...than watch RL www.independent.co.uk/sport/gene ... 91809.html I always wonder if people actually watch our game ? Every footy/union fan I've taken to a game has always enjoyed it and I've even had some come back for more ? Granted he's generally sarcastic but it's always easier to deliver the truth under a humorous veil. Does anyone want to take this guy to a game and show him what a proper sport is ?

...than watch RL www.independent.co.uk/sport/gene ... 91809.html I always wonder if people actually watch our game ? Every footy/union fan I've taken to a game has always enjoyed it and I've even had some come back for more ? Granted he's generally sarcastic but it's always easier to deliver the truth under a humorous veil. Does anyone want to take this guy to a game and show him what a proper sport is ?

Quote ="Yed"...than watch RL www.independent.co.uk/sport/gene ... 91809.html I always wonder if people actually watch our game ? '" I could half understand if this was just some lower ranked journalist but this is the sports editor of the paper!!! He has also worked for a Barrow newspaper during his career and also a stint at the Sydney Sun Herald so you think he'd be more keen to the great game. In fairness the whole article is negative and pathetic really considering he is the editor!

Quote ="Yed"...than watch RL www.independent.co.uk/sport/gene ... 91809.html I always wonder if people actually watch our game ? '" I could half understand if this was just some lower ranked journalist but this is the sports editor of the paper!!! He has also worked for a Barrow newspaper during his career and also a stint at the Sydney Sun Herald so you think he'd be more keen to the great game. In fairness the whole article is negative and pathetic really considering he is the editor!

See Marto got the first comment in there. Well done, Sir.

Or have a whipround for a box of pins...

I'll happily shove the bloody things in if he wants , very poor journalism , is he attempting at humour in some strange way or just a genuine to55er ?

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