Rumours and Stuff

[Legal Eel]

There wasn't at the time.

As mules go, you are a remarkable specimen.

 

[Legal Eel]

Crazy how the bush coach complicated defence for these idiots. Chase the collision is only three words ffs!!!

You are right, it was the players stupidity that cost poor Brad.

this has Seymour Skinner vibes

 

[Lemon Squash]

In all fairness he has barely not been injured or coming back from injury since then. He said as much on the bloke in a bar podcast that he has been playing catch up since then.

You’d forgive him for 2023, doesn’t excuse him being dogshit all of last season

 

[King-Gutho94]

Needed the roster spot....Sullivan will be next.

Is there a season that goes by you ain't paying nearly a million bucks for players or coaches to play or coach elsewhere.

It feels like you blokes are just a charity for overpaid players to play elsewhere.

 

[Twizzle]

A decent number of the 5 million greater Sydney residents are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants, with some pretty big numbers coming each year.
If I moved to a new country I’d probably follow the local sport.
I wonder how many fans the game picks up from the new arrivals? Or how many fans are 1st generation fans (they didn’t pick up the game from mum and dad etc)?
Probably no way of knowing.

if they have kids that are say, 12 to 18 and still at school, the peer group mostly follows NRL and go to the footy with their mates, then they start to follow the footy and their local team as it is part of their new culture. These people would be first generation "converts" and when they mature they produce second generation NRL fans/players

as you say there is no way of knowing the percentages of the converts, but peer group pressure can have a big influence as they want to "fit in"

then there are those who follow football (soccer) as that's what their parents follow, or it was part of the culture of the country from which they emigrated

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

if they have kids that are say, 12 to 18 and still at school, the peer group mostly follows NRL and go to the footy with their mates, then they start to follow the footy and their local team as it is part of their new culture. These people would be first generation "converts" and when they mature they produce second generation NRL fans/players

In the Girraween, Pendle Hill, Toontown and Wenty area, the vast majority of school kids (all ages) are of sub continental heritage. The exception to that would be the sports high school. Even the Christian school has far more Indians than non.

as you say there is no way of knowing the percentages of the converts, but peer group pressure can have a big influence as they want to "fit in"

There is no peer group pressure for NRL converts in the suburbs listed above and that's slowly spreading to Kings Langley, Lalor Park and Baulkham Hills.
I know an Aussie lady with a 6 yr old girl who has to go and get her henna tattoos on her hands just so she can "fit in".

then there are those who follow football (soccer) as that's what their parents follow, or it was part of the culture of the country from which they emigrated

Drive past any cricket oval in this area on the weekend and the only "whites" you'll see are the clothes of the people playing cricket there.