As SL is looking likely to be away for some time thankfully the NRL will be back soon. I have watched every so often the last few years but gonna try pick a team to follow, who do you all follow? Any recommendations? The raiders obviously have an English contingent?

It's been Manly for me for years, after after watching a couple of games at Brookvale and away in Brisbane. Just personal choice though.

Manly because I've been to Brookvale and South Sydney because I bumped in to Luke Burgess at the their training ground at Redfern

I've always been a shark.

I’ve watched a lot of NRL but never as a supporter of a team. I let the kids pick so my son and their mum are following the raiders and me and my daughter are following the sharks as that’s who Ava played for!!

I would be surprised if the NRL resumes in May.

i normally follow the sides where the brit players are so naturally Canberra at the minute. i was fond of Roosters when Moz was there and Wests when Gaz Ellis went and both sides did well too at those times. Souths too with Burgess bros. when i was a kid i liked Parramatta because they played in our colours

May 28th has been the date for a while so i see no reason why it will not start then

I’ve been to see the Tigers and Chooks, so it’s one of those. I’d have to say Chooks as Moz went there and so did Muzza.

Manly, have a word with yourselves, haven’t you ever heard of Craig Innes...

Tigers for us, Benji Marshall initially got us supporting them and then we found out our Aussie relatives support them too .
On a plus note for them when my youngest was getting grief off his mum to play football instead of rugby years ago, I emailed them asking if they could help with a signed Benji picture , I didn't expect anything but weeks later the picture arrived with a card signed by most of the team (yes I know probably printed but you get the point ) . He still has the picture and card on his bedroom wall , he was allowed to chose which sport he preferred , picked rugby and he's doing pretty good .

As far as I can see that side of the world is fairing much better than ours with Covid-19. I'm not sure under what stipulations they were told to target May 28th so hard to argue either way really.

I couldnt support any other RL team. Id pick Patramatta if i had to pick a NRL team tho. Same colours as Leeds

Parammatta for me. Peter Sterling is one of my all time favourites. Also have a soft spot for the Bunnies because I lived in Redfern for a while. Doesn't really matter though. Lucky dip it. Just hope you don't get the Titans

Whichever team has flu vaxed all their players by the look of it!

Newcastle for me. Old mate of my Dad is from there. Got me into em as a kid when he flew over and brought me a shirt.

Was going to put my two-penneth forward. But, as it happens, it would have been word-for-word this. Even to the Parramatta bit! We must be twins!

I must admit when I replied to this thread I and said Manly would be my aus. team. I failed to mention that I bought a Parramatta shirt at the RL and AFL store on Darlinghurst road, because of the colours.

Warriors. For the simple fact they aren't Aussies!

Anyone but f******g Melbourne (or f******g Brisbane).

Parra!

It seems a lot of us are Parra fans because of the colours, me too. However when i was in Sydney, Paramata was a long train ride away so I tended to go to the Manly home games as a day out at Manly beach was always a pleasure and they had Cliff Lyons playiong for them too. When Manly were away I used to go to whatever took my fancy and managed to get to many of the grounds, some of which don't even exist any more, in fact some of the clubs don't exist either. So while i favor Paramata I don't really care.
Sorry for waffling, lockdown is starting to scramble my brain

Doggies bro.

Manly Sea Eagles

Team most like Leeds in NRL

Everyone hates them

Fantastic

Manly are hated for a reason.
Leeds are hated through jealousy.

Big difference; they are the baddies.

I got an inaugural Gold Coast Jersey as Mathers signed for them. I wore it yesterday actually.