1992 SCN Northern Tasmania Rugby League Promo

A promo from Southern Cross Network Launceston in 1992 of the "Battle For The Ashes" second rugby league test between Australia and Great Britain.

Australia won the series 2-1 in what would be their last home Ashes series ever as far as rugby league goes. The Aussies won the next and last three rugby league test series in 1994 (2-1), 2001 (2-1) and 2003 (3-0). In fact, it hadn't been since 1970 that Great Britain had won an Ashes series where they won 2-1.

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[Jezza46]

@z0mgrugbyreturns They should rename the Arena Football League the AGL (Arena Gridiron League) because honestly, apart from the punters, many of them hailing from Australia now (especially in the NFL), no-one on the "football" field over there actually uses their foot to kick the ball.

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

@Jezza46 We also chased cheese down a hill. I can tell you for a fact AFL is unknown here outside of the expat community.

Most people hear AFL and think Arena Football(gridiron)

[Jezza46]

@z0mgrugbyreturns Yeah, well you'd hardly be one to judge then. Aussie Rules is to us what soccer is to you British people. Aussie Rules is a hugely popular sport here like soccer is in Britain. Even the British play Aussie Rules locally and field a national International Cup side.

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

@Jezza46 I'm British. I really don't care about the NRL states.

[Jezza46]

@z0mgrugbyreturns Yeah by the very few people who are too stuck-up in the rugby league heartland like you to worry about how popular the AFL is in the AFL states compared to what the NRL is in the NRL states.

[Jezza46]

@z0mgrugbyreturns There's even an International Aussie Rules Cup we stage played between national teams from other countries. So don't tell us about being xenophobic nationalists because our code's appeal stretches broadly around the world. We do our very best to advertise the code popular with millions of Australians. In the past few decades, we have staged exhibition matches overseas during the off-season in places like London, Vancouver, Honolulu, Tokyo, San Francisco, Auckland and Miami.

[Jezza46]

@z0mgrugbyreturns We are not xenophobic nationalists! We recruit players from around the world to play the great game we call Australian Rules Football. We recruited the likes of Jim Stynes, Sean Wight, Tadhg Kennelly and Setanta O'Hailpin from Ireland to play AFL, as well as Mike Pyke, the international rugby union representative from Canada, and very recently we got Seamus McNamara over from the U.S.

[Jezza46]

@z0mgrugbyreturns AFL is the only truly Australian football code and it's a very popular code in the AFL states, and it's played professionally Australia-wide, now you don't see local rugby league games being played back on the news in Tasmania, do you? The only rugby league stories that would feature on the Tassie bulletins would be the really big stories like the Storm controversy and the grand final.

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

@Jezza46 Well no one gives a fuck about w/e backwards town you're from. AFL is considered a joke, by the very few people who even know it exists.

Fuckin victard

[Jezza46]

@z0mgrugbyreturns Oi rugby league is the joke here. Rugby leaguers do nothing but run forward and pass backward to find their teammates and smash their heads with little brains in an attempt to dive past the try line. AFL is a 360 degree game and it involves both brain and brawn to find an avenue to goal whether they have to pass forwards or backwards and then forwards to try and find alone teammates around the ground.