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What I would love to know is why is it that when Australia beat England at home by 20 points it is commented on as the continued slow death of international Rugby League and yet when they beat New Zealand by 14 points away from home it is one of the finest contests in world sport?
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| Quote Dunbar="Dunbar"What I would love to know is why is it that when Australia beat England at home by 20 points it is commented on as the continued slow death of international Rugby League and yet when they beat New Zealand by 14 points away from home it is one of the finest contests in world sport?'"
Just the press (and sadly that includes the RL press) doing what they always do. |
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| Quote Catalancs="Catalancs"Just the press (and sadly that includes the RL press) doing what they always do.'"
It's not just the press though is it, it’s the also the vast majority of the posters on forums like this too and we are supposed to be the people who love Rugby League and crave its success |
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Ocres in NRL would be a huge achievement for the sport. So, why do we always play the ANZAC Tests in Australia? Let's get it to Eden, have Tonga vs Samoa there as a curtain raiser, and make a big deal of it.
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| Quote Dunbar="Dunbar"What I would love to know is why is it that when Australia beat England at home by 20 points it is commented on as the continued slow death of international Rugby League and yet when they beat New Zealand by 14 points away from home it is one of the finest contests in world sport?'"
i was gonna ask the very same question |
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| Quote Dunbar="Dunbar"It's not just the press though is it, it’s the also the vast majority of the posters on forums like this too and we are supposed to be the people who love Rugby League and crave its success'"
Don't get me started on that topic. The flak I copped trying to talk up the French international and international rugby league on the Wigan board! |
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| Quote roughyedspud="roughyedspud"good read...
tonyhannan.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/theyre-having-a-laugh-arent-they/'"
An appetite for the code is there but, in terms of bums on seats, it is never quite hungry enough. The subsequent car crash is is not only terrible for the image of the sport, it is grossly unfair on those who have worked hard to bang the drum and get the thing going in the first place. Having had my own traumatic experiences with Gateshead Thunder in the late 1990s to draw on, I know of that which I speak. Soul-destroying doesn’t begin to cover it. All your selfless efforts have come to nothing; you feel betrayed and unvalued. =#BF0000Which then makes it all the harder to bear when fans of those aforementioned ‘traditional’ clubs start dancing gleefully on your grave, another dependable and very ugly rugby league phenomenon. This is supposed to be a family game, isn’t it? Or is that only when it suits?
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shocking write up of the game in Sunday Times here in Oz today. Instead of talking up the great atmosphere and exciting game, Benji magic, tough Aussie running it was all about the negatives. Booing of the Aussie anthem, throwing of bottles by "large sections of the crowd" etc. Right next door to it was another 1/2 page on Monaghan quitting. Any neutral sports fan would have picked up todays paper and gone away with a very dim opinion of RL sadly.
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Excellent read, thanks for posting it
I couldn’t agree more with it... there could not be a bigger difference between the way the two sets of supporters of League and Union discuss their respective sports. If we are ever to expect the media to talk up our great sport then we should at least do it ourselves, it is our sport after all
I’ve lost count of the number of times I hear people say that international League is not competitive and we should give up on it and concentrate on clubs etc but I’m sure they would be surprised to hear that the New Zealand Union team have played 111 games against teams from the British Isles, winning 98 (88%) – hell, they have even beaten the Lions 29 times out of the 38 games played. As it says in the article, Scotland and Ireland have NEVER beaten the All Blacks
The reason why we would be surprised is because Union fans and officials don’t talk down their sport at every opportunity and continue the pretence that it is an ultra competitive and thriving international scene. Say something often enough and with enough conviction and it will happen... I hope the people who people who say international League is a joke understand that and can live with the consequences |
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Excellent read, thanks for posting it
I couldn’t agree more with it... there could not be a bigger difference between the way the two sets of supporters of League and Union discuss their respective sports. If we are ever to expect the media to talk up our great sport then we should at least do it ourselves, it is our sport after all
I’ve lost count of the number of times I hear people say that international League is not competitive and we should give up on it and concentrate on clubs etc but I’m sure they would be surprised to hear that the New Zealand Union team have played 111 games against teams from the British Isles, winning 98 (88%) – hell, they have even beaten the Lions 29 times out of the 38 games played. As it says in the article, Scotland and Ireland have NEVER beaten the All Blacks
The reason why we would be surprised is because Union fans and officials don’t talk down their sport at every opportunity and continue the pretence that it is an ultra competitive and thriving international scene. Say something often enough and with enough conviction and it will happen... I hope the people who people who say international League is a joke understand that and can live with the consequences | |
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| Quote Dunbar="Dunbar"What I would love to know is why is it that when Australia beat England at home by 20 points it is commented on as the continued slow death of international Rugby League and yet when they beat New Zealand by 14 points away from home it is one of the finest contests in world sport?'"
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I have to agree. One of the things I've always found on this forum is that there seems to be a glass half empty attitude amongst many rugby league fans. Don't get me wrong, I don't like blind loyalty or arrogance, but I like to see people being positive and getting behind the things they believe in. After all, how can you expect to enthuse other people if you're not showing any enthuisasm yourself?
It annoys the hell out of me that the Australians have the origin series but we have nothing. And yet whenever someone suggests a Yorkshire v Lancashire equivalent, there is always the same old voices hammering the idea down. Do you ever hear people from Oxford or Cambridge University slating The Boat Race? No. They get behind the event and help make it the spectacle it is - apparently 5 million UK tv viewers tune in to watch it so they must be doing something right.
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I have to agree. One of the things I've always found on this forum is that there seems to be a glass half empty attitude amongst many rugby league fans. Don't get me wrong, I don't like blind loyalty or arrogance, but I like to see people being positive and getting behind the things they believe in. After all, how can you expect to enthuse other people if you're not showing any enthuisasm yourself?
It annoys the hell out of me that the Australians have the origin series but we have nothing. And yet whenever someone suggests a Yorkshire v Lancashire equivalent, there is always the same old voices hammering the idea down. Do you ever hear people from Oxford or Cambridge University slating The Boat Race? No. They get behind the event and help make it the spectacle it is - apparently 5 million UK tv viewers tune in to watch it so they must be doing something right.
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