F1... top 4 I reckon

Spot on. Nothing irritates me more than English people thinking "soccer" is an American isation.

Aye and probably Horse Racing too.

Or just more schools, to be honest.



And trust me, just because rugby union gets played at public schools doesn't mean that public schoolboys like it.

Looking at the two main media sites BBC and Sky makes an interesting comparison



The BBC Sports Website lists the sports from top to bottom:

Football

Cricket

Rugby Union

Tennis

Horse Racing

Golf

F1

League

Olympics





Whereas Skysports list reads

Football

Cricket

Onion

League

Golf

Tennis

Boxing

Racing

F1

No it doesn't. It reads Football, F1, Olympics, Cricket, RU, RL and then the others.



People seem to want to play down RL so much, I can't think of a reason for this other than so they can say they follow a minority sport and are being persecuted. Maybe it's the same reason people are so averse to expansion of the game. Really bizarre attitude to have.

I'd agree but I think the RFL are doing pretty well with the schools thing in general to be honest.



You're probably right in that a lot might not enjoy playing it, but it gets it into the mind that rugby union is important if the school they are at plays it and takes it seriously. So that public schoolboy might not enjoy playing it while he's at school, he is then more likely to take an interest in the sport later in life. He's certainly more likely to take an interest in it than in a sport which wasn't played, mentioned, discussed or even knew existed while he was at school.

I would agree with the first bit a lot, and the next part a bit!



I'll be honest- I'm an ex-public schoolboy. I know a fair few others, unsurprisingly! And we had to play union. We hated it. And we hate watching it. One or two of us got into League, and a few of the others then did too.



But I guess that might be an atypical case. Certainly in Manchester, all efforts to get us to enjoy union failed miserably! The usual suspects (i.e. the kids from North Cheshire) loved union, the rest of us watched football or cricket, and a few League (although I didn't get into RL until after uni).

oh dear.....the "it's not fair' thread has popped up again





Media is what you make of it.



Go to the popular video sharing site and search for all blacks summer skills 2.....then after watching it type in waratahs summer skills.



One of these is a polished professional marketing piece......the other is a last minute (still professional) pi55 take......



Media...as in TV, Press, Radio is soon going to be overtaken by the web......the RFL need to get in now..



enough b0llox about public schoolboys running the BBC.....who cares......get on the web, get the content right and then get the "coverage" you think the sport deserves......

I couldn't agree more about using the web. I even mentioned to Paul Kimberley of the RFL that YouTube the second largest search engine in the world, are actively looking to promote sport as a vertical that they are concentrating on. The response I got was that YouTube would have the opportunity to bid like anyone else. I tried to let him know that since YouTube and the sports marketing position is based in the US that they probably haven't even heard of our sport. They just don't seem to get it. I wouldn't be surprised to see the RFU pro actively approach YouTube and get their brand even more widespread.

because they understand their target market......and what they will get audiences for!





because they are the RFL who at best...would have trouble finding their own @rses with both hands.

lol its just so so wrong !! the word 'soccer' makes me cringe, call it what it is FOOTBALL