Burn Down Canberra posted:

Union is boring and only played by upper class people. It was also backed by literal nazis during world war 2 so there is that shameful history. League on the other hand is fast and exciting and is a working class sport.

In NSW some schools actually ban rugby league on class lines. No school bans rugby union its just nobody wants to play it because its boring and its only use is a social event for fat north shore aristocrats

hambeet posted:

what about real footy ay?

Don Dongington posted:

The upper class calling their code "union" is the best self-own ever.

The Australian posted:

Scott Morrison has portrayed himself as a one-eyed Cronulla Sharks fan but it wasn’t that long ago that he preferred rugby union while also being a supporter of the AFL’s Western Bulldogs.

Mr Morrison has publicly declared he was a fan of the Western Bulldogs and called AFL a “great game” and the AFL grand final the “greatest show in Oz”, despite last week saying he did not have an AFL team.

The Prime Minister’s quotes about AFL — made in 2009 — are reminiscent of fellow Sydneysider Malcolm Turnbull calling the Melbourne-based game “the most exciting football code”, to the chagrin of working-class NRL fans in his home state.

Mr Morrison, who last week tasked comedian Peter Helliar with finding him an AFL team, even bragged he was singing the Western Bulldogs’ theme song after the team had a win in 2009.

“(Scott Morrison) is singing sons of the west, red, white and blue, we’ll come out snarling bulldogs thru and thru (sic) go doggies,” Mr Morrison tweeted.

He said he supported the Victorian team instead of the Sydney Swans because then Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade introduced him to the “great game”.

“And loyalty counts,” Mr Morrison tweeted.

Mr Morrison has promoted his links with rugby league since gaining the Liberal leadership last month, appearing on the NRL Footy Show while taking every opportunity to talk up his team, the Cronulla Sharks.

Even on his way into the ballot, the only comments he made were in reference to the Sharks’ game that weekend.

“My only tip is that the Sharks will beat Newcastle,” he told tradies at Parliament House.

But in 2010, the then second-term MP said he preferred rugby union to rugby league, while in 2015 he described how he “grew up on rugby”.

“I’m more of a rugby fan, but naturally when it comes to the NRL, the Sharks have my loyalty,” Mr Morrison tweeted.

In 2012, he declared rugby union “will always be my game”.

“But the (AFL grand final) is the greatest show in Oz,” he tweeted.

Rugby union is popular in private schools and affluent parts of Sydney, with rugby league largely the game of the working class.

Mr Morrison, who has tried to distance himself from Mr Turnbull’s “Mr Harbourside Mansion” image, did a press conference in his first week in the job while holding the Steeden ball used in rugby league games.

He earlier showed off his skills with the rugby league players at Sydney’s Endeavour Sports High School and watched the Sharks lose to the Sydney Roosters in Sydney on Saturday night.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

"Hi, Jim is it? I'd love to call the PM a pigfucker to his face. How can this be arranged without living in Western Sydney?"

Doctor Spaceman posted:

https://twitter.com/gregbrown_TheOz/status/1040415824287154176


It's from the same people who go to public schools.

hambeet posted:

what about real footy ay?

Birdstrike posted:

shire’s south mate

GoldStandardConure posted:

The only sport worth watching is Hockey everyone knows this

Don Dongington posted:

snoremac posted:

Palmer United is bombarding YouTube ads.

drunkill posted:

https://twitter.com/AussieParlEdits/status/1042982831951994880?s=19

GoldStandardConure posted:

if the choice is between league or union, i'd take the bullet

racing identity posted:

i choose the sport where the competitors poo poo on the floor and piss in their own mouths

Anidav posted:

I want ScoMo to change teams one more time before the election.

*Checks polls, puts on Broncos Jersey*

NTRabbit posted:

Concatenation posted:

emu export? "grouse"? NSW? who the gently caress wrote this

Concatenation posted:

emu export? "grouse"? NSW? who the gently caress wrote this

Concatenation posted:

emu export? "grouse"? NSW? who the gently caress wrote this

Concatenation posted:

scrunted

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Whenever someone says League is fast and exciting compared to Union I just drop it because I feel the exact opposite and couldn't see how you could argue otherwise

iajanus posted:

league is the code I find most entertaining as a fan. AFL seems like the most boring and skill-free game imaginable,

Jonah Galtberg posted:

okay I haven't really been an AFL fan for a few years now but jesus christ

Jonah Galtberg posted:

okay I haven't really been an AFL fan for a few years now but jesus christ

hambeet posted:

It's obviously the laziest troll.

CrazyTolradi posted:

People watch League for the fisting.