Daily Telecrap at their lowest - Rugby league is not a sport, it's an atrocity

[Miller was a legend]

Thats not my point.

Pot, meet Kettle.

I thought you died in prison.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

The off season. Anything to get a rise, which this has done.

Class from the DT. Once again.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Quite the charmer aren't you Brutus? Thought you were pointing out an error so I could correct it, not trying to eviscerate me. My bad mate. Won't make the mistake of dealing with you like you're a reasonable human being again.

I know a hooker in town. Her names Karl, man. She's beautiful.

 

[docbrown]

Don't say that. It'll shatter the bedrock on which Rugby is built and drive hundreds of Rah Rah's into the arms of psychologists everywhere with acute self esteem malfunctions.

Too late.

 

[adamkungl]

See that last bit is funny, if inappropriate.

I take your point re the rest, or parts of it, but that's sort of part of the satire of the piece too. I don't like it when I see that sort of arrogance in just, say, a forum post where there was no humourous or other purpose and the person is being deadly serious. It makes me cringe. Same as when I see a League fan hooking into all Rugby supporters for being rich, priveledged tosspot wankers who's game is a stupid, boring, complicated mess. They are stereotypes, but the contempt or anger or resentment behind them is saddening. There's just no reason for it.

The difference is Rugby League fans are saying it on a largely anonymous internet forum as a retaliation/defence...against Union/AFL/Soccer/Carsguide writers attacking Rugby League in national and international publications for the last 100 years.

 

[Mader45]

The article irked me.

But having a tired administration run by brainess twats doesn't help.

I've always found it amusing how Australia has this condition to berate and insult anyone who fits the stereotype of a 'Bogan' or 'Westie'. But as we mainly export this image to the rest of the world via entertainment (Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin, Russell Crowe) when a lot of Aussies go overseas they will invest themselves into this denigrated image to garner fascination from foreigners.

NRL takes the same conflicting stance.

Fighting is something to be ashamed of. The lower-class image of the game needs to be changed. We need to recognize the sport as global.

Yet when it matters...... Fighting is plastered over SOO ads. Tommy Raudonikis and ilk are lauded for his 'good ol' day' spiels on the working class roots of the game. And the administration has messed up countless issues such as the Independent Commission, T.V rights, control of the game and growth over and over again.

How can Rugby League be taken seriously by anyone except die hard fans when even the people running it have no idea what the hell it actually is they are selling.

 

[Miller was a legend]

The article irked me.

But having a tired administration run by brainess twats doesn't help.

I've always found it amusing how Australia has this condition to berate and insult anyone who fits the stereotype of a 'Bogan' or 'Westie'. But as we mainly export this image to the rest of the world via entertainment (Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin, Russell Crowe) when a lot of Aussies go overseas they will invest themselves into this denigrated image to garner fascination from foreigners.

NRL takes the same conflicting stance.

Fighting is something to be ashamed of. The lower-class image of the game needs to be changed. We need to recognize the sport as global.

Yet when it matters...... Fighting is plastered over SOO ads. Tommy Raudonikis and ilk are lauded for his 'good ol' day' spiels on the working class roots of the game. And the administration has messed up countless issues such as the Independent Commission, T.V rights, control of the game and growth over and over again.

How can Rugby League be taken seriously by anyone except die hard fans when even the people running it have no idea what the hell it actually is they are selling.

Oi, I never pulled a knife on a chinaman when I was over there, through some shrimp on the Barbie, never said crickey once (more like f**k this place I want to go home) or caused a munity. I resent that comment.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Been commenting on this at http://www.twitter.com/RL1908 - some of the posts...

aceman said | January 6th 2012 @ 1:46pm | Report comment

Very good so did RL move to the Sports Ground for RL internationals in 1929-34 or did the depresion kill tours. BTW your quest for the elusive impartiality you crave would have been assisted by saying that NSWRU shut down during WW1. Perhaps the Vichy govt was following their example for RL during WW2 in France…

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Please set the dumbarse right Sean.

http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/01/04/rugby-league-needs-venues-in-sydneys-sporting-patchwork-quilt/

 

[Canard]

Quite the charmer aren't you Brutus? Thought you were pointing out an error so I could correct it, not trying to eviscerate me. My bad mate. Won't make the mistake of dealing with you like you're a reasonable human being again.

