So your calling a young lad a 'turd' because of how sky presented an interview with him?

FFS.

Nevermind. Jesus wept.

stereotyped him as a local lad to cas and just lacked the flat cap, said nowt wrong at all, just looked down to earth good on him , he could of clean the out of the ferrets cage tho

'thi fly reyt up into sky and like reyt little specs befoor they come back darn, thi can do that for hours'

Ashamed of your heritage then?

BTW. He said "microdots", which possibly doesn't fit the stereotype but there you go.

Richie Owen should get some media training, look what it did for Paul Cullen

I'm sure I wouldn't know...

Me and my mates were sat watching it in (including a Cas fan!) in agreement that Owen came across as thick, stereotypical farmer. Thank god for his rugby league talent, because he was barely able to string a sentence together.

@ pyeman in this thread.

I think Owen just came across as a nice kid who's passtimes are far more formative than 75% of other kids his age he's also a pretty decent Rugby League player. God knows I wish the rest of todays youth were doing things like Owen rather than the most of them are up to!

SKY are the ones who need a rocket, the feature on Owen is a poor one because it perpetuates the steraotypical image that the media has fought so hard to create. It also panders to knobs like Stephen Jones and his ilk who love nothing more than to portray League players as ape like creatures who keep whippets and pigeons, have ferrets down our trousers and live our parochial lives in Victorian terraced houses up North where tweathers always cold. We dine on black pudding & hotpots while our Casperesque kids scive off school because we don't need no education cos there aint no more jobs since pits shut darn!

I sometimes wonder about SKYs view on Rugby League they often do things that make me wary of their future intentions for the game.

Whats the problem with keeping whippets and pigeons?

Is it something to be ashamed of?

nothing

I wonder about Rugby League fans sometimes I really do. I watched it and thought it was a great insight into what an impressive young winger gets up to when he's not playing. What a nice lad he came across as aswell, totally down to earth, working class, not afraid to get his hands dirty, happy in his skin. And what do we get on here? Hand wringing because we're worried that it gives Rugby League a bad image. Pathetic. Rugby League should be proud of it's roots and proud of lads like this.

But surely you'd rather see Martin Offiah interviewed. He has a much more refined accent and is highly presentable in front of the camera. Admittedly he adds absolutely nothing to any discussion on Rugby League, but who needs that anyway?