mungos want to ban converts from playing again (yeeeess, gooood, goooogd)

[RugbyFuture]

Kick traitor Israel Folau out of NRL forever

* Steve Ricketts
* From: The Daily Telegraph
* April 30, 2010 12:00AM

FORMER Test centre Tony Currie has called for Israel Folau to be banned for life from returning to rugby league if the Broncos star switches to rugby union with the Melbourne Rebels.

Currie said rugby league had to take a stand against code defectors and reward loyalty, but also made it clear he was not singling out Folau.

He said North Queensland Cowboys captain Johnathan Thurston should be in the same boat if he switched codes, with French union clubs interested in his services.

Thurston reaffirmed this week it was a choice between the Cowboys and union and he would not play for a rival NRL club.

A veteran of eight Tests for Australia and 13 State of Origin games for Queensland between 1982 and '89, Currie said he was concerned the whole culture of rugby league was being ruined by a grab for cash.

"There is not enough money in the game to sustain the wages some players are asking," said Currie who was part of the management team of the Indigenous All Stars side which defeated the NRL All Stars in February.

"I say, let them go if players want to switch to union or AFL, but ban them from returning to our game as they often do looking to set themselves up for life after football, like Wendell Sailor.

"Good luck to Wendell with his media career, but I don't want to see that situation happening over and over again.

"How old is Thurston? 27. There were 10 or more years put into the kid to get him to where he is today. All that money, time and effort by coaches, the ladies in the canteen, the people who wash the jerseys.

"The players forget that. If they want to go, I say 'See you later', but don't try to come back for a big pay day after two or three years in another code.

"You've got to reward loyalty and remember the development work of many people, even if the players don't.

"Too many players want to take, take, take and give nothing back. I think some are a bit greedy and if $400,000 is not enough it's obvious the culture has to change.

"We have to take a stand and the players have to know there will be consequences."

Besides Sailor, other players to return to league from union include Timana Tahu, Lote Tuqiri, Mat Rogers, Clinton Schifcofske, Ryan McGoldrick, Henry Paul, Brad Thorn (now back with rugby) and British internationals Brian Carney (who is now a league commentator) and Lee Smith.

Broncos CEO Bruno Cullen said plans to ban players from returning to rugby league had been discussed before.

"It is an issue that gets raised, but in some ways you bite off your nose to spite your face," Cullen said.

"It would be hard to argue that the guys who have returned to league recently haven't added value to the game."

St George Illawarra's South African-born prop Jarrod Saffy is expected to confirm a switch of codes in 2010 to join the Rebels next year. Saffy came to the Dragons from Sydney University Rugby Union.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...t-of-nrl-forever/story-e6frexnr-1225860393462

seems they didnt learn from rugby's mistakes

 

[Epi]

Its just one muppets opinion. They should be able to play whatever game they choose.

Fuck the telegraph publishes some non-stories. You wouldn't know there's a big wide world out there...

 

[Blue]

A collective fuckyall.

 

[RugbyFuture]

i'd encourage it, could do wonders for destroying league or making it assimilate back into rugby

 

[Langthorne]

Good news - maybe be won't have to suffer so many duff mungos coming in

 

[DPK]

Dally Messenger.

 

[Sully]

There is no way it could work! How would they stop someone signing for a League team?

 

[stoff]

And what about all the junior rugby players who signed NRL contracts. Better make sure that no rugby player ever plays league. "All that money, time and effort by coaches, the ladies in the canteen, the people who wash the jerseys."

Dickhead.

 

[PhucNgo]

Can we please not give these dickheads airtime. And besides, I'm in mourning. :'(

 

[Thomond78]

Some of us are old enough to remember the raids by boofball on rugby. The way that the bastards used rape Wales in particular - Davies, Bateman, Quinnell, etc, etc.

And the way that the fuckers used scream about the ban on playing rugby if you'd gone north being sooooo awful.

So, my considered response to their pleas is:
:violin:
:bird:
:bootyshake:

 

[Pfitzy]

Yep. Cry me a river Currie you fucktard. That's the problem with leaguies: they forget history when it suits them for "the greatest game on earth".

 

[AussieDominance]

Surely the 'greatest game on earth' has to be played in more than about 4 countries :lmao:

 

[RugbyReg]

ummm, isn't this what rugby used to do to their players when they switched? Once you played league you could never play rugby again?

 

[wamberal]

ummm, isn't this what rugby used to do to their players when they switched? Once you played league you could never play rugby again?

Absolutely, a player who even trialled for a league team - unpaid - was banned from ever returning to rugby. Banned for life.

The worst example of prejudice that I know of was when triple international Michael Cleary, the local member of State Parliament, was refused his membership application at Eastwood Rugby Club, because he had played league.

I don't like league as a game (although I played it, and used to love it when it resembled rugby instead of just imitating it), but some of the amateur days crap that went on was just sickening.

 

[Aussie D]

ummm, isn't this what rugby used to do to their players when they switched? Once you played league you could never play rugby again?

The difference was rugby was "amatuer" and league players were paid. Rugby as an "amatuer" sport would not allow professionals into its ranks, no matter what sport in which they earnt their money. Hence the life bans on any player turning professional.

If league choose to go down this path good luck to them but I don't like their chances of achieving it as it would be a restraint of trade.

 

[Epi]

The difference was rugby was "amatuer" and league players were paid. Rugby as an "amatuer" sport would not allow professionals into its ranks, no matter what sport in which they earnt their money. Hence the life bans on any player turning professional.

Sure... And players like Campo stayed in rugby just for the love of it...

 

[RugbyFuture]

MUNGO ALERTs, MUNGO ALERTS

 

[Epi]

MUNGO ALERTs, MUNGO ALERTS

WTF?

 

[RugbyReg]

The difference was rugby was "amatuer" and league players were paid. Rugby as an "amatuer" sport would not allow professionals into its ranks, no matter what sport in which they earnt their money. Hence the life bans on any player turning professional.

Sure... And players like Campo stayed in rugby just for the love of it...

exactly. The whole 'we only play with amatuers' thing was also used by the Olympics as a classist divide. The only people who could do amatuer sport were the wealthier ones so restricting sport to 'amatuer' was just an endeavour to keep the 'working class' out of sport (be it rugby or the Olympics etc).

If Rugby administrators weren't such a bunch of wankers at the beginning of the last century we wouldn't have league today.

 

[Biffo]

If Rugby administrators weren't such a bunch of wankers at the beginning of the last century we wouldn't have league today.

Right on the button, Mate. As rugby administrators have been such wankers for so long, how do they proliferate?