Personally no. I'd prefer to keep him well supplied with pins.

having read the article i think both apply here.
and i echo your thoughts, also 'If you're not too busy taking pop bottles back for your 20p refund' seems to me to be a bit of stereotyped northerner bashing. bigoted and possibly also rather offensive.
not to mention he seems to have slipped in a dig at Ronnie O'Sullivan regarding cocaine use. which is very much out of order i feel.
considering he is the editor and the independent is ostensibly a 'proper' newspaper, thats p**s poor.

I can't believe you people take stuff so seriously.









It may come as a surprise to many of you that some people say a lot of things just for effect and it pleases them when they get a bite.

Fancy that eh?

Who would have thought such things happen?

im not going to bite onto your last two lines

im wise to your ironic game there

He takes a swipe at other sports also. He's talking about a launch of a low-grade RL competition; not a match - but a launch. Pass me the pins too - I'll heat 'em up on my ye olde stove and insert them into my eyes too. Mind you, the NRC did give Widnes the opportunity for Super League entry so it"s not totally insignificant.

yeah they're called trolls and are generally despised as people who need to get a life. Well done for recognising what you are. Now go get a life.

As for padgett, well a rather try hard bit of fluff, i think it's right to expect a little more from a sports editor. It reads like a first effort from some junior hack.

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Marc padgett would rather stick pins in his eyes than watch Rugby League? I'd rather watch Rugby Union (god help me!) rather than read any more of his sanctimonious, supercilious drivel. Respect where respect is due - I wouldn't wipe my dogs backside on his crappy column.

Can't you see thats exactly the sort of response he is after?!





I'm sure you won't be the only one he has 'reeled in' with his comments.

I'm also sure that he will be forwarding a selection of the best emails recieved around his colleagues who will also be having a good giggle at the way people such as yourself responded to an article that was designed to attract negative comments.

If he is really switched on he will also be signing your email account up to every gay porno site he can find.

Hope your spam filter is a good one.

I do worry about some posters on these boards. Marc Padgett was clearly taking the mickey...he hit Tennis, Snooker, Soccer....and his comment about returning 'pop" bottles was just using a social stereotype that Peter Kay launched his career with.......one of his first stand up routines included a monologue about bottles of "pop". Northerners drink "pop".....and guess what Code of Rugby you like?

Guess what.....Union isn't safe either.......from 2008
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...and neither is cricket, tennis again and Englands pi55 poor soccer team.

You may not like his humour, but FFS........that's all it is. It's not an IRB conspiracy

I trust all those offended people will turn out in support at some NRC matches this year?

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Typical southerner , crap comics as well

Agreed....But Marc Padgett is from Blackpool..

So why a picture of Jim Davidson ?

...and he's a Tory......


Still only paying 25% tax over here......recession? What recession

There’s no pressure for Marc Padgett to be churning out top notch articles you see. A majority of people who leave university with a journalism degree are more often than not put on internships to prop up the likes of Marc Padgett. Rumours were also rife last year that it was Huddersfield University students writing up Chris Irvine’s blog.

This is the way most industrys work in this country unfortunately. There’s a group of old timers at the top that won’t be moved until retirement no matter how bad their get. Marc Padgett doesn’t care about giving fans of sport something good to read and talk about. All he cares about is lining his pocket if this article if anything to go by.

Imagine if you put these university students in the same position as Marc Padgett and I bet on my last penny that he wouldn’t be writing something like that because he now has competition. Unfortunately he’ll carry on churning out garbage because I can’t see the exploitation of potential stopping anytime soon.

Catholic Church being a good example


I take it from the typos you "had a good night" Damo-Leeds

It’s not exactly a revelation that I make typos.

