Jesus, what a shame that football ends up with most of them then.
football teams aren't famous for shitting in pint glasses or throwing piss on each other
Rugby for idiots
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football teams aren't famous for shitting in pint glasses or throwing piss on each other
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
as long as they're shitting in oor shoes and we're pissing in their bovril......
I can't say that I know of many teams where shitting in a glass is obligatory. To be honest I encountered the worst of the silly rituals at University - my clubs were too serious - and pretty much every sporting society at uni were as bad as each other.
And besides, everyone knows that pissing in the person in front's coat pocket is a football terrace tradition.
And besides, everyone knows that pissing in the person in front's coat pocket is a football terrace tradition.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Isn't rugby for idiots commonly called league?
(am i too late, has this joke been done?)
(am i too late, has this joke been done?)
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
you're a losser butchers
league ftw. quins rl (gag) top of the league,,,,,
league ftw. quins rl (gag) top of the league,,,,,
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
you know your jest jealous t.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
don't rub it in awright.
rapattaque
At fighting weight
Look at the logo for christsakes. I mean the Broncos may have been shit, but a bucking stallion trumps a mime ponce in a catsuit
alsoknownas
some bloke
Cheers, just seen this. Might give this a go, I've got family out that way.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
This monicker is borne out by the highly comedic comments of Brian Noble here
Bless him! The poor dab reckons league should be signing marquee players such as Brian O'Driscoll from Union for a whopping £50,000 salary per annum.
"Here's the plan. We get the warhead, and we hold the world ransom for.....One MILLION DOLLARS!!"
Err i think he meant that a marquee signing from union should only count as 50k against the cap, anything above that would not count. You dont actually think that noble thinks top union players earn less then 50k do you? cuz that would be daft.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i think, actually, that you might have just explained it much clearer than nobby did.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
Actually i think i got it the wrong way round. basically he is saying buy a union player and we add 50k to your salary cap. perhaps wigan should just stop letting locally developed players go and replacing them with aussies or at least replace them with some nice PNGers instead!
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
innit. i spent the afternoon with a friend from wigan and he was moaning about (1) how much local talent goes to waste and (2) how much they spend on paycheque aussies at the tailend of their careers.Actually i think i got it the wrong way round. basically he is saying buy a union player and we add 50k to your salary cap. perhaps wigan should just stop letting locally developed players go and replacing them with aussies or at least replace them with some nice PNGers instead!
but he is from wigan so he moans about everything really
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
innit. i spent the afternoon with a friend from wigan and he was moaning about (1) how much local talent goes to waste and (2) how much they spend on paycheque aussies at the tailend of their careers.
but he is from wigan so he moans about everything really
For gods sake whatever you do dont mention to the pie eater that the official superleague pie is now - peters pies! A welsh company who are the main sponsors of the Cardiff Blues. He might explode.
That's got to be the final insult for league now, surely. First union's got all the money to buy their best players (and reject them for not being good enough) and now a Welsh firm sells them their pies. It's a new world, and now union's selling them the crumbs off their table.
bendeus
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bendeus
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That's got to be the final insult for league now, surely. First union's got all the money to buy their best players (and reject them for not being good enough) and now a Welsh firm sells them their pies. It's a new world, and now union's selling them the crumbs off their table.
I know. You would have thought that between the Aussies and the northerners they'd have a decent pie development system of their own to bring through homegrown meat and pastry-based snacks rather than having to rush off to union, cap in hand, to try and poach our marquee pies.
I would imagine that that they're given lowly pies from Peter's basic pie range rather than the more prestigious Premier Pies. Doubt they could afford the latter anyway.
More seriously, it's pretty tragic that Noble thinks that league should bend its salary cap to try and get some marquee union names in to boost interest in league.
Which kind of neglects the fact that leading union players have no real incentive to join league now. It's a moribund game with far less international competition and recognition than union. And if the salary caps need to be loosened it's not union that'll suffer.
Which kind of neglects the fact that leading union players have no real incentive to join league now. It's a moribund game with far less international competition and recognition than union. And if the salary caps need to be loosened it's not union that'll suffer.
rapattaque
At fighting weight
Yes Brian Noble is an idiot. He's wrong. Union players have no incentive to join League because their is too much money in Union since they went professional (about a century too late
), and yes more international competition and media recognition. More importantly, the skills sets are too different and the only players who now cross over are League players who can't handle much longer in the more demanding sport. League should be taking a leaf out of Union's book for once, in as much as they should be pumping more money into academies and youth set ups and stop this reliance on foreign Antipodean. Ironically, Noble has one of the best youth set ups in League at Wigan at his disposal and has got rid of all the homegrown talent and brought in a shedload of Aussie journeymen. The mind boggles. He is a tool.
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Lucky for Noble, then, that the bloody SANZAR nations are doing their darndest to turn Union into League. Depowering scrums, keeping the ball 'in play' for longer and in so doing favouring a bunch of identikit lumps from 1-13 (sorry, 15).
Your moribund code may be safe yet.
Your moribund code may be safe yet.
rapattaque
At fighting weight
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
This is what is finally happening with Quins and other teams in the SE of england - apparently league is catching on fast amongst lots of the schools, the youth system is starting to produce and we have more home-grown/GB players than at any time I can remember (and would hazard a guess since the game has been played professionally in London).Yes Brian Noble is an idiot. He's wrong. Union players have no incentive to join League because their is too much money in Union since they went professional (about a century too late
Whereas Nobby is loading the pies with aussies and causing a great deal of dissatisfaction along with it. As well as losing the first 3 games straight.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
a better-attended top league than its Union counterpart. Odd how it refuses to die despite the repeated insistence of the adherents of the fat code that it's about to do so.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
blah blah blah. Maybe you want to take a punt on Frank Keatings bet that league would be dead within 5 years - oh yeah that was 7 years ago. Nevermind.
League will be alright, thanks for your concern though.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
And one that has just expanded its top league to 14 whilst the guiness premiership (which i actually like watching, or did when wasps where going well.) contemplates a reduction. Also we will play a superleague game or two in five countries up from, in pretty short order, one. Not too bad for a moribund sport.
Anyways all i know is that i get to watch wales, the cardiff blues and the mighty celtic crusaders all within half an hour of where i live, so im happy enough anyway.
Bollocks, I've never implied that at all. But good seeing such a defensive reaction, with more than a whiff of desperation in pointing to the '5 country' superleague. Snigger.
If people don't like folks pointing out league's flaws and lack of decent international game, then it's probably best that the usual suspects don't pop up inanely going 'league ftw' every time there's a union thread.
