Kurt Angle
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Kurt Angle,
I'm not sure what we are debating anymore.
We both agree that there are some behavioural issues surrounding Rugby League. We both agree that nothing can really be done to remedy this. You, because in your oppinion Rugby League players are no worse behaved than any other men of their compartive age and income. Me because I fear people like yourself would prefer to blame the media, police victimization and even other codes rather than address the issues in Rugby League itself.
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Goose, behavioural issues 'surrounding rugby league' was a simple narative base that an argument was evolving around. The debate has been to extrapolate further around that.
You don't know what the argument is, and your fear of 'blaming media and police victimisation' isn't your thought at all.
Quite simply chimp you do not have the intellect to come up with an indepedent thought, this is some consensus notion that all the bright mind at planet-of-the-apes have come up with together.
The first debate was over whether alcohol abuse and mysogyny was culturally inherant to the NRL, or some NRL clubs. When the NRL's population sample is compared to other like young, male-centric bodies, it behaves better than similar comparitives such as the mining industry and the disgusting culture of the All Blacks.
Thus the conclusion appears to be, as you can't offer a coherant argument against it anymore, that the problem lies in young men with a lot of money.
Fixing this would fix the NRL, the mining industry and the All Bl...well we can't perform miracles.
To fix the drinking habits of young men, as I stated before, isn't the mandate of the NRL.
This led to the second argument which appears to have finished now.
The NRL does not receive equitable treatment. It is a disclosure, plain and simple.
It's not a veil of absolving responsibilty or accountibility. It's not a vehicle of deflection, it's not a code-war weapon.
It's a disclosure.
The NRL can be a body that assists in helping a broader institutional mandate of reforming young men and their drinking patterns.
However you are not going to get RL fans onside by the inequitable treatment.
I could be a u17's coach, a club secretary, and ground volunteer, a team general purpose fetch the sticky tape and water bottles guy, etc. I can be someone who criticises young men when they act out of line.
Motivation recedes when I perceive (rightly or wrongly) the body I am part of receives inequitable treatment.
Why don't we move on?
You know where your forum is, feel free to move there anytime.
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