Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:27 am  

galliant wrote:

Anyone who thinks any different is just fantisising out loud. Every few years the International RL body announce some far-away land that will never become seriously interested in the sport are in the running to hold a RLWC, and yet surprise surprise it always ends up in England or Oz. It hardly makes any money in England or Oz, holding it anywhere else would make a whopping great loss

what's funny about the trolling in this post isn't just how obvious it is. But how stupidly wrong it is.

The idea that the rlif are throwing out names constantly in world cup bids is especially idiotic for 1 particular reason, after the 2013 world cup south Africa fresh from having lots of fancy new fifa world cup stadiums that they weren't using approached the rlif and asked to bid for the 2017 world cup. Only to be told there wasn't a bidding process. Everyone had just assumed the world cup would be held in Aus and NZ. Cue a hastily implemented bid process that unsurprisingly gave it to Oz and NZ.

This will actually the first bidding process. Yet somehow the rlif have been throwing out bidding countries left right and centre to big it up.

Come on. You are a troll, the bait here is the 80m paid by the RFU to stage the RU world cup, the heritage players, the lack of countries playing RL. Demand more of yourself. Being a troll is a bad thing. Being a bad one is just a sad thing.

Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:32 am  

Sports tourism is where the real money is.
Someone going to a game in their own backyard might spend 30 to 50 dollars on everything.
Someone travelling to the UAE to watch a game might spend 3k to 5k - or 100 times as much.
Governments want those dollars flowing into their economies and will pay for events that draw tourists.
The recent cricket world cup in Aus and NZ is estimated to have generated hundreds of millions in sports tourism.

IMO the place where we really could both expand the game and generate big tourism dollars is the south east USA. This is already a massive area for tourism from RL playing countries, and it's where RL is starting to make inroads in the US.
If we could convince tourism authorities in Florida and surrounding states that a RL WC would attract 20 or 30k tourists from the UK, NZ and Aus they should be willing to fund the competition - it just makes sense.

Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:50 am  

roopy wrote:

Sports tourism is where the real money is.
Someone going to a game in their own backyard might spend 30 to 50 dollars on everything.
Someone travelling to the UAE to watch a game might spend 3k to 5k - or 100 times as much.
Governments want those dollars flowing into their economies and will pay for events that draw tourists.
The recent cricket world cup in Aus and NZ is estimated to have generated hundreds of millions in sports tourism.

IMO the place where we really could both expand the game and generate big tourism dollars is the south east USA. This is already a massive area for tourism from RL playing countries, and it's where RL is starting to make inroads in the US.
If we could convince tourism authorities in Florida and surrounding states that a RL WC would attract 20 or 30k tourists from the UK, NZ and Aus they should be willing to fund the competition - it just makes sense.

I agree completely. If we can show that every 4 years the RLWC can get 20/30/40k people to visit a destination along with advertising such a comp allows to tens of millions the countries will pay handsomely and invest in our game. They will basically hand over millions of pounds for the privilege of spreading our game and there are plenty of places after UK, French, Aussie and kiwi tourism money. As you say the south East US pays millions to advertise itself as a tourist destination, Vegas, and California too, Closer to home Spain, italy and Portugal.

I've always thought it is a trick we are missing with the Pacific Islands. And England tour or a world 9s comp in the islands would be a huge opportunity for them to show off their tourism infrastructure and probably get a fair few over there and spending money, and you can't tell me the Fijians or Samoans wouldnt go nuts to see a world 9s comp with all the NRL stars or a full England tour in their back yard.

Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:39 pm  

galliant wrote: I commented that it made hardly any money, if you think £3.7 million is alot of money for any sporting organisation to make on its showpiece World Cup that comprised of 28 games, you make yourself look stupid If you're rich enough that you think £3.7 million is not a lot of money then please donate some to Palestine RL. http://www.gofundme.com/rvk55s

galliant wrote: I commented that it made hardly any money, if you think £3.7 million is alot of money for any sporting organisation to make on its showpiece World Cup that comprised of 28 games, you make yourself look stupid If you're rich enough that you think £3.7 million is not a lot of money then please donate some to Palestine RL. http://www.gofundme.com/rvk55s

Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:10 pm  

More from Union trying to hold back RL. I'm sure some Union apologists will try and pretend this doesn't happen. http://m.thenational.ae/sport/rugby/nis ... federation

More from Union trying to hold back RL. I'm sure some Union apologists will try and pretend this doesn't happen. http://m.thenational.ae/sport/rugby/nis ... federation

Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:10 am  

Him wrote: More from Union trying to hold back RL. I'm sure some Union apologists will try and pretend this doesn't happen. http://m.thenational.ae/sport/rugby/nis ... federation B'stards......I blame the BBC myself! What we need is a facebook page....

Him wrote: More from Union trying to hold back RL. I'm sure some Union apologists will try and pretend this doesn't happen. http://m.thenational.ae/sport/rugby/nis ... federation B'stards......I blame the BBC myself! What we need is a facebook page....

Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:13 am  

Apparently it's our own paranoia! No one in Onion is in the slightest bit interested in what Rugby League gets up to!

Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:12 pm  

We shouldn't be cowering go to the union lot here. Use the name UAE rugby league and see them in court if they want to take it that far.

Re: UAE to bid for 2021 World Cup : Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:28 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

We shouldn't be cowering go to the union lot here. Use the name UAE rugby league and see them in court if they want to take it that far.

And then lose hundreds of thousands of dirhams that could otherwise be spent on RL development.