Ask a Stockport County fan what they feel about Sale Sharks' effect on the community's local club!

Bull.

It is about exposure because of the London press. Doesn't make it "bigger".

And southern is soccer completely with a few toffs playing the rah rah.

Absolutely spot on

It took so long to draw out the rah rah love...

How embarrassing...

Agree entirely.

I do have a Southern friend who follows RL for the bizarre but understandable reason that he's a Wycombe Wanderers fan and thinks that Wasps stole his ground.

It must have been a swarm of the nasty critters. Or he's mad.

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Sounds very murky.

The Magners League: proof positive that Scottish rugby union has died on its a***. Discuss.

The problem in Scotland is that union is still very parochial. Hawick, Melrose and the other teams still get decent enough crowds but Edinburgh, Glasgow and the now defunct Borders outfit struggle for fans as they have no sense of tradition or hetritage. That was the view of one of a Scottish friend who attended Heriots.
We talk about rugby league being confined to the north of England but Scottish union is very much a (south) Edinburgh game.

Oh yeah, "toffs" like those who recently did some jobs at my house: A cavity wall insulation installer from Reading and a roofer from just outside Bristol. I think you need to re-think your stereotypes.

That's quite a post considering your 'home' board.
Send In The Clowns: Flatcappers, whippet breeders, flat earthers need not apply (did I miss any out?)

I got stuck in Hawick once with work (it's a dump) and was told something fairly similar. I also remember someone telling me that the SRFU were mainly interested in trying to get Glasgow into rugby union, which is frankly never going to happen.