Are you chewing gum?



WoW.....the game at the level below the top 24 has really come on leaps and bounds over the years and that's fan-friggin'-tastic, but unfortunately, in terms of the topic under discussion, MEDIA ATTENTION IN THE UK AND PARTICULARLY TV, RADIO, PRESS AND AUNTIE, then you're list is about as useful as chocolate teaspoon

Seriously, even 2nd tier soccer struggles to get noticed other than the top few who might briefly grace the premiership next season (GO BRENTFORD!).

knockersbump, GF was talking about elite pro sport. The Gaelic sports are played nationwide in the UK, doesn't mean its a national sport.

Blue dots top tier Hockey clubs, red line top tier RL clubs. Haven't been on Hockeyfans.com, but I doubt they bitch and whine about lack of press coverage!

Not sure if it was Avenger or Crusader Pete who reckoned a map of the 2nd tier clubs in both Rugby codes would paint league in a better light, but here you go anyway. Red and blue as before


Interestingly, the Broncos have featured on BBC TV more in the last few weeks than they did in the last few years........let's see if that continues.

aren't you going to have a similar map for any sport with small top tier?

Trying to keep it to team sports played on grass

Interesting that you've set a criteria which allows you to omit the 2 clubs in Wales, the club in Newcastle, Gloucester, Coventry, Oxford, the extra club in Cumbria and the 2 other clubs in London.

Interesting but transparent and not at all surprising as it blows your argument that RL is only professional along the M62 corridor.

Nope...that's the 2nd tier map you asked for......are you that desperate that you now want 3rd tier clubs to show the relevance of Rugby League to the NATIONAL MEDIA


Of the 12 RL clubs in the championship, 3 are full time. The rest are semi-professional. Below the top 24 clubs, the level of payment received by players is minimal and hardly worthy of being related to as "professional". Next you'll want me to include all the clubs in Ireland to show how widespread the game is there

You can't be semi professional, you either get paid to play or you don't. You can be part time which is what you were trying to say.

I don't give a flying one about gutterkn0b, I'm no longer interested in what that fool has to say on this forum.
as far as I'm concerned RL IS nationally played and as such should be recognised, the BBC give airtime to local RU in pretty much every regions' local news but at the same level (2nd/3rd tier etc) they barely mention RL.
The flaws are ultimately at the door of the RFL.

So is Hockey....and it's more demographically diverse than League, but has less whiney fans when it comes to demanding national coverage!

17 of the 23 English clubs in the top 2 tiers of RL play in a county that includes the word YORKSHIRE. 10.37255859375:10