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If you break it down to Rugby of any kind:A Kiwi on here made a very good point recently and it really struck home for me.
Try as it might apart from a few All Black home Test matches nothing can match the hype generated around NRL.
For whatever reason even if super rugby was going better it cannot match the hype levels that the NRL generates, the reasons for that are probably myriad, but I think we can agree it is probably true, League`s social media presence is pretty impressive,it is a media juggernaut for nine months and now we have Vegas to kick things off every year, and guess who`s going next year. Do you think that might get a bit of hype back in NZ ?
That`s what union in NZ are up against, and like any new product bursting into the market with the right social media campaign behind it, it will be very hard to stop, especially in this day and age.
All NRL needs in NZ now is more shop fronts, i.e. teams for fans to engage with.
The Nrl are the biggest Rugby competition in the world... let that fully sink in.. no other Rugby competition on the planet comes close! 17 teams full of 12 million dollars worth of talent a piece. 240 million dollars in talent playing in front of an average crowd of just under 20k for 7 months of the year, action and drama packed with close contest all season long.
For a Rugby loving nation.. to think having that on your doorstep can't dethrone Union? I find that laughable.