You might want to take a look at [url=http://www.playrugbyusa.com/THIS[/url before making assumptions like that.

Quote ="Hull Kingston Bronco"Meanwhile, rational earthlings just get on with working hard and organising their sport without talking fruit loop nonsense - see www.usarugby.org/ and use the "find a club" tool, where there's more clubs with names beginning with "B" than the AMNRL have in their entire organisation! '" Wow, they have more clubs beginning with 'B' than there are in MLB and the NFL combined. Rugby union must be the powerful sport in the US. Meanwhile, rational earthlings do not compare the number of clubs in a single league with every single club that play a sport no matter how small or at what level thinking it proves anything. Quote ="Hull Kingston Bronco"If you're a couple of attention seeking weirdos, you do this... www.nrlus.com/history'" That is simply a bad copy and paste effort. Amateurish, for sure, but having seen the earlier version of the page when it was first linked on this thread they had those same paragraphs but in the correct order. That is the problem with making a site public before it has been developed, which is clearly the case as it seems to change every time someone mentions it. Quote ="Hull Kingston Bronco"I loved that Kevin Costner movie too, but I reckon in the real world they won't just come if you build it - you need a step-by-step, organic approach. Step one? Get amateurs playing the game for fun. The obsession with professionalism and illusory business opportunity is stupid - first things first, get people to enjoy the game through participation.'" So the only real world approach is to totally ignore different cultures and just do things they way the British way irrespective of how people relate differently to sports in other countries. While American football is played at high school and college it is not a club sport, it does not have hundreds of amateur clubs playing for fun. It was around for decades before television brought it to the masses, from where it has grown to be the biggest sport. Maybe you should tell the NFL how stupid their approach is. I also never knew that people who enjoy watching sport only do so through participation. Michael.

Quote ="Hull Kingston Bronco"Meanwhile, rational earthlings just get on with working hard and organising their sport without talking fruit loop nonsense - see www.usarugby.org/ and use the "find a club" tool, where there's more clubs with names beginning with "B" than the AMNRL have in their entire organisation! '" Wow, they have more clubs beginning with 'B' than there are in MLB and the NFL combined. Rugby union must be the powerful sport in the US. Meanwhile, rational earthlings do not compare the number of clubs in a single league with every single club that play a sport no matter how small or at what level thinking it proves anything. Quote ="Hull Kingston Bronco"If you're a couple of attention seeking weirdos, you do this... www.nrlus.com/history'" That is simply a bad copy and paste effort. Amateurish, for sure, but having seen the earlier version of the page when it was first linked on this thread they had those same paragraphs but in the correct order. That is the problem with making a site public before it has been developed, which is clearly the case as it seems to change every time someone mentions it. Quote ="Hull Kingston Bronco"I loved that Kevin Costner movie too, but I reckon in the real world they won't just come if you build it - you need a step-by-step, organic approach. Step one? Get amateurs playing the game for fun. The obsession with professionalism and illusory business opportunity is stupid - first things first, get people to enjoy the game through participation.'" So the only real world approach is to totally ignore different cultures and just do things they way the British way irrespective of how people relate differently to sports in other countries. While American football is played at high school and college it is not a club sport, it does not have hundreds of amateur clubs playing for fun. It was around for decades before television brought it to the masses, from where it has grown to be the biggest sport. Maybe you should tell the NFL how stupid their approach is. I also never knew that people who enjoy watching sport only do so through participation. Michael.

Seems that some people are having difficulty grasping the concept that some things are done very differently over here and sport is one of those things.

I would do, but they are American....and the reason that US footie was popular before TV is simple....gambling.
Now, if you want to tell Lou Cabrazzi to stop swimming with fishes and start supporting RL.....good luck.
TV Cash rules and the sheer aggression of RL will appeal to the US Market.........and good luck to them.
Bottom line is they will throw some cash behind it.....more than my club will ever do

Does anyone think it's a bit confusing the whole two NRLs? Will that help or hinder this in America?

