The Virtual Terrace • 80% of RL players willing to play RU
Or go to the NFL.
Detailed in the Guardian today.
Yet some on here feel the game is in good health.
Almost all of our top rugby league players want a change in leadership at the RFL, fewer Super League games, more internationals, a reserve competition, better marketing – and half of them think there is a problem with recreational drugs. But most of all they want their voice to be heard.
In a revelatory Player’s Poll in the current issue of Rugby League World magazine, 248 current Super League players responded to a survey of the state of the game. Taking a lead from Australia’s Rugby League Week, which has held an anonymous survey of NRL players for years, Rugby League World has given players the voice they crave: albeit anonymously.
The results were conclusive if not surprising. Almost all current players think the game is not marketed well enough (95%) or does enough to promote individual players (93%). Eight of every 10 say they would take an inevitable pay rise offered by the NRL or rugby union given the chance.
Detailed in the Guardian today.
Yet some on here feel the game is in good health.
Almost all of our top rugby league players want a change in leadership at the RFL, fewer Super League games, more internationals, a reserve competition, better marketing – and half of them think there is a problem with recreational drugs. But most of all they want their voice to be heard.
In a revelatory Player’s Poll in the current issue of Rugby League World magazine, 248 current Super League players responded to a survey of the state of the game. Taking a lead from Australia’s Rugby League Week, which has held an anonymous survey of NRL players for years, Rugby League World has given players the voice they crave: albeit anonymously.
The results were conclusive if not surprising. Almost all current players think the game is not marketed well enough (95%) or does enough to promote individual players (93%). Eight of every 10 say they would take an inevitable pay rise offered by the NRL or rugby union given the chance.
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