I'll repeat myself for the hard of thinking...

NFL and Aussie Rules have no games over here so fans of these sports rarely get a chance to see a professional game. One off games are bound to attract big crowds. Rugby League fans can watch games every week and showpiece games twice a year. This is why playing the Origin game over here would not sell out a big stadium. It would not raise the profile of the game as it would only be interesting to Rugby League fans. It's a dumb and pointless discussion.

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so you have had . the best of STATE OF ORIGIN BEFORE ?? played in the uk ?? i take that as a no . nostradarmos pom .prediction of the future mastermind

Only because people had pre-bought tickets in the expectation that England would be in the final.

I know it's a hard concept for you Aussies to grasp but SoO just isn't big over here.

We know it's massive in Oz, just like the Baseball World Series is huge in the USA, but they hardly get a mention over here and then only in specialist sports press and media. You will not find any mention of SoO in a UK newspaper - not even the results of games.

An Origin game in England may attract 25-30k tops and even that would be dependent on location.

I suspect that his ancestors were sent out there for crimes against the English language. Time has not improved the situation.

im sorry . i did not know you were the leader of the master race

But if we adopted that policy, there'd only be me left posting on here …

nobody gives a damm about NFL . AFL in england . but its a sellout at wembley

soo might show you up . but you just need too bite the bullet

The only people that need to bite the bullet are yourself and dally fredie.

You guys havent looked at this objectively at all. I threw a few simple logistical questions that would come up at the concept stage of any new venture for a sports promoter, Dally came back with a few random examples that used totally different ventures with different objectives to your origin in england concept.

It will acheive nothing
No one would underwrite it
It would devalue the Origin concept and brands

You're just throwing half cocked examples of similar ventures about, saying look this worked. Fair enough you've had an idea, its not viable, it won't eventuate, time to move on.

we took the SOO too LA. USA

alot of english fans want the WAR OF THE ROSES back . SOO could be the injection it needs

FFS, you'd think the very future of the game in Oz depended upon SoO being played over here!



So, Fredie, is this the case?

yes it would pump up our pension contracts

you have no vision . its all just negative for you . no wonder england team is a shambles . get out

Have you spammed every board with this crap?

this concept would help the english team

when you were sending out people to australia, did they pick all the really athletic ones to make the voyage over.

it would explain a lot.

you missed the point of my post.

heres a quote from wally lewis book on origin :

"at half time the yanks were invited to give feedback and the articulate yanks did not dissappoint - "non stop, fast, rough, aggressive, they knock the hell out of each other, wear no protection, no helmets, theyre real men, its great".

if you want to promote RL in new markets, the best way to do it is with the best product.

its worked in melbourne to help the storm, a market similar to london in terms of loyalties to a rival sport.

because of origin the storms crowds grew by around 50% after they got a game and awareness of RL in the city increased hugely.

and as ive said before someone like russel crowe could be used to market it.

hes is world famous, indeed hes in england now shooting the movie robin hood.

would the game do well with crowe backing it? course it would.

take off the blinkers boys

Hopefully someone subbed that before it was actually published in a book, and corrected the spelling and employed some punctuation.

punctuation huh?

ouch.

Of course you might just have been unable to copy something out of a book correctly.

Perhaps your teacher can help you with that – some extra homework, maybe.

Having said that, your use of language appears somewhat better than fredie's – just a pity your ability to put forward a coherent argument or comprehend a debate is at the same level as his.

maybe we should forget about england .lost in a time warp. the pacific islands,and the usa are the future

Brilliant! You won't need to be posting your barely literate drivel here any more, then.

can you see a future for the WAR OF THE ROSES . do you want one