Knights to lure Jets fans.

[TooheysNew]

This is a League forum....

There must be plenty of soccer forums....

There probably is, but that's irrelevant.

 

[Frederick]

Fair enough, I really don't care...

You are all free to support the Jets as well as the Knights.

You say that, but then you say this:

Shame...

This is a League forum....

There must be plenty of soccer forums....

Seems to me you're trying to give us a not-so-subtle hint to f**k off off these forums because we like Soccer. Now if we were truly free to support the Jets then we would be able to post about them whereever we damn well feel like it.

I am aware of the season and the lack of a overlap, but I tend to think that the Jets want to dominate Newcastle and would be privately happy to see the Knights stay where they were in 2007...

And as this is a public forum, I say anyone who is overly supportive of the Jets would also be happy to see the Knights where they were in 2007...

Ok, alright, I concede. You support the Knights and hate the Jets, which automatically makes you a bigger Knights fan than I and most of the other Knights fans on here. Congratu-f**king-lations. God, I really hope that one day I can grow up to become almost as narrow-minded as you are, I really, really do. But until then I suppose I'll just have to make do with being someone who only hopes for the best of the teams that represent the town I love

 

[Alex28]

The use of the word "rival" in the article really sh*ts me. Why are they a rival for?

The Telegraph still has a very anti-Knights agenda to it - can't see that changing until either Rothfield is gone from the Telegraph or Smith is gone from the Knights. Not even Barry Toohey seems to have our back any more.

 

[Jobdog]

I am aware of the season and the lack of a overlap, but I tend to think that the Jets want to dominate Newcastle and would be privately happy to see the Knights stay where they were in 2007...

And as this is a public forum, I say anyone who is overly supportive of the Jets would also be happy to see the Knights where they were in 2007...

Holy sh*t, you're serious :|

I would say I would fit into the "overly supportive of the Jets" category, so that must mean that despite supporting the Knights for as long as I can remember, I want them to crash and burn.

You are an idiot.

 

[Jobdog]

The Telegraph still has a very anti-Knights agenda to it - can't see that changing until either Rothfield is gone from the Telegraph or Smith is gone from the Knights. Not even Barry Toohey seems to have our back any more.

Alex, I'm fully aware of the Telegraph's anti-Knights agenda as you put it.

But I still fail to recognise how one sport in a totally different part of the year to another can be seen as a rival.

 

[Frederick]

Well Jobber, it's plainly obvious that you hate the Knights. I mean, just look at your av and your banners.



So much hate :crazy:

 

[Jobdog]

:lol:!!

Ok, ok, ok. I've been found out. How dare I change from having Knights paraphernalia in the league season to Jets stuff in the A-league season. It just must mean that I hate the Knights THAT much that I can't stand to have any resemblance of them associated to me on these forums.

:crazy:

 

[Misanthrope]

I'm going to come out and admit that I prefer the Jets to the Knights - but I also prefer football to rugby league.

Doesn't mean I'm not just as passionate about the Knights as any other guy. I happen to like movies, theatre, writing, and bl*wjobs a good deal more than I like the Knights too.

 

[bluesbreaker]

I love how people continue to bash football in Australia purely because they're afraid it's going to rock their comfortable little world.

I hope this comment wasn't directed at me. If it were, that's a cop out. Soccer doesn't rock my 'comfortable little world', I played the game most of my life, I just think it's as boring as batsh*t to watch. Plenty of skill in it, but it is let down by the females who make it their profession. I would watch a lot more of it if the players stopped rolling around on the ground like little girls every time someone comes within 4 inches of them.

 

[macavity]

I'm going to come out and admit that I prefer the Jets to the Knights

uh huh! you didnt go there girlfriend! =;

 

[roopy]

I can't get interested in the Jets, but i did go to many of the KB united games in the late 70s, and i actually played soccer at school.
In those days Booloroo highschool i think was pretty much the best soccer school in Australia, which was insane because it wasn't much of a school. They had about 5 guys who went on to play for Australia and a kid named Craig Johnston who went to England and became the Harry Kewell of his generation.
Anyway, those kids didn't come from nothing, they came from a history of soccer in the Hunter that went back to the turn of the century when large groups of English and Welsh miners were brought out to set up our coal mining industries.
The Hunter provided the bulk of the Australian soccer side right up till about the 1950s when postwar immigrants started setting up good comps in other parts of the country.
The most famous australian soccer player pre world war two was a Hunter guy named Reggie Date who was supposed to be a world class goal scorer with a Pele like reputation.

