I may well be wrong about this but....
I thought the BBC Sport page had Rugby League as one of its main Sports links on its page next to Football, Cricket, Rugby Union etc?

Am I dreaming?
Now its Football, Formula1? (really) Cricket, RU, Tennis, Golf, Athletics, Cycling and Sochi 2014
Did Rugby League take a bullet for Sochi?
League is now in the mass of "more sport" with Badminton, Snooker and Bowls.

rlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rl

The answers you seek are in rlhererl.

IIRC you are right, and it was a main sport..............

The headers are most likely based on the popularity of each sport on the BBC website and whilst the people on this forum, plus many, many, others, see RL as a fantastic sport, it's popularity is not as great as some would think.
Also, the off season has been as low key as I can ever remember with even the SL official website struggling for a story.
The topics that most fans want to know about are just not being mentioned and at some point, we may find out who the new SL sponsor is, what the league structure will be (beyond next season), whether Bradford will complete the season etc, etc.
If the SL website has nothing to say, how can we expect anyone else to ?

Sorry I missed the other thread.
I am not going to be a doom monger but the game is....... not going as good as it could.

I thought this had been cleared up already, bbcsport.co.uk - rugby league appears in the banner (and has done so when I checked just then) but .com (the international page) doesn't?

Cycling is that popular? Seriously??

From an international perspective, I'd say yes. But then I don't see what's so popular about Cricket and Union, but whatever. I don't expect Aussies, French, Kiwis, Papuans etc. to go to the BBC website when they look for RL news, let's be honest it is crap and slow, so therefore we miss out on 'international' readers for RL.

BBC don't give a poop about RL. Accept it.

In fairness, there are probably more members of the public looking at cycling news (on the back of Wiggins and Froome, etc and the Tour de France coming to England), than there are, trying to find out who's gone bust in RL or, whether the sport has a new sponsor. So yes, cycling is that popular.

International BBC readers comes down to two things:
1. How important our domestic competitions are to other countries - ie the Premier League will interest people all around the world, Wimbledon will draw in international tennis fans etc.
2. How many British expats there are around the world reading the BBC website.

Tour de France gets more viewers IN FRANCE alone than all RL competitions do around the world all year......it's true because the IRB paid for it to be so

Absolutely spot on - and there is some evidence that this fact has been accepted at the top of the game with current (professional) expansion taking place through the Championships.