You would be right if it weren't for the fact that every single RL club in the USA plays in the AMNRL

Quote ="Hull Kingston Bronco"STOP PRESS: This story just gets better and better - have a look at this stuff we were hearing in 1997 FFS www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4370954.html I'd forgotten all about that! The sooner our sport stops getting wound up by these jokers, the sooner we can just get on developing real opportunities'" Also the West American Rugby League are supposed to be starting a new league almost every single year but the most they ever got was a scratch one off Utah Vs Arizona game a few years back

Quote ="Hull Kingston Bronco"STOP PRESS: This story just gets better and better - have a look at this stuff we were hearing in 1997 FFS www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4370954.html I'd forgotten all about that! The sooner our sport stops getting wound up by these jokers, the sooner we can just get on developing real opportunities'" Also the West American Rugby League are supposed to be starting a new league almost every single year but the most they ever got was a scratch one off Utah Vs Arizona game a few years back

I haven't seen or heard any 'grandiose schemes', and the article you plucked out from 1997 was from the same time that we had the 'World Club Challenge', PSG in Super League, clubs being encouraged to merge, two competitions in Australia and a heck of a lot of other backwards ideas - it's not relevant at all, and you could easily have picked out an old article and derided the efforts of Super League or the NRL in a similar way. The AMNRL competition has been running for 12 years, and has expanded in that time. I'm not suggesting that a pro comp will be an automatic success, or that it will even happen, but Americans are far more open-minded than the British and there is nowhere near the same level of upper class corruption in the media. America also has roughly 240,000,000 more people than the UK, so there is a lot more room for other sports and there are also a lot more wealthy businessmen looking to get involved in pro sport. There are 4 new professional American Football leagues set to start in the next 2 years. An insignificant, by American standards, RL comp could be massive in comparison with the rest of the RL world. Even if it wasn't in the big cities, there are thousands of towns bigger than Castleford with no sport at all and 84 cities in California alone that are bigger than Wigan. An RL comp could be set up for relatively peanuts and still be bigger than the Super League.

Hopefully a team can be started here [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleford,_Idaho[/url

Quote ="Wellsy13"Does anyone think it's a bit confusing the whole two NRLs? Will that help or hinder this in America?'" It is no more confusing than the National Football League being the top flight of Gaelic football, or even Super League being the top flight of rugby union in the US. The Australian NRL has not got any profile with the general public to have any impact at all, which those knowledgeable enough who already follow the game will be able to tell the difference. Quote ="bowes"You would be right if it weren't for the fact that every single RL club in the USA plays in the AMNRL'" The Universities of North Florida and South Florida do not, and they have teams. Apparently. www.americanrugbynews.com/artman ... lege.shtml Michael.

Quote ="Wellsy13"Does anyone think it's a bit confusing the whole two NRLs? Will that help or hinder this in America?'" It is no more confusing than the National Football League being the top flight of Gaelic football, or even Super League being the top flight of rugby union in the US. The Australian NRL has not got any profile with the general public to have any impact at all, which those knowledgeable enough who already follow the game will be able to tell the difference. Quote ="bowes"You would be right if it weren't for the fact that every single RL club in the USA plays in the AMNRL'" The Universities of North Florida and South Florida do not, and they have teams. Apparently. www.americanrugbynews.com/artman ... lege.shtml Michael.

someone said about confusing but what the heck is this?


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That's fantastic! That's got to be in the U.S. and as Hull Kingston Bronco has illustrated, it must surely be union as it's televised.

No. [url=http://www.hometownusa.com/al/Leeds.htmlThis team[/url would just end up nicking all their players.

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League certainly appeals to their sporting culture, the only gripe i hear about gridiron is helmets and too many pads, maybe league might do well if they know their stuff.

that's that settled then

So the union comp in USA is called Super League...

what's better, NRL or Super League?

seriously though, if they can persuade even a small fraction of American college athletes to the USNRL they could make it a pretty decent competition in a few years time. That is if it doesnt financially implode in that time

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Now that! that looks fun.

Are they playing on astro truf and with soccer goals?

You can clearly see the proper goal post in one of the pics, the soccer goals were likely just being stored off to the side. The turf looks like FieldTurf to me, but it's hard to say for sure.

Are them goals being held up with another post across the floor?! That looks very dangerous!!!