You seem to get as all hrt up about someone suggesting RU is a bigger, more popular game than RL for some reason. Why was Wigan , with a population if 80,000 offered 10,000 more tickets than a team from the rugby and capital of rugby league with a 250,000+ population in the first place? Your figures don't add up. 65,000 tickets going to the clubs when, as we are reminded by Gollum every year, a RL final is unique,like a family affair with tens of thousands of fans of other clubs there with tickets bought months in advance before knowing who will be in the final.
So was I. Back in those days, a Wembley weekend was booked months in advance (regardless of who got to the final). I have not been to a rugby match since 1985 as i can't afford to go to both sports.
That must have been a different year Balkan. I went to the Featherstone Rovers v. Bradford Northern final. But yes fantastic times.
All right but there was a reason rugby league sold a lot of the tickets every year in advance to schools. They feared not selling out otherwise.
But not very good at competitive basketball. There was a game arranged between them and a college team and they got thrashed.
Rugby Unions is a bigger sport than RL thats a fact. If we're talking crowds NFL kicks the **** out of everything.
I had a brilliant day at a Wembley final at some point in the 80's, it was the only rugby game I've ever been to and the only time I went to the old Wembley. Sadly, I've no idea who played, what the score was, or anything that happened in the game. Though I do remember waking up under a grand piano at the Mayfair Hotel shortly before midnight. I think there was a marquee and a Frank Sinatra impersonation involved at some point, but I can't be entirely sure.
It always ends up well when RL is mentioned on here. It seems to make some peoples blood boil at the mere mention of it.
Back in those days you were never searched and it was normal to carry in half a dozen tinnies. Good cheap days back then
