: Fri May 22, 2009 11:11 pm
crowt123 wrote:
shudds.. Edit bigal1. nough said ! and it smells too!
Disgraceful comment.
In rugby league, we have the greatest sporting spectacle in the world, and it is a shame that we have not been able to make inroads into the communities that populate many of the so-called heartland towns and cities. If someone is prepared to cross that white line with a rugby ball in their hand, I salute you, regardless of level, ethinicity, religion, etc. To post anything that suggests that someone from a non-white background is unwelcome at a rugby league event shows a lack of knowledge of a game that has always ignored colour prejudices, that was fielding black players decades before the Merseyside football teams were able to applaud themselves for not throwing banana skins onto the pitch for doing the same, and was the first Great Britain team to have a non-white captain in Ellery Hanley. And this comment came from someone who supports a team that has played in a ground that has been in a diverse neighbourhood for decades that has rarely objected to our presence and disruption that we cause.
I lived in St Catherine Street in the early 1970's, and it was as diverse then as it is now, and so shame on you.
Rant over.
and still do 
