Whats more important to you, club football or SOO

[RABK]

I think i explained it in my post you quoted.

I grew up on Origin - i'm just damn passionate about it. I've attended over 30 Origins and i have not missed a single second of it since 1991. It's the best 240 minutes of rugby league every season. If the blues had won a shield in the last couple of years then a Knights premiership would be higher on the agenda.

In Origin it's win at all costs - victory is everything. Losing by a field goal in the final second is complete and utter failure. 3 games and one series where 239 minutes of good football can be destroyed by 1 minute of QLD brilliance or NSW foolery. Without victory, no matter how well your state played, you leave gutted until the next year.

With club football - you experience a lot of highs and lows over 7 months and good memories are able to be kept even if your side doesn't always win. Newcastle haven't won a comp in 11 years - but through out those years we've had some great victories and good seasons and a lot of memories i've been able to keep.

I guess it's just really hard to explain...

I can watch the infamous Knights vs Broncos golden point classic from 2004 and enjoy it and finish it feeling great. I can't put on any NSW win from the last 6 years because ultimately Origin is a 240 minute game, not a 80 minute one.


That's the best explanation i can give for why a NSW win would mean more to me this year than a Knights premiership. I'd take both though...

 

[RABK]

Oh and Big Pete might be able to grasp and better explain how and why i feel that way. I got a feeling he might feel similar to me in regards to Broncos vs QLD. Help out if i'm right Pete.

 

[lockyno1]

Club football is still my pinnacle, fractionally ahead of SOO...and then down the bottom of the barrell is Internationals where I usually watch the NFL instead

 

[Noa]

I dont understand how people can have more passion for SOO then Club footy. I dont understand people who even have them close

 

[2010Dragons]

Dragons.....daylight.....SOO.
SOO is only a leveler for teams with and without rep players winning games in SOO period.
I would love another premiership than watch another exibition game with injurys to key players which effects your chances to win a premiership.

 

[RABK]

It's not about having more passion for one over the other - they're equal to me. It just about what's higher on the agenda which after 6 series losses is a Blues series win.

 

[tangalife]

Warriors > Kiwis > SoO

 

[perverse]

i'm "passionate" about my club for the exact same reason i'm "passionate" about my origin team. they both represent the area that i was born and raised - that i'm proud of. in that respect, as RABK said, i wouldn't bother splitting them. i feel the same way about both for the same reasons.

i would rather see the Knights win a premiership than NSW win an origin this year, but it's a close race and the Knights pip the Blues at the post because i get to watch them every week, and an NRL season is a long journey of highs and lows. i do love my Origin, though.

 

[betcats]

Would much rather a Penrith premiership then a SOO series win but they are both pretty important to me. Origin gets me more pumped then just about any other game all season.

 

[beave]

Im NQ born and bred and place my Cowboys far above QLD SOO.

The QLD team might represent my state but over half this states population are f**kheads so it's really a moot point.

*disclaimer- a certain few of you other QLDers that post in here I don't mean you (Big Pete, Hellteam etc etc)

 

[CowboyFuriousFury]

NQ over SOO QLD had it's success and I'm kinda over it now since it occur so many times now. To see the Cows win there first premiership one day would mean greater to me.

 

[hutch]

Love the tigers, hate qld but passion is international rugby league above all else. Perhaps international rugby league should be added to poll!

 

[eozsmiles]

Club footy obviously.
SOO is great, breaks up the week, and gives us a chance to see the best players all out there together. But then game 1 is weak because they haven't trained together and game 3 could be a dead rubber. It often rains and is always played at night. And if you're not from NSW or QLD it won't get the heart pumping.
If they cancelled SOO we'd all get over it by watching some club footy. If they cancelled club footy the world must've ended.

 

[S.S.T.I.D]

I love watching Origin - make no mistake about that - but I couldn't care less who wins. For me and most, but not all, Souths fans it is the SSDRLFC and nothing else. Not even close. In comparison the NSW Origin team means as much to me as the Namibian Rugby Union team.

 

[gUt]

There's some real intellectual heavyweights voting for SOO.

 

[Jason Maher]

The 2010 Grand Final was the greatest sporting moment of my life, and it will never be topped (I followed the Steelers, so it was win no. 1 for me). So it's Dragons first, Blues second, with Manchester United completing the podium of teams I support to the absolute hilt.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

SoO is all about bragging rights, and are an event that you can't wait to watch but once it's over forget about it until next year (unless you're a tryhard lunatic like Mr Kiddypics). Club football is something I'm interested in 12 months of the year.

 

[mxlegend99]

Club footy by a mile. As great as representative football is to watch, at the end of the day my heart lies first and foremost with the club I support. Followed closely by seeing our players do well for both the club and when picked for representative teams (even if it's not the state/country I support)

A premiership is a far bigger deal IMO then winning a representative game.

 

[Eels Dude]

Parramatta>SOO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Test matches

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Warriors > Kiwis > SoO

Excuse me but why SOO even on the list? SOO is not for Kiwis