How can that be right when New Zealand have a population of about 4.5 million?Xman wrote:NZ, population less than Melbourne. Number 1 sport: Union
Why would we care that the NRL is on TV in a tiny nation who follow RU?
More than AFL states Western Australia and South Australia and combined.
Plenty of Kiwis like Rugby League too. They are currently ranked the number 1 Rugby League team in the world after beating Australia and England a few times.
Sure Union will always be number one there. But with the amount of good Kiwi players in the NRL. It more than proves the game is doing well there.
AFL can't even field an overseas team to compete against Australia. The sport is that small.

And AFL pretty much never makes the sports news there. Always news about the NRL and the Warriors though.
The papers don't even have an AFL section lol.. Is like AFL does not exist there.