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

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haha post the emails...

Nah, I won't do that, if these blokes are going to keep talking they need to know you're not posting their emails on a forum. Not keen on it anyway, it's a bit like posting PM's without permission.

I'm still chatting to him though, broaching each point he made a bit at a time and giving him a bit to think about. He's actually not that bad and his dislike of Rugby League is bent by circumstances.

I think his main problem is that during footy season he's basically swamped by Rugby League and not being a diehard fan, it irks him a bit. I'm pretty sure his desk is within earshot of the Tele's sport journos, I gave him my commiserations. I'd rather have a desk stuck between Rudolph Hess and Herman Goebells than in the Tele's sports dept. f**king wankers.

He's only really a casual fan of Union though, I told him he reads like a Union troll. So, I reckon I might try and get him to really hate the game that really should be hated.... AFL. lol
 

russ13

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...The NSW and Queensland rugby unions suspended senior competition during World War I. Rugby league did not. When Balmain played Glebe in the 1915 grand final, young men were being sacrificed at Gallipoli. The Queensland Rugby Union was unable to reform until 1929.

By no means do I impugn those who played on or to suggest that many thousands have not worn both khaki and club colours. But it does strike me as a slightly anomalous note when the code wraps itself in the flag and has the Last Post played at its Anzac Day Test...


He's something PP didn't know:

...Blackburn also explains why the ordinary soldiers at Changi preferred to play and watch rugby league to union. ''Rugby union was perceived as the game of the 'silvertails' or the upper classes, and therefore also of the army high command, the people the ordinary soldiers blamed for their defeat in Malaya. Rugby league was seen as 'the game of the masses','' Blackburn writes.
 

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