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[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Seen a few very unkind comments about "soap-dodgers" on this forum. Terribly hurtful.

You can't complain if we gently respond with a bit of convict repartee.

Indigenous Aussies are understandably disgruntled but it is quite funny that we had the gall to turn a whole continent into an open prison.

Same spirit of enterprise that saw the 7th Earl of Elgin make off with bits of the Parthenon.

Rule Britannia.

Aussies are envious of England's rich culture and history.

I don't think there's a more culturally significant country on Earth than England. It produced the language that is spoken in more than one-third of the world.

The Commonwealth of Nations is a legacy that America will never have.

British drama is head and shoulders superior to American TV.

British sports have a global following. American sports are light years behind. The only "American" sport that's popular around the world is basketball, but it's not really American as it was invented by a Scot.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Surely the Brisbane Broncos are best suited to develop a following in London?

At one stage they owned the London Broncos in the 1990s.

Can only reiterate that a general audience for NRL would have to be generated before any individual club could capitalize. That can only come from coordinated local participation activity and FTA TV, or a combination of the two.

When Brisbane owned the London franchise, I don't remember much in the way of grass roots investment.

Brisbane is very much like London in many ways. Both cities are based on a river.

London has the Big Ben. Brisbane has the City Hall Clock Tower, which is the largest clock face in Australia.

You're working your ass off for the Queensland tourist board.

When I listed the most commonly-observed Aussie jerseys over here in the late 80s, the next would have been the Broncos. This was the one with the gold at the top, which in my view has never been bettered. The club, of course, was still in it's infancy at that time.

However, back then and subsequently, I've seen more Queensland jerseys than Broncos. A bloke walked past me in one at the supermarket last week. And I don't live in a RL town.

I think there'd be plenty in London if Origin gained a following there. The Maroons would be far more popular than the Blues.

BTW, ever seen the video of a K-Pop singer wearing a Maroons jersey on stage?

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Aussies are envious of England's rich culture and history.

I don't think there's a more culturally significant country on Earth than England. It produced the language that is spoken in more than one-third of the world.

The Commonwealth of Nations is a legacy that America will never have.

British drama is head and shoulders superior to American TV.

British sports have a global following. American sports are light years behind. The only "American" sport that's popular around the world is basketball, but it's not really American as it was invented by a Scot.

You're going to be Mr. Popularity when everyone wakes up later.

 

[Pneuma]

You're going to be Mr. Popularity when everyone wakes up later.

Nobody respects his opinion except for his mate PR so we don’t care. In fact nearly all of us have him on ignore.

 

[Canard]

Surely the Brisbane Broncos are best suited to develop a following in London?

At one stage they owned the London Broncos in the 1990s. Brisbane Broncos are easily the largest, most popular and wealthiest rugby league club on Earth.

Brisbane is very much like London in many ways. Both cities are based on a river.

London has the Big Ben. Brisbane has the City Hall Clock Tower, which is the largest clock face in Australia.

Clock Tower Tours - Museum of Brisbane | MoB

Discover the hidden secrets of your heritage-listed City Hall building with a guided tour of Brisbane's iconic Clock Tower.

www.museumofbrisbane.com.au

London has a famous Ferris wheel Brisbane has a similar one at South Bank.

London is England's largest city. The City of Brisbane is the largest Local Government Area in Australia with 1.2m people. The City of Sydney and City of Melbourne are only one-tenth the size.

City of Brisbane - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Holly f**k! This is a troll account right??

Both cities are based on a river? Haha f**k me

 

[MugaB]

Holly f**k! This is a troll account right??

Both cities are based on a river? Haha f**k me

There's a river in Singapore, its where the aircraft carrier docks

 

[Canard]

Seen a few very unkind comments about "soap-dodgers" on this forum. Terribly hurtful.

You can't complain if we gently respond with a bit of convict repartee.

Indigenous Aussies are understandably disgruntled but it is quite funny that we had the gall to turn a whole continent into an open prison.

Same spirit of enterprise that saw the 7th Earl of Elgin make off with bits of the Parthenon.

Rule Britannia.

I'm not complaining, I'm making a point about how little Londoners (in particular) know or care about Australian culture.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

I'm not complaining, I'm making a point about how little Londoners (in particular) know or care about Australian culture.

Didn't think you were. I was just making light of the general Aussie/Pom to and fro.

Hard for any English-speaking culture to get a look in when the U.S. is so overwhelmingly dominant. There was a period over here when beer and TV soaps promised to make Australia worthy of demotic attention. As an aesthete, I preferred the RL to the amber nectar and the Go-Betweens and Triffids to Neighbours and Home and Away.

 

[Colk]

Surely the Brisbane Broncos are best suited to develop a following in London?

At one stage they owned the London Broncos in the 1990s. Brisbane Broncos are easily the largest, most popular and wealthiest rugby league club on Earth.

Brisbane is very much like London in many ways. Both cities are based on a river.

London has the Big Ben. Brisbane has the City Hall Clock Tower, which is the largest clock face in Australia.

Clock Tower Tours - Museum of Brisbane | MoB

Discover the hidden secrets of your heritage-listed City Hall building with a guided tour of Brisbane's iconic Clock Tower.

www.museumofbrisbane.com.au

London has a famous Ferris wheel Brisbane has a similar one at South Bank.

London is England's largest city. The City of Brisbane is the largest Local Government Area in Australia with 1.2m people. The City of Sydney and City of Melbourne are only one-tenth the size.

City of Brisbane - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I know you love Brisbane but you aren’t really comparing Brisbane to London are you?

London is a world city and historically and culturally is one of the great cities of the world. Then you have Brisbane.

Brisbane has nicer weather than London but that’s about it

 

[mongoose]

Surely the Brisbane Broncos are best suited to develop a following in London?

