Eastern states bias

[Max The Cherry Man]

And they are performing! While we are all dissapointed with the Home Games the boys are doing fantastically. 2 wins & 1 draw is 150% better than last year.
At the end of the day if we win more than we lose this year, then its a great season.

[frontrow]

Excellent point Max, welcome onboard the good shipTWF...

[prop53]

Welcome aboard Max, good point made GO THE FORCE

[Jess]

Max the Cherry Man? hmmm... I wonder what the story is behind that name...

[jazza93]

force are looking good

last year to make the top 4 you need to win more games than loose and get bonus points. last year sharks (4) got 7-1-5 and they had 5 bonus points so each time we loose we need a bonus point and we need a few off winning. 8 wins is almost definate.

so far so good

[Jess]

If only the Cheifs could win a game... they have more bonus points than you can poke a stick at!

[stejwill]

After tonight - currently 3rd on the table with a FANTASTIC HOME WIN under our belt, if there's still no respect from the rugby 'establishment' over East, then frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!

[Egan]

I wonder if they will get on the Force bandwagon?

[dad and bryanne]

To be fair, there are so many sporting teams in Sydney the papers don't have room to cover everyone.

The cricket and league always take priority, and the union is broadly covered WHEN the Tahs are winning, which isn't happening atm. The AFL not many give a sh*t about in Sydney, but since a friendly rivalry has formed between the Swans and Eagles over the past 2 years, the Eagles are sometimes a talking point for people here.

It also depends which paper you pick up. The Daily Telegraph used to have 1 or 2 double page spreads on the S12/14 and now it's getting half a page right at the back of the sports section. The problem also lies with NSW Rugby. They don't do enough to promote Rugby broadly across Sydney. Rugby is confined to the city and Eastern Suburbs. Do the do much to promote to a wider community? Just curious because I've never seen the Tahs out here in the west of Sydney.

The FORCE certainly do promote to the wider community. they have got my daughter interested enough to want to play and she is primary school age.

[blueandblack]

I wonder if they will get on the Force bandwagon?

most of the rugbyheaven writers voted for the force this round (online edition anyway)

[Woolfe]

Rugby Heaven today is all about the Tahs and their pathetic supporters leaving before the match has ended.

136 years of tradition???

A real Fan stays to the END

[Sagerian]

There's also reports of Force fans leaving with 4 minutes to go on Friday... Hmm? Hypocrit.

I stayed til well after the game on Saturday, as did many other and we told off anyone caught walking out.

[Jess]

There's also reports of Force fans leaving with 4 minutes to go on Friday... Hmm? Hypocrit.

Bugger... I knew I shouldn't have told him about that.

[Woolfe]

There's also reports of Force fans leaving with 4 minutes to go on Friday... Hmm? Hypocrit.

I stayed til well after the game on Saturday, as did many other and we told off anyone caught walking out.

Just reporting what the papers said, i did not see any leave around me so how would i know that people had left.

A bit sensitive are we

[Sagerian]

No, not at all. You should read all the anti-tahs stuff (particularly over this past weekend) and find the percentage of it I've actually been responding to recently, pretty low.

But face it, you got torched, people left the Force game and of course it wouldn't be reported, cos as this thread is about, no one gives a crap about reporting on the Force right?


You can't say that people aren't reporting enough on the Force and then when something bad happens, hide behind it not being reported. That's just a bit... oh, what's that word...


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No one got it? Hypocritical was the word I was thinking of.