59,721 watch State of Origin rugby league in Perth

[Manfred Mann]

50 minutes ago, Damien said:

He didn't because he flew to Perth.

What is your source for that claim?

[Damien]

3 minutes ago, Manfred Mann said:

What is your source for that claim?

Its not a claim its a fact:

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/the-real-reason-mitchell-pearce-pulled-out-of-origin-ii-20190620-p51zgt.html

[deluded pom?]

37 minutes ago, Sir Kevin Sinfield said:

Actually it’s like England v Australia playing in Wales. Oh like the World Cup opened. Or any magic weekend. It’s quite hard to criticise a game when it just had 59k in attendance. 

Nah. It’s a doddle Kev. Ridiculous comparison you made too.

[paulwalker71]

2 hours ago, deluded pom? said:

It’s like playing Yorkshire v Lancashire in Somerset.

I was going to say something similar. It's like us taking a massive game - like a SL Grand Final or Test Match - to Cornwall or Brighton and getting a sell out.

You just wouldn't ever see that in the UK. 

[deluded pom?]

8 minutes ago, paulwalker71 said:

I was going to say something similar. It's like us taking a massive game - like a SL Grand Final or Test Match - to Cornwall or Brighton and getting a sell out.

You just wouldn't ever see that in the UK. 

A Test match going around the country I can understand. It’s the fact that very few of the crowd would have any affinity to the teams.

[Wellsy4HullFC]

2 hours ago, deluded pom? said:

It’s like playing Yorkshire v Lancashire in Somerset.

Or England vs New Zealand in USA?

Or Tonga vs Samoa in Australia?

Or the countless number of representative games that have taken place outside of the areas represented...

[Eddie]

It’s a good idea to have one home game, one away game and one road trip; keeps it balanced and spreads the word. If they brought the middle game to England it would sell out any stadium in the country. 

[deluded pom?]

1 minute ago, Wellsy4HullFC said:

Or England vs New Zealand in USA?

Or Tonga vs Samoa in Australia?

Or the countless number of representative games that have taken place outside of the areas represented...

Is there an end game to playing S ozone in Perth as there was intended to be for England v New Zealand? Tonga v Samoa doesn’t happen unless the NRL fund it and decide where it’s going to be played.

[deluded pom?]

3 minutes ago, Eddie said:

It’s a good idea to have one home game, one away game and one road trip; keeps it balanced and spreads the word. If they brought the middle game to England it would sell out any stadium in the country. 

I disagree. Do you believe 70,000 plus would fill OT? Let alone 90,000 at Wembley.

[DoubleD]

34 minutes ago, paulwalker71 said:

I was going to say something similar. It's like us taking a massive game - like a SL Grand Final or Test Match - to Cornwall or Brighton and getting a sell out.

You just wouldn't ever see that in the UK. 

Not really, Perth is hardly comparable with Cornwall or Brighton. It’s a state capital of 2 million people 

[DoubleD]

I see the point that DP makes, as I had this conversation with an Aussie who I work with, who’s from Melbourne. However, what they do very well is to tap into the ‘event’ crowd - a must see. It’s similar to those who watch the Barbarians vs any random nation at Twickenham, or an NFL game in London between 2 random teams.

He said the Victorians all support Queensland as they dislike NSW due to the long held rivalry

[Tommygilf]

46 minutes ago, deluded pom? said:

I disagree. Do you believe 70,000 plus would fill OT? Let alone 90,000 at Wembley.

Nearly 60,000 have just shown up in Perth which may as well be in a different country due to Australias geography.

I think it's got huge potential.

[deluded pom?]

1 minute ago, Tommygilf said:

Nearly 60,000 have just shown up in Perth which may as well be in a different country due to Australias geography.

I think it's got huge potential.

What’s the selling point? We could only get 60,000 to a WC semi Final involving England and a sizeable amount were from the south east. What attraction does two Australian states have to those same people who attended the semi final,  in a minority sport?

