John Rhino Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 A new site for Rugby followers popped up Twitter. Anyone else recognise at least a part of themselves in "who is a treiziste?" https://letreiziste.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/what-is-a-treiziste/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jannerboyuk Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Bit sneery for my tastes PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF http://www.rugbyleaguecares.org/ and http://www.walesrugbyleague.co.uk/article/8790/join-team-wales-for-2013 Predictions for the future - Crusaders RL to get a franchise for 2012 onwards -WRONG Widnes Vikings also to get a franchise - RIGHT Crusaders RL to do the double over Widnes and finish five places ahead of them -WRONG Widnes Vikings NOT to dominate rugby league in years to come! STILL TO COME http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/cardiffdemonsrlfc/ http://www.walesrugbyleague.co.uk/ I promise to pay �10 to the charity of Bomb Jacks choice if Widnes Millionaires finish above the battling underdogs Crusaders RL. I OWE A TENNER! http://www.jaxaxe.co...89/Default.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshmagpie Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Strange, I feel as if I read that exact article a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hela Wigmen Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Read the articles on that site, it’s the sort of journalism this game needs. The likes of Schofield and Studd are the old era and need eradicating, it’s descriptive, effortlessly brilliant stuff like this article that’s needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommygilf Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 10 minutes ago, Hela Wigmen said: Read the articles on that site, it’s the sort of journalism this game needs. The likes of Schofield and Studd are the old era and need eradicating, it’s descriptive, effortlessly brilliant stuff like this article that’s needed. Couldn't agree more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man of Kent Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 A treiziste is someone who covers up rugby yawnion magazines (or if not available, football) with Forty-20 or RLW in WH Smith. That’s the benchmark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Decent whimsical article, but they lost me on the penultimate paragraph - politics and sport don’t and shouldn’t mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 35 minutes ago, Man of Kent said: A treiziste is someone who covers up rugby yawnion magazines (or if not available, football) with Forty-20 or RLW in WH Smith. That’s the benchmark. When I took my son to his first under 6s rugby training session (Union sadly, there isn’t a League team within 100 miles of where we live), I deliberately wore a Saints shirt so they knew I wasn’t one of them - do I qualify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man of Kent Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, Eddie said: When I took my son to his first under 6s rugby training session (Union sadly, there isn’t a League team within 100 miles of where we live), I deliberately wore a Saints shirt so they knew I wasn’t one of them - do I qualify? Yes. Your son would qualify as a treiziste if he plays the ball with the foot when playing touch rugby at the yawnion club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshmagpie Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 18 minutes ago, Eddie said: When I took my son to his first under 6s rugby training session (Union sadly, there isn’t a League team within 100 miles of where we live), I deliberately wore a Saints shirt so they knew I wasn’t one of them - do I qualify? Where do you live if you don’t mind me asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 17 minutes ago, welshmagpie said: Where do you live if you don’t mind me asking? Norfolk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopping Mad Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Is rugby union 'normal for Norfolk'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 8 hours ago, Hopping Mad said: Is rugby union 'normal for Norfolk'? Football is king as it is everywhere else, but Union and cricket are popular too, lots of clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headtackle Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 On 27/04/2020 at 20:41, Man of Kent said: A treiziste is someone who covers up rugby yawnion magazines (or if not available, football) with Forty-20 or RLW in WH Smith. That’s the benchmark. Done this for years glad I am not the only one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLANTISMAN Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 2 hours ago, headtackle said: Done this for years glad I am not the only one YEP ME TOOOOO LOL:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLANTISMAN Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 A person who leaves the local pub just when the 6 Nations is kicking off and announces loudly that he is going home to watch the rugby on SKY:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMBJ Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 On 27/04/2020 at 21:18, Eddie said: When I took my son to his first under 6s rugby training session (Union sadly, there isn’t a League team within 100 miles of where we live), I deliberately wore a Saints shirt so they knew I wasn’t one of them - do I qualify? You need to use the RU facilities, the bar, enjoy the company and friendship of the other club members and then slag off RU and anyone who plays or likes it once you're out of earshot of them to really qualify. Then repeat for 30 years and become a mod here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langpark Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Hmmm. Whoever wrote that, says a treiziste must be anti-Israel Folau. So here we have (presumably) an Englishman, coming in telling the majority of actual treizistes (French RL fans) that they are in fact not, but he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommygilf Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I like articles like this. We should encourage sub cultures and counter cultures in mass spectator sports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommygilf Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 3 minutes ago, langpark said: Hmmm. Whoever wrote that, says a treiziste must be anti-Israel Folau. So here we have (presumably) an Englishman, coming in telling the majority of actual treizistes (French RL fans) that they are in fact not, but he is. Thats the point though. As an English variant of that it means something different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langpark Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, Celt said: Something like that? Not at all. I just think it was something that didn't even need to be mentioned at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommygilf Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 20 minutes ago, langpark said: Not at all. I just think it was something that didn't even need to be mentioned at all. Its meant to be like that. Be you a Treiziste, fervent traditionalist, hipster rugby league fan, a southern evangelist or even an actual french treiziste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLANTISMAN Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 12 hours ago, Celt said: I think you could be on to something here!! I'll have a go at the definition based on that. "A Treiziste.... is somebody who votes for Brexit because they are 'sick of foreigners coming over ere and nickin our jobs'. They live in a somewhat backward former UKIP stronghold and love talking about WWII and buying poppy-themed tat. When their local village team had to play Toulouse, they booed loudly as they felt quite strongly that non-English teams should not be in their league. They have a strong distrust of anything European, and have no idea as to the origins of the word Treiziste" Something like that? NB: Before the Offended Bus arrives - I would like to clarify, that thankfully such people absolutely do not really exist within the Rugby League community. Slightly off subject (But you will get it:) 2 years ago at half term we had a break in during the night at our villa in Catalonia I woke up and a (We think Romanian Gypsy) was standing there in the living room holding a knife he ran off through the garden doors with my wifes handbag containing her passport one of our boys and her British residents biometric card Only way she could get a new one was to fly to Moscow on a temporary passport visit the British consulate and apply (Waiting time maybe as much as 3/4 months) and the soccer World Cup had just started. Anyway to cut a long story short I contacted our local MP Tom Tugendhat and asked for help he was brilliant wrote to Sajid Javid who was Home Secretary at the time who contacted the British consulate in Moscow and turned it around in a few days (Tom told me his wife was French Russian and like our family they speak Russian at home all day) Anyway when I informed some friends in the local pub that our local MP had been brilliant one of them started banging the bar with his fist shouting Tugendhat pro EU b-----d we should kick him out the tory party b---y traitor should be shot :((((((( P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadera78 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 12 hours ago, Celt said: "Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart." Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langpark Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 This randomly popped up on my twitter feed today! Turns out he's a staunch free-speech advocate! Perhaps he and Folau can be friends after all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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