Alan Whiticker's player profiles

[Pippen94]

I think they were released as part of book of player profiles but now they on rugby league project. A lot of them are pretty sour of players & their careers. Maybe journalists were more acerbic back in the day but you got to give credit when due.

 

[GreenMachine121]

Link ?

 

[Pippen94]

Link ?

No. Just general comment about journalist who should be well known by long term NRL fans.

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[The Lounge Lizard]

Link ?

Lancelot?

 

[Canard]

I think they were released as part of book of player profiles but now they on rugby league project. A lot of them are pretty sour of players & their careers. Maybe journalists were more acerbic back in the day but you got to give credit when due.

Can you give us a link and an example?

 

[GreenMachine121]

No. Just general comment about journalist who should be well known by long term NRL fans.

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Extremely helpful , couldn’t find anything you were referring too

were you on the piss ?

 

[zombiebloodlust]

Yeah. And why is there an 'in memoriam to queen elizabeth' banner on the rugby league project site. wtf is that garbage. This is rugby league, the working class game

 

[The Lounge Lizard]

Yeah. And why is there an 'in memoriam to queen elizabeth' banner on the rugby league project site. wtf is that garbage. This is rugby league, the working class game

So right.

Welcome to the year 2022.

The year when only one member of the human race passed away.

Queen f**king Elizabeth The Second.

 

[madunit]

The Alan Whiticker bio's have been on the site for over a decade. He kindly gave them to us which we saw as a good addition to a lot of the more prominent players up til that point.

 

[siv]

They were part of his early editions of his Players book

But in later editions they were dropped as player volume increased

 

[Pippen94]

They were part of his early editions of his Players book

But in later editions they were dropped as player volume increased

Some players who played for a decade & over 100 games didn't get bios

 

[madunit]

The bio's were largely given to Test players and occasionally State players.

 

[10$ Ferret]

Yeah. And why is there an 'in memoriam to queen elizabeth' banner on the rugby league project site. wtf is that garbage. This is rugby league, the working class game

hasn't been the working class game since super league

 

[Pippen94]

The Alan Whiticker bio's have been on the site for over a decade. He kindly gave them to us which we saw as a good addition to a lot of the more prominent players up til that point.

Fair enough. I regret making this topic. I've been reading Whitickers bio's since I was in primary so it's been part of my fan hood for a long time. Came to the realisation his summary of players is often quite curt. I was pretty young when I realized this too.
That's my impression of his style & not a knock on the work he's done or allowing you to use it.

 

[Fangs]

I own a couple books. Encylopedia and Mud, Blood and Beer.

 

[madunit]

Fair enough. I regret making this topic. I've been reading Whitickers bio's since I was in primary so it's been part of my fan hood for a long time. Came to the realisation his summary of players is often quite curt. I was pretty young when I realized this too.
That's my impression of his style & not a knock on the work he's done or allowing you to use it.

I think he wrote them that way to try and ensure that his encyclopedia's didn't get too big in size.