Or drink Fosters.

"us national league"?

I thought it was Richard Agar talking about the lower tiers of our domestic competition

And where was me thinking they already had done.

They'll qualify this time imo

I was told,
[i'The last two (World Cup) spots will come from a tournament of Russia, Serbia, Lebanon, Italy, USA and Jamaica/Japan played in 2012.'[/i

Lebannon and USA obvs

I agree.

But only because the other nations are so sh*thouse


Russia???

Come off it.


I seem to recall Australia scoring over 100 points against them.


I think the Lebs were unlucky not to make the 2008 World cup.

Unlucky in the sense that Samoa just picked a load of blokes that had already turned out for NZ yes..

Undoubtedly quite a few non American people will suddenly discover they are eligible to play for the Seppos.

Just like Queensland born Ryan McGoldrick did a few years ago

If you have ever eaten a Big Mac, been to Orlando on holiday or can describe what the Fonz looks like you are in.

=#8040FFYeah but if you watched him play Rugby you wouldn't think he was an Aussie

Go to todays Denver Post (Denverpost.com) sports section and find out what Rugby Tournament is going on. Realise that the Broncos, Nuggets and Avalanche are in the off season. That may give you an idea what any sport out of the main 4 faces.

Denver doesn't even have an AMNRL team though, why would there be any coverage in the Denver Post?

I don't think the OPs point was Rugby League specific - it was more about Rugby in general. The Churchill Cup international RU tournament is taking place at Glendale near Denver & the coverage for that is sp to say the least compared to the "major" sports even in thier off seasons.

The only player I can think of who's properly American is Clint Newton.

Rightly so, Americans will find that sport even more tedious than the British and Australians find it.

Thank you Dai for fully understanding the point I was making. There is little to no interest in the game of either code except for the odd American Student and ex-pats. This is, for Americans, a full international contest, played in Denver with a 2 line mention in the States largest paper. A day when the Rockies lost at Baseball and off season for the rest. If this had been played in late October the 2 lines would be gone. Its fair to mention that Denver is often classed as one of Americas top sports Cities and does have a few rugby union teams in the district. Only ex-pats seem to be aware there are two codes of rugby played.

I still fail to see what the pathetic ineptitude of rugby union has to do with this thread or RL in general. To be honest, them only being able to get two lines worth of coverage is probably good news for RL, that way the American public won't have their minds poisoned before we can get to them. If anything, it's probably two lines too much.

NRL shows in America at the minute, and I know there's been some people over there impressed with the physicality of it all. It's also had a mention recently, as a couple NFL teams have approached Inglis, and some sports websites have put up clips raving about his athletic abilities and talking up the sport.

Get Crowe involved with the US league and we could be onto a winner.

Now that's a great call with Americas 'celebrity culture', he could sell Marmite over there!

If I remember rightly Denver will have a team in the pro-US league, but I get what you're saying about the difficulties of other sports getting a look in.

I agree that if Crowe gets involved,and there's no doubt in my mind that he will, we're on to a winner. I imagine he'd get the likes of Cruise et al to come down to a match as well. Great publicity.

Tom Cruise and Richard Gere were regulars at Hilton Park but they refused to follow Leigh at the LSV.

I heard that Tom Cruise liked the fact that there was a bar on every corner of the ground. Richard Gere is a regular in The Globe, and the LSV is to far for him to walk after 8 pints.

meh! When London Broncos were at Griffin Park, there was a [ipub[/i at every corner of the ground.

The majority of Americans are idoits and like the Irish and Australians (Victorians mainly) they invented truely rubbish 'sports' just to be good at them.