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What should they be worried about? Unlike almost everywhere in the world rugby union has zero clout or influence in Toronto compared to the Wolfpack, we can easily promote RU as a developmental/recreational variant of the high-level professional sport of RL, which TBH is how it should be throughout the world.
They do. But the amateur RU scene there is much more established and we can basically eat it up. Promoting 'rugby' means we get all the benefits, none of the agro and basically own the market. RU fans are just RL fans who don't know any better, if we get them onside then RU slowly becomes more and more irrelevant. Meanwhile Rugby Ontario are doing this stuff anyway so we might as well claim it, TWP is the big fish in that pond.
Three things in fact. First, Union is a niche sport here in Canada, way down the pecking order. Second, unlike Union, RL is essentially the same as gridiron: a ball control game with what Russell Crowe has described as defined periods of offense and defense, so it's much easier for Canadians and Usonians (=estadounidenses) to grasp and accept. And third, RL is essentially a Canadian game because its distinctive features were all invented here in Canada and later adopted in RL and improved.
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