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Post by Druzik on Jan 30, 2009 19:04:02 GMT 10
Dunno... but its the big game everyone looks forward too.
Again could be that the media were t!ts as always and didnt push it hard enough... you were in Liverpool no? So being soccer mad, it may have been flooded out.
But as a kid growing up in aus I always knew about it and looked forwrd to it on TV.
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Post by segnz on Jan 30, 2009 19:20:17 GMT 10
Dunno... but its the big game everyone looks forward too. Again could be that the media were t!ts as always and didnt push it hard enough... you were in Liverpool no? So being soccer mad, it may have been flooded out. But as a kid growing up in aus I always knew about it and looked forwrd to it on TV. Or it could have been because my b/f was a tutu wearing soccer playing git  I lived in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Dublin & Cardiff BTW and went almost everywhere in between ... |
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Post by Marv on Jan 30, 2009 19:35:51 GMT 10
Dunno... but its the big game everyone looks forward too. Again could be that the media were t!ts as always and didnt push it hard enough... you were in Liverpool no? So being soccer mad, it may have been flooded out. But as a kid growing up in aus I always knew about it and looked forwrd to it on TV. Or it could have been because my b/f was a tutu wearing soccer playing git I lived in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Dublin & Cardiff BTW and went almost everywhere in between ... Unless you were in a "Rugby League" town its unlikely you would see anything other than a few seconds on the news. and it probbaly had a lot to do with your tu-tu wearing B/F! |
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Post by Druzik on Jan 30, 2009 19:39:50 GMT 10
Unless you were in a "Rugby League" town its unlikely you would see anything other than a few seconds on the news. and it probbaly had a lot to do with your tu-tu wearing B/F! Do such places exist in the UK marve?!  Sophie, question is, did you at least convert him a bit to the greatest game? |
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Post by Marv on Jan 30, 2009 19:46:04 GMT 10
Do such places exist in the UK marve?! Not like they used to, thats why I put it in inverted commas!! But when i was in Warrington, it was great, you see RL shirts everywhere, the League Express is for sale in every shop, the RL stadium is a huge part of the towns fabric, even the new one, I really enjoyed Warrington. To a lesser extent places like Barrow have been infiltrated moreso by soccer, but again like we were saying its a media thing, media tells kids Soccer is great and Ronaldo earns enough to make zimbabwe solvent again, theres no contest. I mean Whitehaven is an RL town, RU club is tiny and i odnt even think they have a semi pro Soccer club |
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Post by segnz on Jan 30, 2009 19:47:33 GMT 10
Or it could have been because my b/f was a tutu wearing soccer playing git I lived in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Dublin & Cardiff BTW and went almost everywhere in between ... Unless you were in a "Rugby League" town its unlikely you would see anything other than a few seconds on the news. and it probbaly had a lot to do with your tu-tu wearing B/F! He'd never even seen a League match but I dragged him all over The North to the Tri~Nations x2 ... Of course I did have to go to " Football " too * pout * |
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Post by segnz on Jan 30, 2009 19:49:21 GMT 10
Unless you were in a "Rugby League" town its unlikely you would see anything other than a few seconds on the news. and it probbaly had a lot to do with your tu-tu wearing B/F! Do such places exist in the UK marve?! Sophie, question is, did you at least convert him a bit to the greatest game? I tried My Bloody Best ... You can lead a horse to water ... |
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Post by Marv on Jan 30, 2009 19:52:12 GMT 10
Unless you were in a "Rugby League" town its unlikely you would see anything other than a few seconds on the news. and it probbaly had a lot to do with your tu-tu wearing B/F! He'd never even seen a League match but I dragged him all over The North to the Tri~Nations x2 ... Of course I did have to go to " Football " too * pout * I quite enjoy watching Live football at the grounds its very vocal, something i think RL could learn more of, even though its widley accepted that English RL fans are the loudest, the French contingent at Catalans away games takes some beating. |
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Post by Druzik on Jan 30, 2009 20:09:56 GMT 10
Oh man, the LER final in Beziers l;ast year... there was only 8k there but your swear it was 20k with the noise they made!
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Post by segnz on Jan 30, 2009 20:10:06 GMT 10
He'd never even seen a League match but I dragged him all over The North to the Tri~Nations x2 ... Of course I did have to go to " Football " too * pout * I quite enjoy watching Live football at the grounds its very vocal, something i think RL could learn more of, even though its widley accepted that English RL fans are the loudest, the French contingent at Catalans away games takes some beating. I agree with You there ... I Love the Vocal Support and undying belief in Your Team ... Not something You see often in UnderStated NZed ... I was also blown away that the games on Saturdays were not televised live even on pay TV so if You wanna see it live You have gotta get off your arse and head to the ground ( barring the pubs with dodgy foreign feed ) ... Probably not something You could " Introduce " to the NRL here now but a bloody great initiative that I applaud and to this day packs out their stadiums ... |
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Post by Druzik on Jan 30, 2009 20:54:40 GMT 10
That has been suggested in the past... but I think the $$$ are in the television so the NRL is forced to do that.
Soccers money is generated else where so they are not as heavily reliant on the TV I suppose.
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Post by segnz on Jan 30, 2009 20:58:26 GMT 10
That has been suggested in the past... but I think the $$$ are in the television so the NRL is forced to do that. Soccers money is generated else where so they are not as heavily reliant on the TV I suppose. Surely the Football teams make a lot of money by selling huge amounts of Season Tickets & merchandise at the games  * EDIT * Plus The Pie sales ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Druzik on Jan 30, 2009 21:04:53 GMT 10
Yes and expensive ones too... I am sure they also get the corporates in as well.
The thing is that RL is still more working class than the other sports and so it struggles to get the fans to commit I suppose.
But it also ultimately comes down to the type of sport you have, in the end on any one days in soccer its a flip of the coin who wins. You can still have a amateur or semi pto team turn a pro team... in RL it just wont happne. The better drilled and fit team will always come on top.
Th rare occasions where two teams will be evenly matched, then you do get some huge crowds... 2005 Sts v Bradford classic example with the now famous "wide to west try" to win ST helens the game after the buzzer... absolutely breathtaking and a hard gritty game.
Look for me... crowd or no corwd... a game where really only something happens for 10 mins/90 in a game is just not intereting for me... I went to the Aus v Uruguay WC qualifer game... and I was bored shitless at it even with the penalty goals.... and dont even get me started on the Toyota cup game in Japan I saw... if it wasnt for it being so depressingly bad and boring I would not have got so blotto and spent 100 dollars on a cab fare to get back to my hotel.
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Post by segnz on Jan 30, 2009 21:16:41 GMT 10
Points taken ... I'd just like to see better crowds  |
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Post by Druzik on Jan 30, 2009 21:23:25 GMT 10
OH I agree... and there is much that RL can do to improve them.
Better stadiums is a starts. Some of them are absolutely attrocious.
Warringtons new one is nice, and Leigh and Widnes have nice ones as well.
Wigan and Hull FC keep getting screwed by soccer... Hudds need to do something to fill out theirs... they get poor crowds, 8/9k in a 25 k stadium really is not good enough.
and just better PR... RL is notorious for underselling it self... its such a great product and we dont flog it enough.
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