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and the bbc are fawning over the 28,000 crowd as a record for a regular season game at a recognised home crowd. 28,000? no accounting for taste eh.......

It would be good if the good folk of Newcastle turn out in similar numbers for SLs weekend

orrell lad, so is rl parasitic when it uses murrayfield, dw stadium, millenium stadium, thomond pk, the stoop, st james pk etc?

thats not forgetting the hive, wembley, etihad, the k.c, old trafford and even gillinghams pit

and the galpharm. and elland road. have i forgotten any?

i forgot the most ironic one... twickenham

You've included a few that for one legitimate reason or another RL has every right to play in, it just shows your ignorance!

Indeed, but given wasps......sorry, parasitic wasps do actually own Half of the pitch they apparently ripped up, they are in a better position than a good deal of professional RL clubs.

Whoever said you can't fool all of the people all of the time was clearly wrong.

Sc-avenger, as you full well know I was making a legitimate point that we are hardly in a position to mock other sports about parasitical behaviour, given we use either loaned or shared stadiums. The fact you ignored my main point to focus on the minutiae shows your... ignorance

'We'


So we are supposed to believe that someone who has so far only posted to defend rugby union, is a rugby league fan. Yeah, really.

And moving into a stadium built with your club in mind just as much as the football club or using it for a cup final is hardly parasitic behaviour. Buying a stadium in a town with no connection to the club, draping the statues in your clubs flag and doing everything you can to marginalise the locals is. Just ask Wasps, Sale Sharks, Saracens and London Irish.

Ha Ha er Not!

It's so childish to ise someone's name to attempt a cheap and pathetic dig.

The fact that you had to use stadiums at which Rugby League has a share of tenancy, ownership or was originally part of the grant applications for funding means your point is illegitimate and highlights your bafoonity and ignorance!

Please do not use the Royal "we" when refering to genuine Rugby League fans, you are not one of us. You are a Union follower, a subservient alter ego and a troll!

i am a lover of both sports, we do exist, though probably not in your mind. as for the name, its called banter

if u can't take it, don't give it

It is a hanging offence on RL boards to openly suggest that union and league fans can sometimes be the same person.

I'm curious as to how Sam Burgess is doing, is there an appropriate thread?

You could try the "other sports" forum. It's where all RU chat used to be posted when this place was moderated

30 posts of Union trolling says otherwise.

Wow you've got more reverse gears than an Italian tank!

Showing your age there Gambit!

I just assumed the swear filter had been at work on galliant's post there. Along with autocorrect on his phone. Mine keeps changing "in" to "of" for some reason too.

Surprisingly, this forum is moderated. It's just that on other boards the moderators have premature eject-ulat ion syndrome for anyone who doesn't agree with THEIR point of view. If RLFANS was run by a publisher of an opinionated RL rag that was borderline fascist, or by OKERS who's top posters and moderators treat it like a personal score settling forum for perceived injustices on other forums, then I suspect we'd have as few threads and posters as they
I was banned from one such forum for questioning the morality of a MOD claiming the only bad thing about the Irish famine was that more Irish didn't die......apparently that's not disgusting racism apparently but "banter"?

I think Sam Burgess is playing tonight. But is for the A team so guess it probably won't be on BT Sport.

Actually my affection for all things Purdy is what inspires me

This coming from a poster who earlier in the thread bravely called another man a coward whilst hiding behind his keyboard

have you called Guscott a coward to his face yet? Of course you haven't. I can hear those gears in reverse now