Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:23 pm  

As long as people are playing the game of Rugby League does it matter where?

From big oaks do mighty crashes come

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:13 pm  

Leaguefan wrote: As long as people are playing the game of Rugby League does it matter where? From big oaks do mighty crashes come Jumpers for goalpost stuff is brilliant, but meanwhile, the game in the UK is up to its elbows in debt and struggling to attract either sponsors cash or media attention. Pub teams from around the world really isn't going to change that. I see that the GAA are holding a Gaelic Football 'WORLD CUP" in Abu Dhabi next year and given they already have teams that compete in their domestic comp from London and New York, maybe they can claim to be planting for the future too http://www.joe.ie/sport/screw-you-sepp-were-setting-up-a-gaa-world-cup/29317

Leaguefan wrote: As long as people are playing the game of Rugby League does it matter where? From big oaks do mighty crashes come Jumpers for goalpost stuff is brilliant, but meanwhile, the game in the UK is up to its elbows in debt and struggling to attract either sponsors cash or media attention. Pub teams from around the world really isn't going to change that. I see that the GAA are holding a Gaelic Football 'WORLD CUP" in Abu Dhabi next year and given they already have teams that compete in their domestic comp from London and New York, maybe they can claim to be planting for the future too http://www.joe.ie/sport/screw-you-sepp-were-setting-up-a-gaa-world-cup/29317

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:40 pm  

gutterfax wrote: Jumpers for goalpost stuff is brilliant, but meanwhile, the game in the UK is up to its elbows in debt and struggling to attract either sponsors cash or media attention. Pub teams from around the world really isn't going to change that. I see that the GAA are holding a Gaelic Football 'WORLD CUP" in Abu Dhabi next year and given they already have teams that compete in their domestic comp from London and New York, maybe they can claim to be planting for the future too http://www.joe.ie/sport/screw-you-sepp-were-setting-up-a-gaa-world-cup/29317 Take this thread for what it is, a good news, albeit it quite insignificant in the grand scheme of things, story. Derailing it into having a pop at RL in the UK and a load of claptrap about GAA is exactly why nobody takes your guf seriously.

gutterfax wrote: Jumpers for goalpost stuff is brilliant, but meanwhile, the game in the UK is up to its elbows in debt and struggling to attract either sponsors cash or media attention. Pub teams from around the world really isn't going to change that. I see that the GAA are holding a Gaelic Football 'WORLD CUP" in Abu Dhabi next year and given they already have teams that compete in their domestic comp from London and New York, maybe they can claim to be planting for the future too http://www.joe.ie/sport/screw-you-sepp-were-setting-up-a-gaa-world-cup/29317 Take this thread for what it is, a good news, albeit it quite insignificant in the grand scheme of things, story. Derailing it into having a pop at RL in the UK and a load of claptrap about GAA is exactly why nobody takes your guf seriously.

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:05 am  

Errlee Berd wrote:

Take this thread for what it is, a good news, albeit it quite insignificant in the grand scheme of things, story.

Derailing it into having a pop at RL in the UK and a load of claptrap about GAA is exactly why nobody takes your guf seriously.

My guf?
It's an expat pub side.
Claptrap and the GAA is interesting given the GAA generates more revenue and viewers in the NH than RL

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:17 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Union did it by invading the world on the back of the British Empire, League will do it by distributing anzac bar staff to exotic destinations
Dubai and Hong Kong are a lot of things, but 'ripe for league' ain't one of them. They are bursting with ex-pat public school types who would roll up for the opening of a Rugby Union Envelope. The 7's is king in both places.
The preoccupation with pub teams as expansion when the game is in danger of further contraction at its only 2 homes is worrying.

Gutters trolling a thread with more Union drivel, who'd haven predicted it?

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:20 am  

Singapore RL also launched last year, RL is slowly starting up in Asia which is great to see.
Any true RL fan celebrates RL being played at any level and to see new countries being exposed to our amazing game is very positive. You can't grow a crop without preparing the soil and planting seeds.

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:28 am  

JB Down Under wrote:

You can't grow a crop without preparing the soil and planting seeds.....ore delivering bar staff

accuracy is everything

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Wed Dec 17, 2014 3:00 am  

We do really need to get into rich and first world countries a lot more.
PNG has more genuine fans of the game than any other country, but because they are a very poor, third world country, it does us no good.
On the other hand, there are maybe a few thousand fans in the USA and Italy, and already they generate enough income to fund regular internationals without the RLIF needing to chip in anything.
Having the game played in the UAE and Hong Kong is a good thing, because those countries have money.
The Pacific Islands produce lots of players and good teams, but no money for the game.

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:35 am  

Errlee Berd wrote:

Take this thread for what it is, a good news, albeit it quite insignificant in the grand scheme of things, story.

Derailing it into having a pop at RL in the UK and a load of claptrap about GAA is exactly why nobody takes your guf seriously.

Quite.

The OP wasn't saying that UAE were entering the super league, or that anyone should bung huge cash at the Persian Gulf, or claiming this was a rival to soccer, or bemoaning a lack of media coverage. He merely pointed out that there's some RL being played in an unlikely place.

Then in came Cassandra to rain on something that wasn't even a parade.

Pure trolling/lack-of-self-awareness/self-importance.

Daft.

Re: Grass roots RL taking off globally-now United Arab Emira : Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:45 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

My guf?
It's an expat pub side.
Claptrap and the GAA is interesting given the GAA generates more revenue and viewers in the NH than RL

And that has what to do with the founding of a domestic RL league in the UAE?

Why do you waste your time trolling? Surely you have better things to do?