http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/r...me-lessons-from-the-code-20151027-gkjbcu.html
a very positive article from Roy, who isn't known for giving a great wrap to other codes.
That said I am sure the union media will return the favour.
Mate, when I lived offshore, I used to go berserk at the bias in Radio Australia's sports coverage.
In winter it was AFL all the bloody way. I got stuck into them about it, and they said that they knew that nobody except Australians cared about the sport, but some very influential people gave them a hard time if they gave other codes a look in.
Precisely what I was going at.
If you want to discuss media rubbish the AFL's control and throat shoving is far more relevant.
because they dont care.
They also dont praise RU either.
At least the AFL media is honest - its AFL and nothing else. It galls me when I see ARL types, who ignore and/or ridicule RU during the year, now wearing wallaby scarves or jumping on the bandwagon now they have made the final of what would be one of the top world wide sporting events e.g Tony Squires and Paul Kent from the Back Page
The World All Stars team will feature a minimum of four players each from Australia, New Zealand and England, while the remaining players will be made up from other nations - Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, PNG and France (if available).
To be honest, I've probably always been coloured by some of other rumours about him. I enjoy watching him play, but I've always got that stuff at the back of my head. Which is probably a bit unfair.
The NRL can do little to improve English Rugby League, the nation is shit at sport when it comes to the big stage, why would rugby league be any different.