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10 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:
The international game doesn’t “do anything” for the NRL.
It’s helped give us great Fijian wingers…
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Not exactly a glamorous name…
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3 hours ago, Dirkgee said:
To be fair football is very popular there, that's not the same argument as holding a Rugby league game in Melbourne or Perth where it is a small, but growing, sport.
An NRL GF would easily sell out in Melbourne or Perth.
The last state of origin match in Perth sold out easily.
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Moving the NRL GF around is a great idea. It’s a sport for all Australians (and NZers).
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Interesting development. The complete article goes into her impressive sporting background and achievements.
https://www.qrl.com.au/news/2023/03/29/brazil-skipper-joins-pirates-on-way-to-nrlw-dream/
Fresh from captaining the Brazil Amazonas at the World Cup in England, Graf has joined the Noosa Pirates in the Sunshine Coast competition.
She is expected to be one of at least five Brazilian women registered to Noosa in 2023, a club which already has two male Brazilians on its books.
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3 minutes ago, GoBroncos said:
Weatherspoons as I remember have some pretty nice priced pints too.
£1.89 when I was in England a few months ago.
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12 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
Friend of mine who lives near Brisbane (*) is at the Lions-Melbourne game today and has just put up some photos which means I can play an exciting game of counting empty seats at an AFL game.
Going on the capacity of the Gabba and her somewhat shaky photos - beer has been consumed - I'm going to say there's about 20,000 at the AFL game (tops) versus whatever at the looking-much-fuller NRL derby.
(* - in Australian terms. It's probably a 17 hour drive past some spiders that can kill you, or something. But she says it's near.)
I used to live within walking distance of the Gabba. It’s a nice stadium but when the Brazilian soccer fans started to jump up and down at the Olympic soccer match I attended there, I could clearly see the upper stands bend and flex.
The police and security rushed in to tell them all to stop dancing and jumping.
I’ve been reluctant to return ever since.
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4 hours ago, StandOffHalf said:
Gloating like that does nothing for the game IMO.
It probably gets more people through the gate.
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A sad day for South Sydney
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55 minutes ago, hw88 said:
Correct, but what I am saying is that some people are predisposed to be left leaning or right leaning.
I doubt it. In the US even the left leaning (according to US standards) democrats seem to have things in common with mainstream Australian conservatives.
If people were predisposed you’d think politics in many democratic countries would be similar across the board, but that isn’t the case.
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Back in the day in Australia, many top level cricketers used to play baseball in the off season. Did that ever happen in England?
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Canberra can be a hot dry wasteland over summer and many people also depart for holidays down the coast or elsewhere (same for long weekends, Canberra is quieter on a long weekend because we leave for elsewhere).
Canberra stadium will not be a pleasant place to watch daytime soccer if we get a typical summer.
A number of the big soccer clubs here also have traditional ethnic base and they like their own club and that’s that.
My son has played soccer in Europe, North America and in Australia in various leagues and one off tournaments so I’ve had some exposure to the Australian soccer scene. Soccer talent identification in Australia is appalling. It often involves scamming middle class families out of $1000s for all sorts of courses and development teams by telling them their child has potential. These kids are mostly rubbish but the $ keeps coming in.
For some higher level clubs if you’ve got the right surname or your old man is a club sponsor, your chances of being picked for match day can go right up.
At my small local suburban soccer club they used to have a sign saying “Go Raiders!”.
I won’t attend any a-league game in Canberra. It’d be boring, hot and depressing,
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1 hour ago, MZH said:
That's always been my view tbh. I know that the whole point of Pride is that you should be proud of who you are regardless of your sexuality or gender, and that's great. But if we were a truly inclusive and equal society then sexuality and gender would be total none issues. In 2023 we shouldn't really be making a fuss about the way people live their lives. We are all the same and the LGBTQ+ community should be treated as equals. But instead things like pride just go out of their way to point out how they are different.
It's just virtue signaling. So that straight people can, as you say, tell everyone how nice and tolerant they are.
