this is from the yank nrl site -

- 1923

Game established by The Rugby school, Warwickshire, England

1895: "Great Schism"

Working class northern players clash with southern counterparts over payment for 'broken time' - compensation for lost work. The "Great Schism" leads to formation of 22 club Northern Union, which in 1922 becomes Rugby League.

www.nrlus.com/history.html

this is from the yank nrl site -

- 1923

Game established by The Rugby school, Warwickshire, England

1895: "Great Schism"

Working class northern players clash with southern counterparts over payment for 'broken time' - compensation for lost work. The "Great Schism" leads to formation of 22 club Northern Union, which in 1922 becomes Rugby League.

www.nrlus.com/history.html

Maybe because the people involved in the US are the same bunch of walter mitty nutters who have been saying stuff like this for years?



See wesclark.com/rrr/us_rugby_league.html for example



...and ten years later?





Meanwhile, rational earthlings just get on with working hard and organising their sport without talking fruit loop nonsense - see www.usarugby.org/ and use the "find a club" tool, where there's more clubs with names beginning with "B" than the AMNRL have in their entire organisation!

Maybe because the people involved in the US are the same bunch of walter mitty nutters who have been saying stuff like this for years?



See wesclark.com/rrr/us_rugby_league.html for example



...and ten years later?





Meanwhile, rational earthlings just get on with working hard and organising their sport without talking fruit loop nonsense - see www.usarugby.org/ and use the "find a club" tool, where there's more clubs with names beginning with "B" than the AMNRL have in their entire organisation!

STOP PRESS: This story just gets better and better - have a look at this stuff we were hearing in 1997 FFS www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4370954.html



I'd forgotten all about that! The sooner our sport stops getting wound up by these jokers, the sooner we can just get on developing real opportunities

STOP PRESS: This story just gets better and better - have a look at this stuff we were hearing in 1997 FFS www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4370954.html



I'd forgotten all about that! The sooner our sport stops getting wound up by these jokers, the sooner we can just get on developing real opportunities

the amount of money pumped into rugby union is incredible. i saw a feature on the set up over there on total rugby and i was blown away. nigel melville and his team have put a ton of work in and now they are starting to see the fruits of that effort.

a good international calender also helps the game develop.

the amount of money pumped into rugby union is incredible. i saw a feature on the set up over there on total rugby and i was blown away. nigel melville and his team have put a ton of work in and now they are starting to see the fruits of that effort.

a good international calender also helps the game develop.

Maurice and Rupert?

Maurice and Rupert?

If you're running a global business, this is the sort of thing you do when you seek to develop a new market...

www.usarugby.org/media/EDocs/STRATPLANFINAL.pdf



Pretty impressive stuff. Goal, strategy, tactics, execution, review.



If you're a couple of attention seeking weirdos, you do this...

www.nrlus.com/history



...apparently the Northern Union broke away in the 1920's, some 20 years after the player numbers were cut from 15 to 13 in their own dodgy timeline (did Union cut from 15 to 13 and then go back to 15 again later then or something?). The internal logic is nutty, they can't even do something simple like an order of events right





The thing that really winds me up about these idiots, is how daft it makes our entire sport look compared to the other lot - I swear we have the best product, but the worst administrators, in the whole of the world sporting landscape.

If you're running a global business, this is the sort of thing you do when you seek to develop a new market...

www.usarugby.org/media/EDocs/STRATPLANFINAL.pdf



Pretty impressive stuff. Goal, strategy, tactics, execution, review.



If you're a couple of attention seeking weirdos, you do this...

www.nrlus.com/history



...apparently the Northern Union broke away in the 1920's, some 20 years after the player numbers were cut from 15 to 13 in their own dodgy timeline (did Union cut from 15 to 13 and then go back to 15 again later then or something?). The internal logic is nutty, they can't even do something simple like an order of events right





The thing that really winds me up about these idiots, is how daft it makes our entire sport look compared to the other lot - I swear we have the best product, but the worst administrators, in the whole of the world sporting landscape.

whats wrong with ambition



if this works it will be fantastic, if it doesnt who cares



lofty goals get people excited, when selling an entertainement product thats what you need to get people excited

whats wrong with ambition



if this works it will be fantastic, if it doesnt who cares



lofty goals get people excited, when selling an entertainement product thats what you need to get people excited

Rugby Union is a joke sport in America. Played by upper class 'college boys' who are more interested in drinking that playing, and quit as soon as they finish college. RL needs to distance itself from Union to avoid being labeled as a joke, and this initiative seems to be doing that. The AMNRL are doing a great job and to be negative and label them as 'idiots' is pathetic.

Rugby Union is a joke sport in America. Played by upper class 'college boys' who are more interested in drinking that playing, and quit as soon as they finish college. RL needs to distance itself from Union to avoid being labeled as a joke, and this initiative seems to be doing that. The AMNRL are doing a great job and to be negative and label them as 'idiots' is pathetic.