_Johnsy said:
I am lucky enough to have fox, or austar up here. I must say what a round of games., finished off by one of the best club games for many a year. I then compare this weeks games to the "Dull 12's" and i tell you what. Without the big corporate dollars the Dull12's has it would die a slow death. What a slow, boring kickathon the games were, all showed with minimal skill. Union will not overtake league, it cannot compete with our week to week football and level of skill. If I wanted to see a boring goal kicking competition mixed with a bit of forcem'backs I'd go down to the local park with a few mates. pffft what a bloody joke!!
Give me the "real" game anyday of the week. League is the superior game ...and yes time will tell.
What a truly small-minded and insecure comment.
Look, I realise you don't like Rugby Union as a sporting spectacle. I have no problem with that whatsoever.
But it might suprise you to discover that many people do indeed enjoy Rugby Union. I for one. But then I also enjoy "AFL" :roll: too so maybe there is something wrong with me?
We talk about beating dead horses around here, but surely "Rugby Union is boring" is the ultimate.
:BDH:
Are we here so small-minded that we have to think that competing codes are dull ("Dull-12s" boy, that is clever! :roll: ), unskilled and not "real"? I mean seriously, have you ever watched players like Stephen Larkham? If that guy's skill "cannot compete" then my name is Frida.
Are we here so insecure that we have to think that competing codes exist simply through "big corporate dollars"? I mean, isn't the NRL half owned by one of the biggest corporations in the world that continues to prop up certain NRL teams?
The average crowd for a S12 match in Australia in the last three years is 24,882. It is 16,122 for the NRL. Total and average representative rugby union crowds are much larger than Rugby League ones. That really doesn't reflect a code that is using apparent "big corporate dollars" to it avoid "a slow death". Yes, the S12 season is much shorter than the NRL season. But it is impossible to explain away rugby's superior crowd numbers through this.
Take Super 12 off air completely? Are you insane? So anyone who follows a sport you don't like doesn't deserve television coverage.
For me, League is the superior sport. No doubt about it.
Red and White till the day I die.
But that doesn't mean that people who like rugby are stupid. Nor that they follow a "dull", non "real", skill lacking, big corporation dependent code. It just means they have different tastes. Nor that they don't deserve an equal number of replays on Fox. Fox Sports is a business whose primary motivation is to get ratings. They are trying to cater for multiple markets. Get over it.
