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midlands hobo

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I was at a challenge cup game yesterday and it ended 110-0. The kicker missed 5 goals so it could have been 120. We received the first ko and scored a few straight tries it took until 10mins for the opposition to touch the ball other than to put it on the kicking tee.

I will say this was an amateur team v a semi pro side. which is one of the early round joys of the challenge cup.
 
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Premiership: Canterbury 66 v North Queensland 4, Belmore, 1995. Halligan missed all 5 shots at goal in the first half and kicked 7 from 13.

ARL 1995 Winfield Cup - Round 22 - Sydney Bulldogs 66 def. North Queensland Cowboys 4 - RLP

Match info page for the Sydney Bulldogs vs. North Queensland Cowboys game in Round 22 of the 1995 ARL season. Bulldogs won 66 to 4 at Belmore Sports Ground.
www.rugbyleagueproject.org www.rugbyleagueproject.org

Other: Australian XIII vs NZ Residents at Gosford, 2000. It was a warm up game before flying over for the World Cup non-Test Australia won 108-0.

Kangaroos World Cup Tour 2000 Series - Game 1 - NZ Residents 0 lost to Australia 108 - RLP

Match info page for the NZ Residents vs. Australia game in Game 1 of the 2000 Kangaroos World Cup Tour. won 108 to 0 at NorthPower Stadium.
www.rugbyleagueproject.org www.rugbyleagueproject.org
 
midlands hobo said:
I was at a challenge cup game yesterday and it ended 110-0. The kicker missed 5 goals so it could have been 120. We received the first ko and scored a few straight tries it took until 10mins for the opposition to touch the ball other than to put it on the kicking tee.

I will say this was an amateur team v a semi pro side. which is one of the early round joys of the challenge cup.
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It won't be the biggest blowout in regard to the score but the shockwaves it will send though the area and competition when we beat the Broncos by 40 points this year will be bigger than an 80-0 scoreline.

But now I think of it, the womens test between Australia and England last year in Vegas was a bit ridiculous. Aus won by about 80 points.
 
Bris 76 Halifax 0, 1997 SL WCC at ANZ Stadium. There couldn't have been more than ten thousand fans there. Until that season, I wasn't aware of the enormous gap between Australian and British rugby league. That season was farcical. A really bad period for the sport.
 
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Bris 76 Halifax 0, 1997 SL WCC at ANZ Stadium. There couldn't have been more than ten thousand fans there. Until that season, I wasn't aware of the enormous gap between Australian and British rugby league. That season was farcical. A really bad period for the sport.
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It was a shocker I been listening to the SL war podcasts on Spotify after they stopped the YouTube ones. interesting in one of the podcasts the ARL had Redcliffe on standby in case they needed a new side.

Outside of that one moment in the final 20 seconds of the 1997 ARL GF and the reactions of the Newcastle fans in the Hunter the remainder of the season was a farce.
 
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Bris 76 Halifax 0, 1997 SL WCC at ANZ Stadium. There couldn't have been more than ten thousand fans there. Until that season, I wasn't aware of the enormous gap between Australian and British rugby league. That season was farcical. A really bad period for the sport.
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British rugby league is and always has been in a shit state. There is no money in it, my club is now in the second tier (championship) as the third tier folded. we get central funding from the league which I'm not 100% on but i believe is about £100k (for the year)

The sport gets zero media attention, if you pick up a major national paper you may see a small column squeezed in about a big derby game hidden between the tennis and adverts for specsavers. Sky tv paid a decent deal in the 90s when Superleague was formed and for a while around the start of the millennium things were on the up. now? The superleague deal i think is lower than it was in the 90s. you cannot get radio coverage on a big network even for international or challenge cup games you have to hunt out the local radio.

It is not as simple as raising the profile because the people who make the decisions block it. until 1995 Rugby league was banned in the uk military because the officer class (all privately educated where they play union) have been brought up to hate league said there was no appetite for it. Those same private school boys are now the board members of companies that put up sponsorship money and run media outlets.

To give you an example of how bad the sponsorship situation is over here a in 2012 super league was sponsored by Eddie Stobart. Stobart's (were) a haulage company. the sponsorship deal involved Eddie Stobart paying ZERO! and having some of the players likenesses painted on the trucks. in 2013 they couldn't even secure a sponsor. for superleauge.

