Parra's my favorite W.A. team

When I was in england I had a massive collection of NRL shirts (I sold them all before I moved to Sydney), and heres the reason why, when I was a young kid my local shop used to rent out the Aussie games, he must have had a mate who sent him them or something. So I grew up watching the Aussie RL and back then I always wanted to wear the shirts of te teams, now this was near impossible as you couldnt get them in England, so when I got older had my own money and they were freely available I made up for my youth and started collecting them



My wife never understood neither!

when you came over . did you have 2nd thoughts of going back to england

No not really but I'm sure Ill get homesick, for all it's bad points England is still my home.

some love it down here . some dont . it all depends i soppose

I think we need to stop this immigration Changa.

There seems to be too many poms allowed in

Somebodies got to bring some sophistication and culture to the heathen lands!

I don't support any NRL clubs because they're in Australia and I'm in England and it seems a bit daft to support a club 12,000 miles away. Makes for a hefty away bill anyway.

However, I do keep a lookout for how the Eels are doing because my fave (former) Saints coach is now in charge there and I've been keeping everything crossed that he makes a success of things in his new place.

And too many aussies allowed out - stop emigratiion

I reckon it has a lot to do with Super League ties. For example, I'm a Rhinos fan and I started following Brsibane when Toni Carroll joined them, then I saw how good Lockyer is and carried on supporting them coz of him!

I've spoke to other Rhinos fans about this and a lot follow the Eels coz they have the same colours and a lot follow the Cowboys coz Graham Murray coached there recently and he is a bit of a legend in Leeds after coaching us to Challenge Cup victory.

It also helps that (as much as I hate to admit it) the NRL is the best RL in the world, hence the State of Origin's large following over here.

So do any Aussies follow Super League teams?

FINALLY!!!

A sensible pom!!!


I salute your wise words sir

*thumbs up icon*

I'm only 25 but i am honored to have been able to watch airmailed videos of ARL games and being amazed by Newcastle's big game players; Harrogan, Johns, Glanville and later Buderus when the NRL was on SKY.
I also know the great Les Johns.
I own a Newcastle Jersey from around 1990 as well. Too nice NOT to wear.
Long live the Rebels!

I am a Loiner an Leeds are my home town team!

i always liked halifax

I admitted that the NRL was the best 2 pages ago .

Most English fans will tell you the same . We don't pretend that SL is perfect .

Why does one need to be better than the other? If you're a real RL fan can't you watch and appreciate both? I know plenty of soccer fans that watch English, Spanish, Italian and German games without having to bicker about which is better, it's the same sport which you should either like or dislike regardless of the country or standard of play.

A person after my own heart

having spent a year in australia, 6 months in manly i used to go and watch them back in 1997 there was'nt doing that good but will always remember beating the broncos on a friday night...as for the nrl shirts a while back a started collecting at least one shirt from every team its costing me a fortune but im to far into it now to stop.....

was cliffy lyons playing for the manly sea eagles when you saw them live. manly won the grand final in 1996

why did you leave our great land of aus

if i remember right cliffy lyons was brought back into the team later into the season . i remember drinking in the styne and cliffy,beaver, and geoff toovey was in there and i thought they was superstars (very good blokes and a good laugh)....the only reason i left was i could tell something big was happening at my hull kingston rovers and could'nt miss out.....only kidding i only had a year visa and it was up...for what its worth best yr of my life

great user name

u come back

hope to go back to aus at some point

to live or holiday

I like watching St George, Newcastle, Parramatta and Gold Coast.

I find Cronulla (Sorry Barry McKenzie)

, Penrith, New Zealand Warriors, Melbourne boring to watch and not bothered about the rest.