Re: Lebenon 'dark horses' : Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:52 pm  

Fax Missionary wrote:

In Darwin and that’s the capacity of the stadium

And the population is similar to Calderdale but no no rugby league heritage so sounds like a pretty fair effort to me.

Re: Lebenon 'dark horses' : Sat Nov 18, 2017 5:49 pm  

You wonder how much effort the Aussies have put into making this competition a financial success.

Having said that, it's nice that people who don't get much chance to see top grade RL are given a game.

Geographically, this competition covers an area substantially larger than Europe. Whereas the 2013 competition was largely played in the UK, with a few games in France and Limerick.

Re: Lebenon 'dark horses' : Sat Nov 18, 2017 10:09 pm  

I think they’ve gone for growth Griff. Sydney only got two games in the whole of the tournament with places like Perth, Darwin, Wollongong, Wellington, Hamilton Townsville, Port Moresby and Melbourne getting quite a few. As a Sydney resident it’s been a bit irritating, but from a visibility of the game perspective it’s been good. Would have been nice to see Fiji get a home game during the tournament, but next time maybe.

The only downside to me is they sold the rights to Ch.7 out here whole are AFL’s partners, so many of the games have only been shown on the secondary digital channels. If it had been Ch.9, I reckon viewing figures would have been better.

Re: Lebenon 'dark horses' : Sun Nov 19, 2017 2:14 pm  

I thought the Channel 7 coverage was poor. Too many repeated interviews, referred to Ireland as Wales three times, wrong team logos on the league table......