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I’m just back from a couple of weeks away with work - good timing! - and been going through this weeks’ NRL games. I’d be prepared to assert that it won’t be the Eels’ year again. Knocked off at half time of the Titans game, and they’ve managed the impossible of getting even worse. Not a great look for the league to have so many walkovers this early.
Steady, Harrogate unbeaten in four (though Emmerson has missed the last two). They’ve beaten Cambridge (currently second) and drew yesterday with Bromley (top).
On your earlier question about why people prefer one over the other…
There’s a dangerous team sport in a lot of cultures, but as they’re all more complicated and risky to play than football, they struggle for the same casual attention and increasingly player numbers. As to which is the better of Union, League, American Football, it’s much more about family, place and tradition (all things being eroded to the benefit of football). The reason why UHT milk exists, lack of refrigeration in poor hot European areas, doesn’t apply anymore but it’s as popular in the same areas as it ever was, because people give kids the milk their parents gave them and so on, setting their tastes for life. Give them fresh milk (obviously a better product!) and they’ll think it’s rotten. I look at AFL and see all the things that look wrong about it, the shape of the ball, the field, the posts, the scoring system, how hitting the post and own goals are no big deal, the vests…and there’s 90,000 people in the ground going potty.
Had a family do I couldn’t get out of, so sorry I missed it. They’re an amazing side, not the most talented squad in Super League but they just keep coming.
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