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| Quote JEAN CAPDOUZE="JEAN CAPDOUZE"As many of you may know MU is riddled with rugby league fans such as Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick and Paul Scholes. (Rooney is a Leeds fan, while Giggs - a childhood friend of Adrian Morley -- and Ferdinand are Wigan fans).
It was a fortunate coincidence that the State of Origin 3 (July 17) is being held three days before Manchester United is booked to play an Australian Selection at the same ANZ Stadium (July 20). So Manchester United's travel could be coordinated to have them in Sydney for the earlier event.
It's a great coup for rugby league in Australia, and hopefully, also in the UK. In terms of the latter it is up to Brian Barwick and Nigel Wood to take advantage of this event.'"
Great idea and you just have to be grateful that it's Utd who are in Aus at the moment. Which other Premier league team could even provide 5 brits from their side, never mind RL fans to boot. Aren't Utd fantastically wonderful.
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| Quote richie166="richie166"3 posts before a reply - 1 day people surely will just stop replying to these pointless threads.'"
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| Quote richie166="richie166"3 posts before a reply - 1 day people surely will just stop replying to these pointless threads.'"
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As somebody more famous than me once said "any publicity is better than no publicity at all." We all know that Sydney is the capital of Rugby League in terms of media coverage, if it helps back in the UK it can only be a positive.
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| Quote Cronus="Cronus"
Embarrassing that some attention seekers think we need football players watching a game in Australia to boost the game in the UK. Or that that would even work.'"
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| Quote JEAN CAPDOUZE="JEAN CAPDOUZE"The purpose of the invitation was:
(1) to boost the standing of the State of Origin game and rugby league in the minds of the Australian public, scoring prestige points against AFL and the ARU;
(2) to boost the standing of rugby league in the minds of the Manchester United players i.e. they will never have seen an 83,000 crowd of fanatical fans at a rugby league game Down Under. They will never before have experienced a media blitz in support of rugby league like they will experience on match day in Sydney. It will show them how big an event the game can be. It could be of some help in terms of spinoff in the UK.'"
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| Quote CommanderShepard="CommanderShepard"The artist formerly known as Barry McKenzie needs to do something to keep his attention seeking going and unfortunately creating these pointless threads is just that.'"
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It'll showcase the game at it's very best.
If they enjoy super league then damn they'll be blown away by state of origin.
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Cool, I'll watch for him and his mates on the TV
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| Quote Sal Paradise="Sal Paradise"So a typical home game for the Manchester Utd players - 83k is hardly a huge crowd compared to those the likes of Rooney have played in front of. Maybe they should go to a Rules game isn't that a typical crowd when two Melbourne sides meet at the MCG?'"
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Whilst our 'French' friend has got himself a bit carried away, I agree with him that things like this are good publicity for the sport.
I am no lover of soccer but they have a lot of players/coaches who admire and respect our sport. Last Monday Joey Barton tweeted "What an advert for Super League this is. Best sport to watch on telly bar none..." to over 2,000,000 followers. Plenty of other footballers have tweeted similar things and last year the England manager watched Wigan v Warrington alongside Tony Smith, money can't buy publicity like that.
I've also been thinking, would informal 'partnerships' with Premier League clubs work? They get to benefit from training with some of the toughest athletes in the world, whilst we would get to use top facilities of theirs and plenty of promotion.
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