Ok roopy uve persuaded us yes we will take kurt of newcastles hands u only had to ask, so wen is he arriving and who is this winger McManus is it.

I think I've fallen in love with roopy, and he's from the Hunter Valley, fabulous Semillon from there.

I'm from Lake Macquarie.
A place no one has ever heard of, so I just say Newcastle.

Lake Macquarie is also the home town of Clint Newton, Willie Mason, Josh Perry, Brett Finch, Brett Kimmorley, Chief Harrogan, Luke Burt, Mark O'Meley, Michael Ennis and a dozen other firstgrade players.

The Newcastle district is made up of the City (Newcastle), the Bay (Nelsons Bay north of the city), the Valley (Hunter Valley) and the Lake (Lake Macquarie - South of the city).

The City is a dump.
The Bay is the world's largest above ground cemetary
The Valley is a huge coal mine populated with bogans
The Lake is God's own country

I had a semillon when I woke up this morning but my missus wasn't interested

It sounds fantastic.

I've never wanted to go to Australia before, but I think I'll book for 2013 right now!

Although, the locals sound a bit frightening and my mouth is want to occasionally get me in a pickle...

Badum, tish!

Try the veal.

Lake Macquarie must be the Aussie equivilant to Hull KR academy then

I might start looking for Newcastle's scores. Mind, I said that about Workington when the link-up was announced and tbh, I never did. They're in the CC1 Final - although slightly weirdly, the top team doesn't play in the play-offs, as they're already promoted.

I did a wine tasting trip at hunter valley. Was impressed.

Why go all that way to taste wine, just nip to Asda and a sly slurp while no-one is looking

Then spit it out on the floor!

I love this forum sometimes.

We've managed to go from discussing a player none of us had heard of this time last week to stealing wine and spitting on the floor!

No idea why people dislike thread drift.

Sorry in advance Sir Skywalker.

No different to verbal conversations really, they drift off subject too.

Newcastle is the strongest League district in the World.

The NRL clubs that produce the most firstgraders are in order;

Warriors representing a country of 4 million or so.
Broncos representing a city of near 2 million
Newcastle representing a district of 500k

At any time there are around 2 teams of Newcastle juniors in the NRL or ESL.

Newcastle had a team in the first Australian comp based in Sydney in 1908 and 1909, and in 1910 they had enough players to form their own 6 team comp.
They now have a 12 team local first division comp and most of the 12 teams have ex NRL players on the books. All 12 field senior sides in 3 grades, so 36 senior sides + juniors. The lower Hunter second division has a further 24 senior sides + juniors.
There is also a mid Hunter comp and an Upper Hunter comp - so roughly 80 senior teams in all, and an estimated 20k juniors (counting school teams).

Our new owner is the richest man and only Billionaire under 40 in Australia, and he started life as an electrician in the mines and a prop forward for the Muswellbrook Rams in the upper Hunter division.

I always like Cronulla, because of Gavin Miller and I think Lord Roger of Millward also had a stint there, but i might switch to Newcastle.

roopy for new board mascot!

It's that line between drift and derailment. But yeah, conversations develop. Back on topic, I've got an itch in my skull telling me that McDonnell may not be as done a deal as the mail suggests. Just a suspicion. He'll probably be confirmed this afternoon now.



Show off. Hull has East Park - once the home to a tower that smelled of wee. Because people had wee'd in it.

I still can't get over the demolition of =#FF0000Swear filter-AS Tower.

Did u used to go to the tower to was great playing block around there it did stink tho

Only occasionally in school holidays and the like, bit far from Aldbrough. Summer time activity mainly consisted of laughing at the Wessies getting washed out to see on their Benidorm lilo's and having to get rescued by the Sea King from Leconfield.

While there is a strong argument that =#FF0000You naughty, naughty man-AS

Tower deserves a proper noun exemption, I'll use it as an excuse to dip in to my (probably meagre) stock of mod kudos and remind everyone that we try to keep it extra nice and family-friendly on The Pride of East Hull part of the RLfans network. Even when discussing stealing and spitting wine. Team hug, MR.

Enough with the faux humility - you have more mod kudos than the other mods put together on here. It's a low bar, admittedly.

I'm not really a fan of this swearing ban, but I'm not that bothered about it either.

Let's rename it Wee Tower, it comes up in conversation a couple of times a year with being such a famous East Hull land mark.

I wonder what percentage of the population of East Hull were conceived in Wee Tower?

Scientists. Their all like that, they know they're not capable of communicating with normal people so belittle themselves as a defence mechanism before everyone else quite correctly does.

Hmm..are you saying there is a Rovers mod with more "mod kudos" than Denzil? Should we do a league table? Or a poll? You can say "It's not a popularity contest", but maybe it really is in this case.

Everything is a popularity contest.

Matty is my favourite because he's absolutely fecking pointless.