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wamberal

I think it was in this thread or maybe one of the Izzy ones where Parra wrote about the % of NRL players that come from the Parra and Penrith and it was staggering. Quite risible how many premierships they have won then compared to a club like the Sea Eagles from the Northern Beaches which provides...

wamberal

Parra really, really hates rah rahs.

He makes an exception for Dick Thornett, Ray Price, Tony Melrose, and all the lesser known rugby poaches who have starred for his team over the years.

Aaaah, those were the days, eh Parra?

wamberal

Mind you, the National Ballooning Championships are probably being run by somebody with a background in ballooning.

The NRL is being run by a rah rah.

I wonder whether he is still wearing his leather patches?

wamberal

The unflattering crowd of 4635 has again raised questions about the legitimacy of the game and the importance of the fixture, especially after the Australian National Balloon Championships at Canowindra on the same weekend drew three times as many people. :lol: :lol: :lol: The loig was on FTA. Laug...

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As I said earlier, it's the "Don Draper Show". Yes, there are some interesting characters, like Roger, Joan, and Peggy, but basically it has always been about Don. He is listed as Producer in this series, not sure whether this is something new.

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It stretches one's credulity to accept that Don somehow manages to have it away with his neighbour's wife after a New Year party, then slips back into the marital bed, without his own wife having the slightest idea of what is going on. He doesn't bring back any trace of the other woman, no smells, n...

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The first two episodes were pretty disjointed, I thought, the agency is the key to the series, and we need to know a bit more about how it has managed to grow so quickly.

Good to see Cooper still hovering around. What does he do for a job, though?

wamberal

The first two episodes were shown here Monday, concatenated into one.

It's pretty much the Don Draper show these days.

Not particularly impressive, frankly. Top of the Lake (also starring Elisabeth Moss) is much, much better.

wamberal

Sydney's club competition, the Shute Shield, kicks off this Saturday, with the people's team, Eastwood, taking on the upstarts from the Shire, Southern Districts, who are still trying to buy their first premiership. The match is live on ABC TV from 3 pm Saturday, throughout NSW and the ACT, and it w...

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What on earth is the point of arguing with Gort about the role of the Vichy government 70 years ago? He is one of a couple of hundred mungoes in the world who have persuaded themselves that, had the Second World War not taken place, their little game would now rule the world. Or rule France. Or just...

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I do get amused with the continual blame over something that happened 80 years age for the demise of a sport, despite France getting to the final of the Rugby League World cup in 1954. If they were one of the top sides in the 50s in RL, they seemed to have got over whatever problems occurred previo...

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I'm surprised BOB isn't all over this: Rugby league's supremo embarrassingly referred to troubled Bulldogs star Ben Barba as 'Benji' during his speech to open the rugby league season Wednesday night. Read more: http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/nrl-premiership/another-gaffe-from-ceo-as-nrl-vows-to...

wamberal

I visit a few different forums each day, and without a shadow of a doubt Loig Unlimited would have the greatest collection of idiots of any forum, anywhere. It's not just because it is a loig forum, I look occasionally at a loig forum in the UK. It must be the convict stain, mixed in with the defect...

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hollywood wrote:Could PNG players be recruited into rugby?

Will Genia was born in PNG . PNG does play a bit of rugby, but in general league is the only game in town.

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In today's Hurled, there is an obituary for Ferris Ashton, written by Rodney Cavalier. In it, Cavalier mentions that Ashton "was the only league first grader we could find who had served in the Second World War" for a ceremony to do with planting an Anzac pine at the SCG when Cavalier was on the Boa...

wamberal

The Rebels were far too risk averse in their first season, they should have taken a few punts. They took none.

Incidentally, talking of pathways, Hugh Pyle started playing sub-districts after he left school, and was persuaded to try out for SS. The rest is history.

wamberal

How did Chris Latham get discovered? From what I recall he took up the game very late and went to Narrabri High School, played a lot of soccer. Played club for Randwick. Did they recruit him and hook up a job? Justin Harrison, Cardyn Neville and Tom Court were late comers to Rugby and made it. Ther...

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I would guess that any 14 year old who is any good is either (a) at a Sports High School (b) at a private school or (c) on an NRL club contract already. Rubbish. There are plenty of talented athletes in non-sporting State Schools. Parents choose high-schools when a child is age 12, and do so for a ...

wamberal

I get your point, but for every private school kid getting the ARU/QRU/NSWRU provided development in the junior rep teams, there are likely other kids with better potential without any attention or notice as they don't go to one of about 30 schools. Without schools rugby, the game would be dead, pr...