Catholic Church....revelations.....I see what you did there...clever


Seriously........Marc Padgett tries to write funny stuff....the fact that he fails doesn't warrant a thread on the VT. As for Older people getting younger people to do all the work.......that is not a relevation either.....just a fact of life. I think that's why you'll find most SL club chairmen aren't 14yrs old

Oh absolutely I can see where he's coming from. A bit of a jape, get a few bites and lose your paper some of it's readers. Makes perfect sense.

seriously

Did you type that...re-read it and then press submit



yeah...I am sure SKY have lost the majority of their female subscribers (or at least the ones who know the offside rule) as a result of the recent japes about the female refs assistant


He jokes about ALL sports.........are you saying that because he had a pop at a NRC game that League Supporters all over the country should stop buying his paper........what about the Tennis fans...should they stop buying it because he had a go at them too.........grow some skin FFS.....it was a joke...a shi7 one, but still a joke

You come up with some good points here.

First of all, most SL chairmen aren’t young people because the only young people that tend to be wealthy enough to run a sports club is someone who has inherited a lot of wealth. You’re not get many young people who have inherited wealth running super league clubs because rugby is mainly supported by the working classes. I’m assuming that most super league clubs are owned by people who come from similar backgrounds as those who support the game, but have got wealthy as they got older. So that’s that one cleared then.

Now onto journalism, Is it really fair that Marc Padgett gets the platform of one of the biggest newspapers in the country whilst everyone else has to make do with blogspot?

There’s probably better sports writers out there that are getting 2 to 3 reads whilst he gets thousands of people reading his despite it been garbage. It should be the best writers that write for these institutions and not those who just happen to know the right people. Like I said it’s a group of old timers at the top that won’t be moved until retirement no matter how bad their get.

To round this off, this article does warrant airtime on the virtual terrace because it has rugby league relevance in it. Yeah he might be trying to be funny, but the thing is he doesn’t need to try any harder because his position is safe as long as he’s drinking tea with the paymasters at the independent.

I know...but thanks anyway




No....I admit that some wealth takes time and some is inherited...but there is also another group of younger millionaires who have earnt their wealth. Then of course there are the drug barons who run entire estates...these captains of industry are not usually old......they don't get a chance to get old





so.....even if a working class man makes good........he dies, leaves his 20 yr old son billions....RL will miss out because the son has become middle class......we may as well up sticks now




Please explain how they could of got wealthy as they got YOUNGER ( in fact don't...that's a whole other thread entirely)


....maybe for you.....


Yes..it's perk of his job. Envy is not a valid excuse to have a go at someone....

...you are steering away from percieved facts into subjection here....


....now knee deep in subjection

...drowning in subjectiveness now...

I have never agreed with the author dammo-leeds...I purely pointed out how petty some RL fans are......it was a joke for gods sake......get over it.

Please find me one person who has inherited billions at 20 years old and is a chairman of a super league club. You accuse some rugby league fans of been petty, but you’ve probably just used the pettiest and most unrealistic example on this thread.

I’d like to think that I’ve conducted myself well on this thread, whilst you’ve done everything in your power to make a mockery of what I’ve wrote and with what – a 20 year old billionaire chairman that doesn’t come close to existing in super league.



And where are these drug barons in super league and sports journalism?

Yes they might be drug barons that may supply drugs to players, but this isn’t the point and is just a tangent of yours to divert the point that I’m making.

Where are these Younger millionaires in super league and sports journalism?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t these younger millionaires, millionaires because they wanted to make that kind of money? There certainly aren’t millionaires because they’ve done sports journalism and become super league chairmen.

You know what I’m talking about, but you just carry on going on in a tangent in a lame attempt to divert the general point that I’m making.



If anything is the joke here, then it’s you for bringing in the 20 year old billionaire. I acknowledge that we’ve probably taken each other’s points out of context just to argue our points. However I still stick to what I originally said about Marc Padgett and the sports journalism industry and others like it. You’ll probably never agree with me, but messenger boards wasn’t made for people to have the same agreements.

Yes, I acknowledge that this was a joke by Marc Padgett, but there are some people who are passionate about rugby league and we want our sport presented better in the media. If you think that is petty then that is your choice. But we think that Marc Padgett is petty for publishing dribble like that on shall we let’s say one of the better platforms in this country to air your opinions on to a crowd.