Its a joke its barely a step above being sponsored by mick the dodgy dealer flogging stolen dinnersets out of a van
 
midlands hobo said:
British rugby league is and always has been in a shit state. There is no money in it, my club is now in the second tier (championship) as the third tier folded. we get central funding from the league which I'm not 100% on but i believe is about £100k (for the year)

The sport gets zero media attention, if you pick up a major national paper you may see a small column squeezed in about a big derby game hidden between the tennis and adverts for specsavers. Sky tv paid a decent deal in the 90s when Superleague was formed and for a while around the start of the millennium things were on the up. now? The superleague deal i think is lower than it was in the 90s. you cannot get radio coverage on a big network even for international or challenge cup games you have to hunt out the local radio.

It is not as simple as raising the profile because the people who make the decisions block it. until 1995 Rugby league was banned in the uk military because the officer class (all privately educated where they play union) have been brought up to hate league said there was no appetite for it. Those same private school boys are now the board members of companies that put up sponsorship money and run media outlets.

To give you an example of how bad the sponsorship situation is over here a in 2012 super league was sponsored by Eddie Stobart. Stobart's (were) a haulage company. the sponsorship deal involved Eddie Stobart paying ZERO! and having some of the players likenesses painted on the trucks. in 2013 they couldn't even secure a sponsor. for superleauge.

Its a joke its barely a step above being sponsored by mick the dodgy dealer flogging stolen dinnersets out of a van
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In that context, they do well to field teams as good as they do.
 
Just a little update on the sad state of British RL. we've just lost our 3rd team in the last few months. Salford went bust end of last season and the current Salford is a phoenix club in the championship. and so far in 2026 we've lost Featherstone Rovers and this week the taxman killed Halifax both from the championship.
 
Is competition for fans the problem for clubs like Salford? They would be competing with football giants like Man Utd and Man City for a fan base. And people dont have enough money to support multiple teams.

Unfortunately, competiting with football and economy means they are fighting a no win battle over there
 
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Is competition for fans the problem for clubs like Salford? They would be competing with football giants like Man Utd and Man City for a fan base. And people dont have enough money to support multiple teams.

Unfortunately, competiting with football and economy means they are fighting a no win battle over there
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Football rules all here. Annoyingly for me as i hate the bloody game. Its cost pure and simple, if you drive you can't drink, if you don't drive there is shocking public transport especially between yorkshire/lancashire. so unless you can put in a good home crowd you get negligable travelling fans.

Your talking about £40 for a ticket, a dodgy pie and chips and coffee with carparking and a program. that's 10% of most peoples weekly take home pay. Its even worse when you think your watching a shit team. Most teams even in football get done by the tax man. they spend big hoping for promotion to superleague and if they fail can't pay the bills and beg for a deep pocketed owner to bail them out. we are a massively taxed country and people just don't have the cash and why spend it if you can watch it on Sky which you've already paid for.
 
Yeah, as you can tell by my avatar, my first love is soccer/football. Been involved in the game from the age of 4. Player/Ref/Coach/Manager/and Club running level. So I know the game. Its a monster over there and impossible to compete against for a small pool of desposible income. And its probably getting worse as living costs increase.

Unfortunately for League and Rugby families i dont see a future in smaller boutique games. In a league dominate nation like Australia, thr most played game at a junior level is soccer. Id say in 100 years from now rugby will be close to dead and league wont be too far behind. Because the nature of money/spending/inflation will see the strong survive in a market that is based on survival of the fittest.

I will enjoy all my sport while I can. However, I do understand PVL expanding the game into further markets like png. Because if he doesnt, sitting back and feeding off an aged market with a product in its aged life cycle phase ends in one thing - extinition.
 
midlands hobo said:
Football rules all here. Annoyingly for me as i hate the bloody game. Its cost pure and simple, if you drive you can't drink, if you don't drive there is shocking public transport especially between yorkshire/lancashire. so unless you can put in a good home crowd you get negligable travelling fans.

Your talking about £40 for a ticket, a dodgy pie and chips and coffee with carparking and a program. that's 10% of most peoples weekly take home pay. Its even worse when you think your watching a shit team. Most teams even in football get done by the tax man. they spend big hoping for promotion to superleague and if they fail can't pay the bills and beg for a deep pocketed owner to bail them out. we are a massively taxed country and people just don't have the cash and why spend it if you can watch it on Sky which you've already paid for.
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like someone that was once on super league board has told me they so poorly run, and don't answer the questions the government tells them to answer , and will continue to happen as none on board have balls to change things , with to many personal agendas hence clubs are failing or want out even irl is so poorly run
 
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