The thing being about RU though is that there is a massive level of junior club membership, Yorkshire alone has something like five leagues with at least 12 clubs to a league, each club will have two or three sides and then there's pub sides, schools, vets teams etc so there's a massive playing base across the whole country that are interested in reading about the sport and as interesting to the members of Wensleydale 2nd XV a report on their pre-season training might be it is the Premiership that will interest most players and ex-players from Yorkshire to Cornwall.
Rugby League by comparison is confined to a very small number (admittedly growing) number of clubs, once you get outside the heartlands a lot if not most of the players will be off season RU players so I can see why there is such a disparity in coverage, the interest of the two sports is not confined to the headline pro sides.

I used to fish, in fact I loved it. Doesn't mean I want to know what Will Raison has for breakfast or how Matt Hall is preparing for the latest event.

Thanks mackenzie.

Please identify how if 33 million watched the Final, the whole tournament was watched by "4 billion"?

Would you like to borrow the union calculator?

They've lied for over 115 years. It's second nature.

They just don't like you pointing that out...





Though they can't refute the arguments.

Quite. RU is beginning (in certain papers) to get the overkill coverage that football gets. Indeed, I bet that with no top-flight football this weekend, RU will get some pretty massive coverage, down to "Does Lewis Moody take two lumps in his tea?" stories.

That is because there is a surfeit of poor quality rugger types masquerading as journalists in the (sports) pages of just about every English paper...

They have to somehow justify their existence.

I just don't get this union lovefest with the press though.
Surely they can see what an overrated load of rubbish that it is compared to RL.
I know that our game has suffered years of bigotry from the press and it will stay the same.

Who do we think will win the rugby 7's at the commenwealth games? Looking at some of the countries involved, hats off to the IRB for spreading the game world wide

4 billion...

I repeat, it's the emperor's new clothes. Everyone is told how wonderful the product is, we were told before the season started it would be the best year ever due to more rule changes. You can still win a game with 24 points from kicks. If you ask your average yawnion type what they like about the game it is a load of patronising waffle. Yawnion is all about image, status & the occasion rather than the game. I am envious of some of that.