That's what you get when you treat the offence with kid gloves.

That's awful,feel sorry for the lad.
I wonder what excuse the union authorities will come up with this time though,whoever did this should be banned from playing ANY sport for life and hopefully the lad will press charges against this coward and he will be locked up for some considerable time.

Quote ="cjhatesunion"That's awful,feel sorry for the lad. I wonder what excuse the union authorities will come up with this time though,whoever did this should be banned from playing ANY sport for life and hopefully the lad will press charges against this coward and he will be locked up for some considerable time.'" Not so fast young CJ. There are always 2 sides to every story..... www.southwalesargus.co.uk/sport/ ... ye_horror/ Lets not string him up from the nearest tree before we know the full facts

Quote ="cjhatesunion"That's awful,feel sorry for the lad. I wonder what excuse the union authorities will come up with this time though,whoever did this should be banned from playing ANY sport for life and hopefully the lad will press charges against this coward and he will be locked up for some considerable time.'" Not so fast young CJ. There are always 2 sides to every story..... www.southwalesargus.co.uk/sport/ ... ye_horror/ Lets not string him up from the nearest tree before we know the full facts

Quote ="Barry_McKenzie"Not so fast young CJ. There are always 2 sides to every story..... www.southwalesargus.co.uk/sport/ ... ye_horror/ Lets not string him up from the nearest tree before we know the full facts'" Fair do's Barry but union does have a problem with a certain offence(which I will not say at this moment).

Quote ="Barry_McKenzie"Not so fast young CJ. There are always 2 sides to every story..... www.southwalesargus.co.uk/sport/ ... ye_horror/ Lets not string him up from the nearest tree before we know the full facts'" Fair do's Barry but union does have a problem with a certain offence(which I will not say at this moment).

Sale 97 v 11 Cetransa El Salvador
Attendance: 4,666

Embarrassing. Even the Spanish commentators were struggling to find positives.

Not really embarrassing.

They still fought until the very end and took a lead in the 4th minute which they held until the 12th. I was delighted with the result. It was nice to see some good rugby basics at Edgeley Park. We fielded a weakened side too and it was nice to see local URMSTON lad Tom Brady get a hat trick of tries.

I highlighted that bit for a certain League loving Urmston type to maybe make a compliment.

I am definitely considering the away game in Vallodolid when the date gets confirmed

It's a shame so few came to it. I've never really gotten why people don't go to games like that. I'd rather pay a tenner to watch 16 tries than 40 quid to watch a potential kick fest against a Premiership team.

Oh well, just nice to see some good rugby again in Stockport.

p.s. I was at the Grand Final last week before cj starts moaning

I was aware that Tom Brady was from The World's Dullest Suburb (TM). Good luck to him, but an Urmstonian RU player will not attract me to watch Sale, certainly doesn't make up for the ludicrously-overpriced tickets! Let's just hope he doesn't end up like Urmston's last sporting export- Michael Johnson, the Urmston Makalele.

Really? What offence and can you link to examples please.

I await with baited breath.

I was at OT last week as well and yes I am still moaning cause we lost.

I presume he means eye-gouging.

Why didnt he answer me and where are these examples I asked for.

Until rugby hits the dizzy heights of rugby league and its homophobic chanting, racial insults all over the place, gang rape, alochol fuelled violence, defecating in public places and smashing a glass in your girlfriends face, im not going to worry too much.

Hardly the fault of a game that some of its practitioners behave badly. There's not exactly a correlation.

Compare it to AFL with its...er...racial insults all over the place, alcohol-fuelled violence, and possibly the rest.

Or football, which I also enjoy, with its history of hooliganism, homophobia, racial insults (now mainly gone), alcohol-fuelled violence, use of prostitutes, suspcious shipments of grain and (on several occasions, caused by players) people's deaths.

Or rugby union with its history of people getting away with eye-gouging attempts, weird training camps involving hazing and semi-torture, hitting people with handbags, and sucking coins to try and avoid being done for drink-driving.

Or baseball with its corruption, racism and alleged use of steroids.

Or American football with its group sex and dog-fighting.

Or....I could go on. Ultimately, professional sportspeople are pretty strange compared to the rest of us. It doesn't make the sport itself the source of all evil.

I'll make an exception for golf- tedious, and most of its professionals seem devoid of personality as well.

That bit you'll have to ask him as I don't know him, even if we're on the same landmass...

You are right. But seeing as this is nothing more than a rugby bashing thread, I thought I would even up the odds. Its funny, but of the rugby forums I browse there is never ever any rugby league bashing, just a growing respect for the sport and an admiration for the players of any level.

I guess rugby fans arent as narrow minded as rugby league fans, nor do they have that massive chip on their shoulder. I wonder at times how CJ manages to walk straight with the weight of that chip on his shoulder.

Perhaps it might have something to do with league not trying to destroy yawnion for 115 years? Yawnion fans have nothing to moan about, apart from a crap product, however as that is only a small part of the experience it doesn't seem to matter.

Dude, its 2010, not 1980

Do you hate the germans as much as the RFU?
Why isnt there a taliban bashing thread?

Rugby = Hated more than the taliban

Union hasn't tried to destroy league at all.

Union fans think of League in the same way Australians think of NZ


A smaller insignificant distant relation who you would wish no harm to and dont really give a fat rats about

And most football fans regard both rugby codes as irrelevant, but doesn't stop the RFU and RFL desperately trying to get them to switch over...

I guess it depends on who you know and who you speak to. I know several union fans who despise league and fear football. And league fans who despise union and fear football.

You point out the respect issue. I'm glad to hear that RU fans are increasingly developing a respect for RL (I do know a few myself), but sadly there remains a large if dwindling hardcore of RU supporters who still would like to stamp out RL.

The real hardcore can also be found on the Guardian RU blogs, referring to football as 'oikball'...

Right... but football/soccer is played at a different time of the year to footy (Rugby league) in this country... so nothing really wrong with that?

If I was a soccer fan (which I'm not particularly although I have been to see a couple of games since I have been in England) just because RU or RL tried to get me to switch over unless I liked the game anyway I wouldnt be interested.

Football is only 'off' in England in June and July- FA Cup Final ends the season in May, and the season restarts in August. So that's a tiny window where football is not competing with RL. An awful lot of people, certainly in Manchester, would rather spend £25 in a pub watching United or City on dodgy Albanian Sky rather than pay £16 to go and watch Salford for example.

We don't have a code war here. We have every sport trying to play second fiddle to football.

Right......

But you cant really blame them for that can you?

Both Manchester soccer teams are pretty good

You are joking right.
Have you never been on Planet Rugby forums,they refer our game as for the uneducated and call the fans mungoes.
I think you should check it out for yourself and look at certain posters called Kovana and TranceNRG and then tell me there is no RL bashing,you are clueless mate.

Maybe they are just trolling or looking for a bite CJ?

Unbelievably some people like to do things like that.



And I've seen quite a few people bagging RU fans out on these forums... so its kinda the same thing really....

Not disputing that Barry but for Mcblondie to say that I have never seen RU types slag RL off is ridicuolous