The Hunter has been strong in League for 100 years and strong in soccer for 110 years, and truth be told, we were third or fourth in the country at league and number one at soccer for much of that time.

 

[roopy]

A bit on Reggie Date from the australian online soccer museum.

GS : As goalkeeper you faced all of the great forwards of the 50's. Do any stand out in your mind? Artie Quill for example.
RL : "Artie Quill was a very good player. He had all the skills"

GS : As good as Reg Date?
RL : "No Reg Date was the best without a shadow of a doubt. Tremendous kick and he could head a ball well too. The ball didn't have to be on the ground for him to score. He'd pull it down and knew exactly where the goals were. He was terrific with either foot. I remember playing against Reg Date and I was a fullback (before switching to goalkeeper) and we were playing up on Blick Oval at Canterbury. We two fullbacks were up on the halfway line and the opposition put through a long ball looking for the centre forward. I started running back and next minute I heard these footsteps behind me and he went past me like I was standing still. He was very quick in those days."

GS : Any other names?
RL : "Frank Parsons. Frank was tall and he could head a ball and he had a very strong left foot. Another player who was difficult to play against, not that he had a great technique but Jackie Drinkwater from Cessnock would run through a brick wall to get to the ball. Because I place Reg Date on such a big pedestal I find it hard to recall other players to come up anywhere near him.

http://www.ozfootball.net/museum/ronlord.html

 

[bluesbreaker]

I can't get interested in the Jets, but i did go to many of the KB united games in the late 70s, and i actually played soccer at school.
In those days Booloroo highschool i think was pretty much the best soccer school in Australia, which was insane because it wasn't much of a school.

Easy there fella. Academically a poor school, though BooRAGAL (not boolaroo) was a fantastic school for sport. Produced its fair share of league talent too, not really surprising considering the school would be about 70% Aboriginal and Islander. Some names I can think of include Darryl Gordon, the Briggs boys (though they jumped shipped to Tronno), Abes, Scotty Beiler... Former test match cricket player Dutchy Holland.

 

[otori]

Living in QLD it's strange to see how popular the Roar are to casual fans. Nearly all of my female friends have attended a Roar match but I know for a fact that only two have attended any Broncos matches. Then again most of them are private school girls and Reds games are private school conventions so maybe that has something to do with it.

Ramble ramble,......

 

[bluesbreaker]

I think Luke Blakey also played junior footy with the Knights for a while...

 

[macavity]

Easy there fella. Academically a poor school, though BooRAGAL (not boolaroo) was a fantastic school for sport. Produced its fair share of league talent too, not really surprising considering the school would be about 70% Aboriginal and Islander. Some names I can think of include Darryl Gordon, the Briggs boys (though they jumped shipped to Tronno), Abes, Scotty Beiler... Former test match cricket player Dutchy Holland.

my old man went to Booragul (not BooragAl) at the time Craig Johnston was there.

although to be fair to my old man, to say he went is to say he was enrolled there.

its Lake Macquarie High now. shocking academic reputation but always good at sports. I used to play on the fields there as a youngun, beaut spot overlooking the lake.

 

[bluesbreaker]

my old man went to Booragul (not BooragAl) at the time Craig Johnston was there.

although to be fair to my old man, to say he went is to say he was enrolled there.

its Lake Macquarie High now. shocking academic reputation but always good at sports. I used to play on the fields there as a youngun, beaut spot overlooking the lake.

Smart arse . To think I walked past that supposedly every day for half a decade!

Yes, it changed its name... 4 years or so before I got there? The rumour goes due to its bad reputation for drugs and violence. Would not surprise me in the slightest. Still, best place for a skinny little white kid to make big scary islander friends!

 

[Dummy Spit Johns]

You people spit sh*t!
You all didnt care when the Knights overshadowed the Breakers, come United and The Falcons.
Now you have a threat to your beloved knights team, and you want harmony.
Hope you fold!

 

[Dummy Spit Johns]

. shocking academic reputation but always good at sports.

Teated me kindly

 

[Gene Krupa]

You people spit sh*t!
You all didnt care when the Knights overshadowed the Breakers, come United and The Falcons.
Now you have a threat to your beloved knights team, and you want harmony.
Hope you fold!

Two words, get f**ked!