Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Alternatively, if you don't like having people reply, perhaps better not start?
Rugby for idiots
- Thread starter ShiftyBagLady
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You're welcome to say what you like. I just find it mildly amusing when folks pop in to have a 'league better' sneer and then end up desperately trying to defend the code, getting all precious with irrelevant, laughable twaddle about Brian Noble and a 5 country (snigger) superleague.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Mmmm. Possibly sniggering at people and then being mock-surprised at their response is a little young for you?
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I very rarely put my mind to the consideration of either phenomenon.
bendeus
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This would seem to say that you're wrong.
Superleague had an average attendance of 10,338 compared to the GP, which had 10,880.
E2A: And National Rugby League in the southern hemisphere averaged 16,580 compared to the Super 14, which managed 22,142
So, a worse attended top league, less money, less TV revenue, and a comedy international tier.
rapattaque
At fighting weight
So if 500 is the difference between average Super League and Guinness Premiership attendances and Rugby League as has been stated on this thread a few times really is moribund... Union can't be that far behind surely?!
The NRL played 201 games, Super 14, 94. Over 100 more games than the Super 14 sides and yet an average of 16,000. Would Super 14 attendances remain so high if they doubled their schedule and then some?
As regards less TV revenue, BRB viewing figures put Super League games on around 200,000 and Guinness Premiership around 125,000. Go figure.
bendeus
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If you live in brixton there is always this team in Croydon http://www.scrfc.co.uk/ I used to play for them for about a year when i was at University.
rapattaque
At fighting weight
Add in the Magners League and the Top14 and you go figure
Who the fuck watches the Magners League on tv!!!!!!!?
Aren't they based in Croydon or Thornton Heath way though?
bendeus
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Fucking loads of people. It's on terrestrial, innit.
rapattaque
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S4C, BBC Wales and Setanta.
bendeus
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Aye. Just making the case for overall viewing figures, really. When you factor in Magners, EDF, HEC and the GP, surely you're looking at far, far more people watching union than you are league.
Anyways, this is turning into a humungous derail (apologies to OP). Maybe we should just have it out once and for all on a League Vs. Union thread.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
defensive my arse. so if i point out league has grown which most people would accept as being the opposite of moribund then its a blah blah? Whatever. And as if i need the weakness of the international game pointed out
. Yer a genuis sherlock.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
Of course you do dear. Your attempt at off handed indifference is less then convincing to say the least. Where did i say league was better? Maybe it was when i pointed out that i had top level rugby union and league on my door step? im a fan of both sports. I dont mind the banter between union and league but insufferable twits like you who give union a bad name.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
Why? Both are great sports. But anybody who thinks league is moribund is an idiot end of. They call it wish fulfilment. And the magners is crap except for the fanzone you get on the red button. Thats pretty ace. Rick O'Shea is a legend.Aye. Just making the case for overall viewing figures, really. When you factor in Magners, EDF, HEC and the GP, surely you're looking at far, far more people watching union than you are league.
Anyways, this is turning into a humungous derail (apologies to OP). Maybe we should just have it out once and for all on a League Vs. Union thread.
bendeus
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You can never, never begin to understand how much I, and many Welsh union fans, hate your code. Always have, always will.
Only time will tell, but if I was to back one of the codes to survive, I know which one it would be.
Yeah. It's not like it produced the current EDF, HEC or Grand Slam champs or anything, is it? The Magners is sometimes crap, and there's a tendency for teams not to bother with away matches due to its lack of competitiveness, but this is improving. Some of the fixtures this season have been electrifying, and played in front of sell-out crowds
I think you protest too hard. Why don't you explain away the fact that even in its most successful country (Australia) viewer figures are falling and even salary levels for players are down by nearly a quarter on average than they were in 1999. Here's an Australian patriot (and general wanker) reluctantly calling league 'moribund' fwiw.
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/jacktheinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/sonny_took_the_money_and_ran/
League is struggling, as witnessed by the endless team rebranding, the lack of international competition and general lack of interest. I've never said it's in danger of dying, but it's got to come to terms with its lower profile. You on the other hand talk about a 5 country superleague like a marketing man's wet dream - it's barely got a playing base in huge chunks of its most popular playing countries, despite repeated attempts to kickstart it in different regions.
I quite like league fwiw - I was arguably better at playing that than union. But if someone wants to come and shout about league being better than union on a good tempered thread, then don't get precious when the banter comes back
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
I dont care. And they are both my codes, bigot.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
Yeah yeah. I talked about a five country superleague (three countries and two hosts of one off games or a round in the case of scotland) because thats an indicator of it not being moribund. Anything else is you choosing to read into my comments whatever want.
And it appears i have to repeat it you once again: i dont think league is better i think its different to union and i like union. Im still pissed off at the loss of the rolling maul ffs. I dont want unoin to evolve towards league as the aussies seem to want. But when you call league moribund im going to bite your bollocks off, so live with it. Good natured banter my arse.
Nah, they just kill family's kids whilst drunk driving their uninsured Range Rovers, or get lary & ABH nightclub dj's or racially attack poeple outside nightclubs or....
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
League players do all them things. And at a faster pace and with no skills.
bendeus
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bendeus
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Around that way but that's not too far from Brixton, (I think that you say that you live there). There's probably another club in Dulwich, innit? Grab the local paper as I'm sure that they will have listings in them.
