Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 1:16 pm  

People should read "Building the family game" a book by Maurice Oldroyd (BARLA) 12.95 London League publications Ltd

Battles with the RFL

and for the anti union brigade, find out just how low they can be

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 1:16 pm  

People should read "Building the family game" a book by Maurice Oldroyd (BARLA) 12.95 London League publications Ltd

Battles with the RFL

and for the anti union brigade, find out just how low they can be

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:21 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

Absolute and utter paranoid class war drivel!

Who mentioned class? I certainly didn't. Typical Gutterfax, invent a different argument to the one actually being discussed.

So, since you've ignored it several times I'll try it again... Do you think the Daily Mail is biased in what it prints?

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:26 pm  

galliant wrote:

:!: Or it could just be the fact that Union is more popular in the UK and worldwide which gets it more attention. Just a thought.

Worldwide popularity is irrelevant. It's about stories in the printed newspapers.
No-one has denied Union is more popular. I haven't complained about the amount of Union coverage. If anything I think Aviva Premiership deserves more coverage in general.

Try re-reading my and other peoples posts and then actually talk about what's being discussed rather than doing a Gutterfax.

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:10 pm  

A recurring theme in this and other threads is 'bias' against RL in the media. Football gets tons more media coverage than RU but you never hear anyone in RU say its bias, they just accept that they aren't as popular as soccer and strive to make themselves bigger, instead of blaming everyone else for their own inadequacies. A fact of the sporting life is that the bigger the sport is, the bigger the coverage is.

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:31 pm  

galliant wrote:

A recurring theme in this and other threads is 'bias' against RL in the media. Football gets tons more media coverage than RU but you never hear anyone in RU say its bias, they just accept that they aren't as popular as soccer and strive to make themselves bigger, instead of blaming everyone else for their own inadequacies. A fact of the sporting life is that the bigger the sport is, the bigger the coverage is.

Do you actually read people's posts?

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:42 pm  

Him wrote:

Do you actually read people's posts?

He's too busy switching between accounts to actualy read other people's posts properly!

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 7:26 pm  

Hiya Him,

A southern journo said the reason that the Hull floods didn't get much attention was due to it being at same the time as N Mandela dying. I haven't checked the dates, but did they occur at the same time?

J Inverdale once said that he's surprised with how much rugby league coverage there is in the southern papers. RL coverage is strange in the papers, things take me by surprise then there's nothing, the problem is, is that they only have a set amount for sports coverage, it shouldn't be as strict as what it is; the amount of space for sport should vary from day to day depending what has happened or going to happen.

Thinking about the first half of the 2012 NRL GF helps me though A couple of stunning tries there, in a final to boot. And the first Origin this year. Go Manly! Go New South Wales! De Cymru Newydd, De Cymru Newydd!

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:23 pm  

Kevs Head wrote:

In the last few pages at least, no one has said there's a conspiracy to keep League out of the papers. That's just a straw man raised by GF and Galliant so they can repeat their mantra, ad nauseam, about how big Union is, how insignificant League is and how anyone who disagrees with them has a chip on their shoulder the size of Yorkshire.
The question is, is the press biased in its coverage of League? There's probably a media studies thesis there but, on the face of it, the answer is yes! I know Union is a bigger game but it's not so much bigger, proportionately, to warrant the additional coverage compared to a League. There's an inbuilt media bias towards London and the south east anyway and when you add to that the backgrounds and political agendas of editors and owners it's easy to see why League gets overlooked. Conspiracy? Probably not. Biase? Almost certainly.

Cracking opinion that......just a shame its not backed up with any facts.
union is played by more, watched by more live and watched by more on tv than any other team sport in the uk save for soccer........this is why it gets more coverage.
Media around the world generally concentrates on domestic centres with less heed paid to rural or minor-urban issues......that is nothing to do with bias, more demographic breakdown and interest
to answer the question about the daily mail being bias.......the daily mail print what its readers want to read.....its called commercial sense, not bias. If you dont lkke the mail then stop reading it.

Re: Sam Burgess Union debut : Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:40 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Cracking opinion that......just a shame its not backed up with any facts.

Well, as I said, there's probably a thesis to be done to actually uncover the facts of the matter. Yes it is a cracking opinion thank you. And, if you think that the Daily Mail isn't biased then your opinions are worth jack.