NRL launches touch football premiership

[Vee]

Good move, and they managed to fund more than 4 teams!

Amateur.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Greenberg and Beattie suck. The game is neglecting the bush. The media is against the NRL. Their jerseys are clashing. The game was better in the 1920s. Perth needs a team. Etc etc.

 

[T-Boon]

I'd be pretty shocked if Souths and Cronulla don't get two of the NSW spots as a consolation for missing out on the Women's NRL teams.

Yeah Souths have to have a spot seeing as they invented Touch Footy. I think they are the only professional sporting club in the world who invented a sport.

 

[Coparugby]

Greenberg and Beattie suck. The game is neglecting the bush. The media is against the NRL. Their jerseys are clashing. The game was better in the 1920s. Perth needs a team. Etc etc.

Lol

Code in crisis

 

[ReddFelon]

Greenberg and Beattie suck. The game is neglecting the bush. The media is against the NRL. Their jerseys are clashing. The game was better in the 1920s. Perth needs a team. Etc etc.

 

[Last Week]

All this positivity. It's so unnatural. It makes me sick. I need East Coast Tiger in here to reign you all in.

 

[Clifferd]

if we aren’t averaging 500k people per game by 2021 this plan will have failed.

 

[Canard]

All this positivity. It's so unnatural. It makes me sick. I need East Coast Tiger in here to reign you all in.

I'm sure PR managed to put a negative spin on it.

 

[Perth Red]

I'm sure PR managed to put a negative spin on it.

I tried, but I struggled.

 

[Disinterested third party]

One trick

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Brilliant. A sport that is not RL and with no appeal and the NRL is spending RL money on it. What for? So they can pretend it’s RL and claim the participation numbers. If touch had any value or appeal as a spectator or TV product it would have been drawing crowds and TV slots for years. It hasn’t. It is also not a pathway to the NRL for players. It just isn’t. Anyone who thinks some bloke is going to play touch all his life and get an NRL contract based on his touch ability needs to end themself.

They cock up the women’s comp, they’ve failed to grow the actual premiership and now this.

All this positivity. It's so unnatural. It makes me sick. I need East Coast Tiger in here to reign you all in.

How’s that? Just because most people are sucked in by this shit doesn’t mean it’s good.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Lol

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Is that the sound you make while fellating Greentard?

 

[Canard]

Brilliant. A sport that is not RL and with no appeal and the NRL is spending RL money on it. What for? So they can pretend it’s RL and claim the participation numbers. If touch had any value or appeal as a spectator or TV product it would have been drawing crowds and TV slots for years. It hasn’t. It is also not a pathway to the NRL for players. It just isn’t. Anyone who thinks some bloke is going to play touch all his life and get an NRL contract based on his touch ability needs to end themself.

They c**k up the women’s comp, they’ve failed to grow the actual premiership and now this.

How’s that? Just because most people are sucked in by this shit doesn’t mean it’s good.

At this point it's satire

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Is that the sound you make while fellating Greentard?

 

[Coparugby]

Brilliant. A sport that is not RL and with no appeal and the NRL is spending RL money on it. What for? So they can pretend it’s RL and claim the participation numbers. If touch had any value or appeal as a spectator or TV product it would have been drawing crowds and TV slots for years. It hasn’t. It is also not a pathway to the NRL for players. It just isn’t. Anyone who thinks some bloke is going to play touch all his life and get an NRL contract based on his touch ability needs to end themself.

They c**k up the women’s comp, they’ve failed to grow the actual premiership and now this.

How’s that? Just because most people are sucked in by this shit doesn’t mean it’s good.

It has massive appeal. That’s why it’s already one of the most popular sports to play in Australia.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Got nothing.

Let’s see the Greentard fanbois explain how nrl expansion and the women’s comp have gone. Now they’re throwing money they don’t have at a different sport that no one is interested in. This big announcement didn’t even make the tv news just now.

It has massive appeal. That’s why it’s already one of the most popular sports to play in Australia.

Bullshit. It’s the equivalent of bowls or darts or any other midweek social sport. If anyone wanted to watch it there’d be crowds and TV audiences already. There isn’t. It offers nothing except the ability to lie about participation figures. When the VFL does that we laugh.

 

[ed-grimley]

Who watches touch football?

 

[Clifferd]

Brilliant. A sport that is not RL and with no appeal and the NRL is spending RL money on it. What for? So they can pretend it’s RL and claim the participation numbers. If touch had any value or appeal as a spectator or TV product it would have been drawing crowds and TV slots for years. It hasn’t. It is also not a pathway to the NRL for players. It just isn’t. Anyone who thinks some bloke is going to play touch all his life and get an NRL contract based on his touch ability needs to end themself.

They c**k up the women’s comp, they’ve failed to grow the actual premiership and now this.

How’s that? Just because most people are sucked in by this shit doesn’t mean it’s good.

Oh no. NRL partnering a sport that has close to 1 million participants nation wide to help grow the game

Only a nuffy would see this as negative news. Some of the games greats who have excelled at touch footy have gone onto having successful nrl careers (Johnson, Marshall just a couple off the top of my head)

 

[Disinterested third party]

I think ECT and Eeyore were separated at birth.