[MrPosh]

57 minutes ago, Eddie said:

It’s a good idea to have one home game, one away game and one road trip; keeps it balanced and spreads the word. If they brought the middle game to England it would sell out any stadium in the country. 

I think it would struggle to sell out the Leigh Sports Village, unless the tickets were £5.

[Damien]

11 minutes ago, MrPosh said:

I think it would struggle to sell out the Leigh Sports Village, unless the tickets were £5.

Well all those Aussies in the capital would certainly struggle to get to Leigh on the train.

[Denton Rovers RLFC]

4 hours ago, deluded pom? said:

It’s like playing Yorkshire v Lancashire in Somerset.

now you're being ridiculous, so you'd rather not promote the sport, continue going down the same tired avenues/areas that are not able to sustain or bring more interest/money into the sport, it would seem that's precisely your thinking.

Jesus wept you are such the atypical insular flat capper

[Denton Rovers RLFC]

3 hours ago, Manfred Mann said:

A strange sidelight to this event is the fact that the famous game caller on Channel 9, Ray Warren, has a phobia of flying. So he rarely calls any game more than 100 miles from Sydney. This means that for him to be in Perth for the State of Origin game he must have been forced to take a train across the country (several days travel) and then back again by train after the game.

Sorry but he overcame that fear some while back, if he doesn't call the game by attending live that's on him. No one is forcing him to do anything.

"Warren has gradually overcome his fear of flying, though he does still have some fear as evidenced by a well publicised helicopter flight to a game on the Gold Coast in 2012 made necessary due to a delayed flight from Sydney to the Gold Coast.

Overcoming his fear has seen him travel to New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Japan and Canada for the network's swimming or rugby league coverage." https://upclosed.com/people/ray-warren/

[Wellsy4HullFC]

2 hours ago, deluded pom? said:

Is there an end game to playing S ozone in Perth as there was intended to be for England v New Zealand? Tonga v Samoa doesn’t happen unless the NRL fund it and decide where it’s going to be played.

What was the intended one for the England vs New Zealand game?

You'd assume the end game of playing big events in Perth was fairly obvious.

[Wigan Riversider]

5 hours ago, Manfred Mann said:

 

This shows that Perth is ripe for its own rugby league team in the NRL, and that rugby league must expand its geographic reach to that city.

 

It had a team in 1997 I seem to recall?

Perth Western Reds?

[Manfred Mann]

Just now, Wigan Riversider said:

It had a team in 1997 I seem to recall?

Perth Western Reds?

Yes it did.

[JonM]

They were in the league for 5 years - a victim of the Superleague/ARL split.

[Eddie]

3 hours ago, deluded pom? said:

I disagree. Do you believe 70,000 plus would fill OT? Let alone 90,000 at Wembley.

Yes easily, it would be massive. I live in Norfolk and I know loads of people with no interest in RL but who love sport and would go for the spectacle. 

[DavidM]

2 hours ago, Denton Rovers RLFC said:

Sorry but he overcame that fear some while back, if he doesn't call the game by attending live that's on him. No one is forcing him to do anything.

"Warren has gradually overcome his fear of flying, though he does still have some fear as evidenced by a well publicised helicopter flight to a game on the Gold Coast in 2012 made necessary due to a delayed flight from Sydney to the Gold Coast.

Overcoming his fear has seen him travel to New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Japan and Canada for the network's swimming or rugby league coverage." https://upclosed.com/people/ray-warren/

He’s still the best . The one down side of getting exclusive fox coverage on the watch nrl app is not getting the 9 commentators in their games . Vautin is always a right laugh 

[Phil]

5 hours ago, deluded pom? said:

As I said about one state losing a home game.  The QRL and the NSWRL will just have $ in their eyes. They won’t care about their own supporters.I also realise it’s been done for years.

Deluded indeed 

[deluded pom?]

37 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Yes easily, it would be massive. I live in Norfolk and I know loads of people with no interest in RL but who love sport and would go for the spectacle. 

Good luck with that one.