pm BBC news.

Absolute joke that