Why does the NRL call itself National??

Question

It cleary is NOT, it has tried and failed dismally, the punters have voted in SA and WA, stay in your own backyard!! the game will never be embraced like the AFL has been, Swans and Lions get crowds the NRL can only dream of!! Maybe they should call it the AFLCCRLC,

Australian Football League Copy Cat Rugby League!!!!!

Answer 1

NRL was a comprise I guess, after the ARL was derailed by Superleague suggestions a few years ago. I am not suprised that a lot of elite NRL players are moving to English Superleague and French Rugby which I believe are organised in the way Superleague Australia was supposed to have been organised.

AFL reminds me of American football. In the latter they ONLY throw, yet they still call it football. It should be called American throwball. Except 3-4 players the rest are made up of fat men who can only manage 10 metres. In AFL, its almost like an undisciplined game where u can pass/throw or kick the ball in any direction, 360 degrees chances. Its made up of tall men who play around like kids and jump like kangeroos yet the players are treated like superstars that have no name once u step over the Australian border. At leaset NRL players are recognised in several other countrys and can move to Europe to play. There is no or less skill in AFL unless you want to jump higher than 2 metres and break your neck coming back to earth...lol

Answer 2

Can you please get a life and stop making such idiotic threads.

Answer 3

of course AFL  is played all over the world NOT!! If you like dropped balls ,and catching a ball and dropping it being called a mark ,and having all those goal posts  ,and still get a point for missing ,WHOO.YOU MUST BE KIDDING YOURSELF.  

Answer 4

good question. maybe you should take it up with david gallop