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

Well said dally,I for one will be celebrating big time when this happens,f..k them all.

It wasn't that clever.

A clever person would [unever[/u have used a semicolon where an apostrophe is clearly the correct punctuation mark to use when you are indicating the omission of one or more letters or a grammatical case used to indicate a relationship of possession.

I love the attitude of, well he isn't doing anything for us, so him.

The fact that you hate union so much is also hillarious. If you actually were open to the idea of being able to watch both codes without prejudice, you might find yourself with more supporters. But instead you seem to enjoy insulting Union as often as possible. Pssst, heads up, Union fans couldn't give a toss whether you like them or not. The sport is doing just fine without you, could you say league is doing the same.

So, here's how it goes. A professional in a minority sport, one not played to any extent in the USA, is invited onto a chat programme hosted by a big US TV star, a gay female, and asked to talk about his experiences coming out as gay. So Thomas says ' no way - I'll only come on US TV if I'm allowed to spend at least half my time promoting Rugby League'.

I'm sure Ellen's producers would have gone for that in a flash.

Just a pity that NBA is even more boring than wendyball.

i grew up watching both union and league

league got better, union got worse

and loads of rl fans hate ru.

there was a poll on another website and 50% of rl fans said they hated union

its only natural for many rl fans to hate union given the history

where i live, union isnt doing fine, its getting crushed

the way things are going the nrl is going to do a fair job of relegating union in australia and nz to an afterthought

I just can't understand why so many League fans are so accomodating with union. Those gits ban our game for 100yrs, try to wipe us out, then declare they are professional and all is forgiven? Not a chance, wipe em out I say, by fair means!!




Oh, did someone say Gareth Thomas is gay? How much cash is he going to make out of his sexuality?

Likewise mate.
I have been affected by the union bigots in the past and now according to some RL fans on here it's time to forgive and forget,not a chance in hell.

Pretty much sums you up dally messenger.......what happens on websites and in Australia is everything to you......which website was it BTW? Do they receive a gazzillion hits a day?


This is again where you show yourself up as being a total idiot. The only people capapble of relegating union to an afterthought in New Zealand are the NZRFU themselves........you fail to comprehend that the only reason the Warriors get decent gates is because they are based in the part of the country with the highest Maori/Pacifica population.........Rugby Union is the National Sport of New Zealand...there are 5 S15 Teams.....14 ITM cup teams...the All Blacks are the most recognised Rugby Brand on the global stage.......but you continue to post bollox regarding League Dominating Union over here......you know nothing.
I meet once a month with the people who KNOW what the plan is.......I am fully aware of where RL is heading in NZ and it really has no interest in domination of a sport that is 500%+ bigger than it.

The NRL is doing nothing in NZ by the way......if they wanted to attract more fans and money to the game they would have the Wellington Orcas in NOW....but that would only go to highlight the lack of depth in their competition.........NZRL is a seperate organisation and I believe that with decent funding/backing, the national competition here could start to attract some decent talent back home.....who needs the NRL when we have the talent pool here? Over 40% of the current NRL rosters qualify for NZ......not bad considering...and a decent backer/TV deal would see a fair few of them "come home".

What Union has done to league in the past shouldn’t be forgotten, but it’s time that we forgive the Rugby Union establishment of today for what its ancestors did. I highly doubt that anyone is still around from 100 years ago who sanctioned such outrageous bans of our game. There’s probably the odd Union Bigots about today, but I’d like to think that a majority of rugby union fans are a civilised bunch who watch the game because they were bought up on it.

I don’t think you’ll find many Union fans that make a conscious decision to choose Union over league because of what happened over one hundred years ago. Likewise I didn’t start supporting League because some old man stopped me in the street rambling on about Northern Pride and how the evil southerners want to get one over us.

However we must not let this get in the way of the fact that Union is in debt to rugby league – mainly the damage that was done in France. I do wonder if there’s ever been an official apology from a rugby union establishment on the behalf of what was done in the past?

Either way, I’m sorry for the union bigotry that you’ve come across in your life. I’m sure that all league fans are salt of the earth, friendly and have no airs or graces. This reminds me of going to house party on my estate where every bashes Asians because they’ve had a bad experience of a few people who happen to be Asian.

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Funny

but distubingly near the mark

100 years ago? Those decisions were still being made just before they "turned" professional. Do you know there are still lads about with LIFE bans, preventing them from playing Union? The crime was of course having the nerve to play league!!

So sorry, the 100yrs ago argument is total and utter crap