Rugby league in strange places

[gingerjon]

... as a punchline to a joke in a Milton Jones radio comedy, for example.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001883m

[fighting irish]

13 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

... as a punchline to a joke in a Milton Jones radio comedy, for example.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001883m

It's four minutes in, if anyone is put off by the prospect of having to listen to it all, to find the quip. 

[Futtocks]

Huddersfield Giants #11 Olivia Rowe has recently joined the publishing department where I work.

[Jughead]

Completely unrelated to Milton Jones but every time I see a new country taking up the game or I read about the game being played in places like Nigeria, Brazil and Jamaica, it baffles me that the global reach for the game is what it is. 

[Richard de la Riviere]

Cant remember the exact line, but Felicity Kendall in the Good Life compared something to someone playing rugby league. 

[Phil]

Many years ago 1984/5 saw a game taking place in a park in Barcelona, unfortunately we were driving but it was definitely league 

[johnh1]

We appear on Pointless quite a lot.

 

[Archie Gordon]

1 hour ago, Richard de la Riviere said:

Cant remember the exact line, but Felicity Kendall ...

You had me at Felicity Kendall.

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

Me and a mate went to visit a friend in Washington DC a few years ago and ended up playing touch rugby on a Saturday morning close to the Washington monument. Most of the Americans didn't realise there were 2 codes of rugby, but we soon educated them as to which one they were playing.

[fighting irish]

1 hour ago, Cumbrian Fanatic said:

Me and a mate went to visit a friend in Washington DC a few years ago and ended up playing touch rugby on a Saturday morning close to the Washington monument. Most of the Americans didn't realise there were 2 codes of rugby, but we soon educated them as to which one they were playing.

Keep up the good work.

[Eddie]

There’s a game in Norfolk this afternoon.

[JohnM]

On BBC Breakfast just a few mins ago.

[The storm]

I was in malta

And saw about 20 blokes doing rugby league training

I wanted to join in but id had a few beers

[Copa]

K-Pop.

Second singer from the right.

 

[Mr Frisky]

On 17/06/2022 at 20:32, Cumbrian Fanatic said:

Me and a mate went to visit a friend in Washington DC a few years ago and ended up playing touch rugby on a Saturday morning close to the Washington monument. Most of the Americans didn't realise there were 2 codes of rugby, but we soon educated them as to which one they were playing.

Those Americans now spend time reminiscing about the time they played Rugby with 2 Aussies who didn't even know the correct Rugby rules...

Edited September 23, 2022 by Mr Frisky

[Dunbar]

I'm not sure about Rugby League in strange places but I have one for strange places in Rugby League. 

Widnes.

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

1 hour ago, Mr Frisky said:

Those Americans now spend time reminiscing about the time they played Rugby with 2 Aussies who didn't even know the correct Rugby rules...

Most Americans I've met think I'm Scottish, my mates from London but he likes to use Cumbrian phrases (mainly to confuse other Londoners) so they might have thought he was an Aussie.

If I remember correctly, there was an Aussie there, there was certainly an Argentinian

[JohnM]

One strange place where rugby league should be played but isn't: The Operational Rules Tribunal.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Martin Offiah was on Richard Osman's House of Games this last week. He wasn't very good. 

[BJW]

In the 1990s London Broncos shirts on sale in Windsor as they had the word LONDON on them and most tourists hadn't a clue who they were!

Oh and vintage RL shirts on sale at a clothes shop in Slough market. Caribbean gent who ran it again had no idea what they were, he just liked the design!

Now as for the Hull KR away (explosion in a paint factory) shirt on sale at Bluewater . . . . . . . . . 

[Futtocks]

I'm up in Scotland and Border TV have just had a 2022 round-up show. Obviously the death of the Queen dominated, but when it came to sport, the Jamaica RL team got a mention, along with the Tour of Britain cycling and Doddie Weir.

[Ullman]

58 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

I'm up in Scotland and Border TV have just had a 2022 round-up show. Obviously the death of the Queen dominated, but when it came to sport, the Jamaica RL team got a mention, along with the Tour of Britain cycling and Doddie Weir.

No prizes for guessing which two of them I saw live.

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

I'm up in Scotland and Border TV have just had a 2022 round-up show. Obviously the death of the Queen dominated, but when it came to sport, the Jamaica RL team got a mention, along with the Tour of Britain cycling and Doddie Weir.

Border television covers Cumbria too, that's probably why Jamaica got a mention

[hindle xiii]

Only Connect just now.

I think it's a repeat.

[Jughead]

The Challenge Cup early rounds always shows the coverage of Rugby League. We could have games in Bedford, Brentwood, Penryn, Hammersmith, Pontypridd, Aldershot and Jarrow in the opening couple of rounds in 2023.