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Haha , a anti Superleague diatribe written not by a Sports Journalist but by Swiss Tony

Bitter and deluded or what? I nearly split my sides.

Ironically, (and despite the 'off-season silence' that Pottinger claims), the 'highlight' links at the bottom of that page have NRL placed second only to 'top stories' and ahead of all other sport.

I'm relishing the thought that it's only a few weeks before Pottinger has to endure the misery of another NRL season.

Angry and twisted ramblings of someone who doesnt know what they are talking about! How has an article like that been allowed in a national newspaper!!? It's not news or information, or to spark a debate. It's just someone nobody cares about writing an over the top article on their opinion on rugby league. Complete waste of time.

It is not very funny although i believe it is written as a humourous piece. The bit that angers me is the bit about the first World War and what i regard as a slander that RL players did not do their bit. He obviously did not know about these players and i bet their are plenty of Aussies and Kiwis who could be included as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougie_Clark www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/k-vic ... rrison.htm

It is not very funny although i believe it is written as a humourous piece. The bit that angers me is the bit about the first World War and what i regard as a slander that RL players did not do their bit. He obviously did not know about these players and i bet their are plenty of Aussies and Kiwis who could be included as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougie_Clark www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/k-vic ... rrison.htm

I am doing a study on Warrington players who died in the Great War. One is a lad called Johnno Stuntz, who was an Aussie, who joined up in March, 1916, and died on 3.5.17, in the Second Battle of Bullecourt. Johnno didnt have to join up. His father had a German heritage, his mother was Irish, he was married and he was in a reserved occupation (NSW Fire Brigade). He played for Wire in 1909-10 and then went home to play for Easts, Wests, and Souths. If anyone had a good excuse not to join up it was him.
His death was on his first day of action.
This idiot forgets (or neglects to say) that RL players from Aus did volunteer and lose their lives, and that Anzac Day is not reserved for Aussies, there's quite a few Kiwis involved too.
If the paper didn't agree with this clowns opinion, then why publish it?

Shit newspaper prints article, where's the surprise?

I got some joy out of that.

Rugby League isn't just a game for the East of Aus, one city in NZ and grimy northern English towns anymore. Rustic French villages are now on the list!

See, expansion IS working! Even the unionites accept it!

On a messageboard. So a simply ridiculous, stupid comparison.

He says"obnoxious, flatulent, and prone to publicly displaying its genitals" as if it's a bad thing. I personally find his attitude to my life style quite offensive.

The bloke who wrote the article doesn't follow rl but felt the need to write a load of rubbish, just the same as the numpties on here who write crap about ru but profess not to watch or know anything about the game,so the comparison is fair.

Wow he really likes our game doesn't he.

He just comes across as bitter and obviously a unionite,ignore the blighter.

The same article was in The Courier Mail in Qld today. Just an odd article - not sure what his point is really. I also thought it was meant to be 'funny' but the guy is completely without talent in that regard.

The bloke's on a wind up. He expressed his opinion whilst trying to use humour. That's why it was published.

He works for Murdoch.

View it for what it was.

Does anyone know when a Rugby League fan will be allowed an article to express his disgust at unions involment with the Nazis in the 2nd world war?

I suggest you put the name of your next offspring down for harrow school at the moment of conception.......start saving now to meet the 23k a Term (3 a year) fees over 6 years, then another 100k for Oxbridge and once the little fella/lass has achieved a BA in Politics and managed to get a job at the Telegraph, get them to publish your thoughts.....although I doubt you'll be alive to read them in print.
The article itself was designed purely to get a reaction.........it did it's job, although I agree with some on here...it was purile at best.