UAE League boss has been arrested for Rugby League involvement. rugbyleaguehub.com/2015/05/08/ex ... de-battle/

UAE League boss has been arrested for Rugby League involvement. rugbyleaguehub.com/2015/05/08/ex ... de-battle/

But I thought Rugby Union had no involvement whatsoever in any attempt, anywhere, ever to try and hold back Rugby League.

I thought it was only chippy northerners who don't understand the real world that thought these things ever happened.

Or at least that's id been told time and again by a few Union fans, some of whom haven't lived in this country for several years but still pretend they know exactly what goes on here.

This is an absolute disgrace!

People need to constructively tweet Brett Gosper, the head honcho of World "Rugby"(sic), rl@BrettGosperrl asking what he is doing about this situation.

David Collier needs to get to the UAE quickly and intervene in this matter!

Abusive posts to the rlUAE RU Facebookrl are at your own discretion.

WOW

In the 21st century, the toffs are having it over the paupers of rugby league.
This story is truly unbelievable in the civilised world.

Who do the Union brigade think they are !

Going from what I've read, the spin is he was arrested for using the term 'Rugby' rather than RL and enticing sponsors, who thought they were sponsoring union. On that basis he's been done for fraud.

That's the first I've heard of that.

Click the link and read the article. It is claimed that rl passed itself off as ru and attracted money as a result.
As with a good deal of these supposed irb underhand tactics, local score settling is to the fore again.......but it does make a good fanatical headline for the rabid few

We never let the facts get in the way of a story here...

Indeed.......but at least we havent had a moderator incite cyber bullying in regard to a current case before the courts....oh, hang on

Oh and you were doing so well Gutters.

Quote: Jim Pooley "the righteous indignation shown by some on here beggars belief. Its quite simple really.....if the authorities simply ask Nissan what they believed they were sponsoring, then no doubt the union lot will either look really stupid or entirely vindicated. '" True, but since none of us know the truth why are you so quick to believe the RU claims? Especially considering RU's long and illustrious history of pulling stunts like this. I know who I believe. Quote: Jim Pooley "We never let the facts get in the way of a story here...'" Oh and you know the facts do you? Another story: www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... gxodk.html

Quote: Jim Pooley "the righteous indignation shown by some on here beggars belief. Its quite simple really.....if the authorities simply ask Nissan what they believed they were sponsoring, then no doubt the union lot will either look really stupid or entirely vindicated. '" True, but since none of us know the truth why are you so quick to believe the RU claims? Especially considering RU's long and illustrious history of pulling stunts like this. I know who I believe. Quote: Jim Pooley "We never let the facts get in the way of a story here...'" Oh and you know the facts do you? Another story: www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... gxodk.html

NOT TRUE AT ALL

The UAE RU accused UAERL of illegally using the name 'rugby'. Which is clearly total BS as RL has just as much right to the word as RU, but they claimed to be the sole 'rugby' authority and the government believed them. They forced UAERL to change its name to 'rugby league commission', clearly avoiding any confusion with RU. And that obviously wasn't enough as now they've had the RL boss arrested. The next step is banning/arresting all players who play RL. And sadly they live in a corrupt enough country that they can probably get away with it. ing pathetic cowards.

OP, get your fascist, holocaust-denying agenda out of here.

Also mods, can this poster be banned for rejoining?

So you call me a racist, add nothing but supposition and cry for a ban because you disagree with me........i say it is you who is moe facist as well as a drama queen.....holocaust denying??????

I'm not 'disagreeing' with you, your post was factually and concisely wrong. The competition that Nissan were sponsoring was called the 'Rugby League Cup' FFS, there's not even any kind of possibility of deception or 'fraud'.

I bet you're the kind of person that thinks Nelson Mandela was a bad man and a terrorist. And I bet you're going to reply by suggesting that I'm comparing a RL official to Mandela and posting some stupid emoticons, as if that excuses the utter corruption and injustice here.