RUGBY LEAGUE – A SYNONYM FOR ABSURD
May 16th 2008 06:21
The term piss up in a brewery resonates strongly with the NRL, sure the judiciary system seems like it works and they may get some other small incidentals right, but how can you balls up a motorcade at a football match?! It is indicative of a sport that should be nothing more than an amateur affair for meatheads. They play an international match at the apparent ‘home’ of Rugby League, the game is to celebrate 100 years of the competition, the team of the century is there, and all they can muster is 37,000 people…and that is better than expected. How is it that they fill the stands on Grand Final day? Surely they must give tickets away?!
The fact that the SCG is the home of Rugby League is a ridiculous, having scarcely seen a game in the last twenty years and now only hosting AFL and cricket. It is either the home and you play there, or you forget about it and make your home somewhere else. That they see nothing strange about this is as strange as the willingness to allow players to change allegiance mid season but remain playing at the original team. It simply staggers the imagination!
It is no wonder that State of Origin remains the holy grail of Rugby League, if a player can play a large proportion of a season, if not all of it, knowing he will be competing against his current side the following season, it is evident that the player is about self rather than team, and a rep Guernsey to push up the price tag up for the next prospective suitor is more of a concern than any potential injury that could come from the game.
This is not bitterness at Israel Folau’s decision to return to Brisbane, although I am bitter, the working class North of the Murray need to know there place, and that place is the third rung (at best) of the football codes in Australia, if the AFL is worried about soccer, the NRL must be lowering the lifeboats. I don’t mind watching League, I often quite enjoy it particularly with the Storm’s continued success, but I am a scathing soul. Enjoyment of idiotic things being belittled is probably not going to serve me well in the next life, but for now the idea of a big AFL club, buying an Israel Folau as a 17 year old, putting him on massive coin, and training him up in the same way that the Irish experiment is conducted, just to show Rugby League how simplistic and insignificant there sport is compared to the mighty Aussie Rules gives my heart such complete warmth. Having said all of this though, Origin is nearly here…come on Channel 9, live into Melbourne please…just make sure those idiots who do the pre-game aren’t there. There is zero reason for them to be heard prattling on about how glorious there game is, it simply is not!
The fact that the SCG is the home of Rugby League is a ridiculous, having scarcely seen a game in the last twenty years and now only hosting AFL and cricket. It is either the home and you play there, or you forget about it and make your home somewhere else. That they see nothing strange about this is as strange as the willingness to allow players to change allegiance mid season but remain playing at the original team. It simply staggers the imagination!
It is no wonder that State of Origin remains the holy grail of Rugby League, if a player can play a large proportion of a season, if not all of it, knowing he will be competing against his current side the following season, it is evident that the player is about self rather than team, and a rep Guernsey to push up the price tag up for the next prospective suitor is more of a concern than any potential injury that could come from the game.
This is not bitterness at Israel Folau’s decision to return to Brisbane, although I am bitter, the working class North of the Murray need to know there place, and that place is the third rung (at best) of the football codes in Australia, if the AFL is worried about soccer, the NRL must be lowering the lifeboats. I don’t mind watching League, I often quite enjoy it particularly with the Storm’s continued success, but I am a scathing soul. Enjoyment of idiotic things being belittled is probably not going to serve me well in the next life, but for now the idea of a big AFL club, buying an Israel Folau as a 17 year old, putting him on massive coin, and training him up in the same way that the Irish experiment is conducted, just to show Rugby League how simplistic and insignificant there sport is compared to the mighty Aussie Rules gives my heart such complete warmth. Having said all of this though, Origin is nearly here…come on Channel 9, live into Melbourne please…just make sure those idiots who do the pre-game aren’t there. There is zero reason for them to be heard prattling on about how glorious there game is, it simply is not!
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