Your the one who posted stats for an alleged rwc 2013!

Perth nrl avg crowd this year 17,500
S15 14,600

Lol

using your logic....and I use the word under advisement, Saracens should play all their games at Wembley given they'd average 83k

Again, Australia is not the entire southern hemisphere.........and RL isn't even the #1 code in Australia, let alone anywhere else

JB has become the new dally messenger!

Once again
Toyota cup under 20's >>>>>>>>>> S15

Come back when RU has any relevance in Australia!

Heh, a big week for Larndan RL and all gf wants do is talk about another sport
NRL broadcast rights deal>>>>daylight>>>>bit more daylight>>>>stupid15.

Gutterfax is the new Dutoni...but without the humour obviously.

It wont happen but I said this a long time ago. Play RU 7's if you must but why not open it to league teams as well. GB1 & GB2 like you get in other sports at the games. GB1 could be Union GB2 League.

It can't happen because the irb want to use 7's in a pinky and brain like plan to takeover teh world...Tho you'd think they'd want Rugby League involved somehow, after all the Bulls did to single handedly re-invigorate the 7's concept in the UK...An attempt at reviving the famous Middlesex Sevens saw the rugby league men of Bradford Bulls overcome the best the Premiership clubs could cajole into playing on a sweltering Twickenham afternoon.'"

If you mean at their Home ground @Watford, then it'd be quicker to name the ones that didn't...they did quite well in the event games, tho a 99 yr lease on a 10k stadium @Barnet suggests that was short lived and not sustainable.


Biggest sport in 8(or was it 7? meh) out of the 10 most populated cities in Aus...and has a broadcast rights deal greater than the played in three countries stupid 15...


You forgot 18,000 ppl in Perth...Oh and a slightly dodgy fella in Wellington.

You remember the link I posted to the seppo union blog? Did you go on there and have a dig about your fellow unionites thoughts on RL? I'm guessing not.


Now Dutts...err..I mean Gutts..teh only foaming on this thread has come from a brave defender of the union faith.

Fuck me it gets worse.

Nah.....unless you want the back on your manor that is

You totally miss the obvious fact that RL does not need International games, it makes its wealth and popularity on the back of its club scene.

That great test you are bigging up will not even be as big as two states playing each other in Australia, it will get creamed in the TV viewership, the audience and the $'s it is worth by SOO. In fact I doubt it will even get close to the weekly NRL viewing figures of 2.8mill people a round (in fact just looked and both games last year drew a combined audience of just 1.9million, yes the cream of Int Ru in the Southern hemisphere couldn't even match a single NRL round!). This years 4 Wallabie tests have so far drawn a TOTAL viewing audience in Oz of 1.75 million!

I would love a stronger Int game but reality is club footy pays the bills in Australia and England and tests just aren't that important or valuable to the game.

RU needs tests to pay the bills and even then the game in some countries is financially dire, hence why they are trying to develop better domestic competitions. S15 is so on the nose that they couldn't get a fTA deal in Oz, there viewing figures pull less than 100K people a game ffs. They are reducing the salary cap because clubs are going broke. I suggest you send your ideas for improving a sport to the ARU as they need them more than RL does!

Face facts RU is not stronger than RL everywhere, you might like to think it is but in Australia it is a very distant third sport and heading down to Aleague proportions.

..To a Test Match, but not a game of RL.
Why is it sooo important to you that we talk about how big union is? This thread should've gone on to big RL nines up and its possible inclusion in the *2018 Commonwealth Games...but someone wanted to talk about a different sport instead.


So is union in NZ...more income from its broadcast deal than spectators according to John Fellet from Skytv. I'll hazard a guess and say the same about Aus...are attendences still falling in those two countries?