gutterfax wrote:
Pillock!
I've represented my country at sport. Not sure about you, but that's something that not many people can claim, even if it was in a made up game, designed purely to make the GAA/AFL feel that they played something other than localised hobbies.
Speaking of localised hobbies, have you seen this? There's a French version knocking about too..
The map above is where SPOTY can be watched on freeview TV. I wonder if the righteous indignation felt by residents along the red-dot highway will sway Aunties decision to ignore Slammin' Sam?
The thing is Gutterfax you are pointing out Rugby League's lack of publicity and inner citicism as much a geographical spread of the sport.
Your map shows the top 22 teams in RU in Britain and Ireland and the top 11 in Super League. Not sure why 11, maybe there is an overlap of dots.
If you chose the top 22 you would have 3 more in Cumbria, 1 in London, 1 in Wales 2 in South Yorkshire.
Still not as wide spread as Rugby Union of course but equally we could choose the top teams in the Irish League if we wanted.
The problem is we look at these teams outside the top flight as no name teams, so how can we possibly expect the BBC to do any other.
Our crowd figures in Cumbria or Wales and London for that matter don't represent the interest in the sport from those areas. I'm sure tv coverage, whether BBC or Sky is not in the same proportion.
At the end of the day, the people who can make Rugby League a bigger sport are not in the media. It bugs me how RU have kept RL down in the past but they are not doing it now, they are just benefitting from it. Unless we find a way of pulling that back, we will always be in their shadow.
