The final paragraph is superb though, where it explains who the writer is!

Sounds like half a dozen Sl fans off this MB when talking about RU.
Still,it wont do the game any harm in aus.

The thing is garbage and the DT knows it and should not have allowed it through.

What's up Dailytelecrap, Cricket season not giving you enough hits on your website?

There’s no need to stoop as low as he has done by resorting to name calling.

The bottom line is these are the ramblings of someone who’s clearly out to provoke some kind of negative reaction. Although sometimes this can be a good thing because now we can all turn this into some kind of positive.

Paul Pottinger in this article misrepresents the good relationship rugby league has built up with rugby union in recent times. For Example Leeds Rhinos ground share with Leeds Tykes, Salford could be ground sharing with Sale Sharks and London Bronco’s used to ground share with Harlequins. Heck we even they was even a rugby union journalist (Tim Groves) in the last issue of forty-20.

Of course my favourite collaboration between rugby league and rugby union was Leeds Rhinos sharing a training session with England RU in 2005.

Finally I’d like to think that the majority of those good intentioned souls that support either code would like to see both codes grow. If we both grow then that’s better for everyone all round because it means more fun and a better way of life for more people as jobs will be created on the back of that growth.

However having said all that we can still not excuse the real atrocities that rugby union has afflicted on our code. For example French Rugby Union should share it’s current prosperity with French Rugby League in an attempt to try and make up for all the damage that was done in the past by bad intentioned RU officials.

Final paragraph says it all

I'm not sure what to make of it, other than "he doth protest too much" in his dislike. It certainly hasn't made me angry.

Is he comparing RL to anything? Not as far as I can tell.

And in any case "These run in strict linear patterns until a mistake is made and one lot falls over the other's line. For this points are awarded" seems way better than "lots of fat men roll on the floor and tread on each other until the ball appears and someone kicks it. For this points are often awarded and the final scores of the game are usually divisible by 3" (see we can all be "amusing") if union is his game.

I suspect he's been on the industrial beer...

Is it meant to be a protest at the inescapability of the sport, such is scale of the coverage it receives?

Perhaps Paul should consider moving to the UK. Not one of the grimy northern towns, full of provincial oafs, obviously.

He's proper hung-up on short man syndrome. I see from his carsguide profile pic, that he's a bald, bespectacled, rather geeky-looking gentleman (is that cyber-stalking? ). Presumably tallness is central to his sense of self worth. Keep at it lanky - you'll be a cacker Aussie version of Jeremy Clarkson in no time.

I thought it was kind of funny. The author obviously has something wrong with him.

I found it blinkin hilarious tbh, not angry at all. Guy just wants to get hits and he's so well talked about we're talking in England so for him it's job done

This is the opinion of one tool,like Clarkson,it shouldn`t be taken too seriously.