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| Quote ="erich hartmann"they have tried for over 50 years to get the yanks playing league.'"
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anytime an american sees State Of Origin for the first time they freak out and say where has this sport been all my life?
they cant believe the physicality of it, with the players not wearing pads or helmets, or the skills shown.
if you want RL to grow all you have to do is use these games to promote the sport.
its little wonder the event gets 10 million TV viewers a year, and crowds of 150,000 - 200,000 depending on which grounds are used
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www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/s ... 8403.shtml Q: Can rugby be popular in America?
What you've seen in America is that there is room in this very, very big market for niche sports to have a following, for people to develop a fan base around niche sports. Jacksonville has its own rugby team, they played in the American league final, and Jacksonville can have a little place in the world of rugby. Sports is really changing, the internationalization of sports. The NFL has played a game in London, and on Jan. 26 - Australia Day - we're going to bring the best rugby team from England against the team that wants to be the best in Australia.
garry.smits@jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4362
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www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/s ... 8403.shtml Q: Can rugby be popular in America?
What you've seen in America is that there is room in this very, very big market for niche sports to have a following, for people to develop a fan base around niche sports. Jacksonville has its own rugby team, they played in the American league final, and Jacksonville can have a little place in the world of rugby. Sports is really changing, the internationalization of sports. The NFL has played a game in London, and on Jan. 26 - Australia Day - we're going to bring the best rugby team from England against the team that wants to be the best in Australia.
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| Quote ="dally messenger"anytime an american sees State Of Origin for the first time they freak out and say where has this sport been all my life?
they cant believe the physicality of it, with the players not wearing pads or helmets, or the skills shown.
if you want RL to grow all you have to do is use these games to promote the sport.
its little wonder the event gets 10 million TV viewers a year, and crowds of 150,000 - 200,000 depending on which grounds are used'" You mean in OZ? |
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The former international centre and New York City public-works big shot said Matt Cooper had a step "like Fred Astaire", wondered at the strength of prop "Peteero Civonisensia", and hyped up the crowd about "Will Mason", "Shane Timmons" and "The Truck" O'Meley.
Those who were there seemed to love it - despite the rain in the final quarter - and, while it looked like a 5000 crowd, NRL chief operating officer Graham Annesley said the figure was more like 8000.
"The amount of publicity we got for the game over the past week ... was really satisfying given the profile of the game in this country," said Annesley, who said before the match it could have attracted 20,000.
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Those who were there seemed to love it - despite the rain in the final quarter - and, while it looked like a 5000 crowd, NRL chief operating officer Graham Annesley said the figure was more like 8000.
"The amount of publicity we got for the game over the past week ... was really satisfying given the profile of the game in this country," said Annesley, who said before the match it could have attracted 20,000.
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fair dinkum, you chappies are dreamers.
you need to develop a sport from the grass roots before it can succeed... that means getting the schools to play and developing a fan base.
you cant just plonk a pro sport team into alien territory and expect it to work.
stop dreaming about world domination you little napoleons and concentrate on saving the existing league clubs about to go broke.
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| Quote ="erich hartmann"fair dinkum, you chappies are dreamers.
you need to develop a sport from the grass roots before it can succeed... that means getting the schools to play and developing a fan base.
you cant just plonk a pro sport team into alien territory and expect it to work.
stop dreaming about world domination you little napoleons and concentrate on saving the existing league clubs about to go broke.'" Just like 100 years ago when RL was started here in this beautiful country of ours .I suppose back then they were dreaming aswell eh? 
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| Quote ="erich hartmann"fair dinkum, you chappies are dreamers.
you need to develop a sport from the grass roots before it can succeed... that means getting the schools to play and developing a fan base.
you cant just plonk a pro sport team into alien territory and expect it to work.
stop dreaming about world domination you little napoleons and concentrate on saving the existing league clubs about to go broke.'"
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Was reading somewhere that someone who grew up liking American football could relate to rugby league more than rugby union. I don’t think rugby league will ever be as big as American football over there but I do think in the next ten years we can see crowds of around 10k flocking to the stadiums which is a start.
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| Quote ="erich hartmann"they have tried for over 50 years to get the yanks playing league.'"
they already do petal. [urlhttp://www.amnrl.com[/url |
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| Quote ="Hollywood Harrigan"How crap is that logo
And can they call it the NRL? Dont the Aussies have copyright or something?'"
They are most likely to call it the WRL:
WORLD RUGBY LEAGUE.
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| Quote ="Ande"They are most likely to call it the WRL:
WORLD RUGBY LEAGUE.
Cause the world revolves around America, right?'"
NBA, NFL, NHL... i think they'd go with NRL |
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I hope one of the new Franchises takes Meli off our hands as one of their marquee players. That would be epic.
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| Quote ="Eurob0y"I hope one of the new Franchises takes Meli off our hands as one of their marquee players. That would be epic.'"
i heard at the wknd, and it's been doing the rounds on here that francois isnt coming back from down under.
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| Taken from westcoast rugby league's website.
American [Rugby League History
In 1939 the Californian Rugby Football Union wrote to the RFL to tell them they wanted to switch from rugby union and affiliate to the RFL. In June 1939 the RFL made plans to send a delegation out to California but were unable to do so due to the outbreak of World War Two.
Pity that....
San Francisco Suzies
LA Gang Bangers
San Diego Border Raiders
Oakland Baysiders
Sacramnento Hillsiders
Berkeley U-Cal's
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Whats happened to Taylor Welch who played for us (Wire) vs Cas last year
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For rugby league to properly take off in the good ol' USA, it needs to get high school and college teams playing
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| Quote ="The Jigga Jigga"Whats happened to Taylor Welch who played for us (Wire) vs Cas last year
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| Quote ="Damo-Leeds"Was reading somewhere that someone who grew up liking American football could relate to rugby league more than rugby union. I don’t think rugby league will ever be as big as American football over there but I do think in the next ten years we can see crowds of around 10k flocking to the stadiums which is a start.'"
Well, the relation (number of tackles) is obvious, but I reckon Gridiron is more like union. More set plays, mote tactics, more coaches, more time-outs, less playing football.
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The debate regarding college Football players switching to RL was had here:
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Came about as a result of this article:
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Not sure what ever happened to Mr Dawn though.
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| Quote ="Catalancs"i heard at the wknd, and it's been doing the rounds on here that francois isnt coming back from down under.
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