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<blockquote data-quote="C A Iversen" data-source="post: 288583"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Radman @ Nov 20 2009, 05:46 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=422121" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p>The large amount of people who went to see the All Whites play was because this was probably the biggest football game in New Zealand ever. Many people here follow the English Premier League and the World Cup is massive news. <strong>People just don't seem to enjoy watching it as much as rugby</strong>. Rugby has the history and is what defines us as a nation, that's why soccer is always second.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I enjoy it way more than the Rugby I'm occasionally watching these days.</p><p>[/b][/quote]</p><p></p><p>If New Zealand play a relatively easier team first up (probably still rated 30 places higher than them) and somehow win, it'll be the catalyst for a really big surge in popularity for the game in New Zealand. The games would get higher ratings when the All Whites played friendlies and they'd get opportunities to play better opposition more regularly.</p><p></p><p>Still, if all these rather convienient cards fell into place, it'd probably still only offer the opportunities needed to lift New Zealand somewhere around the 40-50th place in rankings.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="C A Iversen, post: 288583"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Radman @ Nov 20 2009, 05:46 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=422121']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> The large amount of people who went to see the All Whites play was because this was probably the biggest football game in New Zealand ever. Many people here follow the English Premier League and the World Cup is massive news. [b]People just don't seem to enjoy watching it as much as rugby[/b]. Rugby has the history and is what defines us as a nation, that's why soccer is always second. [/b][/quote] I enjoy it way more than the Rugby I'm occasionally watching these days. [/b][/quote] If New Zealand play a relatively easier team first up (probably still rated 30 places higher than them) and somehow win, it'll be the catalyst for a really big surge in popularity for the game in New Zealand. The games would get higher ratings when the All Whites played friendlies and they'd get opportunities to play better opposition more regularly. Still, if all these rather convienient cards fell into place, it'd probably still only offer the opportunities needed to lift New Zealand somewhere around the 40-50th place in rankings. [/QUOTE]
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