If I'm the USARL, the first thing I'm doing is seeking an injuction to prevent them using "rugby football league" in their name.

The implications are far reaching. What these 3 NFL sell out games do is free up the England union team to play test matches in the north of England without having to worry about servicing the Twickenham debt.

Easy to have "commercial nous" in this situation. You've got a stadium that needs filling and someone who wants a stadium to fill.

It'll say a lot about the RFUs attitude to the north when they announce which England games they'll take there. Is it likely to be prestigious Six Nations matches, or S Africa, New Zealand and Australia; or lower tier games perhaps such as Argentina, Uruguay and Japan etc ?

Wouldn't surprise me if they played a 6 nations game in the north, especially in years when they've 3 home ones. A s. hemisphere giant, equally possible. I think they've an eye on making inroads.

They see us a bunch of northern monkeys that they are ''better than''.

Make inroads?

They can go sod themselves.

He's been promoted back to the 53 man squad and should play against Detroit to tomorrow.

9 carries for 27 yards, 5 receptions for 20 yards.

On a team that's basically dialling it in and riddled with injuries, he's now basically the second-string running back.

He got dropped early in the season because he wasn't good enough and is only back in the squad because of injuries.
So put some meat on the bones for once rather than just cliches....
1. Why is Americans watching a 30 second RL clip good for the sport?
2. Why is Hayne leaving RL good for the sport? Rugby Union is as big across the globe....thus Sonny Bill leaving RL was good for the sport.
3. Have you ever visited the planet earth?

Whats the "huge success" that the title refers to?

Regards

King James

Its certainly a stretch to describe him as a huge success, but he's certainly being talked about. How good it is for our game I'm not sure, but I guess there are alot of Americans who now know that our game exists which can't be a bad thing.

He did okay last night, didn't tear up any trees but he looked assured. Had plenty of involvement and came up with a few nice plays. Good for his development.

See who the OP is and all will become clear.

....he got dropped

And then brought back.

I know next to nothing about American football, and am not much interested, but I always assumed that virtually nothing was 'off the cuff' in AFL, and it was all pre-planned moves. Is this wrong?