The elephant in the room with union and its southern hemisphere bias? Doubt you can find a single article acknowledging it either...

Rugby league. It so dominates rugby union in Australasia in terms of media (NZ with 4 million pop - ie. far less than Sydney) - I mean you have stuff.nz and nzherald as the only widely read written NZ on-line sources lol - that it continues to have a massive impact on union where it counts. That is in the best country at it - NZ.

You can even see it in the way the All Blacks play, basically rugby league to union rules.

Surely that is pretty obvious to rugby league fans?

Can you now print this in English please

And the following day they covered signings by Wakey and Wire. I know the £150k for Westerman's a bit of a rip off but it's hardly reporting a negative aspect of the game. And bear in mind, the BBC depends largely on press releases from the RFL upon which to base its coverage. If all's quiet, they'll glean whatever scraps they can. Whether the RFL should be pushing the test series harder is another question entirely.

I've always described Super Series as "Rugby League with line outs". To be fair though, part of the reason Super Series is played like that is because of the way the ruck is refereed, or more accurately the way that the laws are completely ignored. In Super Series if you have the ball anything goes as long as you recycle quickly, if you're defending don't attempt to counter ruck unless you want to concede a penalty.

The reality is that there are 3 codes of rugby being played, Rugby League, northern hemisphere Rugby Union, and Super Series. The elephant in the room for RU is that they are pretending this isn't the case.

Of course they should, and of course they won't.

www.theguardian.com/sport/no-hel ... d-emotions Good to see someone is reading my posts...

www.theguardian.com/sport/no-hel ... d-emotions Good to see someone is reading my posts...

Classy... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/34667179

Classy... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/34667179

No mention of the Test match on the lunchtime BBC News. No mention on the weather report. Even did a round up of today's sport coverage on the BBC and missed it out.

Got a plug on MOTD last night

Probs only cos Sam Tomkins was doing the predictions though, still tbf Ive noticed they have been talking about it more than I would have thought

Have there been any trailers for the series on the BBC? I certainly haven;t seen anything.

I know some fans won't like this, but this series is just a waste of everyone's time. I'm keen to see how England fair, but in the grand scheme of things it's utterly pointless.

For starters, advertising and marketing from the RFL has been scarce (as usual).

The BBC also show a lack of interest in promoting the game, and televise the first match on the "graveyard" period of the weekend.

NZ aren't even taking this series properly, the amount of players dropping out due to "injury".

I saw one just before 6oclock news yesterday. The cartoonie block men one

Wow. So wrong!

Well now you've said your piece, I hope you'll still your tongue now and let the rest of us (who aren't blind to the RFL's failings) enjoy the footy.

Why play series of only two teams? What are the benefits for the winner?

If England were playing in the tri nations against Wales and France you would have a point.

England vs NZ is not a waste of time and instead is what our game needs.

I hope you do enjoy it, like I hope England will win.

Turn the ref mic down or off.

Like the Ashes?

You win the series!

BBC going down the route Sky take with fixating on the coaches while play is actually going on, showing replay after replay of something we've just seen while play is actually going on and zooming into play too much so we can't see the bigger picture and gain a full understanding of the game.

Oh and turn the referee down he's too loud!

Oh and let's have some advertising of the series throughout the week.

at least it was on the news at 10pm...after notts forest report & ladies soccer but did get more air time than the cricket

Jiffy Davies needs the boot. Knows nothing about RL and even less about the Kiwis. Dave Woods is fantastic though - great balance between entertaining the informed armchair fan but also educating the first time viewer to the joys of rugby league. Sky should pluck him at Eddie's replacement.

Watched the red button show. It amazes that they still cut to shots of the dressing room after the match and are then surprised to catch a shot of someone with his wedding tackle on show.