We used to get that all time, not so much now but it used to p!ss me right off

is there any update on remi casti's horrific gunshot wound???

i was stood close to the grassy knoll and saw no sniper!


to quote bill hicks
back and to the left
back and to the left

god it was the guys stood on the house!!!

On the SLS Iestyn Harris thought that it was worth pointing out that we have a big Australian contingent. Is 6 alot?

I'd call it overseas, compare it to other play-off teams
Leeds (5) - Webb, Donald, Leuluai, Buderus, Lauitiiti
Hull KR (9) - Webster, Dobson, Newton, Galea, Gene, Fitzhenry, Fisher(?), Vella, Aizue
Huddersfield (5) - Hodgson, Fulton, Whatuira, Faiumu, Lolesi
St Helens (6) - Gidley, Meli, Puletua, Flannery, Fa'asavalu, Cayless
Castleford (7) - Evans, Chase, Sherwin, Seargant, McGoldrick, Faumuima, Widders
Wigan (9) - Roberts, Carmont, Richards, Smith, Leuluai, Riddell, Palleasina, Bailey, Phelps,
Wakefield (10) - Obst, Stosic, Henderson, Winterstein, Blanch, LeoLatu, Korkidas, Martin, Demitriou, Drew

I'd best do Catalans (9) - Greenshields, Bell, Mogg, Perry, McGuire, Croker, Carlaw, Ryles, Bird

So perhaps above the average (7.5), but nothing to be embarrassed about though IMO!

I wouldn't get too upset about anything Iestyn says.
We've got six at Wigan, although Smith is already back in Australia and there are question marks over Bailey.
Richards plays for Ireland but I'm pretty sure he still has his Australian passport.
I wonder if he'll still count Mogg, Greenshields and McGuire should Bobbie pick them for the Four Nations.

Wigan have 9, i stated them in the post above. whether or not someone is in aus, i included perry and croker in the Dragons list

We don't have 9 Australians. We have 6 and that's including Tim Smith back in Australia.

Okay Cala, that's how you're counting. As Iestyn was commenting about the squad on the pitch I was talking about the squad on the pitch. Where we had 6 etrangers in our 17 man squad.

In that case we had four Australians. Phelps, Roberts, Richards and Riddell on the bench

As i mentioned, i went for the whole squad as to save the "he didn't play" or "he is in australia" argument. As I also mentioned for Catalancs benefit was that i went for overseas players, not Australians.

6 from 17 isn't too bad. not considering one of the etranger spots is taken up by Perry, and another Croker, who I said last year we could be making a mistake by re-signing him. We did, he has not performed.

Only three of those are Aussies and one (Cayless) has now left due to his injury. Meli and Puletua are Kiwi/Samoan. Fa'asavalu no longer counts as on the quota because he is a British resident. We will be getting Soli-wotsits next season but he's a Samoan too. We seem to prefer Pacific Islanders to Aussies. More bang for the buck I suppose. So next season we will have five overseas players (of which Gidley and Flannery are Aussies).

Can you not read or do you just play at being thick?

Easy tiger. You're the only one going on about overseas players. The rest of us are talking about talking about Australian players in response to Iestyn Harris' remarks about Catalans.

ps Bailey looks likely to re-sign so that's 6 for us.

TBF Iestyn wouldn't know an Australian from a Kiwi, the point is "look at all those forrigners proping them up" so it is back to the usual "how many forrign players youz got?".

Where I prefer to make a different distinction than Cala is to look at players on the ground, rather than players in the total squad. If we look at players in the whole squad, we should really count as a percentage of total squad, with our squad being massive ...

Charming.