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Yep
it's a weekly 1 hour highlights show.
I bet it's off the air as quick as the last one!
To be shown in the morning 11am.
Yep
it's a weekly 1 hour highlights show.
I bet it's off the air as quick as the last one!
and we all stressed when sonny bill and le Gaz racked off
let them f**k off
we have plenty of talent coming through
union has more money, what do you want clubs to go broke?
you guys would have a skinnier squad than the sharks if it wasnt for your sugar daddy. guess its easy to whore yourself out and ask for more money
not everyone has that option
I found this piece in the NZ Herald yesterday. The comments are worth reading.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10640643&pnum=2
Gregor Paul on rugby
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Gregor Paul is the Herald on Sunday's rugby writer
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Rugby should clean up in Storm aftermath
By Gregor Paul
4:00 AM Sunday Apr 25, 2010
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The timing is perfect. Just as rugby signed off on a massive broadcast deal that will help fund a new venture in Melbourne, rugby league in that city discovered it was sitting on dynamite.
No one in rugby will feel the slightest sympathy for a code that pillaged at will during the amateur days.
And for many in the 15-man game, what has happened at the Storm is comeuppance not only for historic grievances related to recruitment, but it is also comeuppance for a sport that has become morally and ethically bereft.
Rugby, while far from being squeaky clean these days, does at least try to adhere to core values of honesty, humility, respect, tolerance and compassion.
In Dan Carter and Richie McCaw they have two of the best role models any code could have and there are plenty more.
League on the other hand seems to be barely able to go five minutes without discovering yet another bampot in their midst. And it's not hi-jinks kind of stuff, either.
Alcohol is clearly a problem in the NRL. A big problem. Booze and league players have proved the most volatile mix in recent years with quite staggering revelations last year being made about Cronulla players involved in group sex.
Before that there was the Bulldogs scandal in 2004; Mark Gasnier's ghastly phonecall that same year; Greg Bird; Craig Gower; Willie Mason; Nate Myles; Todd Carney ... and even Alfie Langer.
What the Storm have done is confirm that league is a sport rotten to the core. Even the white collars in a blue collar sport can't be trusted now.
Rugby couldn't ask for a greater opportunity to not only establish itself in Melbourne but also within league's strongholds.
It's Melbourne, though, where rugby must pounce. Australia is the obvious growth market for rugby in the Southern Hemisphere and Victoria is virtually untapped.
There are corporate dollars to chase in a city with a rich financial services background. Even with such a strong AFL presence, an established and growing football culture as well as Formula One and the Australian Open, Melbourne can financially support a Super 15 side.
The Storm and the questionable culture of the NRL should make it that bit easier for the Rebels. Melbourne is a city with a burgeoning, educated, middle class and rugby is a sport with a culture and values that will appeal to those sick of NRL, and to a lesser extent AFL, boof-heads.
Surely rugby will be rewarded for its promotion of ethically sound, well-balanced young men?
The arrival of semi-articulate, polite, community-spirited Rebels players in Melbourne will help rugby win hearts and minds.
When the top end of a sport has respectful, courteous and inspirational people on show, it does much to persuade parents they should push their children in that direction.
League had its chance. It blew it. Now it's rugby's turn and all the sport has to do is be itself.
By Gregor Paul | Email Gregor
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Let's have a look at the players we have lost over the years
Gower - Panthers are going good without him now
Tahu - He's come back from the tripe
Sailor - came back from the tripe
Tuqiri - came back from the tripe
Barnes - LOL
McLinden - LOL
Schifcofske - Canberra have put in two good fullbacks since
$BW - Canterbury have done better without the souless money hungry dweeb
cutie - Parasite benedict arnold traitor, nevertheless Brisbane always produce good players to cover
Gaaazzz - Dragons are a better team than they ever were with Gaz.
Rogers - came back from the tripe
Blacklock - disappeared
btw, I couldn't have given a toss if Tahu, Sailor, Tuqiri or Rogers never came back, it's not like they change anything in League.
We have to get these tainted players out of league somehow. Not only should the Storm be dismantled, but the likes of Smith, Slater and co need to be as far away from the NRL as possible. Their stench is too foul!
The NRL needs to regain the integrity lost via the Melbourne storm, a club rotten to the core!
Where would league be if most of them stuck with league. Thats my fear if we keep sticking our heads in the sand over this. It will start at a junior level and we wont notice it till its too late.
Who? Seriously, I have never heard this name before.
Bravo!
Right on.
Let's have a look at the players we have lost over the years
Gower - Panthers are going good without him now
Tahu - He's come back from the tripe
Sailor - came back from the tripe
Tuqiri - came back from the tripe
Barnes - LOL
McLinden - LOL
Schifcofske - Canberra have put in two good fullbacks since
$BW - Canterbury have done better without the souless money hungry dweeb
cutie - Parasite benedict arnold traitor, nevertheless Brisbane always produce good players to cover
Who cares about rah-rah? They're not worth a bee sting in vagina face Gould's eyes.
union has more money, what do you want clubs to go broke?
As they wish? Really?yeh I'm sure the 30k at Brisbane Reds last week and the sell out crowd in Perth for the Force agree with you.
RU is ripe for the slaughter but to think they are a non entity when they can continue to take our best players as they wish is deluding yourself.
union has more money, what do you want clubs to go broke?
Anyone else from UK?