OK Dally I won't talk up RL just in case some on here get upset..







Did you hear the 2013 rugby league world cup will be televised to over 100 countries?and they're predicting the final of the RLWC will be watched by more people then what the RUWC had..


And NO we didn't steal the RU calculator either....our calculator actually works there's didn't at the time of the so called rubbish 4 billion that watched it...

Ask the fumbleball fans who you work with.

There's plenty of those on building sites in Sydney!

lol does he work with them does he ...

funny stuff ...

explains his bias i guess

sorry mate too much positivity for this thread towards RL ...

any talk of how succesful our WC will be will just upset all the trolls ...

my friends from TFC will know ive been saying we are australias number 1 sport for 5 years ...

nothing knew here really ....

im not afraid to emphasise where RL does well ...

i think our rivals are terrible sports and frankly we have little to learn from them

without the intervention of news ltd its inevitable that RL will dominate the australian sporting lanscape ...

the cream always rises to the top ....

Yeah will just keep it quiet...

if we get the TV deal we deserve and expand like i think we will im going to be rubbing their noses in it daily ...by around mid year we should know the size of the deal and whether we expand or not ...

the game is in a very similar position to where it was at the end of 1994 ....

its going to be fun seeing the nrl getting back all its lost players from union and afl and also raiding the S15 regularly leaving it as a feeder competetion for us and french union clubs

Are you going over to watch it?

You bet!

anything that weakens the Wallabies (RU's only strength) gets my vote of approval!

Hopefully the grounds will be announced sooner rather than later, the final at wembley is a must.

Well there is only 2 years to go wish they hurry up and tell us all the venues..

He's a show pony that has the odd moment of brilliance. No defence. Cheap shot merchant. I'd love to pin one on him. Hasn't got the stones for RL.

Need I go on?

yes lol

lol agreed

Very sad using two identities on the same thread!!

I still cannot get why strengthening RL has to be at the detrement of another sport?

you can't book flights more than 12 months in advance so what's your rush?

its called good business.

He struts around like he owns the place but if you put a couple of good hits on him early doors he'll go missing. No guts. I've watched some of his post try stupidity where he winds up the opposition. Selfish player.

AGREE 100%


Rugby League originated from........? Rugby League was first played on a ........field?
In fact, all of the "codes" originate from "Football"....maybe that's why the letter "F" appears in so many of their organising bodies...



No...it's an Australian sport because it evolved into it's current guise in..er...wait for it....Australia. The Rules were created in Australia, the game is predominently played in Australia and it id the No1 Attended sport in AUSTRALIA.


using that argument would mean that Tennis, cricket or horse racing is Australias National Sport given the viewing figures for the whole country when the Aussie Open, ashes and melbourne cup is on.

According to official government statistics, in 2005–06, the most popular sports in terms of crowd attendance were Australian rules football, horse racing, rugby league, motorsport, cricket, rugby union and association football in descending order.
[urlhttp://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/4174.02005-06?OpenDocument[/url

I think that most people I know, if asked for a national game of Australia would propbably say cricket, Aussie Rules or even Rugby before they thought of League


....what else are [size=200"they"[/size telling you



...yeap...and 5hit floats

I suspect some on this thread will be able to get a bus to games

I've been alerted to an interesting article on the Roar.

[iRugby league and rugby union are currently battling it out in a downward spiral of falling popularity, relentless tales of off field barbarism and vulgarity, scarcity of financial resources and a shrinking base of on-field talent particularly in the 13 man code.

The two codes are also beleaguered by inherent flaws, which detract from them as spectacles in an ever increasingly competitive sporting market.

Ironically, many of these flaws, such as pointless scrums in Rugby League and constant kicking in Rugby Union, are unique to each code. However, attempting to rectify these flaws would require the game’s administrators to make rule changes which would bring the codes closer together.

This would be unpopular to purists and would make the codes more homogeneous and less distinguishable. These flaws would easily be eliminated in the rule changes of a combined code.

The pool of player talent, combined with sponsorship and pay television revenue, would mean that the sky is the limit for a combined code.

Rugby’s Super 14 and World Cup at the international level and the domestic NRL structure as the basis for the domestic competition.

A combining of the codes would assist the following problems for Rugby League;

* lack of international appeal and meaningful international fixtures
* risk in expansion within Australia
* it’s lack of professional media presentation
* need for a more revitalised and more entertaining style of play

Benefits for Rugby Union in its present form would be;

* domestic club rugby would be re-born using a revamped NRL structure as the base
* large expansion of junior territory and resources
* improved pool of players at international level
* a more revitalised and entertaining style of play

The separation of Rugby League and Rugby Union represent a 110 year old pay dispute.

The source of this dispute is long gone. Both codes are now fully professional at their elite levels and are paid large sums from the same source in Foxtel.

Of course, it would be difficult to come upon an agreed set of rules for the game, as well as the acceptance by other countries. But change is difficult to accept.

Sometimes it just has to occur.[/i


Not a bad article. Interesting given the falling crowds in the NRL.

I'd be tempted to wait until after the RUWC before offering mungoball a lifeline just to see how many more scandals hit the code before bailing them out.

Maybe long term it could be good for RL though?

Or is it just not workable?


Discuss.


*edit*

As a supporter of both codes I've voted 'Yes'

They could merge as long as its called Rugby League with all our rules then it would be fine...

14 a side ?

Not an option really.

I think the idea is to try and maybe have the best bits from both codes to try and improve the general all round appeal of the sport in general.

I think the best bits of RL are the 40/20 kicks and the one point drop goals.


Bring them over into RU and we should be somewhere near.

Wouldn't be much else I'd be looking to bring over to RU personally.


Clearly the name would just be abbreviated to 'Rugby' for this new code.