Rugby League and Australian Society to be 'shaken to its foundations'

[POPEYE]

Ray Donovan finished for the year is the real catastrophe

 

[Usain Bolt]

Something about indigenous players not standing for the national anthem like NFL players are doing

 

[butchmcdick]

Lachlan Maranta wins dally m

 

[AlwaysGreen]

I've worked it out. The mule is tweeting from the hotbed of rugby league that is Georgia USA.

Expansion. Go the Atlanta aardvarks.

 

[butchmcdick]

The NRL to introduce the Gould rule

Sure that might technically be a penalty but if Gus says dear oh dear oh dear boom its play on. It's Mabo, it's the vibe, it's everything

 

[_snafu_]

They found the ancient texts from 1908 and determined that the ball is actually meant to be thrown forward not backwards?
Like all good rules it was worded confusingly and misunderstood.

So Cameron Smith has done it right all along?

Edit: didn't see mozza's post. Lol

 

[Uncle Kraka]

Turns out it really is Greg Birds go.

 

[Surely]

Hayne has resurrected Churchill and he will be playing for the Titans next year

 

[Saint Doc]

 

[Edwahu]

I havent gone out yet, is society still intact?

 

[Bobby DIGital]

So they're gonna copy Americans? I can see Thurston jumping all over this.

 

[drago brelli]

Thurston will be on his feet anyway.

 

[mongoose]

treatment of black people? there are a lot of "black people" in the NRL that are not Indigenous...

 

[Gm5]

Does Canberra have any Aboriginal players? they love jumping on foreign bandwagons

 

[soc123_au]

Ryles cleared at Judiciary.

 

[madunit]

treatment of black people? there are a lot of "black people" in the NRL that are not Indigenous...

In fact the first black man in Australian Rugby League, George Green, who played for Easts in 1908, has an Indigenous award named after him. However George always claimed he was part Maori part Pacific Islander, while other historians also suggest that he may have been jamaican.

 

[madunit]

Given all the praise a lot of Aboriginal players have had for the NRL over their focus on Indigenous people, including a themed round, and the match against the all-stars, it would be quite hypocritical if they were to take this stand.

I'm not saying they aren't entitled to, nor that there's no merit behind the action.

 

[DiegoNT]

Huge nothing story. Not even the first time indigenous players have been called to protest during games in the last 2 years. Last year we had the adam goodes incident, it brought up a lot of discussions about racism and the treatment of indigenous people, brought on by goodes doing an indigenous dance in celebration of a goal. A lot of aboriginal nrl players publicly supported goodes, so an idea came out for leading indigenous players to do their own indigenous dance if they scored a try. It would of been a positive protest, it had support of most of the nrl community, I don't think it would of offended any nrl supporters, yet when it came down to it no nrl player took the opportunity to do a dance in support of goodes and indigenous issues ( and from memory both thurston and inglis were try scorers in the round when this was proposed). For many players it was just not the right platform for that kind of thing. So if nrl players wouldn't do a relatively positive protest during a regular season match I really can't see then doing such a negative action on the biggest day of the nrl year

 

[madunit]

Are they protesting against treatment by the NRL or the Govt?

If the latter, will a similar protest happen in the Albino Football League (if there's any Indigenous players in the game that is)

 

[soc123_au]

That is their big story?

I thought maybe it would be revealed that IBM does in fact know Jason Smith.