The Virtual Terrace & RLWC2017 • Genuinely funny article in the Torygraph!
Lebron James wrote:
Those “meaningless” friendlies will get crowds we can only dream of and you know why? People enjoy watching rugby union
Certainly at international level they do, yes. But I don't think there's any point in RL trying to match RU. RL needs to work with what it has and not look enviously at RU or try to emulate everything that RU does. It's fine to learn from other sports and copy ideas or whatever, but you shouldn't ever just think that because another sport does something that you have to do the same.
At international level RU is now a juggernaut. It's a snowball effect and it's going to keep getting bigger. It has the money and the support base and more and more countries are going to want to be part of it.
But even RU is miniscule compared to football. In the same way that it's stupid for RU to look enviously at football and think it can achieve the same as what football has, it's likewise stupid for RL to think it can do what RU does. It doesn't mean you don't aspire to grow and become better and bigger, but at the same time it's stupid to overreach yourself.
RL needs to focus on its strengths and be proud of its roots. I hate it when people worry that you can't have a Yorkshire v Lancashire series because it would make the game look too northern and parochial.
Statistics: Posted by Muggins — Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:59 pm — Replies 16 — Views 964