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Rewarding failure? They're a financially viable club with bigger crowds than half the English clubs who have never gone into administration, never cheated the salary cap, have their own TV deal, have usurped union in their city and have produced players for themselves and others.
Lying about Australia the way you lie about Catalans. Rugby league is the number one sport in NSW and Qld. Meanwhile SL is being dominated by a club from a town the size of Dubbo.
Dubbo has towns around it as well. Big deal. If Dubbo had a team in the NRL and was winning it the sport of RL would obviously have massive problems in this country.
Bullshit. It didn't grow to NZ or Australia at all. Professional rugby would have happened here regardless of the Northern Union's existence. It was nothing more than luck that the likes of Giltinan, Trumper, Messenger and co chose to use the NU rules. It could easily have decided on its own and created a completely different code...which is exactly what happened in Canada. As it was it was here that the name rugby league was used, otherwise the sport would still be called northern union. And based on the attitude of the game over there it might as well be.
And you can pretend to care about RL all you want but your attitude says otherwise. Don't ever f**king whinge about the state of international RL again, because you're complicit in it.
More bullshit. There would not be expansion clubs in the NRL because it's a franchise based system and those clubs don't even exist.
You really don't know the history of the sport do you? Here's a hint, rugby league starting in Australia had not a single thing to do with poms at all.
