A late entry in the "post of the year" stakes

Harry is good friends with Captain Ibi Ali who he did the Antarctic treck with for walking with the wounded. Ibi is league through and through (only played in Rotherham and at Staffordshire uni - expansion will never work...) and says Harry likes all sports and certainly didn't have a bad word about league and reckons he'll come to events when invited. We just need to use him correctly in the World Cup build up. It won't happen.

Well known they lost interest when Fax moved to The Shay. Regulars in Scratching Shed prior to that.

This the same Harry that last year had to pass Eccles rlfc to make a visit to Eccles rfu club.
Both situated on the same road.

His bird is from Toronto maybe he is one of the 5000 ST holders

Genius!

Who is going to attempt to engage with him, Fat Nigel?

He doesn't give 2 fooks about the game and will never attend an RL fixture ever. Wind your neck in.

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A Royal spokesman said...

Sorry.

"Wind one's neck in."

I think we've got much more chance of getting Harry to an RL event than the Queen.

I hope the Aussies are putting a pitch in for the World Cup. If not we should be for the following one.

If ever a thread made us look like the cloth cap northern folk the southerners think we are, this is it.

As long as he turns up to some RL matches/events I'm all for it. He loves a good booze, up so maybe the RFL can entice him to Magic Weekend (but leave the fancy dress at home)?

Why ?

Because the Royals haven't wanted anything to do with our sport for 40 years ? and now some bright spark on a RL forum thinks that, just because our 90 year old Monarch has relinquished many of her "charities", we should suddenly hope for contact from some of her off spring, who, also cant be d with RL but, are more than happy to take the hospitality offered by the Rah, Rah version of rugby.
Sorry, PT but, this is nothing to do with being Northern or, wearing a metaphoric cloth cap, it's more to do with, we've managed without them for so long that IMO, it's beneath us to go grovelling to the ruling classes.
The very thought of "them" being enticed to come to a RL game makes me sick.

The fact that we've had so many televised finals for 40(ish) years and "they" dont give a damn about our sport.

Are you really that desperate to have an uninterested member of the Royal family come to one of our major games, it's embarrassing.

Personally, I dont believe that anyone should have to bow in front of another human being.
We all come on to the planet the same way and we all go out in a box and just because they may have gold handles on theirs doesnt make them any better than the rest of us.

Let's drop the "grovelling to the ruling class" rhetoric for a minute.

The ginger one's supposedly patron of RL. We should make it clear we expect something from him in return for that honour. If it turns out he doesn't give a f*** then so be it, give him the push and make public the reason for having done so. But now he's taken up that role, it'd be plain f*****g daft not to try to engage him.