Quote: SaintsFan "I've only been an active fan of the sport since 2007 as I've said on here before (watched it loads on the TV since being a nipper thanks to family who have been avid Saints supporters for donkeys years). I'm wondering, has rugby league always been this melodramatic?'"
There've always been dramas but they are amplified tremendously by the media at the disposal of every fan these days - Twitter, Facebook, messageboards, comments on online newspapers - and rumours and conjecture spread infinitely more quickly than they did in, say, the '80s and '90s.