Bagging League

[Te Kaha]

But rah rahs never seem willing to bag their code for the disgraceful past history it possesses and the reasons for league's stunted growth.

Whats the point?

 

[Dr Crane]

Cool, i can update my wanker list.

 

[Martli]

League rules and union rules.

 

[Thomas]

Some classic quotes in this thread from the board's resident idiots.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[rugged]

League rules and union rules.

YEH

 

[taipan]

I went the other way,more so now wondering what the hell I was missing over the years.
All Black tests exciting in the main,NRL matches with the odd exception enjoyable and this is on a consistent basis,league tests with the exception of the final of the tri series again in the main exciting.
Accept that union is far bigger internationally,happy for league to expand internationally at a leisurely pace.Dont accept unions bagging of league for trying to expand.
To me so called variety/technicalties is not the be all and end all,its ball in play,fluidity and constant contact.For me sometimes the simple things are more exciting.
Then again it would be a boring old world if we all liked the same thing-Paris Hilton would have been given the flick years ago. :twisted:

 

[CanadianSteve]

League is just as big internationally, the only difference being is the frequency of Tests.

And both are just as big internationally as soccer, the only difference being the frequency of tests and the number of countries who play at a high level, and the number of fans that follow it.

 

[rugged]

And both are just as big internationally as soccer, the only difference being the frequency of tests and the number of countries who play at a high level, and the number of fans that follow it.

Size obviously isn't important to you!

 

[Brutus]

So remind me which code it is that has a club competition that recieves even less exposure than the embaressingly run NSL, and can only attract friends and loved ones to their games???????? IS it the AFL??? Or maybe the NRL???? No, sorry i think its neither.....................oh of course its that joke of a game they call the "running game" :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ,.

I also find it ironic they call rugby "the Game they play in heaven" Whys that?? Oh thats right rugby kills u cuz its so boring and people have been known to die peacfully in their sleep.

Got bored and went looking through the old pages. Paid off as I had this fella made some really valid points, especially about the popularity (or lack of) of club union in Australia.

You could extend that lack of popularity to just about every other country in the world. Even so-called union loving countries attract club crowds so low, they are too embarrassing to publish.

I wouldn't get too carried away with union's standing internationally. I have a good old chuckle with rugby people who do.

 

[rugged]

wouldn't get too carried away with union's standing internationally. I have a good old chuckle with rugby people who do.

I wouldn't get too carried away comparing club rugby to the NRL as you very well know the super 12 is the main RU comp in Australia and should therefore be compared with the NRL. Club rugby can be compared with the QLD cup etc.

 

[Polynesian Warrior]

hahahah


why are the forwards in yawnion so fat???????????


i could never understand that


must have something to do with the amount of runnign they do

My brother plays league in one of the clubs in Brisbane and their front row will make the Sumo wrestler look like mickey mouse .

 

[Polynesian Warrior]

As a died in the wool leaguie who deals in facts I have no probs saying that league's int'l game is far, far smaller than unions, just like league's grass roots int'l spread is far, far smaller than unions.

But rah rahs never seem willing to bag their code for the disgraceful past history it possesses and the reasons for league's stunted growth.

What past screeny ? The past you heard on league forums or the real past that's on books and documentaries that doesn't blame rugby at all .

 

[Moffo]

wouldn't get too carried away with union's standing internationally. I have a good old chuckle with rugby people who do.

I wouldn't get too carried away comparing club rugby to the NRL as you very well know the super 12 is the main RU comp in Australia and should therefore be compared with the NRL. Club rugby can be compared with the QLD cup etc.

No. Super 12 is a state based competition in Australia. The waratahs are a state team. You can't compare that to the NRL. S12 teams in Australia are contracted to the national body

And there are 1million more differences. Can't do that

Thanks

 

[Matt M]

I may not be rugby unions biggest fan but I like to watch it when a good game is on. But some people on here act like a bunch of idiots when they pay it out.

 

[rugged]

No. Super 12 is a state based competition in Australia. The waratahs are a state team. You can't compare that to the NRL. S12 teams in Australia are contracted to the national body

And there are 1million more differences. Can't do that

Thanks
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You can't expect the public to be interested in more than 2 tiers of a game. Cricket has international and state based, the rest is ignored. Rugby League has NRL and state of origin that anyone cares about. Rugby union has international and Super 12. Super 12 is not a rep level. They are teams that play in rugby union's top level in Australia. It's just the way it is. If we didn't have Super 12 we'd have a national comp like League and that would be big because we wouldn't have Super 12.

 

[Moffo]

How big were the state games before the super 12??

 

[rugged]

About as big as the interstate games before state of origin I guess.

 

[taipan]

As a died in the wool leaguie who deals in facts I have no probs saying that league's int'l game is far, far smaller than unions, just like league's grass roots int'l spread is far, far smaller than unions.

But rah rahs never seem willing to bag their code for the disgraceful past history it possesses and the reasons for league's stunted growth.

What past screeny ? The past you heard on league forums or the real past that's on books and documentaries that doesn't blame rugby at all .

I didnt want to bring the subject up however as it was raised the book "The Forbidden Game" as one example by Mike Rylance a historical account of what happened in WW2 its all there in black and white.
Also The French govt (after a commissioned investigation by the previous govt under mme Buffett)acknowleded discretely rugby unions involvement.
I am not going to get into a code war,just stating examples.

 

[taipan]

No. Super 12 is a state based competition in Australia. The waratahs are a state team. You can't compare that to the NRL. S12 teams in Australia are contracted to the national body

And there are 1million more differences. Can't do that

Thanks
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You can't expect the public to be interested in more than 2 tiers of a game. Cricket has international and state based, the rest is ignored. Rugby League has NRL and state of origin that anyone cares about. Rugby union has international and Super 12. Super 12 is not a rep level. They are teams that play in rugby union's top level in Australia. It's just the way it is. If we didn't have Super 12 we'd have a national comp like League and that would be big because we wouldn't have Super 12.

I would assume in rugby league there is actually 3 tiers,NRL which is a ratings winner,SOO which is a ratings winner and internationals which do very well in the ratings.To say that in effect rugby league internationals are ignored is wrong.Even one side tests draw the TV viewers and reasonable crowds.

 

[rugged]

I would assume in rugby league there is actually 3 tiers,NRL which is a ratings winner,SOO which is a ratings winner and internationals which do very well in the ratings.To say that in effect rugby league internationals are ignored is wrong.Even one side tests draw the TV viewers and reasonable crowds.

Good point taipan but my answer to this is that union has the tri nations which is similar to the state of origin, which is an annual event separate from its considerable international program.