New Zealand 2 will deal a massive blow to NZ rugby

[The Great Dane]

How has origin continued to grow then? I mean how many years has qlnd dominated in the last 20?

Origin attracts it's audience in a completely different way than internationals, or it did at least. Heritage rules and other nonsense are slowly f**king it up as well.

The old boys club in NSW simply don't understand it like the Queenslanders do.

how have all blacks managed to stay so popular despite decades of dominance?

on the back of kangaroo dominance of the 80’s the test matches of the 90’s were brilliant.

inthink it has a lot more to do with the nrl attitude to IRL and the Australian media dismissal of the international game. Some of the coverage is downright disrespectful at times.

You didn't actually read my post did you? Because you've completely missed the point.

If the poms want to see who's most responsible for the death of international RL they need only look in the mirror. . . The RFL's mismanagement killed international RL as a commercial product, and the entitled attitude the poms have and shaming tactics they use to try and get the NRL to participate only make it worse.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Yeh it’s not like international rugby league teams would pick players born overseas lol.

The likes of Peter Fitzsimpleton berate rugby league for doing this. Now they're doing it.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

But what does the wallabies selection have to do with the price of bread?

A loaf of bread is worth more than the Wallabies.

 

[Brian potter]

A loaf of bread is worth more than the Wallabies.

And more interesting.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

And more interesting.

Rugby union is at risk of falling behind gridiron in this country.

 

[final say]

Rugby union is at risk of falling behind gridiron in this country.

Well, it's currently well behind bread..
If they work really hard, they could be as exciting as bread but not the best bread, brown bread at best.

 

[Colk]

Well, it's currently well behind bread..
If they work really hard, they could be as exciting as bread but not the best bread, brown bread at best.

Multigrain?

 

[final say]

Multigrain?

Let's not get carried away. Maybe 15 years ago before they really nailed a good multigrain.

 

[Matiunz]

Reflection of how badly super rugby is going

By your logic NRL is going badly, they’ve had plenty of Australians play for the kiwis with less ties than the Union example you provided.
More than grasping at straws with this argument

 

[final say]

How many pages are you guys going to argue the relevance of a post?
Seriously, nobody f**king cares.

 

[Wb1234]

By your logic NRL is going badly, they’ve had plenty of Australians play for the kiwis with less ties than the Union example you provided.
More than grasping at straws with this argument

TikTok - Make Your Day

super rugby …. Meh

 

[final say]

TikTok - Make Your Day

super rugby …. Meh

That hilarious. The team song is soft like the game.. chur bro we won, now let's do some nice singing in harmony... so gay.

 

[Wb1234]

That hilarious. The team song is soft like the game.. chur bro we won, now let's do some nice singing in harmony... so gay.

TikTok - Make Your Day

 

[Matiunz]

That hilarious. The team song is soft like the game.. chur bro we won, now let's do some nice singing in harmony... so gay.

Have u heard the old timey AFL songs? Now THEY are suspect

 

[Matiunz]

TikTok - Make Your Day

super rugby …. Meh

7 out of 7 they’re allowed to be happy. Another post with nothing to do with NZ2 but…

 

[final say]

No news out of the South Island bid or bids...apparently they were looking to meet V'landys a couple of weeks ago but no news..? So it leaves you wondering: was the bid left with the same ambiguous messages we've had through the media? Or was it a solid forget it, it's going to be PNG? or did they get a nod and a wink.. do your work and keep it to yourself and any leaks about this will hurt your chances?
If they were told PNG is certain, forget it, they wouldn’t be risking anything by telling the media or simply pursuing another endeavour ( which would probably be in the media) so the NRL were either very convincingly ambiguous still behind closed doors.. or not .. and the South Island bids now working their butts off with no need to push this forward publicly to sway the NRL through media...

Is the lack of news on the South island a good sign??
Time will tell

 

[final say]

7 out of 7 they’re allowed to be happy. Another post with nothing to do with NZ2 but…

They sure are happy/ gay.

 

[final say]

gay
adjective
1.
sexually or romantically attracted to people of one's own sex (used especially of a man or Super Rugby player).
"the city's gay and lesbian people won a Super Rugby game "

 

[flippikat]

No news out of the South Island bid or bids...apparently they were looking to meet V'landys a couple of weeks ago but no news..? So it leaves you wondering: was the bid left with the same ambiguous messages we've had through the media? Or was it a solid forget it, it's going to be PNG? or did they get a nod and a wink.. do your work and keep it to yourself and any leaks about this will hurt your chances?
If they were told PNG is certain, forget it, they wouldn’t be risking anything by telling the media or simply pursuing another endeavour ( which would probably be in the media) so the NRL were either very convincingly ambiguous still behind closed doors.. or not .. and the South Island bids now working their butts off with no need to push this forward publicly to sway the NRL through media...

Is the lack of news on the South island a good sign??
Time will tell

"do your work and keep it to yourself and any leaks about this will hurt your chances" really does sound like something V'Landys would come up with... that's an interesting theory.

 

[Canard]

Nothing happening from two very underwhelming bids?

Just invent some Fan fiction about how amazing V'landys is.