Who is this pretender Darcy, stealing column space from the professional operators this city is so proud to have been banning from its drinking establishments since the foundation year in 1908? This boy has no schooling of substance in acts of public indecency. He certainly boasts no substantial rugby league career that would account for his recent behaviour. He is making it up as he goes along and pretty soon will be exposed as a fake.
The fact that swimming teams are usually the refuge of latent homosexuals and others with perverted incliniations, only heightens the greatest game's enbarrassment. Where was Craig Gower patrolling Darling Harbour, ensuring that innocent bystanders were put in headlocks and that young ladies feared for their safety? Where was Willie Carne ensuring tables were duly urinated under? Julian "the Stool" O'Neill thoughtfully filling team mates shoes with faecal reminders of an ill-spent weekend on the turps? The Gaz yelling down the mobile at a bewildered female stranger "Fire up, you sad c***"?
Do we need to recall the tremendous work the Bulldogs have done, voluntarily, to enhance the standing of the game?
As if the media attention that pretender Wayne Carey has been getting is not enough of an insult to league's proud tradition. Let's just remember for one moment folks, Carey had to temporarily migrate to the U.S.A. to ply his trade (and a pretty uncommitted apprentice he has proven to be). That country is a backwater when it comes to drunken blokes causing mayhem - sports stars there have no comparable record. When was the last time Tiger Woods was arrested for public urination (schoolboy stuff, by the way)? Also, the infrequency of Carey's appearances on charge sheets and in the media is testament to his lack of real commitment to being a social nuisance.
No. There is only one sporting code that has selflessly embraced its role as a school for our best young men, and it appears its time is over. It is likely Australia will never be the same again.
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Hooley Dooley Snooker. I was lost until you mentioned Carey!
I hear you are on your way down here - perhaps we can watch a game together and I can expand my horizons?
Apologies Partisans! for any confusion resulting from the preceding post. I must own up to being completely besotted with rugby league - and consequently incapable of thinking rationally while the love affair lasts.
Coach I would be honoured to walk you (in a headlock) through the socioecopolitical history of rugby league. I must warn you though, it requires the most attentive (and well lubricated) student to appreciate the delicate nuances of the great game.
For regular Rugby League updates check out "The Swinging Arm" - Australia's leading antidisestablishmentarianist rugby league periodical & the official journal of the Rugby League Institute of Technology.
http://www.slimknackers.com/tsa/index.htm
Coach - of special interest is a link to one of Australia's leading country rugby league clubs.
Snooker, I must question your ability to be a rugby supporter of any repute, as I fear my good man that you have a neck - thus disqualifying you from any association with the game!
Andrew, I've got one question for you mate. Would you rather watch the NRL footy show or the AFL footy show? (that could be two)
By the way, I've been putting on some serious "West End" muscle since moving to sin city.
To be honest, I've never watched the NRL footy show!!
Perhaps a new nickname? 'West-end mauler'!
Have you ever watched the AFL footy show?
This is not a trick question, but your answer is likely to incriminate you if it is in the affirmative.
I will defer to no less a TV authority than Pahbulous, who has gone on record (several times in several Hobart establishments after several beverages) in declaring the superiority of the NRL footy show.
Case closed.
I have never seen the NRL show - is it on here?
Also, I need some basic info to make a decision on which team I should support if I am to get involved in this comp.
At this stage:
- Manly has some family connections
- Melbourne appeals - not a traditional club - could fold in a week or two if support was withdrawn - remember Adelaide and Perth
- The North Queensland Cowboys come from a good climate
- The Warriors annoy Australians so they appeal too - just like Habajahn.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Coach, your knowledge of the game excuses you from suggesting that you might consider supporting the Collingwood of the NRL - Manly.
Am afraid this is not a possibility.
The Melbourne Storm, not a bad choice - great team, humble, great coach, inventors and perfectors of the "grapple tackle". Partial funding by News Ltd disqualifies them.
The Cows are sometime entertainers, with some great players, loyal supporters and are not Brisbane. Great coach, who while at the Roosters initiated an old school rethink about the game's priorities - have fun, get on the drink and enjoy your footy. Sadly he has been sacked.
You could go with the Warriors, although I should inform you that they don't really annoy people here. A few years ago they won people's hearts with the way they played football and that fondness still remains.
Alternatively you could support the Wests Tigers, who have the best home ground in the NRL that I've been to - Leichardt Oval. Any ground that serves chilled cans of beer from cut-off 44 gallon drums full of ice is going in the right direction.
However, after carefully considering all candidates, I feel there is only one sensible choice to make - the Eastern Suburbs Roosters. The Roosters have many things in common with Richmond. They endured a long premiership drought until supercoach Jack Gibson (the Terry Wallace of the NRL) took the helm. Taking them from a winless season into the finals in his first year.
Yes, Terry is a genius and is destined for premiership glory - now that Barry Hall has ruined the Swans chances.
Snooker, my resident NRL fan has described the Eastern Suburbs as "toffs" and likened them to the Melbourne footy club. Are you trying to lead me astray?
Coach, apologies for the delayed response. Have been thinking long and hard about a polite response to your NRL informant's assertions. Unfortunately I have failed in this endeavour. So here goes...
Your correspondent's consciousness has been severely compromised by the process of osmosis that occurs when you read, take seriously and remember, the half-baked observations of lazy journalists working for news outlets that prefer "good v. evil" battles and whose modus operandi is "if we haven't got a bad guy, we'll make one up".
In coupling that with this city's, indeed, the nation's, embarrassing infatuation with house prices and the location of the suburb within which you reside (augmented by an obsession with the creation and propagation of stereotypes), you end up with a convenient bit of history that helps to sell newspapers and gets people interested in rugby league.
If you need an example please refer to the latest edition of that bastion of bullshit, "The Swinging Arm"
Let me tell you, the re-branding of the Roosters by the media has, funnily enough, coincided with Manly's (formerly "the Silvertails") decline in fortunes.
In conclusion, I feel I've made a good case for your imminent inclusion as a life member.
By the way, the Roosters have by far the best guernsey, which actually resembles the traditional strip, unlike most of the competition, who either look like Port Power or one of those horrendous Hawthorn wizard cup outfits.
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