Quote: mistermoo "Why have Rugby League now taken to doing a minute of applause? I can understand in football because of the mindless idiots and I can also understand the cup final or grand final because of the amount of alcohol swilling around, but for a normal league game a minutes silence would have been more appropriate and I am sure would have been observed impeccably.'"
A minutes applause is good in 2 ways
a) eliminates the idiot element.
b) shows an appreciation of a man in a way that a silent sombre minutes silence doesn't.
I agree though if it had been a minutes silence it would have been done impeccably.