Nice to see you are acting all high and might over here yet back on your Union snobs forum you were referring to League as Mungoball and doubted anyone from a league background would have the intelligence to write a similar article.

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/a-bit-of-mungo-bashing.10030/page-2

 

[El Diablo]

I still don't understand why Rugby becomes "Vichyball". It's annoying me.

awwwwwwwwww poor widdle Karl :lol:

 

[Cerne Abbas Giant]

The article irked me.

But having a tired administration run by brainess twats doesn't help.

I've always found it amusing how Australia has this condition to berate and insult anyone who fits the stereotype of a 'Bogan' or 'Westie'. But as we mainly export this image to the rest of the world via entertainment (Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin, Russell Crowe) when a lot of Aussies go overseas they will invest themselves into this denigrated image to garner fascination from foreigners.

NRL takes the same conflicting stance.

Fighting is something to be ashamed of. The lower-class image of the game needs to be changed. We need to recognize the sport as global.

Yet when it matters...... Fighting is plastered over SOO ads. Tommy Raudonikis and ilk are lauded for his 'good ol' day' spiels on the working class roots of the game. And the administration has messed up countless issues such as the Independent Commission, T.V rights, control of the game and growth over and over again.

How can Rugby League be taken seriously by anyone except die hard fans when even the people running it have no idea what the hell it actually is they are selling.

The poor farker wrote "...If, like me, you like to watch mixed martial arts - which is hysterically condemned despite strictly enforced rules of engagement - the spectacle of artless behemoths running into each other is depressing in the extreme."

Is this not a contradiction? I like watching mixed martial arts also, but unlike this farker, I appreciate the tactics and finer points of both sports. I like the jiujitsu, kimuras, triangle arm barsm ground and pound, kick boxing, mu thai.

In league I appreciate the decoy running, the second phase play, tackling, accuracy of kicking, back ups, forward game. something the farker doesn't understand.

 

[Von]

Well done Canard.

I went to a private boys high school and as a result played Yawnion.
Me and many other blokes played it reluctantly....yet LOVED league.
Even the Yawnion heavies loved & played league also, and years on they still do.

As I have said for many years, Rugby Union was a good first draft.
Rugby League is the final finished brilliant product.

 

[Usain Bolt]

Jesus the amount of crybabies in here getting worked up over what some car salesman has to say about rugby league:lol::lol:

Bunch of mugs

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

awwwwwwwwww poor widdle Karl :lol:

:lol::lol::lol:

I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to offend anyone.

I hope them well.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Jesus the amount of crybabies in here getting worked up over what some car salesman has to say about rugby league:lol::lol:

Bunch of mugs

Cool story bro...:thumbd:

Perhaps you can point to some stories in the NZ media calling Rugby Union an "atrocity"?

 

[RL1908]

Please set the dumbarse right Sean.

http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/01/04/rugby-league-needs-venues-in-sydneys-sporting-patchwork-quilt/

Not sure what got him wound up, but i have already replied >

http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/01/0...atchwork-quilt/comment-page-4/#comment-765104

Sean Fagan said | January 6th 2012 @ 4:29pm |

@Jaceman – huh? I wrote that RL didn’t play club games at the SCG during 1929-34 due to a spat with the Trust over sharing gate money – internationals and interstate games continued to be played at the SCG, indeed the record SCG crowd for a Kangaroos game 70,204 was set in 1932 when the Lions visited.

You won’t find any evidence other than myths showing that RU in Aust shut down at the outbreak of, and for the duration of, WW1.

