Quote:probably because the television, radio and newspaper barons are all completely obsessed with the 15 a side code

sergeant pepper wrote:Do you think there is an RU gut out there blogging on the RL international series?

My guess would be no.

Seems quite a sad obsession and quite ironic when you read stuff like;

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Plenty of talk from people on here who hate the sport, but the media is obsessed....

Wigan Peer wrote:We may talk, but it's the media that does the damage.... I think that the point thats being made.

Time i have spent/wasted watching this RU World Cup has only reinforced my view that it's a game with very poor core skills, and the slow play suits the slow thinking of it's fans. Plenty of time to chat or nip to the bar while the dull, interminable scrums are set, and who has a bloody clue what's going on amidst a heap of bodies on the floor. I also noticed they are quite rightly talking about head injuries, many of which could be caused by blokes running around bent over, chasing a bouncing dropped ball...

Cruncher wrote:This is the big problem for me. I too have watched quite a bit of this tournament, and I've seen hardly anyone in any of the British teams who I thought would get anywhere near a SL team, let alone the NRL. Okay, that doesn't mean they couldn't be knocked into shape over a period of time (as Inga was), but that's never going to happen any more because these guys and the media who constanty laud them seem to think they are already world-beaters.

The England team in particular seem to lack any kind of basic rugby skills, awareness, etc - which is puzzling given the presence in the English RU set-up of Farrell and Mike Ford, but then maybe they're just part of that select club of quality ex-players who also happened to be clueless as coaches (and perhaps this is why they aren't coaching in RL).

And I don't think it's just us. I strongly feel that wider interest in this tournament has now petered out. Easy to explain at a superficial level, perhaps, with England bowing out so early. But the public aren't daft. Aside from the odd highlight, like Japan beating South Africa, this has been nothing like the spectacle that was promised. Even the world football authorities know better than to extend their own World Cup past two weeks.