It was the Featherstone v Halifax game on the TV the other night.

It really revved me up.

I couldn't help myself

I'd like to see Harold Bishop in a fist fight with Bert Newton.

With real fists....

Im beginning to think you're into that neighbours


under 5 foot and 15 stone??? The way he talks on here I thought he was Greg Inglis' more athletic cousin or something

Are you only saying that because Im black?

Have you seen a picture of that Thorpe bloke recently? More like a blue whale than a torpedo



These aussies don't half let themselves go quickly

You're not black, more scorched pork

He recently dropped a lawsuit against a French newspaper that said he used PHD's during his career.

I found that interesting.

Who? Harold Bishop?

The England RL team could do with some of those

The England RL team could do with some performance enhancing drugs

Oh thank god.
Its bedtime for the australians

I could picture barry and LF as Morecambe and Wise, paired together in their stripey jim jams

caption comp time!!!!!

No prizes for getting which one is the fat stupid one!

Another pic of them at a recent NRL bash;

How do you know LF is fat?

ok i'll bitewas a shame they release him so soon wasn't it....oh wait didn't he play over there for 5 years.

he's also one of the worst players in super league, didn't seem to stop him getting a contract in the great NRL

that kid must learn very quickly

he actually played 7/8 games iirc, and was Sydneys best player in most of them. surely that makes him one of the best players in england, since we always hear that your bottom teams are better then our top teams?


didn't watch many of his games, but he was coming back from a major injury so guess he won't have been in top form. either way yet another kid that got a contract in the NRL, your scouts really that poor? or is it your judgement?

as for Gould, i actually like him & most of what he says. talks a lot of sense, gives reasons for his views, explains everything. bar when it comes to english rugby, never gives any reasoning behind his view, just comes out with lines like "its so poor, its laughable" etc. it wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't/hasn't watch super league, and is just saying what most australians think/want to hear, 'that they're the best at everything'.
There is little doubt that the NRL is more competitive, and that a few of your top players are head and shoulders above ours, but the 2 styles of the leagues are too different to compare properly. and international rules of late have been played more in the favour of the NRL style (e.g. wrestling, holding down, to get slow play the balls), now i'm not saying england would have won if it was played more to super league style (and IMO should have done much more to accommodate the different style into they own play). i'm suggesting it is unfair to judge the merit of english rugby, solely on the score in these games.

one question i would like someone to put to gould is "if the super league is so 2nd rate/poor/crap/etc, why do quite a lot of your great players come over, and are either sh*te or distinctly average. e.g. matt king, tim smith, Riddell, cayless, Faumuina and so on"

25 pages on this crap. God the NRL playoffs must be a boring as the superleague playoffs. I can't wait until the end off the season so we can be bored at the lack of rugby instead of the lack of quality rugby.

Video on YT of a beached whale trying to play pool.

I'd just like to hear Gould come up with a positive suggestion for SL to improve - well actually more than one. reducing imports is something anyone can say. Fine. But how do we improve the quality of athletes/ junior development and coaching etc etc in order to become more competitive?

These are questions that anyone who loves the game should seek to answer in a positive way rather than just cr*p on everything. That is both dull and childish - LF and associated anoraks take note.



And even people like Gould would miss SL and international league if SL ceased to exist.

Playing with himself. As usual.

I can't warm to Gould because of his attitude to English R/L. If he was a true supporter of the game he would want to see it improve worldwide but to some throwback aussies the "English" are still the enemy with a capital E.

We all saw the Australian reaction to the last olympic games - could you imagine the screams if we beat them at RL



We all know how unlikely that is. Until we get a dynamic method of attracting and coaching kids to have a full skill set and understanding of the game, and then retaining them, we are lost.

There is some excellent work being done with kids in this country but no where near enough.

and the facilities as well.

Worrying story about Leigh East in League Express.

Why would a player be an idiot just because,in someones opinion,he isn't very good at RL?As far as I am aware,Mathers never slapped any woman or defecated in a hotel corridor as is the fashion amongst idiots over there.

Edited for accuracy GSF.