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Sadly some people don’t see it. Andrew Voss on the Thursday Footy Show last week and on the Sunday Roast some weeks ago slammed the idea of taking Rugby League back to Adelaide, saying it’s a waste of time.
Incredible when at a time even the lackluster administration of the game is saying expansion is the way forward, that taking one game to Adelaide is a waste.
The Bulldogs, unlike the NRL, has taken some initiative and taken a home game against the Melbourne Storm
(who wouldn’t draw a crowd at ANZ Stadium and last year didn’t draw a crowd at the Central Coast) to the city
of churches to spread the gospel of the game.
The crowd for a cold winters night was just a tick over 10,000, which for a half built Adelaide Oval, should
give the powers that be at NRL HQ some heart that people of Adelaide haven’t abandoned the game altogether
since the sad demise of the Adelaide Rams.
Rugby League needs to continue to take games on the road; there is nothing wrong with some Sydney clubs
taking known non drawing games away to places like Perth, Adelaide, Darwin, even Tasmania or across the
ditch.
I am not saying give all these places an NRL team, but we need to spread the word of the game with the on field product, because as we saw for even fans in Victoria where they have a NRL team, coverage of Rugby League is… well, words cannot describe how badly the game is treated.
Canterbury-Bankstown taking a ‘home’ game to Adelaide was a win for the people of Adelaide, Rugby League and the Bulldogs (on and off the field).
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