Alright, I've been I'll today and I would like to thank e online rugby league community for keeping me entertained.
The day started with an opinion piece and seems to have gone as follows.
Personnal attacks on the man that wrote it
Attacks on news LTD
Attacks on RL management
Attacks on each other
Attacks on rugby union
Attacks on afl
Attacks on guy who wrote it again
And in this it's eleventh hour, it turns to my favorite part of any bashing. Conspiracy theories
Seems the telegraph has commissioned this piece and masterminded it's outrage as to place a black name next to rugby league, why you ask. Well according to RL fans in the know the telegraph is sydneys largest paper due to it being targeted for rugby league fans. Now, they sell less papers during the off season because there is of course no rugby league. Therefore they need to do something to keep it in the headlines, usually this is player behaviour problems etc, things that put a black mark against RL name. But wait, why do they want to give RL a bad name if it's the reason there the number one paper. Well easy, news LTD owns the telegraph and also foxtel and RL is up for a new TV rights deal, so by publishing this stuff it apparently makes the game of RL less valuable that saves them money in the contract negotiations and they go home happy. Far fetched you say, not RL fans as accurately pointed out, they tapped phones or have we forgotten the news of the world scandal.
But the greatest moment of the day goes to a reply on the LU forums that point out that rugby league should be cheered for playing during the war. After all he remarks, what's wrong with sending less men to war and bringing joy and entertainment to the country. What's wrong with it indeed.