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.






Back on thread.


Yes, of course....Im sure 7's was played in the requisite number of countries back in 2009...wheres that flying pig gif gone...

Yep RU 7's was played in 75 countries and watched by a billion people!

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Fuck me it gets worse.

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



It is the simple fact that these idiots refuse to accept that RL is nowhere near as popular as RU that ensures that RL will continue to be the smaller code......this weekend, the Aussies v the AB's in something the RL fraternity call the bloodyslowcup will attract more fans to a game than any RL test over the last 10 years,,,,,,including double headers......GLOWWWWWWBALLY.

RL is a TV sport.....it is 100% reliant on TV revenue to keep it going and "quarters" to accommodate more adverts and the "coaches challenge" as suggested earlier this week point to it being further marginalised as a spectator sport in future.......

RL needs more fans like me and less like the idiots who brand me a Union troll for repeating the truth....[size=200RUGBY LEAGUE COULD LEARN A LOT FROM THE IRB.......[/size...Oh no...look...it's a Union Troll

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?

I suggested you were a shill not a troll

. No gutts, RL needs more supporters full stop, tho Im not sure genuflecting before the rfu is the way to go about it...

I stopped reading after this.

Face the facts, you've just changed your argument! Haha.

You were arguing that RL in Australia is bigger than RU in the entire southern hemisphere. Now it's just Australia? Well done on slyly moving the goalposts. It wasn't unnoticed though.

And this opinion is the exact reason why RL is isolated to where it is. Outside of Australia, very few care about the NRL.
Outside of Australia, a hell of a lot more care about RU. More people globally will watch major RU internationals than a 3 game test series between two states in Aus. It will get more news references because it is more global.

Australia are the single reason why RL isn't as big as it is. And the irony is they think they're the reason WHY it's as big as it is! Once you've gotten your heads out of your *rses and realise that you're not the solution you're the problem, the game might actually move forward at some kinds rate!

That's an interesting one, when I get time I'll dig out the viewing stats for S15 across the Southern Hemi and see if they come close to NRL in Oz,NZ and PNG. My gut feeling is they don't but will have a look to see if I can find any evidence.

New Zealand, France, England, Wales, South Africa, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Argentina, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, USA, Canada, Georgia, Madagasca, Namibia, Nigeria...there are a lot more countries if you need them..................keep it up champ



1,464 France v Wales in RL.......84,000 in Union.....go on...tell us again how union struggles