I can easily give you some idea of how the games are selling over here druzick and marv, we bought our origin tickets and got row 8 just in close to the feild, they sold out in 1 hour. As for the world cup final, which as you know has not had alot of promoting done, we bought tickets for the final as sone as they come on to ticketek and we got seats right at the very top last row in the stand, so i would say you are going to see all games sold out in queensland at least, anyone who wants a ticket now has only a chance of getting them in other matches either in the quarter finals at suncorp or gold coast, and i would not like your chances there either, the lucky ones are the overseas guests who get prime tickets allocated to them, if there is any left they will be snapped up by desparate queenslanders.

look now that there are 3 games on channel nine 1 live i thing most people rather watch it from home and tbh i thing it's pretty expensive to go to the games rugby league is are great game to watch from home and at the game where other sports probly better at the game i thing thats are lil bit to do with the crowds we get, rugby league t.v ratings is big special super saturday on fox,if u want people to turn up for the world cup maybe make some half price deals or sumthin on that same line to make it more apealing to people to come out to the world cup games.

 

oh and btw what kinda coverage do you people over in the uk get of the nrl?...cause we get 2 delayed games are week on fox of the super league!

i can't wait for the world cup!!!

dogz08:

look now that there are 3 games on channel nine 1 live i thing most people rather watch it from home and tbh i thing it's pretty expensive to go to the games rugby league is are great game to watch from home and at the game where other sports probly better at the game i thing thats are lil bit to do with the crowds we get, rugby league t.v ratings is big special super saturday on fox,if u want people to turn up for the world cup maybe make some half price deals or sumthin on that same line to make it more apealing to people to come out to the world cup games.

 

oh and btw what kinda coverage do you people over in the uk get of the nrl?...cause we get 2 delayed games are week on fox of the super league!

I think RL games are still waaaaaay cheaper than any other sports. The RU its like $80 for a basic ticket. I can atlest in shark park (well 2 years ago) get in for $15.

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h and btw what kinda coverage do you people over in the uk get of the nrl?...cause we get 2 delayed games are week on fox of the super league!

 

2-3 games per week mostly live, but through a different pay per veiw company so you need 2 subscrpitions if your hardcore RL!! 

alex_hardy:

i think that the rfl construct the ESL better than the football association do with the premier league. the premier league isn't competitive ( E.G. man utd (top) v derby (bottom)= man utd win...... ESL rhinos (top) v castleford (bottom)= castleford win)

I disagree alex the premier league is just as competetive as SL Reading and fulham have beaten man u in recent seasons just like cas have beat leeds. 

 

alex_hardy:

and the premier league has 2 much money and they dont even use it for producing young players! the ESL has a salary cap and a foreign plyrs cap (limited foreigners in a team) and that helps produce young, great talent (E.G. sam burgess, james roby, luke burgess, kyle eastmond).

its not the FA or the RFLs job to produce players thats the clubs job. There are plenty of young english players at Premier league clubs but there not good enough.

In fact the RFL have recently COPIED the premier leagues idea of including a certain number of "home grown" players in their teams. 

You mention young RL players like Burgess, eastmond etc. English football has seen a golden age of young players come through Rooney, Walcott etc

the fact remains England GB havent won a the world cup for 30 years and over half the players in SL cant play for England 

alex_hardy:

overall i think that the rfl and ESL have like gone forward in time and looked at what problems football will have and tried to avoid them and the premier league dont care as long as it gets millions of £s.

football doesnt have and will not have any problems in the future what are you talking about?

alex_hardy:

the rfl and ESL care about the sports health and where it will stand, i mean i cant believe that football couldn't think of Millennium Magic!! and the RFL could, it shows that the rfl and ESL are thinking ahead!!!!

why would football need Millenium magic alex? Man utd and Newcastle get more fans EVERY WEEK than Millenium magic and SL grand final which only happen once a year..

i think i am right. football has quite a lot of problems. i can name the most obvious problem    too many foreigners in the premiership     it's called the  ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE for a reason not the foreigners premier league mate.  also too much money spent on shitty players when rugby player do a lot more hard work, 3 subs in a premiership game, 12 in a super league game, SL players work a lot harder in a shorter space of time and don't get paid millions to roll around on the floor and go off ( they do that because all they care about is money! greedy bastards!!)

there's a lot more i could mention but there's so many i can't be bothered  

come on then name some problems with super league??  none!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

alex_hardy:

come on then name some problems with super league??  none!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

We don;t promote ourselves well enough ;) But that is a RL problem in general.

Look despite soccers... sorry footballs... problems, they have one thing that RL does not have, and that is the nature of the game. In football you can still get a team of amateurs up against Man U and have a pretty good chance of knocking them off. The FA Cup showed this this year, and that is what brings the crowds, not how good the game is, its that there is an even chance to beat anyone.

