www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... =24&page=3 Quote 10. Quad Nations - over to the tiny grounds and backwaters for rugby league's latest attempts to portray themselves as an international sport - albeit this time in the absence of the mighty Lebanon. To start it all at Doncaster and The Stoop was hardly a storming opening, nor was the absolutely dire performance of England, supposedly the fruits of something that some call the Super League. We will need to see an awful lot in the next week or two to persuade us that the Great Britain-Australia series in rugby league is really the only thing that will ever mean anything.'" What a complete w*nker!! And you wonder why I fu$king hate Rugby Union – pompous rah rah prlck! He is precisely the reason why I have never and will never by the times!

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... =24&page=3 Quote 10. Quad Nations - over to the tiny grounds and backwaters for rugby league's latest attempts to portray themselves as an international sport - albeit this time in the absence of the mighty Lebanon. To start it all at Doncaster and The Stoop was hardly a storming opening, nor was the absolutely dire performance of England, supposedly the fruits of something that some call the Super League. We will need to see an awful lot in the next week or two to persuade us that the Great Britain-Australia series in rugby league is really the only thing that will ever mean anything.'" What a complete w*nker!! And you wonder why I fu$king hate Rugby Union – pompous rah rah prlck! He is precisely the reason why I have never and will never by the times!

You want to tell me what is untrue?

that the game at the stoop wasnt a storming opening?

In the same article he admits that Rugby Union is boring, which is quite funny.

I think we knew most of what he would say, but I'm not quite sure why he's included it in his top ten Autumn Attractions if he then has a pop

Should this sentance read;

He doesn't refer to the game at The Stoop at all, just that using two small-scale grounds to launch a supposedly major international sporting tournament is a bit disappointing.



Bit like opening the 2018 football World Cup (if England win the right to host it) at Oakwell and The Valley.

stephen jones is a first class t!t



he see's rugby league as a threat, bbc coverage on saturday will no doubt show many people still prefer to watch league to onion on the box with ratings

Stephen Jones sees rugby league as a threat?





A threat to what exactly? When rugby league in the UK can manage to convince 70,000 people to come through the doors to watch an international then it might, just might be perceived as a threat.



As it is, Premiership attendances are matching and in many cases overtaking SL ones and the international game enjoys a profile rugby league can only dream of. It's as much a threat to Union as Azerbaijan is to world peace.

ever heard of attacking someone because you feel threatend?





granted we will never match union on the international stage, but on the small screen we are a much better sport for viewing

Yawn, yawn. Boring as per usual. Maybe he should stick to journalism on rugby union and stick to letting Chris Irvine do the rugby league coverage.

Union is totally and utterly dominant at the moment. He is doing nothing but having a slight dig. He also has a fair point, why the Aus-NZ game wasn't played at an appropriate venue is beyond me. It's the pinnacle of rugby in either code as pointed out by Brian Carney on Sky, so why we can't get 50,000 along to it I'll never know.



England - France is another matter because it's just unmarketable here. It should have been played in France. That would have made it even closer.