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<blockquote data-quote="DonBilly" data-source="post: 229354"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (St Helens RLFC @ Nov 15 2008, 01:23 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=360182" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Indeed, I appreciated many of the matches played during this RL WC. My point is that it looks like the Australian didn't properly promote this event. I remember that for the RWC 2003 the ARU did their best to get the Australian more aware of this competition, do you remeber they managed that the Australian adopted a second team to support. I remember France - Japan being played in a front of a decent crowd who were cheering the japanese although there were only a few japanese in the stadium.</p><p></p><p>In general Test Rugby League has been very badly promoted for twenty years and the big Rugby League organizations didn't help the development of this code outside of their own turf. Besides that, it's true that there was a Cold War between the two codes and RL didn't win it for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DonBilly, post: 229354"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (St Helens RLFC @ Nov 15 2008, 01:23 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=360182']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Indeed, I appreciated many of the matches played during this RL WC. My point is that it looks like the Australian didn't properly promote this event. I remember that for the RWC 2003 the ARU did their best to get the Australian more aware of this competition, do you remeber they managed that the Australian adopted a second team to support. I remember France - Japan being played in a front of a decent crowd who were cheering the japanese although there were only a few japanese in the stadium. In general Test Rugby League has been very badly promoted for twenty years and the big Rugby League organizations didn't help the development of this code outside of their own turf. Besides that, it's true that there was a Cold War between the two codes and RL didn't win it for sure. [/QUOTE]
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