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Why isn't Rugby league much bigger in Ireland? (or Wales and Scotland)
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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 624214" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>That's simple reflection of the larger population size and more internationalised nature of the game. Put it this way, if Aus had 60 million people and operated with a similar heirarchy of sports (hypothetically with the AFL on top), then logically the revenue would be nearing A$3 billion annually - still less because the games are local, but it would be in an analogous ball park.</p><p></p><p>On your 'not in the national psyche point' - growing up soccer was a game only on the fringe of society derided as effectively a game for social outcasts and weaklings. It's relative size to the NRL and AFL is even smaller than the relative size of the AFL to the EPL. Yet it has managed to gain a foothold. So why can't league in England?</p><p></p><p>I guess I have trouble believing that a people can have their sporting appetite satisfied almost entirely by a sport like soccer when there are other options available...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 624214, member: 12207"] That's simple reflection of the larger population size and more internationalised nature of the game. Put it this way, if Aus had 60 million people and operated with a similar heirarchy of sports (hypothetically with the AFL on top), then logically the revenue would be nearing A$3 billion annually - still less because the games are local, but it would be in an analogous ball park. On your 'not in the national psyche point' - growing up soccer was a game only on the fringe of society derided as effectively a game for social outcasts and weaklings. It's relative size to the NRL and AFL is even smaller than the relative size of the AFL to the EPL. Yet it has managed to gain a foothold. So why can't league in England? I guess I have trouble believing that a people can have their sporting appetite satisfied almost entirely by a sport like soccer when there are other options available... [/QUOTE]
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