www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 5834920515 at least hes refusing the offer from the nazis in france

www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 5834920515 at least hes refusing the offer from the nazis in france

Do you realise how offensive that is to 99.99999% of people in France, including people involved in French RU?

if i were a french RU fan id love the nazis as they saved my sport

in 6 years of fair competition, RL wiped union. many former rich union clubs were broke.

It's good news for RL and the Cowboys if he does end up signing although there gonna lose Luke O'Donnell after this season which will be a blow, he's there best forward IMO and one of the best in the NRL but Thurston is so important to them and there's probably no other club that could beat the Cowboys offer.
He wants an extra $40k from the NRL, i'd tell him to do one, he can sign a contract for more than $2m so 40k is pocket change.

Interesting times ahead at the Cowboys - some guys in that team are going to be under paid to support this contract which is $A500,000 a year - that is a big chunk of the cap.

Let's hope for his sake his form doesn't drop

Greedy bludger, let him go.

Dally......I know how much you hate RU...... but please be careful using the word Nazi...........it's a very emotive word, and not to be said casually.

RU turned to the nazis for help in competing with RL. this is a historical fact.

the sport has to deal with it.

RU is truly evil

Get a grip - what happened over 70 years ago is no reflection as to the relative states of either game today and the people that now run them - grow up and get a life

where was the last union WC held.

without the nazis it wouldnt have happened.

union in france is still doing similar stuff to RL today eg USAP

all you hear from union people is how their game has an international profile we lack

when we try and succeed at it, what does union do, get the sport banned.

seriously you have to hate the sport

Get a grip - the RU world cup has been held in the three continents in which the sport has a serious presence - Europe, Africa and Australasia - it has nothing to do with the German occupation that the RUWC was held in France.

The fact after 70 years French RL is in the state it is down to two things - administration ineptitude and the public's preference for another sport.

RL - great product that it is - struggles to expand in Australia beyond its traditional base - you only have to look at Melbourne and Canberra. Melbourne the most successful side in the SL era, a club in existence since 1998 with no competition, in the second biggest city in Australia struggles to get 13,000 a game. The same can be said of Canberra. In the UK we have the same issue - the sport is not wanted outside of its heartland. You love the sport more than anyone - but not enough to attend games on a regular basis.

I will never understand why so many people go and watch soccer but the attendances don't lie - unless you are recording for the NRL

. The simple fact is this; whilst we think RL is the greatest sport on earth that view is not shared by the vast majority of the public who attend sporting fixtures

yes the last union WC was held in france

if not for the nazis it wouldnt have

It sure would - you know and I know - bitter or what - as I said get a life, start by getting a job

anytime theres a fair contest between league and union we win.

thats why union has to cheat to survive.

no nazis, no union in france.

every nation which played at the union world cup or plays france at international level is therefore tainted.

Dumb.

Does the institute you're in know you have access to a computer ?.

sorry im just reading forbidden game again.

great book.

seriously a must for all RL fans

Lets be honest, Thurston has come out of this latest round of negotiations very poorly IMO - just comes across entirely as a greedy sod. Basically unless he wanted to move to France there were no other options open to him as the ARU has stopped offering big bucks to NRL players.

Rubbish.

The rugby league fraternity in France, none of whom you would have ever met, don't agree with you at all.

The thing you idiots who apologise for the Vichyballers don't understand is the oppression didn't finish in 1941.

It continues to this day.

Just in different forms.

Do you really think a sport prepared to associate with Nazism and to do anything to rugby league would suddenly stop - particularly when there was no penalty for the 1941 actions?

I'm pretty sure those 14 year olds running around French playing fields would be offended at being called Nazis aren't you?

I've spent plenty of time in France and like most countries the vast majority of the population don't give a fart about the squabbles of two minor sports.

well if nobody cares about either sport,nobody is going to care if i call french union fans as in league with the nazis eh mate?

what union did in france is not only shameful, but typical of a sport that is as s**t as it

compete fairly on the field, dont cheat

If they are playing union, the truth is their sport continues to benefit from those actions.

Sadly for them.

And seemingly for you.

ah that makes it ok then, the NAZI scum suckers. Yes that includes you litttle pierre. What do you mean it was 65 years ago and your only 6? Doesn't make you any less of a Nazi you union loving swastika wearing facist.