At one stage they owned the London Broncos in the 1990s. Brisbane Broncos are easily the largest, most popular and wealthiest rugby league club on Earth.

Brisbane is very much like London in many ways. Both cities are based on a river.

London has the Big Ben. Brisbane has the City Hall Clock Tower, which is the largest clock face in Australia.

Clock Tower Tours - Museum of Brisbane | MoB

Discover the hidden secrets of your heritage-listed City Hall building with a guided tour of Brisbane's iconic Clock Tower.

www.museumofbrisbane.com.au

London has a famous Ferris wheel Brisbane has a similar one at South Bank.

London is England's largest city. The City of Brisbane is the largest Local Government Area in Australia with 1.2m people. The City of Sydney and City of Melbourne are only one-tenth the size.

City of Brisbane - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

London and Brisbane are similar?.... geez you need to give it a rest

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

the growth for the nrl will be nz and the pacific in the future which is a good thing

Not very ambitious, given the size of those populations.

NRL made a healthy profit last year. Opportune moment to start their own space programme. Could launch a manned bungee jump to North Sydney by 2050.

 

[MugaB]

Not very ambitious, given the size of those populations.

NRL made a healthy profit last year. Opportune moment to start their own space programme. Could launch a manned bungee jump to North Sydney by 2050.

The greatest thing they could do is admit north sydney bears, east tigers and anyone else who want to bid, then see other areas outside of the heartlands start building infrastructure and presence within their own comps to push for future expansion of the comp... also aligning the affiliated states linking up with existing clubs to manage a pathway for those juniors till they get a team of their own

 

[Wb1234]

Not very ambitious, given the size of those populations.

NRL made a healthy profit last year. Opportune moment to start their own space programme. Could launch a manned bungee jump to North Sydney by 2050.

Given England’s failure to develop teams for our World Cup you would think the nrl doing so would be good for the game overall

heck we can even help the English test team via English imports into the nrl

 

[bad boy bubby]

Didn't think you were. I was just making light of the general Aussie/Pom to and fro.

Hard for any English-speaking culture to get a look in when the U.S. is so overwhelmingly dominant. There was a period over here when beer and TV soaps promised to make Australia worthy of demotic attention. As an aesthete, I preferred the RL to the amber nectar and the Go-Betweens and Triffids to Neighbours and Home and Away.

I was surfing down in Newquay in 1990.
I met these two attractive lasses who told me they wanted to "come to Oz".
Oz was a very favourable term for all the English surf community.
I said to the girls, cool, what are you gunna back pack about?
Their reply, "no, we're thinking we can get a job singing in a piano bar somewhere in Perth"
Thats different, I thought.
"So, you're singers then?"
"No, we just figure we'll be able to do it down there"
They truly thought Australia was the "Land of Oz", and magic just happened.
Grant McClennan and David McComb would be screaming through their graves.

 

[Wb1234]

I was surfing down in Newquay in 1990.
I met these two attractive lasses who told me they wanted to "come to Oz".
Oz was a very favourable term for all the English surf community.
I said to the girls, cool, what are you gunna back pack about?
Their reply, "no, we're thinking we can get a job singing in a piano bar somewhere in Perth"
Thats different, I thought.
"So, you're singers then?"
"No, we just figure we'll be able to do it down there"
They truly thought Australia was the "Land of Oz", and magic just happened.
Grant McClennan and David McComb would be screaming through their graves.

England has a surf community ?

wtf

their beaches don’t even have sand

 

[bad boy bubby]

England has a surf community ?

wtf

their beaches don’t even have sand

Newquay area is very sandy
Link
newquay beach

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

I was surfing down in Newquay in 1990.

My first proper holiday was in Newquay 1970. Travelled down on an overnight coach. Three years old so don't remember much. I would reckon Byron Bay is the closest Oz equivalent. You might know better.

My aunt had gone to Newquay for seasonal work in a hotel. She tried various places around the British Isles and eventually settled in Jersey. Hardly anybody local works in the UK hospitality industry.

 

[Canard]

My first proper holiday was in Newquay 1970. Travelled down on an overnight coach. Three years old so don't remember much. I would reckon Byron Bay is the closest Oz equivalent. You might know better.

My aunt had gone to Newquay for seasonal work in a hotel. She tried various places around the British Isles and eventually settled in Jersey. Hardly anybody local works in the UK hospitality industry.

Newquay is more like Torquay (Vic) or Anglesea (Vic).

Which despite being appropriated names from the UK are great beaches, with fairly cool water, good waves and some great pubs and cafes.

Byron is a great beach with lots more cooked hippies and Boomers

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

I met these two attractive lasses who told me they wanted to "come to Oz".
Oz was a very favourable term for all the English surf community.
I said to the girls, cool, what are you gunna back pack about?
Their reply, "no, we're thinking we can get a job singing in a piano bar somewhere in Perth"
Thats different, I thought.
"So, you're singers then?"
"No, we just figure we'll be able to do it down there"
They truly thought Australia was the "Land of Oz", and magic just happened.

People with copious chutzpah can reinvent themselves in a new setting. In some areas of artistic endeavour it can take a while to distinguish the undiscovered genius from the talentless loon.

Grant McClennan and David McComb would be screaming through their graves.

The UK music media never paid much heed to what was happening in Oz, but bands who spent time over here generally got a favourable reception.

I was always on the lookout for signs of any RL affinities. Only hint I ever saw was the Sharks and Magpies jerseys in the Hoodoo Gurus video for "What's My Scene".

 

[The Penguin #6.]

England has a surf community ?

wtf

their beaches don’t even have sand

Or waves from what I`ve seen. Kinda sad really, poor Pommie bastards with their moon-tans trying to imitate Aussies by surfing on waveless, sandless beaches. What a sight.