Madrileño
-
Posts
825 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by Madrileño
-
-
2 minutes ago, crashmon said:
Also will this have any impact on the Sky money at end of year, as the game just seems to be shrinking every week
It is shrinking as you say. In Europe anyway.
Australia is doing well, but it will be a lone outpost of professional rugby League before long.
-
1
-
-
2 hours ago, Gomersall said:
None whatsoever over the Aussies, Kiwis or English in my opinion. How we ever break this mentality is anyone’s guess. If the IRL tried to pull any of the three into line they’d just laugh at them and do their own thing.
You break it by getting buy in from the main nations.
You effectively cede control to the big nations, as it is them who will always drive the sport.
The IRL should be 'run' by the professional nations effectively. With them holding the bulk of the decision making power. They are the ones who are also most likely to benefit from a bigger global game.
-
21 minutes ago, Mr Frisky said:
one thing is for sure the RU WC was never in any danger.
Why?
-Because it makes a profit?
-Because it generates huge amounts of positive media coverage for its host nation?
-Because it attracts tens of thousands of tourists from other countries and also within France?
-Or... Because it is governed globally by a professional governing body who actually do proper due diligence on the multiple bids to host it every 4 years?
Take your pick.
-
3
-
2
-
1
-
-
Just caught up with this game last night.
Credit has to be given to Leeds for the spirit shown when down to 12 (ie: for most of the game).
They took it to Wigan and really knocked the momentum out of the Warriors.
Most teams who manage to win with 12 men are literally hanging on at the end. Leeds were on cruise control, keeping Wigan at arms length, and picking them off with that late interception.
Remarkable stuff. Well done.
-
58 minutes ago, M j M said:
It's the Daily Telegraph. This is not a publication to be taken seriously on most things, but least of all politics or rugby union.
It seems like both parties were talking garbage.
-
9 hours ago, gingerjon said:
Sale's average attendance, and they are the only rugby union side in the region, is 5,385.
Really?
Not according to the Daily Telegraph from 2 days ago:
It's in a story about them taking full control of the stadium.
Either the Daily Telegraph is telling lies, or you are talking rubbish. One of the two....
-
1
-
-
One can only imagine the culture shock of seeing people screeching at each other in Arabic in the local market, the smell of hashish everywhere you walk, and the large numbers of illiterate gypsy travelers parked up at the side of the roads.
Anyway, that's enough about your Castleford seasons, Mike.... How's things going in Perpignan?
-
3
-
-
5 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:
What nonsense are you talking about?
The NRL are organising an end of season series this year.
Wake up to yourself.
I wouldn't waste your breath mate. Typical deluded England "fan" who refuses to accept responsibility for his own nation's incompetence.
They have some kind of grand conspiracy that "the aussies" are trying to kill off international League. It makes them feel better about their own inadequacies.
This coming from a country who last season scheduled their own national team to play a home game in Rochdale.
-
2 hours ago, RP London said:
You've already said you think hes Welsh so he's not an "average English League type" is he!?!
Most of the English league fans are pointing his error out too..
Him yes.
There are plenty others who think England are some kind of League super power though.
To Kiwis fans it can come across as extremely arrogant.
-
15 minutes ago, Anita Bath said:
It is now unusual for England to make it to the final, once in the last 25 years
Even the rah rahs have made their world cup final three times in that period.
Brilliant stat.
Shows how utterly deluded the average English League type is on here.
"Only 2 RL playing countries" FFS.
-
26 minutes ago, crashmon said:
If the NH teams was as geographically spread as in SH you would see 3 test series in NH still
No you wouldn't.
The English went down under Bennett a couple of years ago and played Tonga, PNG and 2 against the Kiwis.
That's a far more logical approach.
Union is obsessed with making money, but all blacks never play 3 times at Twickenham, despite that being far more lucrative than going to Rome or Edinburgh.
