kiwi bros,now that rugby union is dead, could soccer take its place?Or will nothing ever take the place of rugby?
they would just switch from union to league before soccer
League would take its place before soccer, certain parts of the country already seem to care more about the Warriors than the All Blacks.
sucker lose
>>155571202They care because warriors have been winning. Nobody will care when they start losing. Plus nobody cares about league international tests, theyre basically irrelevant outside of world cups
>>155571074Why is Rugby Union dead
>>155571344Because it sucks and league is better
Imagine if Aussies cared about soccer. At least 3 world cup wins
>>155571344this >>155571371World Rugby took it upon itself to ‘Americanise’ the sport and replaced clubs with franchises; now it’s dead, has zero appeal, stupid rules, zero rivalries – it’s just a plastic game for progres.
>>155571371True. Got to go see a Warriors game when I went down there for a wedding, great experience. Makes me wish the NHL sucked less cock
>>155571423Yeah, I saw the wallabies beat england and it was a bit shit to watch personally, so many penalties and standing around>>155571496League is great because it's fast, energetic, and there's far fewer penalties than in union
>>155571239not even Australians are aware international league games exist bro
>>155571202we all know what certain parts that isfor the rest of us league will never replace union because we're not retarded bogans or rednecks or maori
>>155571555what is left after that? indians?
>>155571555Union fans are very classist, shame
>watch union for a change>someone gets tackled>3000kg worth of men pile on top of him>whistle blows because someone's nutsack at the bottom of the pile got pinched a little too hard
>>155571202 mangere maybe lol
They're getting an NRL team, say something nice to them
>>155571542I recently watched an NRL match and was absolutely blown away by the atmosphere and the quality of the fans , I mean, they feel genuine, not like plastic ones. There’s even an annual international tournament that even the islanders seem to be more interested in than the union test matches.
>>155571725https://archive.org/details/firstcontact_201602/firstcontactreel1.movthey are subject of the most kino documentary oat
>>155571371League is a training exercise for Union. It appeals only to dimwits who cant handle anything more complicated than passing the ball
>>155571762Sour grapes
>>155571344>turned into big brother ball, >clubs went bust, >piss take of European clubs preventing Pasifika players from representing their countries. >Super Rugby is a dogs dinner of a competition and should be put out of its misery. >Oh and the fucking pop music blasted out at every stoppage. in short it's become soulless shit like everything else
>>155571762go swans btw
>>155571725Wtf
>>155571783Sour grapes over what League is only dominant in Australia anf maybe some pockets in England. Its dwarfed internationally by union
private school boys and wogs are spiritually aligned in their only cope being international attention
>>155571739what a fucking joke of a post keknrlel attracts 5 spastics each game and they have shit atmosphere compared to cricket and real footy. why grovel to one state in particular in australia as an argie? fucking sad behaviour
>>155571834>league is dominant in australianot even the 2nd most popular sport kek
>>155571834NRL revenue is greater than the combined revenue of NZRU, ARU and SARU
>>155571572nah just well off white peopleindians don't watch rugby
>>155571834Just proves most of the world is gay then hey
>>155571878>this outdated image againnrl mogs afl in viewership, in just two years its completely eclipsed afl to the point that some women's league games beat the mens afl
>>155571812The NRL is MASSIVE in PNG, it's been thought that tribal warfare has decreased due to them playing rugby league as a substitute instead
>>155571878Dominant compared to league >>155571892Never argued NRL wasnt successfulARU and NZRU have been in shambles due to mismanagement, the only one that suprises me is SARU
>>155571976SARU revenue is lower than NZ actually
The greatest heights a league player can hope to achieve is a yearly game only two states give a fuck about lol
>>155572002Grim
>>155571976South africans can't even keep the electricity going, you think they have money spare to spend on sports?
>>155571929seethe more nrlsperg
>>155571344the all blackeds basically trained every single player to have nearly the exact same skill set to get them to play a certain way they thought would be exciting, but it's had the opposite effect and become incredibly boring
>>155571878I don't think people follow tennis like they do AFL and league.They watch the Australian Open and that's it.
>>155572059>non sequiturnumbers don't lie and you know it
>>155571812It's their national sport and they're close to us, so I don't see why they shouldn't be playing in our league, if they have the ability.Only issue is it's a super poor country, so it creates various issues (we pretty much have to subsidise them).
Reminder that NRL players literally piss into their own mouths lol
AFL controversies are like "oh no his business is going under!!"NRL controversies are like "oh no he fucked a dog after running over a woman and her daughter drug driving"Which is more Australian?
>>155572123it was done season end of last year, and nrlel certainly hasn't overtaken afl by a whole 3 million people since then considering afl still beats nrl most of the time on friday night tv coveragejust accept that the objectively shittier version of some crap english sport isn't actually that popular and quit coping you sad little sperg
>>155572301we've all seen the viewership numbers, they're conclusively nrldon't care for "membership" since thats a completely fraudulent metric seeing how afl handles memberships
