Well the Terrograph says it all on page 1. "Stop the boats" we don't want the undesirables entering the country, and underneath is a photo of Mark Gaznier. This pretty much sums up my mood about the rugby casts offs as well. Basically since the big money of international rugby dried up when the TV ratings did we have been forced to repatriate Rugby refugees are looking to return in the prospect of an vastly increased salary cap.
Forget the refugee's escaping from a war zone what about the English super league migrants escaping Euorzone tax havens. After a year of sunning himself on French Riviera the Gaz is back trying to impress the selectors, but with match stats of no line breaks, seven tackles and one missed tackle he has a long way to go to force his way into a starting spot in Dragons first grade - although a bench spot for NSW origin this year is not out of the question.
With the return of many league players from union the average height and weight of the wallabies backline has fallen from 191cm when Lotte and where's wendle where in there to 187cm today.
Why do we have to take them back, why can't we just keep developing and exporting talent, its our second biggest export after coal. If you abandon ship that's it pal your gone for good.
Even teams in a ultimate competitive advantage are still happy to pick casts offs. Remember these quotes;
"The team and I endorse the action of the QRL in dropping Israle for the good of the game" Darren Lockyer Sunday 2.30pm before the selected the Queensland team for game 2
"Welcome back mate" Darren, Tuesday 8am.
All the chickens are coming home to roost, flying in from their tax havens trying to escape the nuclear winter that is the inevitable collapse of the Eurozone curency. Hopefully it wont get to the stage where we not only get the expats back but we start getting all the European players escaping to play in NSW. We dont want to get to the situation that they are in with the Engish premier League Soccer, where only a third of players in the league are acctually English and they are generally the bottom third of players. So when it comes to the world cup they get thrashed.
No for the good of the game we need to stick to the system home grown talent and lets start by putting any player returning from overseas on Christmas island.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
There is no Future in Time Travel.
For those of you waiting to hear who is in the origin team, well as you all remember that traditionally game 3 in origin is where the selectors give up on their stupid theory and pick the best team we have. Great news - they have done at least one of those things - they have given up.
New South Wales selectors have gone for the approach "If you can't convince them confuse them". Yet again they are doing what Corduroy Pillows do - they make headlines. To show how they are planning for the future they made a player in his last 10 games of NRL captain and then selected virtually an entirely new team for game three. In game two, NSW wingers positional play meant most of them were closer to the bar than their opponents. So we have decided to teach them a lesson for their consistently bad reads in defence....................... by dropping all the forwards.
Into game three come Jason King, Snowden, Gallen and Greg Bird, Watmough. Would you believe that Greg Bird has the record of having played only 4 games but been man of the match twice in those games - well great news he has been selected for game three - that will stuff his average, he should have made a controversial withdrawal - Timana style.
In Other News
Its been a very depressing few weeks in sport - its not just the Origin, its the soccer, the rugby and the cricket. It seems that everywhere we go the news is depressing especially if you have a pommy mate within easy reach of his email. The one glimmer of hope came today when Jana Rawlinson announced that there was to much pressure on her to win in Australia and to much media scrutiny, so she was going to represent England in the next Olympics - Huzzah.
May I say Jana that it wasn't me putting pressure on you to win. I always thought you were a loser and still do. And just because the Poms have won their first one dayer against us in ten years does not make them a nation of sporting achievers.
Jana did of course say that the crushing weight of media scrutiny was to much in Australia - which of course is why she chose to issue a press release to say she was leaving instead of fading into the background like we had all hoped.
That's not to say that Jana leaves the sporting stage empty handed after winning a world title presumably held in North Korea or somewhere similar and of course she narrowly beat Tamsin Lewis in for the title of most committed drama queen in the 2008 Australian Olympic team.
So its pack your bags Jana - but if you can convince lay down Sally to go with you we will waive the invoice for your time at the institute of sport.
New South Wales selectors have gone for the approach "If you can't convince them confuse them". Yet again they are doing what Corduroy Pillows do - they make headlines. To show how they are planning for the future they made a player in his last 10 games of NRL captain and then selected virtually an entirely new team for game three. In game two, NSW wingers positional play meant most of them were closer to the bar than their opponents. So we have decided to teach them a lesson for their consistently bad reads in defence....................... by dropping all the forwards.
Into game three come Jason King, Snowden, Gallen and Greg Bird, Watmough. Would you believe that Greg Bird has the record of having played only 4 games but been man of the match twice in those games - well great news he has been selected for game three - that will stuff his average, he should have made a controversial withdrawal - Timana style.
In Other News
Its been a very depressing few weeks in sport - its not just the Origin, its the soccer, the rugby and the cricket. It seems that everywhere we go the news is depressing especially if you have a pommy mate within easy reach of his email. The one glimmer of hope came today when Jana Rawlinson announced that there was to much pressure on her to win in Australia and to much media scrutiny, so she was going to represent England in the next Olympics - Huzzah.
May I say Jana that it wasn't me putting pressure on you to win. I always thought you were a loser and still do. And just because the Poms have won their first one dayer against us in ten years does not make them a nation of sporting achievers.
Jana did of course say that the crushing weight of media scrutiny was to much in Australia - which of course is why she chose to issue a press release to say she was leaving instead of fading into the background like we had all hoped.
That's not to say that Jana leaves the sporting stage empty handed after winning a world title presumably held in North Korea or somewhere similar and of course she narrowly beat Tamsin Lewis in for the title of most committed drama queen in the 2008 Australian Olympic team.
So its pack your bags Jana - but if you can convince lay down Sally to go with you we will waive the invoice for your time at the institute of sport.
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