Talking Footy

RUGBY league bared its soul in a horrible week for the code.

This primitive combativeness with an oval ball, which northerners term a sport, should be ashamed of itself.

Life is about teaching and educating, setting standards for others to at least make them try to understand right from wrong.

Rugby League is not helping.

It undermines parents and teachers and governments who are hell-bent on making society a safe and respectable place.

The actions this week and the response from the defenders of the sport were caveman like.

On Monday night, New Zealand Warriors player Russell Packer urinated on the ground.

That's the nicest way to put it.

To be more descriptive to emphasis the animal-like aspect of Packer's act, he stood on the field, spread his legs and pissed himself, the contents of which were seen dripping down his right leg.

Packer shook himself as a dog would do. Why? Who knows, because the deed was done.

A player in one of Australia's national codes actually pissed himself and the rest of the world laughed.

Yep, Rugby League, you should be proud of that.

Packer was fined $15,000.

"When u gotta go u gotta go lol," he tweeted after the match.

Social media aside, this mentality is not 2013. It's more 2013BC.

Rugby League chiefs should be embarrassed.

Embarrassed that their code's education programs, which are run through schools and learning centres, somehow allows a player to think it appropriate to use the ground as a urinal.

They should also be embarrassed by their punishment. He doesn't even miss a game.

Then there was State-of-Origin, a kind of Olympics for all cavemen.

Wednesday night's assault of Nate Myles by Paul Gallen was lauded widely across the nation.

He set the tone, they said.

It was the cornerstone of victory, they trumpeted.

That Gallen got a one-week suspension for the combination left-right and uppercut, was even condemned by Myles, whose brain must have been rattled when he said the ''fight adds theatre to Origin''.

I know it happens, it's a contact sport played by men who like to inflict damage, but, still, it can't be tolerated.

Gallen got one week for it, and slaps on the backs from the NSW coaches, his teammates, and most likely all of New South Wales.

If it happened in the AFL, which seemed to be the question most wanted answered in the aftermath, he would be looking at 10 games on the sidelines.

And most sound observers would agree with the punishment.

It's a strange world.

Every weekend there for a while, Sunday morning newspapers carried stories about young men being punched and killed at Melbourne bars and nightclubs.

The follow-up on Monday would be his parents.

They are heart-wrenching stories. Mums and dads weep and shake and every bloody one of us looks at them and thanks God it wasn't your child or someone you knew.

Police lament at the insanity of it all.

It is insane. One-punch heroes become murderers.

And police once again implore parents and teachers and state governments to help stamp out violence.

Then Origin comes along.

Violence is not only an appeal, it's accepted as the norm.

Psychologists, I'm sure, would argue the glorification of such acts filters through the streets.

I'm also sure others would argue that it's men v men, playing for the pride of their state, and that I'm just an AFL sucker-job trying to get a backslap from headquarters.

It's not about that.

It's about identity and self-worth, about what you want people to think of you as a sport.

Rugby League failed this week.

At least the beers were cold in the NSW changerooms. Anyone got a bottle opener?

He said he was unhappy with the decision at the time.

His mood wasn't helped by the one-game suspension handed to NSW's Paul Gallen in Wednesday night's Origin opener - for landing a flurry of punches on Queensland's Nate Myles that would have attracted far greater penalties in the AFL.

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"I was quite surprised when it all happened," Brown said of his own ban.

"We know what Paul Gallen did last night in the State of Origin.

"He only gets a week for what he did and I get two for that.

"It's just bordering on a bit soft, I think, so I was disappointed.

"It's different codes but we're men, mate.

"We're men and we play a contact sport."

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eelofwest wrote:

Wow 2 players sorting out things on the field and leaving it on the field,

Stewie wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

Wow 2 players sorting out things on the field and leaving it on the field,

Sorting out things like taking a piss on the ground?

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

Wow 2 players sorting out things on the field and leaving it on the field,

Sorting out things like taking a piss on the ground?

when ya gotta go
ya gotta go

we have limited interchange in our game shithead

10 a match

VFL has 10 every 5 minutes

what a soft low bludger of a game
netball is tougher

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

Wow 2 players sorting out things on the field and leaving it on the field,

Sorting out things like taking a piss on the ground?

when ya gotta go
ya gotta go

we have limited interchange in our game shithead

10 a match

VFL has 10 every 5 minutes

what a soft low bludger of a game
netball is tougher

Swans4ever wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

Wow 2 players sorting out things on the field and leaving it on the field,

Sorting out things like taking a piss on the ground?

when ya gotta go
ya gotta go

we have limited interchange in our game shithead

10 a match

VFL has 10 every 5 minutes

what a soft low bludger of a game
netball is tougher

Sure it is Raiderdave, sure it is - your blokes wouldn't know how to run - No one in NRL could run out of sight on a dark night in fog! All fat, unskillful boof heads like you! Doesn't take a great deal of skill to throw the ball my 1yr old can now do that! But I guess it's perfect for simpletons - like you!

Xman wrote:

Ugly scenes on the footy field deterring parents from allowing children to play
DAVID SYGALL June 09, 2013

Tussle: Steve Thomas with his rugby playing sons, James (left) and Luke, in Kingsgrove. Photo: Janie Barrett

Marc Flior and his children, Tyler and Casey, love many sports and had fun watching the State of Origin together. But the idea of them playing junior rugby league is out of the question.
''I wouldn't let my kids play league. It's not a debate or discussion,'' Mr Flior said. ''My kids understand that I want them to play a sport that they enjoy and won't get injured.''
Tyler, 10, and Casey, 8, play for Easts Football Club, where their father is the vice-president. The pair were keen to be involved in soccer, partly because their father played, too.
On Thursday night, dad and the kids watched a replay of the State of Origin, as the game had finished too late the previous night. But Mr Flior found himself in a challenging position after the NSW captain, Paul Gallen, was involved in a punch-up with Queensland player Nate Myles.
''It's exceptionally difficult to explain to kids that fighting is not acceptable behaviour when they see it in a game like that,'' he said.
''Then they see that everyone's talking about it. I think Gallen made a very interesting comment, that every time you see an advert for these games, they show these incidents. They try to hype it up. It's really a two-edged sword.''


In the SMH

Seems like its not only Victorians who are appalled by the fighting in SOO.

Raiderdave wrote:

Swans4ever wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

Wow 2 players sorting out things on the field and leaving it on the field,

Sorting out things like taking a piss on the ground?

when ya gotta go
ya gotta go

we have limited interchange in our game shithead

10 a match

VFL has 10 every 5 minutes

what a soft low bludger of a game
netball is tougher

Sure it is Raiderdave, sure it is - your blokes wouldn't know how to run - No one in NRL could run out of sight on a dark night in fog! All fat, unskillful boof heads like you! Doesn't take a great deal of skill to throw the ball my 1yr old can now do that! But I guess it's perfect for simpletons - like you!

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bigger
stronger
faster

a typical Victorian rules players


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wow
F me .... a sausage roll stat...... something people

how could these suvivors from a refugees camp
handle this lot





the skinny little sheilas you play vfl are an embarrassment
they get interchanged 375 times a game
they are lolly legged gimps who wouldn't last 5 minutes in a netball game with girls let alone face the above powerhouse athletes

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

eelofwest wrote:

Wow 2 players sorting out things on the field and leaving it on the field,

Sorting out things like taking a piss on the ground?

when ya gotta go
ya gotta go