The NSWRU “suspended competition” for its Sydney first grade clubs in April 1915 – that was six months after the bulk of the volunteers from RU had already enlisted and left Australia for Egypt with the AIF.

The RU men didn’t enlist in the wake of the NSWRU decision – the NSWRU decision followed – it was a consequence of the men leaving, not the other way around.

The implication of saying RL ought to have shut down like RU is that the RU men enlisted after the NSWRU & QRU shut down at the outbreak of WW1- neither shut down when WW1 started, and it is unfair to suggest those RU men only enlisted after the NSWRU’s declaration (not that there was a declaration anyway).

What does “suspended competiton” mean? It doesn’t mean that they stopped playing. The Sydney clubs kept playing each other, but kept no competition table, nor played finals – this was exactly the same way amateur club RU had been organsed and played in the UK since the inception of the RFU thru to the 1980s when they finally allowed competitive/leagues.

SMH 30Aug1915 “Eight of the RU clubs closed season on Saturday with a knockout competition at the Sports Ground.”

SMH 7Aug1915: “To-days Fixtures. Rugby Union. University v Easts; Balmain v Manly; Glebe v North Sydney; Mosman v Newtown; St George v Randwick .”

BrisbaneCourier 9Sept1915: “The Rugb Union premiership final will be played on Saturday at Brisbane Cricket Ground when Valleys meet Christian Bros”.

The NSWRL & ARL, like cricket & VFL, shut down all state and international matches – that is where the money was in cricket & RL for players, not club games.

We all note that the VFL kept playing in Melbourne during WW1, while the amateur VFA was unable to. Should the VFL/AFL feel any compunction or guilt over that? How is that any different to RL in Sydney and Brisbane?

The answer is there is no one still around flying the VFA flag.

 

[Karl]

Nice to see you are acting all high and might over here yet back on your Union snobs forum you were referring to League as Mungoball and doubted anyone from a league background would have the intelligence to write a similar article.

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/a-bit-of-mungo-bashing.10030/page-2

That was a response to ParraEel from here going over there and having a dig on the GAGR Forum in the thread over there about the same article where he called "us" hypocrits etc - and the snipe was intended to get a rise from him. Context is important mate. Whats your point Canard? You seem to be able to dish it out mate. Not so good at taking it.

And my reference to doubting the authenticity of the authorship had nothing to do with intelligence but with approach. They're your own insecurities speaking.

 

[BODISGOD]

Cool story bro...:thumbd:

Perhaps you can point to some stories in the NZ media calling Rugby Union an "atrocity"?

Why do you care so much? It's the Daily Telegraph's integrity as a newspaper at question here not Rugby Leagues as a sport...

 

[Knightmare]

It's like a speech from a Celebrity Roast where League is the guest of honour. You could easily write something like that about every code on the planet. God, Rugby would be ripe for it, and imagine what you could do to the AFL? So what? over-reacting just makes people look insecure and over-sensitive. If I was Gallop I would have got around a table with a good journo and written a response piece in the same vein taking Rugby, AFL and Soccer all to the cleaners then submitted it as an Apology by League for being an Atrocity. Back-handed and leavened with sarcasm, but clearly well humoured and self depracatory. THAT would have been the best way to respond.

Hmmm, IDEA.....

(Rugby League takes the podium, after being roasted by Rugby, Football and Aussie Rules. The crowd waits for Rugby League's response).

"Thanks for all coming out tonight to listen to this lot roast me. Especially Rugby, it's great to see my older brother here. I didn't know my older brother thought I was such a common, knuckle-dragging ignoramus. I can see where he's coming from, though- if I was richer but my younger brother was better looking, more popular and partying harder, I'd be pretty pissed off too. It's alright though bro- you've always got your white South African mates and your Neo-Nazi friends to sip scotch with and lament the good old days! He also said I had a culture of binge drinking- what can I say? Last night I got absolutely shit-faced, I am still pretty hung over now as we speak and to be honest, I don't know exactly what I've done the past 24 hours or where I am. But looking around me, I see this place is full and people are watching me so I'm obviously not at a Super 14's match! You're proof that money can't buy you love.

