As they say, never argue with an idiot because they'll simply bring you down to their level. So, I'm off...

Oh...how witty.
Reality is that not many people outside Warrington would know that Warrington existed if it weren't for the IRA.....you're Primrose and yellow shirt tale just goes to prove it more so than some imaginary southern ignorance....you'll probably find the IRA bomber was illiterate and thought he was in Wolverhampton



Apology has been made and generally accepted by posters so case closed

Durham Giant

I'd agree about Sky and Football, but their coverage of other sports is also superior to their coverage of RL. I was on holiday the week of the Open. Now the last thing I'd call myself is a golf fan. But it was being shown on Sky in the bar, and the coverage was superb. It got even me watching it!

What a nice chap/deity.

The reality is that this series of posts display ignorance and arrogance even for someone who refers to themselves as Call Me God and are bang out of order

From your incorrect referencing that the poster was from a "northern pit village", Warrington might not be well known nationally (we'll never know) but one thing is for sure it's coal mining tradition doesn't feature /exist, to trying and prove how clever/funny you can be by referring to a terrorist atrocity where two innocent children were killed, is the lowest thing I've seen on these boards.

I suggest that you seriously think again what you've posted and apologize, or think about taking a break

Barnaby wouldn't know Christ from a bar of soap and to use such a name on here is blasphemous. I'd like to see him use an Islamic name and see how far it gets him....

Wow! Just how low are you prepared to stoop so that you can believe you have the upper hand in a debate?

Your comments referencing a despicable act in which two young and innocent children died are both crass and disgusting.

I seriously hope that you are extremely embarrassed and are working up to an apology.

Is that an Official warning? I ask because another poster using my real name blatantly breaks the AUP.... Whilst my post, no matter how distasteful does not.
I repeat..... The arrogance that everyone should know that wire play in blue and yellow identifies the underlying problem with the game...... Its not even big in its heartlands....and the majority of people from the South would Be unable to find Warrington on a map......

I don’t think anyone from Warrington seriously minds whether people from the south can/can’t locate it on a map or are aware/oblivious to the colours of our playing strip.
As for your extremely distasteful attempt at mocking the Warrington bombing (a few posts earlier); I think that is a different matter altogether- probably the most distasteful post I’ve ever read on here.

Regardless of what you may think, your post was in extremely bad taste and will be pretty offensive to most decent people and especially those from Warrington.

Whether folk living south of Watford gap can find Warrington is irrelevant.

Then on reflection I apologise unreservedly. It was in bad taste and I am sorry

You are an absolutely disgusting excuse for a human being. Hopefully Karma will see you right.

Regards

King James

Call Me God, whilst making his point in the wrong way, does actually have a point though.

We can live in a little RL bubble sometimes and not realise how little attention most people pay to RL.

Whilst there’s lots we need to do in RL, I think it’s worth realising the same is true for other sports. Even football is losing some of its wider appeal in my opinion. People don’t sit down and watch the FA Cup Final for instance like they used to.

Most people’s exposure to sport is on tv and tv viewing is becoming much more compartmentalised as people cherry pick what they watch rather than just watching what is on. They also want to watch it when they want, not just when it’s on.

So it’s not just RL that’s losing some cross appeal but we’re not able to withstand it well or make it up elsewhere. The only exception to this appears to be international sport. That seems to still appeal. Which is why I think we need to prioritise internationals over the domestic game.

It was a somewhat stupid post and certainly in bad taste, but why the comments now 4 hours after he's apologised for it? We all do and say daft things, and let's move on now.

Fair play. No one’s perfect and I’m sure, in hindsight, that you didn’t mean it in the way it came across.

Football losing some of its wider appeal?

You must be joking. It's just had its best ever World Cup. Nothing in the whole of sport is bigger or better.

You missed the bit where I said about international sport and I was talking about sport in the UK. The World Cup was a success here primarily because England played well and played exciting football. If England had slogged their way to draws instead then there wouldn’t have been nearly the same appeal.

But as I said, I was talking about domestically anyway.

And you're a Rugby League supporter??

There was a lot more entertainment in the Russia World Cup, then there has been in the past few International Rugby League events. Anyone with eyes could see it's better.

Certainly the way to raise the profile of RL in the UK would be for England/GB to win an international series against Australia (or the World Cup)
In the early 90's we were nearly there and the game had a much higher profile nationally than it does today. At the time when Offiah was moving from Widnes to Wigan, I was working in Nottinghamshire, and the transfer was certainly a topic of conversation in the canteen. I doubt whether it would be today.

So true, and to be truthful, it's not actually even paid that much attention in the 'heartlands'. It is, I believe, one of the reasons the game struggles to expand and grow and is most definitely the reason for the vast majority of pie in the sky, fantasy expansion posts.

Todays news on the BBC at 6 sport had a report on the irish amateur womens hocky game, (not even our country) but failed to mention Rl at all, this us how far down the pecking we have become that a womens team from another country who are amateurs gets reported and we dont.

It's a disgrace!!!!
Why aren't they at home, cooking the family Sunday dinner?

Very true. When the Super League deal was done in 1995, it led the 6-00 pm BBC news.

Absolute joke that