Of course you don't care about anything other than your favourite sport Jonesy. Of course you (and everyone you know - thanks for the reliable statistical sample btw) are happy with the way things are. Of course you don't like your views being challenged. Of course you're not interested in comparisons - that's why you went out of your way to inform me that AFL attendances are -6 % down this year and -6% down last year and that there's nothing else to do in Melbourne. Of course you were always going to hit back with yet another lazy, ignorant and desperate response.

Enjoy poring over your TV ratings fella - I can almost feel your passion for them

Quote: Keith Swiftcorn "Of course you don't care about anything other than your favourite sport Jonesy. Of course you (and everyone you know - thanks for the reliable statistical sample btw) are happy with the way things are. Of course you don't like your views being challenged. Of course you're not interested in comparisons - that's why you went out of your way to inform me that AFL attendances are -6 % down this year and -6% down last year and that there's nothing else to do in Melbourne. Of course you were always going to hit back with yet another lazy, ignorant and desperate response. Enjoy poring over your TV ratings fella - I can almost feel your passion for them stats.rleague.com/afl/crowds/summary.html And Keith you are from where and live where?

Quote: Keith Swiftcorn "Of course you don't care about anything other than your favourite sport Jonesy. Of course you (and everyone you know - thanks for the reliable statistical sample btw) are happy with the way things are. Of course you don't like your views being challenged. Of course you're not interested in comparisons - that's why you went out of your way to inform me that AFL attendances are -6 % down this year and -6% down last year and that there's nothing else to do in Melbourne. Of course you were always going to hit back with yet another lazy, ignorant and desperate response. Enjoy poring over your TV ratings fella - I can almost feel your passion for them stats.rleague.com/afl/crowds/summary.html And Keith you are from where and live where?

What's the deal with your obsession as to where I'm from and where I live Jonesy? And what relevance does it have?

Thanks for the link to the stats on AFL attendances which exceed those of the NRL even though you are not interested in them and have no interest whatsoever in the AFL. And why should you when everything in the NRL garden is rosy and not up for critique or discussion in Jonesy's world, just keep munching on those TV ratings instead, eh?

I've been to the Caxton before though it's generally attended by the sort of dinky die, true blue drunken meatheaded Ocker types who appear to have all undergone a full-frontal lobotomy whilst dribbling phrases like erm... "MAAAAYYTTTE? <burp, dribble, vomit>, "QUEEEENSLAAANNNNDER!!" or "GOOOOO THE BLEEEEUUUUWWWWSS!!". Are they real Australians representative of Australia? Cripes, I hope not. Prefer the Lord Alfred at the top of Caxton St anyhow... the clientele are marginally less brain-dead in there, less inclined to chuck beer around and are capable of engaging in occasional, albeit limited conversations. They wouldn't know what to do with a critique of Australian League if they were presented with one anyway.

ORIGIN (of the species) - the only time so-called league fans get off their @rses in huge numbers to attend a game - bandwagoners most of them turning up to an event which gets saturation media coverage. Any passion emitted by the braindead attendees is not for the game of rugby league itself but for the ockertunity (good word that, I just made it up) to...

1. Behave like an Ocker.
2. Get ratd (that goes without saying).
3. Indulge in the annual state against state rivalry shamfest.

The rest can sit in front of the TV and belch about the ratings being good.

PS: Too late to modify your post

In other words I have had my arguement destroyed and I don't have any coherent response so I will revert to looking at the sand around my head.

What argument was that Sal?
I posted some TV ratings saying how well the game was received in Australia.
I did not compare it to anything, it was a good news story.


Are you saying I should worry about other sports?
Do you follow Rugby League? You are here so I guess you do. Do you spend all day wringing your hands because your game is not as big as Football in the UK?
Do you care that Rugby League gets hardly any coverage in England?

Where I live Rugby League gets 4-6 pages of coverage in all the main Newspapers, at SOO time its front page.
Thats Sydney and lately Brisbane, should I worry about AFL? you tell me why I should mate.
If in 30 years time as I am watching the game on my last legs and AFL has taken over the country I will still be able to watch my local team run around at the local Park.

Maybe you Sal and Keith Corn know more about my local area and my State and my Country than I do... I somehow doubt it though.

Time to call it quits Lads its nearly midnight, if you have anything else to add Sal feel free.
Keith come on down, we always love those Southerners or Pommies (if we knew what you were Walter) with a big Gob that tells us we are Redneck f*#kwitts, we have a special spot for them.

You requested me to pay a visit to the Caxton Hotel as if a visit to that p[ii[/isshole would somehow expand my knowledge of Australian culture and all things Australian Rugby League in order that I'd appreciate the full extent of Jonesy's unrivalled knowledge and experience of Australia and Australian RL. But you then modified your post and deleted it. I'm guessing even you realised what a ridiculous assertion it was, hence the modification. There's nothing to be gained on the knowledge front engaging with Caxton St boofheads. Or are you claiming they represent the Australian RL intelligentsia?


And the relevance of you informing me that you are from Brisbane is what exactly?


And the relevance of me informing you where I am from is what exactly?


You've told things from an insecure Jonesy's point of view - a world where empty seats and empty stadiums are of no concern so long as those TV ratings look good, Origin is popular to boofheads and nothing else matters in Jonesy's world. Well I've got news for you - you and your opinions alone do not represent Australia in it's entirety. Thousands upon thousands more fans turn up to AFL games to fill their stadia so they obviously represent more of Australia than you - and your statistically sampled mates who don't turn up for games but pore over TV ratings instead - do.

I get it - you don't like your blinkered views challenged. That's already been established. You only want to engage in positive debate about the sport in your country and you're not interested in debate about any negative aspects which challenge your intransigent beliefs.

Don't you think it's about time the game in Australia did something about the empty stadiums and the zero atmosphere and passion at NRL games? Or is the game in Australia only concerned about TV ratings, revenue from advertising and sponsorship associated with drinking copious amounts of p[ii[/iss? Watching games in front of the TV as they coincide with imbibing bottles of XXXX whilst being rudely interrupted by a stuffed-crust delivery from Eagle Boys when you don't want to miss the Keno replay does not equate to a game in good health.


Being a semi-knowledgable is infinitely more preferable to an existence where one's head remains firmly stuck up one's @rse. Thanks for the compliment though.

Where were you from again?
Too Shy to say?
I will send you a message, something to think about Keith.

I bet you've had more TV dinners in front of the TV watching NRL games than the number of NRL games and grounds I've been to. Gotta keep up those TV ratings, eh?
You are full of Shixt
Where were you born and where do you live?

Relevance?

I could be from the Valley, Ebbw Vale, Sherwood, Cleveland, Ipswich, Windsor, Indooroopilly, Yeerongpilly, Burpengary, Glasshouse Mountains, Wacol Prison, Tittybong, Burrumbuttock, Chinaman's Knob, Mount Buggery, Mount Coot-tha or Rum Jungle... it's irrelevant.

This is turning interesting.

WelL, that turned into a bitchfest. Reminds me. Of the times I had to step in and issue multiple bans on the NRL boards. There's a simple rule to poting on these boards: play nicely or don't play at all. Two posters will now be taking a break to think about that.