You mean like us? Oh, wait..

Hey, I agree that the RFL isn't doing national exposure very much good...but then again, what sports NGB does!?!

Why the hate towards the NRL? The product from Australia is top quality and a higher standard than the SL. I can see why people think they should do more to grow the game but u cant knock what they have done to RL in OZ. The NRL is widely regarded as the best rugby competition (from either code) in the world and while its live attendence numbers are below the AFL its tv ratings are not. The NRL draws great numbers and I expect this season they will be great again putting the NRL in a v strong position for the next tv deal.

We should be asking how they turned things around and made there product box office? They have had the AFL and Rugby Union as competitors and have come out smiling.

My friend has won a 2 week all expenses paid holiday to Melbourne. I told him to go and watch the storm and his response was "Australian RL is not very good and the teams in SL are better". I did try and stress to him he really needs to go and watch a NRL game!!

NRL is slightly better than SL........but it is better. It seems to played at a faster rate and with more intensity.....but SL has got better over the last couple of years IMO.
Dogs v Tigers or Roosters v Bunnies this week better than anything I have seen of SL this year so far.....and the Warriors after the first 20 minutes looked really good too....but I repeat, SL isn't as far off as some would have you think.
Just watched highlights of Saints v Quins......when teams are prepared to stop f*(king around at the PTB Rugby League is lightyears ahead of anything else.

what I dont get is why more young british guys are not prepared to have a go at NRL... they will find it hard, and the media scrutiny is intrusive.. but the rewards are great!

find it hard I've been to Sydney and I've been to Wigan. If I were a 20 something year old RL prospect and as nice as wigan is, I'd be off like a shot!

That is as much an Australian ego thing as a British taking the opportunity thing. Most Aussies still see British RL as far inferior so they are unlikely to chase English players, especially when NZ is so much closer!

.....but if we had a second franchise surely NZ players would stay here and......er.....hang on

yep, nailed it in one! Between robbing players and robbing $'s out of NZ the least the NRL could do would be to put another team there. Shame no one is bidding.

i dont really differentiate between england, australia nz etc

i want RL to do well anywhere its played

i am proud of what the ARL built up however, they worked hard for it

I'd love to see a second NZ team but it's not going to happen if there's no will in NZ for it. There's heaps of bid teams putting their hand up and no one from NZ is doing likewise. Can't complain about not getting a run when they don't even bid.

yeah damn aussies putting a NZ team in their competition in the first place the thieving gets ...

shoulve left the warriors to play on their own in the nz local comp.

and i have mates in richmond and wales who still ask what is rugby league?

Big cities the world over are . London, Dublin, Sydney, Auckland, you name it. Wouldn't live in any of them. But then again, Wigan and Warrington... the less said the better.