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I see the UK super league can't even get a naming rights sponsor, that must be a bit of a worry. On a funnier note, the SA govt and SAOC have refused to acknkowlege mungoball as a sport , the hand of Danie Craven is still strong. :lol: what do they think it is? that's stupid. acknowledge it as a sp...

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Come to think of it the Brumbies have a good record with loig recruits/reintegrating Rugby players who have come back to the game. Gordon Falcon, Peter Ryan, Joe Tomane, Francis Fainifo, Tyrone Smith, Andrew Walker, Nic Henderson, David Palavi. None of them signed with huge expectations and end up ...

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I remember Blacklock scoring a Robinsonesque try against the Bulls. A bad performance against the Reds was the end of him. I think he was playing ACT club rugby a few years ago. He was probably going to end up like a Robinson/Shane Williams type player that could open up a game. McGoldrick is playi...

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Settle down, lads. :lol: Folau will star for the Tahs, and could even be in gold if he sticks around. I'm a big fan of the man. But Slim does have a point about the reported big ARU top-up. Australia doesn't have a shortage of quality outside backs; our lack of competitive depth in the forwards. Pl...

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What's so impressive about this guy? He gives the Waratahs some press... He gives the whole game some press, actually. A lot of press. We'd probably receive more press if we won things... Sadly, we don't just have to win things, we have to win by scoring tries, lots of entertaining tries. We all go...

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Slim 293 wrote:
Peaches wrote:What's so impressive about this guy?
He gives the Waratahs some press...

He gives the whole game some press, actually. A lot of press.

wamberal

enzedder01 wrote:
chicharino wrote:Be nice if he had an American granny

Be nice if he had an Aussie one.

As opposed to being actually born in Australia (which he was)?

wamberal

I very nearly missed out on the fact that one of the incorrigibles had won "Young New South Welshman" of the year because you've been slacking on your duties of keeping us informed as to all their atrocities. For shame! Well done to Corey for getting a degree. Well worth the award. In the land of t...

wamberal

I very nearly missed out on the fact that one of the incorrigibles had won "Young New South Welshman" of the year because you've been slacking on your duties of keeping us informed as to all their atrocities. For shame! Well done to Corey for getting a degree. Well worth the award. In the land of t...

wamberal

I would put as much time and thought into preparing for retirement as I would for an important project, or business venture.

I would say that relationships are key to a happy retirement, I suppose that is true for life in general.

wamberal

I retired from paid work 15 years ago. I worked as a volunteer full time for a couple of years. Still do some voluntary work. My principal retirement project was getting married, for the first time in my life, and being married tends to take up a lot of my spare time, for one reason and another. I d...

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Parra Eels wrote:
kovana wrote:NRL is the only league comp.

SL in the UK is a joke.
Still more money than any of the Union comps you give a fudge about aye ya fat fudge?

Enjoy your moment in the sun, Parra. Your guys will work out plenty of ways to squander the money.

wamberal

Another aspect of the game that I remember well, in the sixties, perhaps later than that, was that there was no restriction on the length of the lineout, so the defending team could, and often did, post at least one player 20 metres (or yards as it was then) infield, opposite the opposing centre. Th...

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When I first starting watching the game, in the fifties, and in fact for quite a while after that, the rules included: - an attempt at converting a try required the ball to be held just above the ground, as soon as the holder placed the ball, the opposition could charge the kicker, - kicking out on ...

wamberal

When I first visited the UK in 1970, The Times was still showing a goal (i.e. a converted try) in its scorelines.

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Because they wish their parochial little code had rugby's international profile, not to mention its public image.

Make a wish, turn around three times, and maybe it will come true!

wamberal

The Brumbies this morning announced Buderus, who has a year still to run on his deal with the Newcastle Knights, would spend one day a week during the pre-season helping the club with its "tackle-specific skills". :lol: :lol: :lol: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Maybe he is an...

wamberal

It saddens me to report that Polish Rugby League is struggling , stay strong boys! Any word of how league is going in Argentina Parra? http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/financial-woes-threaten-polands-hopes-of-making-international-rugby-league-debut-against-hungary/story-e6frf3ou-1226511969766 Did...

wamberal

Does this Parra chap have a learning disability? He just comes in and screams dickhead and makes words up like "unionite". I like his moxy actually. :thumbup: He is actually a really good guy. Underneath it all :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh: He just loves his loig a little bit too much, ...

wamberal

RL is a provincial club game and it's failed to expand because it's not good enough. I can't see any evidence to the contrary and plenty to support the claim. Harsh, but fair. The biggest problem is that Australia dominates the sport, sets the rules, decides the international schedules, stacks othe...

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thekingsnotdead wrote:fudge it, I'm not married 2 years yet and I'm looking at divorce

That is sad.

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