There's lots of kiwis here and every kiwi I've ever known likes both league and union. They don't love one and hate the other like most Aussies do.
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There's lots of kiwis here and every kiwi I've ever known likes both league and union. They don't love one and hate the other like most Aussies do.
The saffers probably wouldn’t
There's usually the odd Force jersey at a NRL game. But no I dont expect large scale conversion to happen lol. Union types are an odd breed and still look down on league as a lessor sport played by lessor people.
go to UWA 'rugby' club and ask them what they think about RL!
Private school union types won't be largely converted. There only a small minority here though.
a lot of projecting there mate. As multiple Kiwis have pointed out there isn’t the animosity between league and union in NZ that there is in Aus. The whole class divide thing doesn’t really exist there, except maybe in a few posh suburbs. Many kiwis happily follow both codes and most sports fans like seeing the Warriors do well. You might find a new team would struggle to gain traction in particularly union dominant spots like Dunedin but that’s not where a new team would be based or draw most support from anyway. From what I’ve seen areas with large Māori/PI populations especially always seem to have plenty of league fans.
That’s a good question of australia or nz has the best rugby (either code) players
Spot on. The wall that separates union & league fans/communities isn't as rigid here as in some other parts of the world - and we have a good pool of fans that are kinda like "swing voters" in elections.
Heavy rain expected Friday wonder how that affects the crowd
Crowd aside, it strikes me a good opportunity for the Warriors to fine-tune their wet weather game-plan.
They have an easy run home
I hope so, it’s definitely something we need to work on. Crowd will lose a few k, inevitable in shit weather but it’ll still be healthy.
Are you a Warriors fan mate?
Wouldn’t necessarily say it won’t happen. They’re strong favourites for every one of those games at this point and they’ve reliably won as favourites against lower ranked teams this year. Tomorrows game against the Raiders is the hardest game left.
Yep, since 1995 - before that I actually cheered for the Bears - not a member or passionate hardcore supporter , but if I had to pick one club I liked pre-1994, they were it.
For some weird reason, considering the year NZ has had with rain, floods, cyclones the Warriors seem to be unable to handle wet conditions. It will not surprise me at all if we lose this one. But unlike the last decade I wont be surprised at all if we win it too.
