Hmm, every year I think 'it's not like it used to be, there's not that much interest in it for me, maybe I will give rugby league a miss this year' - and then I see the Blue team come out from the dressing room and I think I hope our boys break your legs mate.
And then New South Wales score a length of the field try to start the scoring, as they just did, and all the bile of the tribalism that I try to suppress in my normal, everyday, non titanic struggle in sport life, comes to surface, just like that.
It isn't like it used to be, though - you will never see a big fight go on for five minutes like Wally Lewis versus Mark Geyer in 89 or 90, one of the two. And I have to admit, as we have made it to half time with three tries to nil, that NSW have had the wood over us for the last decade or so. Bastards.
I can almost convert back to liking rugby league again, at Origin time, but no, the joke that is league scrums will likely forever keep me a rugby boy. Union, that is.
And then New South Wales score a length of the field try to start the scoring, as they just did, and all the bile of the tribalism that I try to suppress in my normal, everyday, non titanic struggle in sport life, comes to surface, just like that.
It isn't like it used to be, though - you will never see a big fight go on for five minutes like Wally Lewis versus Mark Geyer in 89 or 90, one of the two. And I have to admit, as we have made it to half time with three tries to nil, that NSW have had the wood over us for the last decade or so. Bastards.
I can almost convert back to liking rugby league again, at Origin time, but no, the joke that is league scrums will likely forever keep me a rugby boy. Union, that is.
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