Growden Grumbles

[Thequeerone]

Ok you won - but they only mentioned that the force "leapt into the top half of the table" - these guys are so unexcited by thing unbelivable

[Burgs]

They couldn't even write up a win themselves

[The Lone Hydrangea]

am I right, or am I right??

http://rugbywa.com.au/news/2007/ewf_.../section/50753

Yep,same as cricket in Australia, all NSW biased. Let them eat cake.

[blueandblack]

I really can't understand why anyone in WA is surprised at anything in the Eastern States press. The Eagles, Dockers,Warriors, Wildcats..........................etc have been copping it for years.

Growden has always been a prick of the first order and to be fair he's actually employed by the Sydney Morning Herald. After living in WA since 1978 I can say that the WA press has ALWAYS been biased towards WA teams and sports. Fair enough, I suppose. How much rugby news did we see in The West before The Force?

However to try and lay the blame for a poor performance in SA, let alone losing last years final at the feet of W.Sailor begars belief.

But seeing as his article is in Rugby Heaven as well as the SMH you'd suppose he could at least give a brief "well done" to The Force

We were the first Australian team to play this round, so Growden would have forgotten after all the chardonnay he no doubt drank.

[allsaints]

Having spent all my life in the "east" and a keen rugby supporter I can assure you that could could write all Growden knows about rugby on the back of a postage stamp. He is a failed cricket writer who now writes politically about rugby with a poison pen. He never writes about what happens in a game because he simply does not have a clue. NSW missing Sailor - what a b---y joke.

[blindsid3]

Whilst reading every word of an edition of the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald remains on my "100 things to do before I die list"* if they don't get their facts straight I will find another enormous broadsheet to devour on the first weekend of my retirement (at age 45 )...

Found an early frontrunner? Don't bet on it

Spiro Zavos
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

ANALYSIS

After only two rounds, the 2007 Super 14 tournament has turned into a tipsters' and coaches' nightmare. Only two teams, the Sharks and the Blues, have won both matches.

The Western Force, the Crusaders, the Hurricanes, the Lions and the Bulls bounced back from first-round losses to record victories. The Force and the Hurricanes were able to achieve theirs away from home. In the case of the Force, this is their first ever win out of Perth.

Don't know about you guys, but I'm disappointed to have missed that home win...

*and before I hear the howls of "Nerdy McNerd" the obvious exciting ones, like skydiving (professionally - I have some footage of me teaching theEnforcer somewhere at home), diving with sharks, winning a Rugby premiership (twice), getting married and divorced, owning a business, getting on the wrong side of the ATO(accidentally) and then back again (purposefully) etc etc etc already ticked off... it kinda leaves the dull ones left. Man, that's depressing...now I think about it its all downhill from here

[frontrow]

Spiro must've been high last year and missed the win in africa, we really are treated like leppers by the eastern states aren't we...

[Burgs]

Hey Nerdy McNerd, I actually e-mailed him direct yesterday very politely informing him of his "typo" and hoped he may have corrected it, apparently not soon enough.
Just checked then and he/someone has edited the last sentence out.
I also welcomed him to come to TWF anytime he wanted some Supporter perspective of how the Force was going so, you never know, he just might be snoopin' around now, howdy Spiro

[Mambo No. 5]

What I also found amazing was on Fox sports news channel sat morning they had a whole segment on the Waratahs loss, including video footage, but no mention of the force game at all.... Not even a score!!!!

Now that just shows disrespect!

[Burgs]

Did anyone see the Monday Fox wrap? Any better coverage on there?

[The EnForcer]

(professionally - I have some footage of me teaching theEnforcer somewhere at home)

OK then you have me at a disadvantage....you couldn't have been a great teacher anyway as I was crap at it.

[Sagerian]

Wait... Perth isn't in South Africa?

[frontrow]

No sage, we've moved...

[Sagerian]

Well, when was someone bloody going to tell me!?!?!? Or Spiro?!?! You guys know we don't get to hear much about you guys over here.. Hello, little help???

[blindsid3]

OK then you have me at a disadvantage....you couldn't have been a great teacher anyway as I was crap at it.

You're alive aren't you? That makes a successful jump...and you weren't ever unstable, just not relative to anyone else in the sky :-)

Now...