by Today, Las Vegas: Tomorrow, the world? It was only in the coming weeks, months and years and years that we know the sustainable effects of the first statement by the Super League in the USA, but although so many things felt new, one was extremely familiar: the brilliance of Wigan Warriors.
Matt Pee’s team made it a habit to get their best on the biggest stages, and in Nevada, with more eyes on her than ever before, you certainly did not want when Warrington defeated 42: 0.
In view of the entire pomp and the circumstances in connection with Las Vegas’ four-game rugby league extravagance, it was easy to forget that two competition points are at stake. But really, that’s the point. Wigan makes two victories of three with an commanding victory, almost the footnote. What is really important is the reason why you have sacrificed a home game at great financial costs and why the national rugby league in Australia added the Super League to the legislation after the first event Vegas last year. It’s not about: it’s about what happens next.
The hope from the five -year agreement of the NRL with Las Vegas is that the most overloaded and intensive sports market in the world is interested in rugby League. Moments like the flying one -handed one by Abbas Miski and the brilliance of Junior NSEMBA should have attracted the attention of occasional sports fans if nothing else.
But not only here in Las Vegas, where the effects of this game were felt for the Super League. The Australian officials returned home last year after the first trip to the states and reported on a large boom in sports on their own patch, whereby the number of visitors and the audience rose from the back of the Vegas interest. Super League hopes to experience a similar boom in Great Britain. If the hype around Las Vegas catches a few new supporters on this side of the Atlantic, this has to qualify as a great success.
More than 10,000 British fans made this trip, which will ensure a repetition for two more clubs next year. Leeds, St. Helens and Hull Kr are among those at the head of the queue. And during the rest of the crowd after this one -sided victory against Wigan broke, the most important spectators were already at the kick -off.
Super League received the NRL treatment. The facilities, the dazzling, high-end television and experience of being the same with Australia. With British officials in the city to cross to the NRL, and his most powerful administrator Peter V’landys, who admits that he has a strong British game, creates food.
The view of the NRL purchase of Super League and the use of the global game under the wing, which has never felt closer. And if the Australians want to bring the Super League to new heights, they have a pre-made juggernach to build it around in this Wigan team.
The Warriors have dominated the British game recently and illuminated Las Vegas in a way that neutral fascinated neutral: eight attempts, all absolutely amazing. Is it a miracle with such services that the early noises have more from Rugby beyond this first five -year agreement?
As for the Super League, it has already tried games in Barcelona and Wollongong. Nobody led to a recognizable change in the assets of the competition. However, this felt different. And with the NRL behind you, who knows where it could lead to the Super League?
