Some of us know what your age is

and at your time of life you dont have forty minutes to waste your quite correct,

I cannot see who's on line as well John.

Back to the main point,why do 80k turn up,easy really its a well organised competition that takes place year after year and is properly run by the governing body.

Us we seems to get together 3 weeks before, ask sky will they show it and have ago at it and when someone gets beat by more than 50 knock it on the head.

But hay ho as long as leeds win a world club comp once every 3 years everything is great.


These people actually enjoy the contact in there sport and actually the scrums[each to there own on the scrums I suppose but there rules have largely been unchanged over 100 years.

What about our sport,well we have rule changes every 3 months,if anyone watches the 71 cup final does it bear any resemblances to today sport? let alone going back 10 years.

6 tackles 5 ,3,turnovers 10 metre 5 metres subs on/off up /down turn it all around

And this sport we stand and chuckle at from afar with our 1400 fans grows season by season

good post jic

There are a couple of reasons why kick and clap gets the crowds it does

1) The games are generally closer and it is not decided in the first 30 mins like many league games. This has nothing to do with the skill on show as such, just that the 'tension' is higher. I rarely watch it to be fair, although the All Blacks and France sometimes can show a bit of skill.

2) Watching RU is seen as a 'class' thing, in an I am better than you way. This is why I dislike the game so much (bar a few teams/areas like Bristol or south Wales where this is not true). Old boys network and all that.

100% agree, if people dont like the sport then dont watch it! I love watching all rugby league but dont like watching speedway or the horses so I dont.