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chocolate_lover said:
You wrote all that and don't even care about how the Kangaroos go?
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There is a difference between caring about the match and caring about the result of the match.

You will find that I do in fact care about the fact that the match is occurring. After all, I have Barrett, Cooper and Gasnier to love and care for.

What I care about primarily is that my boys plaly well and don't get injured.

What I don't care about is whether Australia lose 48 - 6 or win 48 - 6.

There used to be a time when international matches were the pinnacle of rugby league.

Unfortunately for the game, News Limited decided to get involved. Ever since the creation of the National Rugby League, we have witnessed the sport become commercialised, teams have become 'brands', and the real passion for the locality of a team is gone.

You will find that today, we support "the Dragons" or "the Roosters" or "the Sharks". You're not supporting St George or the Eastern Suburbs or Cronulla-Sutherland, but rather the team's moniker.

So often I wish that I could just go back in time to watch rugby league back in the late 40s, the 50s, 60s, 70s. Not because that's when my team was successful, but because that's when rugby league was real, proper .. I've had this discussion before with Brogan from memory, so he (and others like Bookie, fornstar etc) also know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, rant over.
 
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That brought a tear to my eye Rob.
Maybe its the nostalgia talking but there's something about league pre-1997 that just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
Memories, light the corners of my mind
Misty water-coloured memories...of the way we were.

PS: I miss the Bears, watching Easts play them at North Sydney Oval when I was just a whipper snapper is one of my fonder memories.
 
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RanyofuKenyan? said:
That brought a tear to my eye Rob.
Maybe its the nostalgia talking but there's something about league pre-1997 that just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
Memories, light the corners of my mind
Misty water-coloured memories...of the way we were.

PS: I miss the Bears, watching Easts play them at North Sydney Oval when I was just a whipper snapper is one of my fonder memories.
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Yeah, I once got out to see a St George vs North Sydney match at North Sydney Oval too .. even though I would have only been about 6 or 7, the experience lives on.

The days when Penrith, Wests and Parramatta were full of working class blokes.

The days when rugby league was something the players did on the weekend not for primary income, but because they wanted to represent their local area and they were proud just pulling on the jersey of their team.

The days when salaries were not $300,000 a year but rather $3,000 a year.

There is a passage in Huxley's amazing novel Brave New World which reads:

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."

"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."

"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphillis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.

"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

There is something so pertinent in that extract .. it makes me think of rugby league, and just wanting it to be 'normal' again. Back how it used to be.

History, perhaps, truly is bunk.
 
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Nup. The sport might have been fucked well'ard by Murdoch, but at least he gave out heaps of free shit. I have at least $500 worth of Canberra Raiders and SuperLeague merchandise, whether training shirts, balls, caps, flags and posters etc. What has the NRL given me? A team that performs at a mediocre level with no superstars. And if you cant give me 1997 back, 1994 would do just fine :D
 
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