brad hodge calls it right !, page-15

Let's just imagine that your ridiculous exaggerations were indeed factual mick.....lol.

Even if that was the case, does it come as a surprise to you that most mothers would rather their children be protected from basic boofhead thuggery, rather than play a game where thuggery is about all it has to offer like rugby league.....

Lets face it, Limited skill, stops every few seconds to wait for someone to get up while players attempt to hold him down as long as they can to get some sort of touchy wouchy thing happening, player runs five metres before he's wrestled down by three players who are instructed to 'dance' with him by their coaches, and of course the raptuous applause that follows a cheap shot that leaves one of the boofs lying unconscious on the ground, while the commentators who fear that thuggery might be removed from their freakshow rave on with, "there was nothing intentional in that".

Fair dinkum mate. You would have to be joking. Next time you sit down to watch a game of league, take a stop watch with you and calculate fairly, just how much time throughout the 80 minutes is consumed by players being held up, wrestled to the ground, trying to get up off the ground, packing and putting their heads in meaningless scrums etc, and then look at the percentage of the game that involves 'actual' ball play.

You will be quite surprised. No wonder they don't turn up to watch it......lol.