please log in to view this image Despite the huge language barrier the players from the different rugby league nations managed to converse. G'day mate. Ga day Cobber Throw another shrimp on the barbie. Will do Bonza mate! I got to go to the dunny. No worries mate. Terrible pommy weather isn't it? Struth! you're not wrong there mate
Given 12 out of 14 teams speak English anyway I doubt there was ever much of a language barrier. Also you do know there's more Kiwi's than Aussie's in that picture right?
**** me what a joke. BBC Look North 's Sports section tonight headlined with the PNG- France game at the Caravan Park yesterday (att, 7,500). According to Simon Clarke, this proved once again Hull's enormous appetite for RL as the fans turned out in droves. What planet are you on Clarkey?!?! That's a **** attendance even by local RL standards. The vox pop interviews seemed to represent the worst kind of 'fan', devoid of any serious insight, superficial and no real interest in sport. Nice of them to feature a little bit about City's game after that-you know the one played in front of a full house in London, and discussed in depth on national television last night by the national game's serious pundits. Still, mustn't puncture the collective bubble of self-deceit of the local RL fraternity and their parasites in the local media. Wake up - it's 2013, City are in the Premiership and RL is still a dinky little parochial sport ignored by 95% of the country's sports fan.
I think there's the same amount bud, from what I can tell from Wiki, there's most from England, then Oz and NZ then a decent number born in the country they're representing. Whatever the numbers, its a damn site better than it would have been 10 years ago.
After all the hype in the local media I have to say that is a **** attendance , even the rugby fans in Hull don't seem interested
Thousands of free tickets were given away. Same for the next game at Craven Park and also the England game at the KC.
There's a few tickets been given to kids who are dancing, nowhere near thousands. The KC game will sell out before the weekend I reckon, tickets are flying now.
Many workplaces in Hull have been given lots of freebies- they can't give the bastards away. It's a joke.
They have given loads of tickets away, freebies handed out, 2 for 1 offers. Wouldn't you expect games to sell out immediately in the capital of rugby league with its rugby mad population? Not have thousands left after being given away and on sale for weeks?
I'm not a Rugby fan - either League or Union - but I feel I have to ask: What is it with you types and all the Rugby-bashing (in any way) that goes on on here? I read it as some of you having a serious inferiority complex, or 'little willy', problem......
It's more the opposite. People living in Hull over the years have had to put up with propoganda from the local media and some noisy rugby minorities (mainly FC for some odd reason) that want to compare their game to football. It's comparing apples to oranges, if they like it, enjoy it, but trying to compare it to football is doomed to failure and there are plenty that will enjoy pointing out the ridiculous nature of the propoganda. If they focused on their strengths, there's much football could learn from RL and RL could learn from many of the mistakes made in football.
You sound like a classic case of someone suffering from what psychiatrists call projection. Psychological projection was conceptualized by Sigmund Freud in the 1890s as a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously rejects his or her own unacceptable attributes by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world. For example, a person who is rude may accuse other people of being rude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Great post, pretty much sums it up. I'd say there's also an element of insecurity from fans of both sports who constantly try to undermine the other. Neither sport is threat to the other and we're probably one of the few places in the country where such petty rivalry exists. Ultimately its sad that for whatever reason something we should be proud of as a relatively small, relatively poor city, becomes something so divisive.
The sports are in competition with each other to some extent. Thirty years ago, when perhaps the argument that the city is a "rugby town' had some merit, those of us old enough can all remember people who dropped City and went to follow Hull FC or Rovers. At the moment with City in the PL and their gates more than the two rugby clubs combined it seems no contest but that might not always be the case. I wonder if Newcastle United would be quite such a club if they hadn't had the city to themselves but had always had not just one but two (two for Christ's sake) rugby league outfits to compete with? In the end it's growing up with people making tedious evangelising comments about RL pisses me off. A keyboard warrior who loses it all the time will now tell me to "grow a pair". Not you Airlie Tiger.
