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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 796368" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>Ah! Now he's engaging with more than just singular snarky pot shots!</p><p></p><p>Tallshort, </p><p></p><p>I know you don't like to think there was ever any prejudice against the game in the UK, but there are many many accounts that back up this as being a fact. We're talking about a country that used to ban players from ever being able to play Union again if found guilty of playing the dreaded 13 man game - a practice that still occurred as recently as the 1980s. </p><p></p><p>Indeed, even your world cup winning coach Clive Woodward has spoken about how he now looks back in embarrassment at how instinctively cautious he was <em><strong>even to speak</strong></em> to a Rugby League person; an attitude he admits he felt embarrassed of when he came to play Rugby in Australia, where League and Union players freely associated.</p><p></p><p>As for your soccer point. It's a problem for union, but soccer is really just a game for immigrants and posh white kids who don't possess the balls for Rugby in Australia. They're an odd bunch really, but it explains why the game's TV ratings have fallen 10% in the last year whilst the NRL and AFL continue to grow and dominate (for reference the all important A-League soccer grand final on the weekend just barely scraped over 500k viewers, whilst an NRL round robin match barely a third into the season got over a million). Also, with the latest Super Rugby TV deal, soccer has again fallen to 4th on our football codes list in terms of funding. </p><p></p><p>In any case though, I don't get why you're being so hostile about this when we're talking about bloody South Africa to begin with lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 796368, member: 12207"] Ah! Now he's engaging with more than just singular snarky pot shots! Tallshort, I know you don't like to think there was ever any prejudice against the game in the UK, but there are many many accounts that back up this as being a fact. We're talking about a country that used to ban players from ever being able to play Union again if found guilty of playing the dreaded 13 man game - a practice that still occurred as recently as the 1980s. Indeed, even your world cup winning coach Clive Woodward has spoken about how he now looks back in embarrassment at how instinctively cautious he was [I][B]even to speak[/B][/I] to a Rugby League person; an attitude he admits he felt embarrassed of when he came to play Rugby in Australia, where League and Union players freely associated. As for your soccer point. It's a problem for union, but soccer is really just a game for immigrants and posh white kids who don't possess the balls for Rugby in Australia. They're an odd bunch really, but it explains why the game's TV ratings have fallen 10% in the last year whilst the NRL and AFL continue to grow and dominate (for reference the all important A-League soccer grand final on the weekend just barely scraped over 500k viewers, whilst an NRL round robin match barely a third into the season got over a million). Also, with the latest Super Rugby TV deal, soccer has again fallen to 4th on our football codes list in terms of funding. In any case though, I don't get why you're being so hostile about this when we're talking about bloody South Africa to begin with lol [/QUOTE]
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