I call BS. How can you be a RL fan and not know the RLWC is on and when and where the games are? Do these people in Canberra live in a hole with no internet, tv, radio or newspapers?
The game gets what it deserves. If fans cant be ar5ed to get out and support the game then don't complain when the rest of the world treats it with equal apathy.
Don't miss represent what I was said.
They knew that the RLWC was on but they didn't realise that matches were being held in Canberra (apart from the Aus v France game, most knew about that one), when those matches were being held, or which teams were in those matches.
Frankly, down here we've had no advertising for the games apart from a handful of articles in the Canberra times at the time that the fixtures were announced (and maybe the odd article between now and then), a big jersey shaped RLWC flag in the stands at the Raiders games at the end of the season, some pop up ads on the internet (god knows how targeted those ads were though) and the generic RLWC ads on Prime, unless I've missed something that's pretty much it and it's a piss poor effort, in the grand scheme of things that's bloody nothing.
Add to that that Nine and Fox almost completely refused to talk about the WC after they didn't get the rights and is it really that surprising that people had no clue that games were being held here, I don't think it is, I mean I only knew about it because I follow RL really closely and don't only watch it on the week ends and attend home games.