-
10 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:
Do you want to tell him that Samoa were in the last World Cup final or shall I?
Exactly!
Sounds like a boorish Welsh union type who assumes the whole world follows union.
-
1
-
-
4 hours ago, LlanWests said:
What? Of course RU still have 3 test series. There are only 2 RL playing nations, England v Australia is the WC final. Can I watch that please.
Why do you say "of course"?
I have no interest in union. I thought that teams come to Europe and play other countries once. (A bit like Roos v Kiwis, Samoa v Tonga etc).
I see another poster saying that teams go to the southern hemisphere and still play 3 times. So fair enough. Seems to be a dead format in Europe though.
There are not "only 2 RL playing nations" either. Quite an ignorant stance to take.
-
56 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:
GB & Irish Lions?
OK.... but that is once every 4 years. A bit like the Ashes, no?
For me, it's a dying format.
-
1
-
-
4 hours ago, fcl said:
It was in 2013, 17500 in Avignon for France - New Zealand.
Jeez mate - I was at that game to see the Kiwis.
When you said "recent years" I thought I had missed a game at some point. Didn't realise you meant a decade ago!
Avignon did a great job with that fixture. Fans were in from all over France
.
-
1
-
-
On 10/05/2023 at 19:14, graveyard johnny said:
brian mac is loathed by a few ex players over here for a number of reasons - flat track bully
Really?
Have you got anything to back that up at all?
-
4 hours ago, fcl said:
Avignon, which has been one of the biggest crowds in recent years (match France - NZ), refused to pay the entry ticket which was €200,000.
When was this @fcl ?
-
3 hours ago, LlanWests said:
Well, England. I want to see a 3 match test series between England and the Kangaroos in England soon, please.
"A three test series"?
Do any sports still do that??
Sounds really old fashioned to me. I cannot imagine it pulling in many younger fans.
I thought cricket have even binned those nowadays!
Rugby union doesn't really have them any more either?
Is this really the way to drag a dying sport into the 21st century?
I can't imagine the Aussies, who know how to market the game... would have any interest in this.
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
-
46 minutes ago, Tex Evans Thigh said:
it doesnt detract from how tin pot we are. Disappointment after disappointment.
This.
-
On 02/05/2023 at 15:43, Click said:
Existing fans in the North just don't seem that interested in International RL, whether that is England or other counties - Or at least they don't tend to come out in big numbers for them.
Yet the RFL see fit to organise 4 international games across the North.
Someone is clearly completely wrong here... You, or the RFL.
Surely 1 random punter cannot know more than the sport's national governing body?
I guess we will find out!
-
6 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:
The question was directed at Leigh with their new design kit, if you read back you will see what prompted that question, now I don't know what your expierence is of that town but I have given you a clue with regards to its population figures, I will stand by the change of kit is insignificant in its attendance figures it makes no difference.
Ah OK. Yeah I was not aware you were talking about Leigh.
Am not sure why Rugby League teams only seem to expect/target support from their own town. Other sports don't appear to think like that. It feels really small-time, as if they are admitting that growth is impossible beyond their own locality.
-
46 minutes ago, Ovenden Grunt said:
I don't think what your shirt looks like would affect whether you go to support yor team. Fax could wear bright pink with luminous green tadpoles on and I'd still go to the match. I wouldn't be buying the shirt mind.
It actually makes quite a big difference.
Some sports teams are "easier" to support once you see their colours.
It is why a number of NFL teams choose black for example.
-
12 hours ago, Tippytoe said:
Just something I heard at an amature game this weekend
Fair enough. Sounds like total nonsense though.
-
12 hours ago, Tippytoe said:
Is there a swap/make weight deal going on? Heard a few things but nothing concrete?
Why would there be?
He is out of contract!
Report: 2025 World Cup on verge of collapse
in The General Rugby League Forum
Posted
This is probably the most outrageous thing about the whole saga. That we are not even capable of a back up option.