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Even since Rugby League was first formed, the prediction of its demise grew year by year out of spite and hatred for the code. It’s time to look back at those predicting that rugby league would perish and be no more of the sporting landscape.
1. Mike Carlton (2003)
‘Yet cold common sense tells you that rugby league is slowly dying’. This was around RWC 2003, where John O’Neill predicted that union would take over league and it would eventually merge with union. But that didn’t happen.
2. David Howe (2006)
Academic David Howe in his infamous Tom Brock lecture ‘The Stuff of Dreams, or the Dream Stuffed? Rugby League, Media Empires, Sex Scandals, and Global Play’ predicted that rugby league would get the wooden spoon in the Australian landscape. But it didn’t happen.
The list is endless, so feel free to provide examples because there no shortage of them.
I wonder why they death-ride a sport, anyway. It serves no purpose at all. Overall, journalists and academics should focus on sports they truly care about.
There’s too much negative media these days in the first place.
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