I can see Football sitting there quietly, having a laugh. Mate, when did you change your name from Soccer? You're like the ethnic bloke who gets cashed up, moves from the western suburbs to Bondi then changes the pronounciation of his name, saying "Ciao!" and deriding the "bogans" from Blacktown- you're fooling nobody! You kept going on about how small I am and how you're "The world game". Stuff like "Rugby League only matters in NSW, Qld and some Northern English coal mining towns, but I'm the World Game" and "The World Game is better than Rugby League because people all over the world follow it". Let me just say that while you were prattling away there, the audience and I were stuffing ourselves on the seafood platter and drinking French champagne. That rubbish is beneath you though- because McDonald's is "The World's Restaurant" and Coca Cola is "The World's drink" so you must be pretty hungry by now, huh? You also called me "A dumb game, followed by bogans and played by morons". That was pretty funny actually, I'll give you that one. You should tell it next time you go for some quiet drinks with your West Ham or Millwall supporting friends. And feel free to laugh at how simple I am next time you're discussing philosophy with Wayne Rooney. I'd mention the A-League but I'll leave it there, 'cause you're looking more anxious than Fernando Torres in front of an open goal!

Who have I missed? Ahhhh yes, Aussie Rules. I see you there with that smug grin on your face, holding that map of Australia with the Barassi line printed on it. I'm glad you got to stand up and rubbish my name, I was worried you weren't going to make it. Why did you spend an hour in the boggers, and where's my 15 year old sister gone? You said that I am dumb, uneducated and always mucking up, and that you're the poster boy who never gets into trouble. As it happens, I got a call earlier from hotel reception, they said last night you trashed your room. But then Andrew Demetriou gave them a phone call and they sent the cleaners up to sweep all your mess under the carpet, so it's all taken care of now. As for being dumb, how dumb do you have to be to hit on schoolgirls? Surely you must be educated enough to know to check I.D? Or not let teenage girls take photos of you and your mate, naked touching pork swords? And how f**king dumb do you have to be to let a teenage girl hold your entire code to ransom? You hated on me for only being liked in 2 states and it's true, I'll give you that one. I wish I could be a huge code, followed in 3 states and having Melbourne as my international headquarters. How are the preparations for your next World Cup going? I hear the people of Nauru can't wait! In regards to everything else though- like an Aussie Rules sharp shooter who kicks the ball between the outer posts, you might think you scored but everybody else knows in reality, you still missed the point!

So let the haters keep on hating but remember this: I am Rugby f**king League! Sure I get a little too drunk sometimes, maybe I swear in polite conversation and I do fart in public sometimes- but who cares? People f**king love me! I have the mates, the attention from the babes and the everyday appeal that Rugby can only dream about, I eat talented pea-hearted prima donnas like Cristiano Ronaldo for breakfast then spit 'em out and go for more, and as for Aussie Rules- at least I can step off a plane overseas and people actually know who the f**k I am! Thank you all and goodnight!"

 

[Karl]

awwwwwwwwww poor widdle Karl :lol:

Relax tough guy. Unlike a lot of the unquestioning sheep flocking around the place, I like to understand what someone is saying and the terms they use. Like the way you call Rugby supporters Merkins. I'd never heard of that term before so I looked it up. Funny as hell, I'll be using it too. I thought "That's a great, original, clever sort of put-down term for a Leaguie to use on a Rah Rah. Telling but not too aggressive, the antiquity kind of takes a bit of the sting out of it." Then someone informed me that this forum just automatically replaces the word C*** with Merkin. Is that true?

Anyway, I googled around about Vichyball because I thought it might be another clever sort of Merkin, but I couldn't find anything. When it was explained to me I thought it was brilliant. I'm going to use it as well. Classic bit of historical reference based sledging.