I was in Melbourne last month and I can tell you that the crowds and atmosphere there are fantastic. In fact the game which I went to 76,000 turned up and that was just a regular round fixture. Melbourne is also a big city which has to support 9 clubs in the competition but that doesn't stop it from generating huge attendances. You know? Where fans actually turn up and place bums on seats?

It's called Aussie Rules and unlike Rugby League it doesn't need to obsessively waffle away ad nauseam about TV ratings as if somehow that makes up for the embarrassment of rows upon rows of empty seats and zero atmosphere at NRL games in Sydney and elsewhere.

I bet you've had more TV dinners in front of the TV watching NRL games than the number of NRL games and grounds I've been to. Gotta keep up those TV ratings, eh?



How many grounds in Australia have you attended to actually watch a game "live"?

Me? Well, I think it'd be easier to name the grounds I've not been to yet to see a game "live"... that'll be Penrith (whatever it's called these days) and Kogarah in Sydney, Dairy Farmers in Townsville and Canberra. I've been to all the rest and most of them on several to umpteen occasions. Throw in Origin games, World Cup, Tri Nations, Four Nations, Anzac Tests. I even attended Souths comeback game against the Roosters when they were re-admitted to the comp in 2002 - a rare event by NRL standards in Sydney with no empty rows of seats

I was also at the first game at Suncorp (Lang Park) after the rebuild... the Broncos were beaten by Newcastle... and the second game which was an Origin game... NSW won. Throw in lots of local QLD comp games too at places like Redcliffe, Burleigh, Ipswich, Easts at Coorparoo and a Grand Final involving Easts... Darren Smith was still playing and he was about 40

... and Toowoomba when the N****r Brown Stand was still there and white folk were eating their Coon Cheese sarnies.


Relevance?

You are full of Shixt
Where were you born and where do you live?

Relevance?

I could be from the Valley, Ebbw Vale, Sherwood, Cleveland, Ipswich, Windsor, Indooroopilly, Yeerongpilly, Burpengary, Glasshouse Mountains, Wacol Prison, Tittybong, Burrumbuttock, Chinaman's Knob, Mount Buggery, Mount Coot-tha or Rum Jungle... it's irrelevant.

This is turning interesting.

WelL, that turned into a bitchfest. Reminds me. Of the times I had to step in and issue multiple bans on the NRL boards. There's a simple rule to poting on these boards: play nicely or don't play at all. Two posters will now be taking a break to think about that.