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Owd Codger

I am not sure what your point is, I can see that you like your rugby, but I have always thought that Rugby League has always punched well above it's weight in terms of popularity in this country, by that I mean that when you have such few big rugby league clubs, such has Wigan, St Helens, Warrington etc, which are attracting nationwide and national TV audiences, and the TV crown jewels which include the FA Cup Final, British Grand Prix, Grand National etc which must be shown on free to air TV channels, and one of the TV sport crown jewels is the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley.

I have been in Cornwall and on a chalkboard outside of a pub it said.

Friday Night Rugby League

Wigan v St Helens"



And it should be remembered that it was Rugby League which changed everything in the early 1990's with the change to Superleague and Summer Rugby, with American style audience entertainment, cheer leaders and mascots, and changing the name of the clubs to stupid showbiz names, there are people like me who miss the winter rugby, I used to love going to Central Park on a freezing cold foggy Saturday afternoon in the 1960s, when the fog was so thick that you couldn't see what was happening at the other side of the pitch.
I adored the dank, gloom and doom of those days, after the match walking back to the car with me dad, with owd fellas who were shuffling along, in their baggy trousers and flat caps, coughing their guts up, whilst smoking a Woodbine, they were happy days for me