Some interesting observations
http://www.dailymail...eds-Rhinos.html
Enjoy
Kevin Sinfield Interview in The Daily Mail
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, Feb 01 2013 09:01 AM
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 09:01 AM
Sam Tomkins - Rugby League Week 14.03.12I was sat on the Underground train, and there was a girl looking at me. She was pretty good looking,too, I thought, "something's wrong here - girls as hot as that don't take an interest in me".
Then she came over and said - in a really strong Cockney acent - "excuse me, are you Sam Tomkins?".
She asked me for my autograph, and I was made up...until she asked me to make it out to her boyfriend. I was gutted, I thought she wanted my number
Benji Marshall discovering about Sydney "fan" loyality (Benji - page 245)After we were well beaten by South Sydney at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2010, a coupl;e of kids maybe eight or nine years old took their Wests Tigers jerseys off as I was walking off the field and threw them at me. "What's this" I said "You can have the jersey" one of them said "we don't go for West Tigers anymore". Then they ran back to their parents who were laughing. That was difficult to take, having kids who look up to you do that. I just dropped the jerseys on the ground and kept walking. It's not like we go out and lose by 50 points on purpose
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 09:12 AM
Also a piece in the sport mag this morning, though nothing really about SL, more about Sinfield.. and of course the traditional inclusion on as many RU references as possible, which i guess is impossible to avoid in that particular publication.
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 09:34 AM
Nice read. I wish we got more of these kind of articles in major publications - we certainly do for certain other sports.
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 09:49 AM
The on-line edition of the Mail has 6.5 million unique browsers per day, 105 million unique browsers per month. I'm pretty sure this is by far the most read on-line publication by far. How many read their RL articles compared with those who read about Katie Price's breasts, I can't say, though.
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 09:49 AM
Also a piece in the sport mag this morning, though nothing really about SL, more about Sinfield.. and of course the traditional inclusion on as many RU references as possible, which i guess is impossible to avoid in that particular publication.
Actually, on the next page after Sinfield's 2-page interview, there's a 'Six to watch' guide (kieran Dixon, Danny Brough, Jodie Broughton, Rangi Chase, Willie Manu & Kallum Watkins). Opposite is a full page advert for the Broncos/Widnes game, pushing the hashtag #backthebroncos. That's in the London edition, anyway.
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"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 09:53 AM
Some interesting observations
http://www.dailymail...eds-Rhinos.html
Enjoy
Good stuff, and in the Mail, too!
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 10:33 AM
actually thats true.. i forgot about that in my early morning funk!..
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 12:08 AM
Good article. Sir Kev's profile has really taken a step up since he became capt of England. There are a number of players now that people outside the sport may be aware of, such as Sir Kev, Sam and Ryan Hall.
Younger players coming in to the game can look at them and see that if they reach the top, the can be on the telly, or in the papers, which seems to be important to people these days.
Younger players coming in to the game can look at them and see that if they reach the top, the can be on the telly, or in the papers, which seems to be important to people these days.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 12:36 AM
Good article. Sir Kev's profile has really taken a step up since he became capt of England. There are a number of players now that people outside the sport may be aware of, such as Sir Kev, Sam and Ryan Hall.
Younger players coming in to the game can look at them and see that if they reach the top, the can be on the telly, or in the papers, which seems to be important to people these days.
There seems to be a new focus from Red Hall regarding the media, don't try and promote the competition itself, promote the personalities, they then promote the competition naturally.
Of course Sinfield, Tomkins etc once set up for this 'face of the game' type profile/exposure will attract the seedier side of journalism out to discredit them.
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 02:39 AM
The video weirded me out a bit. It was like some strange POV dating ad 
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