Vlad59
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Stay away from drugs kiddies
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Stay away from drugs kiddies
I have heaps outside NSW/Qld. My wife’s from Perth and her family say it all the time. You’ll hear it a lot in Melbourne too.
Most of them are taking the piss from my experience
My conversations for the last 45 years (unless Im in Sydney and not at the University or in some parts of North of England) usually go:
I think we are at cross purposes here. In Melbourne if they don’t know the difference or care it’s ‘rugby’. They’ll watch either version and call it rugby. I’ve lived in an afl state for 65 years. It’s used generically by people from a that perspective. And it’s usually used in a derogatory sense tbh.
That’s it. They don’t know the difference and don’t care.
geez you wasted some of your life typing that? We are talking public awareness beyond the confines of a very few RL areas. I know you dont go to games anymore but sounds like you dont go anywhere lol
And didn't the NRL accidentally involve union last year, so it might not be rocket science but it seems like it's still confusing for even the governing body of our competition
There are probably only 10 countries in the world that have heard of rugby league and most, if not all, would also know of rugby union and when they say "rugby" they mean union. You can count the number that say "rugby" and mean "league" on less than 5 fingers.
Do they search for 'Rugby' though? America is pretty unique in the sense that most/all of their sports are referred to only by their main league names. They don't say they're going to go see American Football tomorrow or the Basketball. They say they're going to see NFL and NBA, even CFB - MLS, NHL - point is, they are in the habit of knowing sports by 3 letters only.
Yeh the market for rugby league that is the nrl is 45 million people
That niche in nsw and qld alone adds up to a lot more than the nieches union has in England France and tiny nations like nz or the British isles ex England
Watch out people, NRL is coming to PNG and is going to dominant the global sporting landscape and change dated stereotypes. Going to PNG actually reinforces that the vast majority of countries don't give a f#$k about NRL. If they did they would play it. Even in Australia, half the country watches/plays that other nasty sport called AFL.
well it'll be even more confusing if they watch wigan and warrington and search for superleague and get a womens soccer comp lol
When you mentioned the stereotypes of where rugby league is popular it’s pretty funny you forgot Auckland and Melb
so about 3% of the world, and a third of that in an impoverished nation wow lol
Since you want to get rid of the rugby bit what do we call the game name ?
Probably but not my wife’s family. They’re a humourless pseudo Presbyterian lot.
Really, you must hang out with very different Americans. The ones I spoken to say football, basketball, baseball and hockey if they refer to the sport. More often they'd say the team like going to the Lakers, cubs, pats, Rangers etc . It's only really the talking heads that say acronym for dramatic effect.
