Quote ="Scooter Nik"This is what I've been saying for years. The passion for rugby is huge in the north of Wales, but if you look at the Welsh national RU side you would think that the game wasn't played more than 50 miles north of Cardiff. If I remember rightly, the last player who plyed his trade in the North of the Principlaity represented his country back in the 1880s. Thats not a typo, yes, 130 years ago.... (Though TBH that figure is from memory going back to my school days nigh on 30 years ago, so there may have been a more recent one. But I doubt it somehow!)
IMO the Welsh RU has missed a trick by neglecting North Wales, especially with it being adjacent to the RL playing heartlands.
Their loss, our gain, and it looks like the people of Wrexham are appreciating that.'"
I'm sorry this is right off topic but your post amazes me. You're saying that in Wales Rugby Union is primarily located within a relatively small radius around Cardiff and they seem to consider Wrexham too far away to bother about yet:
The WRU turns over @ 5 more than the RFL (over £50M).
They have the Millenium stadium as the "home" of their sport located centrally to the "heartland" of the sport in Wales.
They manage to have live league games on the BBC in Wales I quote directly from the WRU site "[ithe BBC has always invested heavily in Welsh Rugby[/i"
They have various major national sponsors
So can someone tell me why we can't have all that for RL in the North of England?
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