We aren’t a truly inclusive and equal society.
The vast majority of rainbow alphabet children are born into religious families.
Many of the religions are openly hostile to how these children view themselves. Now some parents may not embrace the hostility but many do.
Many non religious parents are also hostile to anything “gay”.
All this hostility has resulted in a suicide rate that is heartbreaking and increased rates of mental health distress.
Pride rounds are a sincere effort from many involved to make these young marginalised people to feel welcomed, loved, wanted and normal within a large mainstream community (rugby league).
There might be a few people involved who think it’s about ticking boxes but many are very sincere about using rugby league for social good.
V’landys and Abdo have both said how rugby league made them feel welcome and part of the community after they initially started as outsiders.
The fact that a pride round could cause chaos in the NRL shows that the rugby league community in Australia really does have issues with the rainbow alphabet crowd.
The Sydney Swans (afl) do it without any controversy at all. I suspect rugby league in Sydney has issues is because it’s very popular amongst a much bigger range of communities within Sydney compared to AFL… and when you’re popular everywhere, you’ll get a broader range of reactions.
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5 hours ago, Pulga said:
The money could be better spent bringing through kids from PNG.
Imagine a generation with full nutrition, equipment and S&C coaching.
You'd get enough for 20 additional teams.
It seems to be a speculate to accumulate thing and not simply about boosting player numbers. If there are talented US athletes in the NRL, they may make more money from the US market.
I’m not sure it will succeed but best of luck to them anyway.
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11 hours ago, DACS said:
Good luck finding 90+ additional players of NRL standard.
Initially they could harvest a lot of the top athletes in super league plus quite a few in nsw and qld who have potential but can’t be squeezed into current squads.
If they get pathways in PNG working well there’s a large potential player pool right there.
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16 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:
Then fine , do what Fighting Irish suggested above and give them a real game to play
In America
Why? It’s about potential playing talent for the NRL and the possibility of increasing its profile.
It seems to be about identifying elite athletes with a unique set of potentially transferable skills.
If they have potential put them into the Australian systems where they have access to elite coaches and experienced rugby league players.
I don’t understand the negativity to the NRL wanting to just have a crack and see what happens. If it all turns into something rubbish, they can then learn from it.
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58 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:
How tall was this bloke ?
As I recall it helps being tall in Aussie Rules
Just looked , he's an inch short of 7 foot tall , the tallest player ever to play the sport apparently , so not really a good example
Mason Cox is a guy that played in a state championship soccer team in high school, played basketball to a decent level and then switched to AFL.
The point is they have so many highly trained elite athletes that even if a small minority of them have the potential to change sports, that’s still a very large number of potential athletes.
I suspect many won’t have the technical skills but I’m happy to sit back and see what the experts come up with.
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AFL did something similar in 2014 and picked up US basketball player Mason Cox who has now played over 90 games for Collingwood. Some athletes are just super adaptable.
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2 hours ago, Damien said:
I think it's always good to widen the playing pool that you recruit from but this to me just sounds like typical V'landys and him trying to make the NRL relevant in the US.
That’s exactly what it is supposed to sound like because that’s what it is.
Best of luck to them I say.
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This is interesting… I’m not sure they’d have the technical playing skills but I’m happy to be proven wrong.
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Would a Pasifika team covering Samoa, Tonga and Papua Guinea really work? They are three different countries so would the fans really get an identity they can embrace?
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On 07/03/2023 at 07:13, Pen-Y-Bont Crusader said:
Started walking football just over a month ago. Best thing I’ve ever done.
I’ve considered doing that. Is it all power walking or do you just stroll around?
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It’s all happening in Hampshire
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23361501.winchester-man-fined-speeding-m62-west-yorkshire/
Winchester man fined for speeding on M62 in West Yorkshire.
(he was 8mph over the limit)
NRL 360 International RL
in The General Rugby League Forum
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A few days ago one of the other commenters on with him said something along the lines of “have you seen what fans are saying about you online? Looks like quite a few are misspelling your surname too”