birdsteeth
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dragonfly said:Hmmm
If only posts like this one were as rare as birds teeth!. Mr Teeth, disloyalty in todays game is a very unfair term, especially when the likes of Stuart (of whom i have no great love for) and Clyde were squeezed out by affordability problems created the by salary cap. Canberra is as you put it Neautral, but so was belgium and if you think in the event of Victoria raiding the ACT that Queensland would jump to your rescue you must be kidding. We would help because Canberra is GIRT by NSW.
I am a Dragon man but Wally Fullerton Smith, Mark Coyne, Craig Smith, Rod Reddy, Gordy Tallis and Wayne Bartrim were always on their own come origin.
Your decision to follow Queensland is your right as much as Crisp Grissle has a right to sell real estate but you call to arms of all Raiders is unwarranted and ludicrous.
I do however concur on the Manly point.
So get off your soap box turn coat and let the public servants make up their own mind.
Go the Blues!!!
Very eloquently put Dragonfly, (though I do suggest you use a spell-checker next time...neautral??) I was in no way suggesting that the players I named were disloyal. If you read closely you'll see that I was merely saying that the Queenslanders amongst the Raiders squads were more loyal.
If you look through the history of the Raiders, some of them accepted substantial pay cuts in 1991 to stay with the Raiders after being offered huge sums from other clubs (Steve Walters and Mal Meninga included). That's the sort of spirit that exists in the Queensland camp to this day.
I'm not suggesting that people should be swayed either way on what state to go for, or to switch sides. I'm just putting a few facts out there that might make Raiders fans think, "hmmm, why do I go for NSW? Phil Gould is an idiot and the side used to have Geoff Toovey in it....Have I been wrong all these years? Could I have made a drastic mistake in blindly supporting the Blues just 'cause I loved Clydey when I played lock for the Under Fifteen's Cowra Magpies! And Dad won't let me go for 'em."
That's all I'm saying.