In Rugby (both codes), the nature of the game, its physicality, speed, fitness means that a fulltime professional team that trains all week will destroy a jonny come lately team of amateurs. Its why the lower rounds of CC have been droping off as the disparity between the haves and hav nots is large. And look its just the way Rugby is, not sure its something we can change in these times of full professionalism. When was the last time an upset was in the CC? 1983 final maybe... I can't see a NL2 team like say Barrow (sorry Marv) come up against Leeds Rhinos and beat them.... not unless some miracle happens, the difference between a fully pro and semi pro team is that big.

Is this a problem... well that is for you to decide... but that is the difference between the two sports and that is the main thing that drags the crowds in.

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excuse me i mentioned THE PREMIER LEAGUE, NOT FA CUP AND THE SUPER LEAGUE, NOT CHALLENGE CUP!!!!

i think they are promotein the game but not as well as they should i mean if wales could get are team in the super league and another french team and the millennium magic weekend the game could grow in those countries it'z are shame they dont have any world cup games in perth or adelaide where rugby league really needs to grow remember they had that 1 of game in america and got 12.500 people there tats are dacent crowd you might not get that sorta crowd here in australia for that game here!

There's a lot of sense being made with everyone's comments. The facts of the matter are simple. Our international administrators are doing a lot of positive things. In Australia, we are thumping the ARU week in and week out with a far superior product, AFL is only played locally and FFA is growing well but will take a long time to compete as a winter sport. The key is to expand to be a truly national sport and also, to be promoting the game OS. I follow the AMNRL online and I'm telling you all that within a decade the US will have a fully fledged national comp and will be putting together extremely competetive national teams. We in Rugby League just need to be patient. We are still a young sport. I believe in our lifetimes our brilliant game will overtake rugby on the world stage and it will all be because of the foundations being laid now. This will be a brilliant world spectacle and I for one can't wait until October '08!

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There's a lot of sense being made with everyone's comments. The facts of the matter are simple. Our international administrators are doing a lot of positive things. In Australia, we are thumping the ARU week in and week out with a far superior product, AFL is only played locally and FFA is growing well but will take a long time to compete as a winter sport. The key is to expand to be a truly national sport and also, to be promoting the game OS. I follow the AMNRL online and I'm telling you all that within a decade the US will have a fully fledged national comp and will be putting together extremely competetive national teams. We in Rugby League just need to be patient. We are still a young sport. I believe in our lifetimes our brilliant game will overtake rugby on the world stage and it will all be because of the foundations being laid now. This will be a brilliant world spectacle and I for one can't wait until October '08!

Yeah, look the RLIF DO do some good things, but they also occassionly do some very daft things... but the biggest issue is money internationally, and the sport is not promoted enough on the international level, despite there being at least 10 countries that could compete on a reasonably even level. The guys at the AMNRL are doing a great job, they now have juniors comming through the ranks with their Eagle footy promotions and now have a local rival in Jamaica to play a test series with.

I hear that Chicago is looking to come in waith a team next year and that Ohio and California are looking at teams in the near future too, so there is some great stuff there. I think one game a week of the AMNRL get televised on a small cable network... this is a good start and maybe one day will get bigger. One coup for RL that has come in this year is that ESPN sports channel has picked up 60 ESL games that are getting beamed into US and European homes.

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alex_hardy:

i think i am right. football has quite a lot of problems. i can name the most obvious problem too many foreigners in the premiership it's called the ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE for a reason not the foreigners premier league mate.

SL players work a lot harder in a shorter space of time and don't get paid millions to roll around on the floor and go off ( they do that because all they care about is money! greedy bastards!!)

These may be problems for you and me Alex but they certainly arent problems for the millions of people who go and watch soccer on a saturday afternoon and make it the richest sport in the world

Besides you completely contradict yourself there, Do you actuall have any idea how many NZ and Aus players play in SL? 

 

alex_hardy:

when rugby player do a lot more hard work, 3 subs in a premiership game, 12 in a super league game,

there two very differnt games, hard to compare them, I would imagine your average soccer midfielder covers as much ground as your average front rower, and the average RL winger covers a lot less ground than your average soccer striker 

 

alex_hardy:

there's a lot more i could mention but there's so many i can't be bothered

What you mean is you dont know and your ranting

alex_hardy:

come on then name some problems with super league?? none!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

are you completly thick?

Maybe the fact there are too many forign players (exactly like football)

Maybe the fact only 4 clubs can win the thing (exactly like football)

Not to mention the people who run the game being complete morons

The fact we play eachother 4 times each season (excluding playoffs)

The fact that SL cant think enough to put a weekend aside for an International weekend (something soccer and RU do very well)

Eddie and Stevo
 

meth-tf:

We in Rugby League just need to be patient. We are still a young sport. I believe in our lifetimes our brilliant game will overtake rugby on the world stage and it will all be because of the foundations being laid now. This will be a brilliant world spectacle and I for one can't wait until October '08!

 

Wise words mate theres plenty of time and be realistic we are never going to be soccer but lets look at ourselves and where we can get better intead of rubbishing Soccer, RU, AFL or Cricket(however bad you think those sports are)