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Chris Ashton to start on wing at weekend. Jonny dropped.
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| Quote: Catalancs "Chris Ashton to start on wing at weekend. Jonny dropped.'"
I've got some paint to watch drying I'm afraid. |
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| Quote: Catalancs "rlEngland regressing and depressing in equal measure, says Stuart Barnesrl
[iEngland are regressing; there is no progress in sight. The overall team performances are more lacklustre and the individuals are looking out of love with the game.
Last season Delon Armitage was touted as a success story for the England management who had the courage to pick him after several other options were injured. Now the swagger has disappeared. No sooner does he catch the ball than he is looking to kick it away. He is barely a shadow of what he was.
...France. By far the best balanced team in the tournament to date, they must overcome their own nerves more than a lackadaisical England to win the Grand Slam and set themselves up for a serious crack at the World Cup. A defining performance would give Europe its only hope of lifting the World Cup in New Zealand 2011.[/i
Despite being a 'truly global game' it's still down to two or three teams at best when it comes to the World Cup.'"
"Truly global game" my .
Union WC
Winners 4
Runners-up 5
Rugby League WC
Winners 3
Runners-up 4
Apparently, rugby league is a minority sport and union is global.
Bull shy te.
Exposure and misinformation... |
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| Quote: Gijou ""Truly global game" my booty.
Union WC
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Runners-up 5
Rugby League WC
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Runners-up 4'"
The point I was trying to make.
Quote: Gijou "Apparently, rugby league is a minority sport and union is global.
Bull shy te.
Exposure and misinformation...'"
Sorry but outside of Australia rugby union is global and rugby league is a minority sport. I don't like it but it's the truth. |
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| Quote: Catalancs "The point I was trying to make.
Sorry but outside of Australia rugby union is global and rugby league is a minority sport. I don't like it but it's the truth.'"
Yawnion is popular in NZ, SA, UK & France. Far more popular than league, but nowhere near global. |
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| Quote: tigertot "Yawnion is popular in NZ, SA, UK & France. Far more popular than league, but nowhere near global.'"
Global in terms of established leagues and international competition. For example the Spanish league doesn't trouble the headline makers here but:
- it's competitive
- the winners take part in European competition
- the national team take part in world cup qualifiers and regular friendlies
- the domestic competition and international side are shown on free to air television
- the results are in almost every major newspaper of a Sunday morning
- there are teams from all over the country, not just certain areas
I'm not defending the sport just stating facts. |
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| Quote: Catalancs "Global in terms of established leagues and international competition. For example the Spanish league doesn't trouble the headline makers here but
Global my ar se...
Just because [ithey[/i say it is, don't make it so.
The World Cup figures I posted speak for themselves.
Misinformation and exposure.
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| Quote: Catalancs "news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/8574950.stm
Whatever would Dick Best say?'"
The in only in cos they is black? |
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| Quote: Codarmysaint "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attendance_figures_at_domestic_professional_sports_leagues
Over 6 thousand more in 2008.
Rugby league, Australias number 1 sport if you take away Rugby and AFL ![]()
Noticed your wiki link mentions the NRL and AFL are regular season games only, yet the S14 has them all.
Do you think the plays offs for the NRL would add to the overall average seeing as one game had 75,000 to a semi, another had 50,000 in Brisbane, 28,000 in Victoria, an 18,000 lockout in Sydney, followed by anther 25,000 in Sydney?
Then there is the Grand final which had 82,000.
Also, the S14 home teams have 6 or 7 games only in the warmer months so if you want to watch a match, you can't afford to stuff about and say, I'll go in a week or so's time, you either have to turn up, or miss out.
The NRL plays over double the games the S14 plays and they play right through winter.
We'll see how big the s14 is next year when people can pick and choose which games they will attend when the season goes for a proper length instead of this kick n giggle 7 weeks BS.
They'll be going head to head with RL and AFL, something they don't don't do much of now.
Then we can look at the TV ratings where the NRL gets more people watching it a week than the s14 gets when you combine all 3 countries, there's the truth mr RAH RAH, a liitle old comp like RL out rating the S14 shown in 3 countries, that's bloody embarrassing for Union 
And since when is it right to use wiki?
Anyone can go in there and change the figures.
One thing I have noticed is it's bloody hard to find crowd figures for the S14, for some reason the poor dears don't like to publish them, so I'd take your figures with a big pinch of salt.
NRL in Australia alone without rep footy and other grades = 3 million+ a year through the gates, Union in Australia with everything combined = 500,000 at most.
Who's the bigger code out here again?
Friday night footy out rating the Union internationals, who's the b1tch huh? 
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| Quote: Catalancs "The point I was trying to make.'"
What that the World Cup records are nearly identical?
Analysis of those figures shoots down union's global claims immediately...
That is why you would never have seen it in the mainstream press. |
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Brian Moore is really outdoing himself in his bias towards England today. From listening to his fart-in-a-bath voice, you'd imagine that the ref was a frenchman.
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| Quote: gulfcoast_highwayman "Brian Moore is really outdoing himself in his bias towards England today. From listening to his fart-in-a-bath voice, you'd imagine that the ref was a frenchman.'"
He's been raging since the start of the game, good job he never has to watch Super League refs, his head would have exploded by now!. |
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England - 6 tries in 5 matches.
That's crap. Really crap.
They're lucky. Lucky in the respect that they can put on any old guff and Twickers will be a sell out. Voluntary robbery. They should call Watchdog and report them as rogue traders.
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