This Week in League NRL Podcast
Mar 4, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 11 segments
Stepdad and Realdad take the wheel for the first ep of the 2026 NRL Season. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Well,
here's the thing.
What you can go and say to your wife now is that you've fixed the cost because that trip's now a business expense because you were actually over there as our US correspondent because now you can give us an exclusive viewpoint, an opinion into how the average American sports fan would take rugby league played in Las Vegas.
So that was the plan all
along.
It's very interesting, and I know it's a very professional segue into reviewing these first couple of games, but...
I actually...
You can actually see what Volandes is trying to do.
And people poo-poo it, and even in the comment sections and in the lead-up, there's always a negative element saying, oh, it's never going to work and they'll never latch onto it.
But if you stick at it long enough and you seep into their consciousness...
The potential wing fall for the NRL, if they got just a sliver of the pie, they're not stupid enough to think they're going to get NFL numbers.
That's ridiculous.
Correct.
They're looking for a sliver of the pie, and it's a similar approach to what we take in our business in the fact that we're not trying to be Caterpillar.
That's ridiculous to even consider.
But Caterpillar is so big.
Yeah, you're
trying
to be a lion.
They drop a lot of crumbs.
And working on the crumbs and just getting a sliver of the pie is very lucrative business.
Because
Caterpillar can't do it all.
And there's a fan base out there that would latch on to...
You know, of passionate, potentially NFL fans or... all walks of life that we'll actually see and be exposed to the NRL product over time.
Well,
here's the thing.
What you can go and say to your wife now is that you've fixed the cost because that trip's now a business expense because you were actually over there as our US correspondent because now you can give us an exclusive viewpoint, an opinion into how the average American sports fan would take rugby league played in Las Vegas.
So that was the plan all
along.
It's very interesting, and I know it's a very professional segue into reviewing these first couple of games, but...
I actually...
You can actually see what Volandes is trying to do.
And people poo-poo it, and even in the comment sections and in the lead-up, there's always a negative element saying, oh, it's never going to work and they'll never latch onto it.
But if you stick at it long enough and you seep into their consciousness...
The potential wing fall for the NRL, if they got just a sliver of the pie, they're not stupid enough to think they're going to get NFL numbers.
That's ridiculous.
Correct.
They're looking for a sliver of the pie, and it's a similar approach to what we take in our business in the fact that we're not trying to be Caterpillar.
That's ridiculous to even consider.
But Caterpillar is so big.
Yeah, you're
trying
to be a lion.
They drop a lot of crumbs.
And working on the crumbs and just getting a sliver of the pie is very lucrative business.
Because
Caterpillar can't do it all.
And there's a fan base out there that would latch on to...
You know, of passionate, potentially NFL fans or... all walks of life that we'll actually see and be exposed to the NRL product over time.
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