That'll be the RAY pretty machine kicking in. They have a pr team at Twickenham and 3 agencies who are tasked with keeping their game in the news. The rules have a bloke who claims to have made man City a global brand who draws cartoons of players.

burgess arriving in the UK would have been set up months ago with the media constantly informed of what's going on.

Utterly bizarre that his switch to RU has become the most important news item for the 10 o'clock news.

Whilst you're definitely right on the difference between the RFL & RFU (I'm convinced that the RFL need to keep more of its revenue for itself, I think it's drastically underfunded in almost every area. The RFL runs on approx £6-7m per year compared to approx £40m for the RFU.) there is also a need for London-based media to listen to either the RFU or RFL.



I think it's obvious they're more willing and eager to listen to, and write about, the RFU pushed stories. In the same way that similar stories about almost any subject (not just RL) are virtually ignored when they happen North of Watford.

The difference in the sports is quite startling. Soccer has journalists investigating and enquiring......the same can be said for other sports when they are perceived to be "in", but normally, everyone else is telling their story and doing the promoting to papers/media trying to get published.

The RFU have understood this for years and do it very very well. The RFL are getting better......

It wasn't the most important item. It was at the end of the program. Don't let that get in the way of a good whinge though.

...it was a ruse. I bet the Tories have "buried" loads of bad news in the hope that the wall to wall Burgess coverage helps it get missed

Nope. Want to have a third attempt?

I didn't see it, I was referring to the advert for the news an hour before - this is the news!

It was see both games at Craven park for 15 quid......

Confirmed somewhere in this thread....about page 27

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...Semi-Final "Big Hit" tickets were on offer for a tenner by the way......but as I said, it doesn't matter if they were FOC. The competition was great........

All you have a one person's say so on a RL thread - no wonder anybody treats you with the contempt they do

You maybe right there but since we're talking about England New Zealand next year and England also played Fiji in Hull last year then it was a fair assumption to make about you meaning that game.



I forgot the basic rule of RU trolling there, I must've been tired.

On the subject of tickets and Bath Rugby; I was on a stag do in Bath last weekend and we went to watch Bath Vs Toulouse. The stag had arranged 6 tickets about 10 days before the game at a cost of £56 each. Yes, you heard that right, £56 each for a low intensity, error strewn, atmosphere lacking game that could only be described as a social day out for the good folk of Bath. Two of us are league fans and came away scratching our heads as you can imagine. We could only surmise that the money in RU must be absolutely stark staring bonkers barking obscene. My only saving grace is that the stag paid for my ticket as a favour for doing some design work for his wedding.