paley
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Possibly. is it any wonder when everyday you read the dross they print. most tabloids this week have been fillling their pages with the Peter Crouch story. i don't give a toss about Crouch and what he does, but the tabloids seem to think i and many others do.
back on topic i think all of us Rugby League fans should only buy newspapers with a Rugby League correspodent. not many options to choose from, but i think we should.
The best method is to comment on articles and blogs by RL writers - so Dave Hadfields articles or the RL blogs in the Guardian. Unfortunately the Independent changes its comments system every month or so none of whoch I have ever been able to work out how to register with. I am banned from commenting on Guardian blogs because they don't like you pointing out on Shaun Edwards' pieces of fiction that Richard Branson is a billionaire and the muppet at Bath isn't.
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We should turn this on its head?
Isn't the fact that the Times online is now behind a paywall causing this cut?
By all accounts - none confirmed from News Corp - the users of timesonline have plummeted since the paywall was introduced and revenues are not nearly anywhere near where they want them to be.
Trouble at 'mill.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/0...81151921000.htm
With The Times now deciding to not cover rugby league other than to send ######s such as Jones along to the Challenge Cup final so he can lie about it and Sky marginalising the sport as much as it is able the old argument about increased coverage after a move to summer is looking rather ridiculous. I feel sorry for Christopher Irvine but he must have known that there is no future in being a RL journalist on a national newspaper.
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Ganson should use Olly Barkley's legal team.
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More chance of seeing Lucan and Shergar at a Bulls game/event
Oi Kenny, i used to drink Kestrel, albeit it was 25 years ago
Then you discovered alcopops
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Hardly surprising, The Times has no interest in covering rugby league although who will be their "northern rugby correspondent" when the union season is back on?
Stephen Jones has been crowing quite a bit in the last couple of years about the decline of rugby coverage in the Times so no doubt he will be thrilled as he will get to lie about the game now with no chance of a comeback - not that there was ever much of one anyway - the traffic was all one way - remember when Chris mentioned the Vichy scandal and Jones filled his column with a series of lies to sooth his readers? Fortunately with the Times now behind a paywall Jones and his legion of Times union writers are an irrelevance.
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Very sad news, my condolences to Paul and his family
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Article in the Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/p...ee-2046501.html
It appears in the union section on the website so naturally it contains the lie about him being the first professional rugby player to come out.
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Ask yourself this; when did he last write a positive piece?
The guardian don't like positive opinions about rugby league - they also don't like people who stand up for rugby league
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30k+ folks turn up to a game with no goals, and think it's thrilling entertainment.
Ridiculous isn't it, they should have all been in the betting shop celebrating their wins on the match having no goals.
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The prople who promote touch wisely aligned themselves with union, they made the right choice
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Cocteau Twins.
when all else fails they are the best
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Any port in a storm
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Bradford v Saints at Wembley in 1996 - it was just a fabulous game. Saints v Bradford again in 2001 at Twickenham, not the game, that was pretty dreadful but in a pub near the stadium afterwards - the place was full to the rafters with fans of umpteen clubs and the Landlord decided to put on a CD of sing-a-long songs - everybody was singing - it was a real standout for me.
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After a London v Leeds game at Charlton I asked Dean Lance how he thought the game had gone - 2 hours later he was still taking me through the first half when he was summoned to the team bus.
Zoe and I once got very drunk with Russell Smith and his wife - great company
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I often watch Queensbury and Bank Top. Queensbury were training in Littlemoor park t'other day - there must have been 50 of them charging about in various groups, much to the consternation of my dogs
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eddie and stevo sound just like aussie commentators
its a disgrace.
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yeah, good point, instead of trying to grow revenues and expand the nrl, david gallop should start a campaign to get australian RL fans to call their game the same terminology used by elderly english RL fans
terminology that the RL media in england seem to largely ignore
What are you on about now? Who is ignoring it?
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its nice you are so obsessed with australian RL fans.
I just find their ignorance irritating. However they can hardly be blamed when their leaders are so weak.
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you seem fixated with "r"s.
you seem to care more about aussies not using the term rugby than english RL fans.
Aussies do use the term rugby, incorrectly.
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you should start a campaign to get the "r" back into super league
why?
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Im not Australian and im not wrong the northern clubs broke away in 1895 under the banner Northern Rugby Football Union. The term Rugby League wasnt adopted until much later. Anyway all this is irrelevant most people worldwide think of rugby as rugby union. I dont see whats wrong with referring to our sport as Rugby League or RL for short and theirs as Rugby as they do in Australia. To me Rugby has stereotypes of posh, public schooled and dated. I for one like to think we are a pretty modern sport and out coaching methods are far more advanced than theirs. So why would we want to be tarred with the same brush as them?
For 100 years anybody who played rugby league was banned from union because they were professional rugby players. Now that union is openly pro union people often claim that rugby has only been played professionaly since 1995. You might think history is bunk but you are wrong.
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Free download from Big O - The Band - Live at the Watkins Glen racetrack.
A mere 600,000 in the crowd...
Ooh!
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Rugby is south of Meriden the traditional centre pf England
Or
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2271925.stm
Whatever- its in the Southern half of England
But you're right about it being ######
I have been to Rugby to watch rugby, it was good
Chris Irvine and The Times
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Absolutely, he thrives on it - not just lies about rugby but he goes out of his way to be a cock about union too, he knew he would get huge amount of clicks by saying Brian O'Driscoll shouldn't be on a union lions tour - however he also knew that there were plenty of other union writers who would give a different opinion. In the national media rugby leaue opinion articles are few and far between so the endless runnng tap of lies spouted by Jones and his ilk about rugby league generally tend to find themselves becoming recieved wisdom. Now that the Times has decided to drop rugby league coverage there is one less voice against the hate. It's a great shame but the national media generally have nothing but contempt for rugby league.