Agreed - what is strange is why the TV companies are prepared to pay so much money for such a poorly watched event?

you should go to union sites mate,this place is not for trolls.This place is for true league fans.

once we start signing up All blacks after the world cup i doubt its going to help

people wont pay to watch poor players

weve got years of growth in nz

no but

they arnet paying much for it

our current tv deal is worth more than the S15 current deal

our next deal will be double

its why the aru and nzru are losing millions

wycliff palu was a reserve grader with the dragons too

when he went to union they even thanked us for making him fit.

now he plays for the wallabies

Intnernational RU = reserve grade RL

Agreed again - but how is that a sport that nobody knows any of the players can fill the biggest sporting stadium in Australia?

the wallabies havent had a sell out in years

since the Soceroos have emerged onto a real world stage they decimated any support the wallabies had

Nobody is being troll - I am simply stating the facts - so are the attendances for RU internationals between NZ and Australia bigger/smaller than those of RL?

This isn't a trick question

Why do you bring it up for?


It's like saying our NRL attendances smash SL one's but you don't hear us carrying on about it.

The Wallabies v All Blacks at Sydney - the heartland of RL - in 2010 attracted a crowd of 70,288 - good job soccer has decimated their crowd, what was the attendance for the final of the 4 nations between the 2 RL nations

This is a fact not a troll

gee u know more about union then league.well done bravo..

sorry thats not a sell out. you said "fill" stadiums, the wallabies havent had a sell out in years

try again

why have crowds for this game slumped 14,000 since the soceroos made the world cup?

That was because the All Blacks bailed them out playing them most years.

It's a weird thing the Kangaroos have a better winning percentage then the All Blacks and don't attract the crowds that the AB's do.

I think the AB's still have that aura about them that's why they attract big crowds

The point is this - I will try and make it simple

Dally and his mates think that because the NRL will get a justified TV deal that they will be able kill RU off once and for all.

My point is this will not happen because the two sports are very different - RL has always relied on the clubs to generate its revenue and RU has always been underpinned by the international game.

Whilst there is still a media interest for the international game RU will always prosper regardless of what happens in RL.

the problem union has is given its weak club game, it need money from interationals to stay alive

but with soccer internationals dwarfing unions, where can they go now

if the soceroos stay strong it will only further damage union

And I still know more about RL than either you or Dally

if the wallabies and all blacks lose their best players interest in int. ru will slump even more

int. rl is on the rise again

look out for tonga, samoa and fiji with all their kids in the nrl

RL is well on its way to dominance in the pacific

And you feel sad by this it seems?

RL is a growing sport

union is a declining one

as every year passes things get better for us and worse for them

we are nowhere near potential in australia, let alone nz

well be expanding for over a decade.

crowds have doubled, memberships have doubled and tv revenues are soon to double

How many All Blacks stars have NRL clubs signed in the past 15 years?

It will not happen whilst these players have options in Europe - you under estimate the game here and its strength.

RU is all the things you say - boring, tedious etc but you will not kill the sport because the NRL gets a big TV deal - it simply will not happen

Ok who scored the last try in 2008 GF between manly and the storm?


u have 30 seconds to answer.



If u do then u can claim to be mr know it all.