ManlyBacker
Winging it
<p>Goat-shagger, wog, dago, greaseball - I was called the lot and worse during my time playing rugby league. And it was all water off a Greek lamb's back.</p>
<p>I agree with Joey Johns when he says the furore surrounding Billy Slater's sledging of Newcastle forward Cory Paterson over his mental illness is just political correctness gone mad.<noscript></noscript></p>
<p>What goes on out on the field should stay there.</p>
<p>If Paterson has got such thin skin, he needs to get out of the game.</p>
<p>It's a man's game played by men. We've become pussycats.</p>
<p>And for the feline lovers out there, yes, I'm into sledging cats too.</p>
<p>Anything said on the field goes in my book – whether it be about a bloke's race, his marital situation, his sexuality, his weight, his lack of hair.</p>
<p>If you can't hack it then go and put on a skirt and play netball.</p>
<p>Yes, a sexist remark. Won't the hairy arm-pitted feminists come after me now!</p>
<p>I am woman, hear me bore.</p>
<p>Slater's rehearsed apology via a club-issued statement was pathetic.</p>
<p>Thanks to this ridiculous PC world in which we now live, the Storm felt compelled to act and make Billy confess his sins.</p>
<p>There was an incident a few weeks ago in an under-16 game where one black front-rower called another black front-rower a 'black c..t'.</p>
<p>Do you know where that went? It went to the human rights commission.</p>
<p>Unbelievable.</p>
<p>What would have happened had it been two white boys and one had called the other a 'white c..t'?</p>
<p>Exactly. Nothing.</p>
<p>We have gone way over the top with this bulls..t.</p>
<p>If you're black, you're black and if you're white, you’re white.</p>
<p>Talking of BS, I still can’t believe Manly's not sitting on two competition points.</p>
<p>Brett Favre's pass - ah sorry, Kris Keating's pass – to Joel Reddy was so forward it knocked the pie out of the hand of a bloke sitting in the third row.</p>
<p>The Bengal Lancer who presided over that shocking decision – touchie Gavin Reynolds – will have more time to visit OPSM after being dumped, but that won’t do anything to appease Manly fans.</p>
<p>I think the time has come to replace NRL referees' boss Robert Finch and get someone in there who's actually blown a whistle in their life.</p>
<p>Finch is a nice enough bloke but he sounds like my old Greek mate Pythagoras when he tries to explain how a five-metre forward pass was actually not as bad as it looked because of the angle of the hands at the point of release and the aerodynamics of the ball and the positioning of the sun in relation to the moon.</p>
<p>My blind grandmother knew that pass was forward – and she's been dead for 25 years!</p>
<p>Souths were the other team I felt sorry for in Round 2.</p>
<p>They fought and fought and fought to get in a winning position against Gold Coast only for some pedantic refereeing to rob them.</p>
<p>Anyway, time to talk my favourite subject – money.</p>
<p>Put a few drachmas on this all-up: Dragons, Storm, Sea Eagles, Titans, Broncos into the Rabbitohs.</p>
<p>You can thank me now or later, I don't mind.</p>
<a href="http://www.silvertails.net/news/4658-zorba-harden-up-or-ship-out.html">Read the full article</a>
<p>I agree with Joey Johns when he says the furore surrounding Billy Slater's sledging of Newcastle forward Cory Paterson over his mental illness is just political correctness gone mad.<noscript></noscript></p>
<p>What goes on out on the field should stay there.</p>
<p>If Paterson has got such thin skin, he needs to get out of the game.</p>
<p>It's a man's game played by men. We've become pussycats.</p>
<p>And for the feline lovers out there, yes, I'm into sledging cats too.</p>
<p>Anything said on the field goes in my book – whether it be about a bloke's race, his marital situation, his sexuality, his weight, his lack of hair.</p>
<p>If you can't hack it then go and put on a skirt and play netball.</p>
<p>Yes, a sexist remark. Won't the hairy arm-pitted feminists come after me now!</p>
<p>I am woman, hear me bore.</p>
<p>Slater's rehearsed apology via a club-issued statement was pathetic.</p>
<p>Thanks to this ridiculous PC world in which we now live, the Storm felt compelled to act and make Billy confess his sins.</p>
<p>There was an incident a few weeks ago in an under-16 game where one black front-rower called another black front-rower a 'black c..t'.</p>
<p>Do you know where that went? It went to the human rights commission.</p>
<p>Unbelievable.</p>
<p>What would have happened had it been two white boys and one had called the other a 'white c..t'?</p>
<p>Exactly. Nothing.</p>
<p>We have gone way over the top with this bulls..t.</p>
<p>If you're black, you're black and if you're white, you’re white.</p>
<p>Talking of BS, I still can’t believe Manly's not sitting on two competition points.</p>
<p>Brett Favre's pass - ah sorry, Kris Keating's pass – to Joel Reddy was so forward it knocked the pie out of the hand of a bloke sitting in the third row.</p>
<p>The Bengal Lancer who presided over that shocking decision – touchie Gavin Reynolds – will have more time to visit OPSM after being dumped, but that won’t do anything to appease Manly fans.</p>
<p>I think the time has come to replace NRL referees' boss Robert Finch and get someone in there who's actually blown a whistle in their life.</p>
<p>Finch is a nice enough bloke but he sounds like my old Greek mate Pythagoras when he tries to explain how a five-metre forward pass was actually not as bad as it looked because of the angle of the hands at the point of release and the aerodynamics of the ball and the positioning of the sun in relation to the moon.</p>
<p>My blind grandmother knew that pass was forward – and she's been dead for 25 years!</p>
<p>Souths were the other team I felt sorry for in Round 2.</p>
<p>They fought and fought and fought to get in a winning position against Gold Coast only for some pedantic refereeing to rob them.</p>
<p>Anyway, time to talk my favourite subject – money.</p>
<p>Put a few drachmas on this all-up: Dragons, Storm, Sea Eagles, Titans, Broncos into the Rabbitohs.</p>
<p>You can thank me now or later, I don't mind.</p>
<a href="http://www.silvertails.net/news/4658-zorba-harden-up-or-ship-out.html">Read the full article</a>
