: Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:52 am  

erich hartmann wrote:

fair dinkum, you chappies are dreamers.

you need to develop a sport from the grass roots before it can succeed... that means getting the schools to play and developing a fan base.
you cant just plonk a pro sport team into alien territory and expect it to work.

stop dreaming about world domination you little napoleons and concentrate on saving the existing league clubs about to go broke.

Just like 100 years ago when RL was started here in this beautiful country of ours .I suppose back then they were dreaming aswell eh?

By the way I was in homebush on on saturday, and before the manly and dogs game went to the pub to watch the warriors and parra game,they had one TV for yawnion and the other for League .The whole crowd was watching league, the union nada.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:06 am  

erich hartmann wrote:

fair dinkum, you chappies are dreamers.

you need to develop a sport from the grass roots before it can succeed... that means getting the schools to play and developing a fan base.
you cant just plonk a pro sport team into alien territory and expect it to work.

stop dreaming about world domination you little napoleons and concentrate on saving the existing league clubs about to go broke.

this coming from a union fan.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:21 am  

Was reading somewhere that someone who grew up liking American football could relate to rugby league more than rugby union. I don’t think rugby league will ever be as big as American football over there but I do think in the next ten years we can see crowds of around 10k flocking to the stadiums which is a start.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:47 am  

erich hartmann wrote: they have tried for over 50 years to get the yanks playing league. they already do petal. http://www.amnrl.com

erich hartmann wrote: they have tried for over 50 years to get the yanks playing league. they already do petal. http://www.amnrl.com

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:43 am  

Hollywood Harrigan wrote:

How crap is that logo

And can they call it the NRL? Dont the Aussies have copyright or something?

They are most likely to call it the WRL:

WORLD RUGBY LEAGUE.
Cause the world revolves around America, right?

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:44 am  

Ande wrote:

They are most likely to call it the WRL:

WORLD RUGBY LEAGUE.
Cause the world revolves around America, right?

NBA, NFL, NHL... i think they'd go with NRL

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:49 am  

I hope one of the new Franchises takes Meli off our hands as one of their marquee players. That would be epic.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:51 am  

Eurob0y wrote:

I hope one of the new Franchises takes Meli off our hands as one of their marquee players. That would be epic.

i heard at the wknd, and it's been doing the rounds on here that francois isnt coming back from down under.
the second part of the rumour is that saints want matt king to replace him...

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:58 pm  

Taken from westcoast rugby league's website.


American [Rugby League] History
In 1939 the Californian Rugby Football Union wrote to the RFL to tell them they wanted to switch from rugby union and affiliate to the RFL. In June 1939 the RFL made plans to send a delegation out to California but were unable to do so due to the outbreak of World War Two.

Pity that....


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: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:35 pm  

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