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Phil Kearns (64)
What he is quoted as saying or thinking now is pretty irrelevant, I reckon. He is probably doing and saying what his agent tells him to.
Andrew Fifita
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What he is quoted as saying or thinking now is pretty irrelevant, I reckon. He is probably doing and saying what his agent tells him to.
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Michael Lynagh (62)
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Ron Walden (29)
Find it funny that people who obviously spend time watching footy and typing away on Chat pages don't know who Fifita is. At lest we havent had the"not another league import" argument.
Very positive move from a ready made big hitting number 8 with a great running game and beautiful ball skills who is a rugby junior(probably both codes) coming home.
Very positive move from a ready made big hitting number 8 with a great running game and beautiful ball skills who is a rugby junior(probably both codes) coming home.
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
I find it funny that someone would be so naive to think that rugby league gets any press outside of Sydney or Brisbane.........
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Ron Walden (29)
i'm from the country and not so naive......just read the newspaper and watch TV oh and then there's the radio and this called the internet...dont they have those in ACT
While I think the internet has changed thinks a bit,I know where you are coming from,Slim.I lived in Melbourne in late 80's and it always used to amuse me when you tried to look up rugby(league or union)scores in the paper,they were grouped under the name rugby and you would see such things as St.George 16 d Canterbury 3,Randwick 24 d Eastwood 18 etc.You had to separate the union from the league clubs.
Seems like nothing has changed!
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Comeon mate, the context of the quote was affiliation, if you grow up in these areas you're going to know someone who is involved in or related to a person whose had dealing with a gang of some description. Polynesians moreso because of their wider community involvement through church and wider family groups.
The point i was making is that it's easy to draw a long bow when talking about gang involvement
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Alan Cameron (40)
I didn't know who karmichael Hunt or Izzy Falou were until they were signed by AFL teams and it was in the papers that two of the biggest names in NRL had been poached.
I wasn't even aware that the Storm had won all of those premierships until it was in the news that they were being taken back. Today, I still couldn't name three Storm players.
Still somehow managed to follow rugby though
WorkingClassRugger
Michael Lynagh (62)
You're not doing yourself any favours here mate. Contrary to the stereotype places like Western Sydney aren't swarming with gangs to the point practically everyone either know's or know's of someone in a gang.
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You have taken my comment out of context and that was that the media draws long bows on linking people with gang activities purely by affiliation.
It has nothing to do with racial stereotyping, in logan the issue has been highlighted numerous times:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...e-youths-top-cop-concedes-20130118-2cx0e.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...a-powerful-punch/story-fni3fr51-1226654050837
Anyway, il step away from this conversation now, if you want to continue it then PM me
It has nothing to do with racial stereotyping, in logan the issue has been highlighted numerous times:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...e-youths-top-cop-concedes-20130118-2cx0e.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...a-powerful-punch/story-fni3fr51-1226654050837
Anyway, il step away from this conversation now, if you want to continue it then PM me
Tomikin
David Codey (61)
I didn't know who karmichael Hunt or Izzy Falou were until they were signed by AFL teams and it was in the papers that two of the biggest names in NRL had been poached.
I wasn't even aware that the Storm had won all of those premierships until it was in the news that they were being taken back. Today, I still couldn't name three Storm players.
Still somehow managed to follow rugby though
Really ? Im surprised.. as a rugby fan you never heard of izzy or cam smith or cooper cronk (a young union player) What about Will Chambers .. Im not a big league fan or AFL fan.. but I know the star's and if you hadn;t heard of Izzy as a union fan (with the other league's before him) you have been living under a bridge with out a tv and cover your ears when people talk to you..
I know who Gary Abblet is .. and I've never watched a game of AFL in my life.
Bullrush
Geoff Shaw (53)
To say that being affiliated with a gang is a rite of passage for polynesian kids is offensive - bottom line.
People were talking about how Fifita had been in trouble as a youth and your comment was that this is just part of growing up as a polynesian in West Sydney and Logan. This is the norm, this is just what they do.
As a polynesian, I found that pretty offensive and to me, showed how little you know polynesians.
I'll step away now as well.
Go grab a copy of the Herald Sun. There is stuff regularly in there about the Storm. IIRC they still sponsor them.
Hawko
Tony Shaw (54)
Try living in South Australia. Murdoch's rag is the only game in town and it'll be a cold day in hell before rugby gets much of a mention.
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
That is never going to happen....
Same, but on principle. There are three things in life I don't pay for; parking, sex and newspapers. I figure I can get all three of them for free, so why pay for it.
As opposed to some of the other odd stuff on this thread so far?
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