www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/o ... 6236785563 Quote Rugby league is not a sport, it's an atrocity'" Read this, but if you get angry quickly, don't read. Union scumbag.

www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/o ... 6236785563 Quote Rugby league is not a sport, it's an atrocity'" Read this, but if you get angry quickly, don't read. Union scumbag.

The final paragraph is superb though, where it explains who the writer is!

Sounds like half a dozen Sl fans off this MB when talking about RU.
Still,it wont do the game any harm in aus.

The thing is garbage and the DT knows it and should not have allowed it through.

What's up Dailytelecrap, Cricket season not giving you enough hits on your website?

There’s no need to stoop as low as he has done by resorting to name calling.

The bottom line is these are the ramblings of someone who’s clearly out to provoke some kind of negative reaction. Although sometimes this can be a good thing because now we can all turn this into some kind of positive.

Paul Pottinger in this article misrepresents the good relationship rugby league has built up with rugby union in recent times. For Example Leeds Rhinos ground share with Leeds Tykes, Salford could be ground sharing with Sale Sharks and London Bronco’s used to ground share with Harlequins. Heck we even they was even a rugby union journalist (Tim Groves) in the last issue of forty-20.

Of course my favourite collaboration between rugby league and rugby union was Leeds Rhinos sharing a training session with England RU in 2005.

Finally I’d like to think that the majority of those good intentioned souls that support either code would like to see both codes grow. If we both grow then that’s better for everyone all round because it means more fun and a better way of life for more people as jobs will be created on the back of that growth.

However having said all that we can still not excuse the real atrocities that rugby union has afflicted on our code. For example French Rugby Union should share it’s current prosperity with French Rugby League in an attempt to try and make up for all the damage that was done in the past by bad intentioned RU officials.

Final paragraph says it all

I'm not sure what to make of it, other than "he doth protest too much" in his dislike. It certainly hasn't made me angry.

Is he comparing RL to anything? Not as far as I can tell.

And in any case "These run in strict linear patterns until a mistake is made and one lot falls over the other's line. For this points are awarded" seems way better than "lots of fat men roll on the floor and tread on each other until the ball appears and someone kicks it. For this points are often awarded and the final scores of the game are usually divisible by 3" (see we can all be "amusing"icon_wink.gif if union is his game.

I suspect he's been on the industrial beer...

Is it meant to be a protest at the inescapability of the sport, such is scale of the coverage it receives?

Perhaps Paul should consider moving to the UK. Not one of the grimy northern towns, full of provincial oafs, obviously.

He's proper hung-up on short man syndrome. I see from his carsguide profile pic, that he's a bald, bespectacled, rather geeky-looking gentleman (is that cyber-stalking? ). Presumably tallness is central to his sense of self worth. Keep at it lanky - you'll be a cacker Aussie version of Jeremy Clarkson in no time.

I thought it was kind of funny. The author obviously has something wrong with him.

I found it blinkin hilarious tbh, not angry at all. Guy just wants to get hits and he's so well talked about we're talking in England so for him it's job done

This is the opinion of one tool,like Clarkson,it shouldn`t be taken too seriously.

Clarkson's funny though: most of the public sector should get off their ar$es and try doing a proper job and then complain when they have to fund their own pension and future completely on struggling businesses and whatnot. This guy here just had nothing better to do on his weekend.

So teaching and nursing are not proper jobs? I think public workers should get better pensions because they generally dont get paid well enough for the work they do and should be compensated in later life!!

For the record I work in the private sector!!

Back to the article, the guys a tool and is just trying to get a reaction!

Like Jeremy Clarkson, his main job is knocking one out over a car - a kind of una-dogger. (Why is it that bus/train/plane spotters are derided, but car spotters get their own magazines and TV shows?) Also like Jeremy Clarkson, he can be safely ignored.

Above description on Union edited for accuracy

Haha , a anti Superleague diatribe written not by a Sports Journalist but by Swiss Tony

Bitter and deluded or what? I nearly split my sides.

Ironically, (and despite the 'off-season silence' that Pottinger claims), the 'highlight' links at the bottom of that page have NRL placed second only to 'top stories' and ahead of all other sport.

I'm relishing the thought that it's only a few weeks before Pottinger has to endure the misery of another NRL season.

Angry and twisted ramblings of someone who doesnt know what they are talking about! How has an article like that been allowed in a national newspaper!!? It's not news or information, or to spark a debate. It's just someone nobody cares about writing an over the top article on their opinion on rugby league. Complete waste of time.

It is not very funny although i believe it is written as a humourous piece. The bit that angers me is the bit about the first World War and what i regard as a slander that RL players did not do their bit. He obviously did not know about these players and i bet their are plenty of Aussies and Kiwis who could be included as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougie_Clark www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/k-vic ... rrison.htm

It is not very funny although i believe it is written as a humourous piece. The bit that angers me is the bit about the first World War and what i regard as a slander that RL players did not do their bit. He obviously did not know about these players and i bet their are plenty of Aussies and Kiwis who could be included as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougie_Clark www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/k-vic ... rrison.htm

I am doing a study on Warrington players who died in the Great War. One is a lad called Johnno Stuntz, who was an Aussie, who joined up in March, 1916, and died on 3.5.17, in the Second Battle of Bullecourt. Johnno didnt have to join up. His father had a German heritage, his mother was Irish, he was married and he was in a reserved occupation (NSW Fire Brigade). He played for Wire in 1909-10 and then went home to play for Easts, Wests, and Souths. If anyone had a good excuse not to join up it was him.
His death was on his first day of action.
This idiot forgets (or neglects to say) that RL players from Aus did volunteer and lose their lives, and that Anzac Day is not reserved for Aussies, there's quite a few Kiwis involved too.
If the paper didn't agree with this clowns opinion, then why publish it?

Shit newspaper prints article, where's the surprise?

I got some joy out of that.

Rugby League isn't just a game for the East of Aus, one city in NZ and grimy northern English towns anymore. Rustic French villages are now on the list!

See, expansion IS working! Even the unionites accept it!

On a messageboard. So a simply ridiculous, stupid comparison.

He says"obnoxious, flatulent, and prone to publicly displaying its genitals" as if it's a bad thing. I personally find his attitude to my life style quite offensive.

The bloke who wrote the article doesn't follow rl but felt the need to write a load of rubbish, just the same as the numpties on here who write crap about ru but profess not to watch or know anything about the game,so the comparison is fair.