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The night before the Ashes Series kicks off and I'm sat in my front room with the tele and paper, shaking in anticipation of the rugby extravangza coming my way.
The atmosphere, the nervous excitement, the tingles. I've got them all. Despite this the last time I heard any mention of the Ashes was during the match on Sky between Australia and Wales. The media seems to have a co-ordinated blackout of the Ashes. I have just watched a 15 minute expose on the Onion World Cup on two seperate TV news channels (Sky News and BBC) Yet neither even mentioned that the League game was taking place.
Then I watch the weather in anticipation of finding out whether I can take my lad to the park before the game. Instead of the weather in England, I am treated to an in depth explanation of the weather conditions surrounding a rugby pitch sized area of Australia? WTF??
The adverts begin to a beer company advertising you guessed it the Onion World Cup. In utter frustration the tele was kicked and unplugged indefinitely.
I turn to the paper. The page I open it to features the TV listings, including the Adult Channel ladies kitted out in England RU shirts! WTF?? I turn to the front of the paper and the page I open upon features what was in all reality an advert not an article about how many millions the pubs in England are going to make by opening early for the feast of Onion matches at the weekend.
I turn to the back of the paper for the sport and am treated to a double page spread discussing how small the chances of England's Onion team losing the World Cup are. The left hand side had a boxed off paragraph bemoaning the poor attendances for the RL Internationals involving Russia, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and England 'A'. Its surely not a coincidence?
The only words on the Ashes are that if GB lose then international Rugby League is dead. Hardly the kind of positive spin the likes of Georgia and Namibia have received for their brave, uplifting performances in keeping the scores below 200 in the World Cup.
After the World Cup finishes the number 1 priority for the League authorities is to gather as many loans as they can and throw all that cash at the PR agencies used by Union. If this kind of media bias continues, it will not be possible for young people in GB to even realise that League exists.
The atmosphere, the nervous excitement, the tingles. I've got them all. Despite this the last time I heard any mention of the Ashes was during the match on Sky between Australia and Wales. The media seems to have a co-ordinated blackout of the Ashes. I have just watched a 15 minute expose on the Onion World Cup on two seperate TV news channels (Sky News and BBC) Yet neither even mentioned that the League game was taking place.
Then I watch the weather in anticipation of finding out whether I can take my lad to the park before the game. Instead of the weather in England, I am treated to an in depth explanation of the weather conditions surrounding a rugby pitch sized area of Australia? WTF??
The adverts begin to a beer company advertising you guessed it the Onion World Cup. In utter frustration the tele was kicked and unplugged indefinitely.
I turn to the paper. The page I open it to features the TV listings, including the Adult Channel ladies kitted out in England RU shirts! WTF?? I turn to the front of the paper and the page I open upon features what was in all reality an advert not an article about how many millions the pubs in England are going to make by opening early for the feast of Onion matches at the weekend.
I turn to the back of the paper for the sport and am treated to a double page spread discussing how small the chances of England's Onion team losing the World Cup are. The left hand side had a boxed off paragraph bemoaning the poor attendances for the RL Internationals involving Russia, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and England 'A'. Its surely not a coincidence?
The only words on the Ashes are that if GB lose then international Rugby League is dead. Hardly the kind of positive spin the likes of Georgia and Namibia have received for their brave, uplifting performances in keeping the scores below 200 in the World Cup.
After the World Cup finishes the number 1 priority for the League authorities is to gather as many loans as they can and throw all that cash at the PR agencies used by Union. If this kind of media bias continues, it will not be possible for young people in GB to even realise that League exists.
