I seriously wish people would stop saying that he is the only openly gay athlete in the world. He really isn't. For god sakes, there's another openly gay player in his old sport.

Look u Ma'a Nonu.

You're obviously from Wigan with an education like that.

Your comment was no better than dally's to be fair. You are still angry that your fans abused him and came out of it in a bad light? Through absolutely no fault of his own you are still whingeing about your club being fined last year.

is women's tennis no longer a professional sport then?

im smart enough to spell too you twit

That is a grammatical error, not a spelling mistake – ironically, the same as your 'im' which should be I’m

Stones and glass houses?

Schoolboy error!

Methinks Dally was taking the rise?

thanks for that reply, its in accordance with recent contributions on here, good work

i dont care who gareth thomas sleeps with.

if a RL player is on a high profile show and doesnt use it as a chance to promote the sport and indeed just spends time talking about himself then hes nothing in my eyes

at least mention how much hes enjoying hes new sport and promote it.

where he sticks his ding dong is something i couldnt give 2 s***ts about

First of all, at risk of sounding like a play ground fight, if you check the thread you will find that you started the ‘contributions’ around spelling errors – I was simply trying to help you understand the differences between spelling and grammar. I guess I’m just a helpful soul

Back to topic. We cannot expect Gareth Thomas to promote the game of Rugby League on national TV in the US – perhaps we would if it was a UK programme but the vast vast majority of the US public don’t know there are two forms of rugby (in fact the vast majority probably only have a remote idea what rugby is at all)

I’m sure that the producers would have loved it if Gareth started the interview with... “Well Ellen, in 1895 the Northern clubs met at the George Hotel in Huddersfield to discuss the emotive topic of broken time payments to players etc etc etc”

When I go and visit my Italian in laws, they know I enjoy rugby so they mention the six Nations/RU World Cup and so on – I don’t bother trying to correct them that they are not talking about the right form of rugby because (here is the important bit) they don’t know and don’t care, they are just being nice! (my wife of course knows all about the differences because I bang on about it all the time... but that’s her fault for marrying me)

You really should just try and calm down a little

Surely 'coming out' is a bit retro now? Ok it was clearly hard for the guy but in honesty jumping at every ounce of publicity (Inc OTT aftermath from Cas game) does more to harm 'equality' then the chants themselves IMO.

what i find amusing is the minute anyone criticises thomas its assumed to be because he is gay.

Crowe never misses an opportunity!

HE could have said. well I play the toughest sport in the world, imagine AF without pads, very few rests and constant hitting. He could have talked the game up in a way the Americans would have been interested in, even let the show know before hand so they could have had a compilation clips of big RL hits. I am pretty sure the audience would have been intrigued to know that a gay man plays the hardest game in the world, expelling many myths about gay men. What did he talk about?

Wow – that's some achievement, to find an accusation of being anti-gay in the post you quoted. Is there something you're keeping, so to speak, in the closet?

not in the post i quoted

on page 1, heck someone even asked me if i was from cas, which is definately a reference to those homophobic taunts

i dont have much issues with them tbh.

You could have a very valid point there. Apart from the fact that gay people tend to recognise one anothers sexuality by typing almost exclusively in lower case there are some other tell tale signs about in his other posts.

I'm getting a whiff of 'jilted former gay lover' in this one.

don;t forget this clear indicator

I see dally messenger continues to contribute to reasoned debate on these boards..........his recent conviction for Drink Driving (which he seems proud of in another thread) seems to have given him more time to join in and derail debate over the appearance of a current RL player on American TV.
For those who are unfamiliar with dally messengers pedigree....his abusive post with the comment "f**k him" had nothing to do with which way GT bats.....and everything to do with the fact that GT was a union player.....dally messenger does not have any time for anyone who dares watch, speak of, read reports of or even mistakenly turn over channels and glimpsed3 seconds of Union.
He is very knowledgeable with regard to Gridiron though....he thinks the up'n'under/bomb/short high kick and chase is a tactic that Australian RL players adapted from American Football



Back on thread......Ellen is a openly gay TV celebrity and stand up..........she has no interest in RL/RU and neither to the demographic of her audience......but "social issues" like this one, which is close to her heart are of interest to this audience. As for Russell Crowe.....he OWNS a club that is a major sport in Australia......he doesn't play for one. Of course he will try to grow the game.....GT is picking up a couple of years salary at the end of his career......he is interested in his fitness and maybe the growth of the game in Wales.

true its his rugby union background thats more of an issue to me

well done nutters, all your stalking of my posts had lead to an excellent understanding of me.

your parents would be proud

he should be talking at least a little bit about how much he is enjoying RL. what a better sport it is

clever post.

who typed it out for you?

as is often said by you...get over it. The obsession with Union and AFL you have is borderline straightjacket stuff.


What you call stalking I call simply watching you because you f&*k up so many times it's funny...


Nothing to do with them.......more to do with my 6 years in boarding school playing union and being educated as welll as being taught how to be tolerant of others opinions. This enabled me to make the decision myself that I believe league is the better game of the 2 rugby codes, whilst not developing an unhealthy hatred of the other code.


...says who? A keyboard warrior like you

He was on the show because he is a heavy contact sportsman who is openly gay......your average american wouldn't care.

Who cares what Crowe says on an American talk show....seriously? The NRL is full of pacifica talent, SL is full of over the hill Australians and yet just because an OK actor blows the bunnies trumpet to talk show host some people think it will be the start of a RL explosion stateside.....it won't!

On the point of endorsements....I have a bit of bad news for the Australian Tourist Bods that thought Oprah would be good for the tourism in Australia....in fact, a few bits of bad news.
Of Oprahs audience that flew to Australia.....78% had to apply for their first passports to make the trip.....4% more then the number of Americans that don't have a passport (74%). Of the 26% of nationals that do have a passport........72% do so because they are employed by the Government....ie, Armed forces etc.....
Lastly...and I know this might be a tough one to grasp....just because Australia is bucking the trend and has a strong economy....the rest of the world is pretty much buggered.........and at the front of that lot> The God Old U S of A......

when i say get over it i mean stop stalking me every time i post

why should i change my views

RU is evil, AFL is just a sport that lies
i cant wait to see the NRL crush these rivals, as justice for the rubbish weve put up with for 15 years