Re: International Rugby League madness : Fri Aug 24, 2018 2:46 pm  

They should take a leaf out of the England association football team who, for years have donated any match fees that they receive to charity as it’s an honour to play for ones country

Regards

King James

Re: International Rugby League madness : Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:24 pm  

Yeah big sacrifice, easy to do when you’re paid £150000 a week anyway.

Re: International Rugby League madness : Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:48 pm  

WakeyTrin1873 wrote:

Oh yeah because 5 grand and representing your country isn't enough, right?

Well no, which is exactly my point. They couldn't care less about playing internationals. State of Origin is the one that matters there, then the bread and butter of the NRL. That's it.

Re: International Rugby League madness : Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:46 pm  

Lebron James wrote:

They should take a leaf out of the England association football team who, for years have donated any match fees that they receive to charity as it’s an honour to play for ones country

Regards

King James

Well considering the £2k match appearance fee England football players get offered is like offering Joe Public 10p then it’s not really that much of a gesture.

Re: International Rugby League madness : Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:56 pm  

Willzay wrote:

"International powerhouse Tonga" who rely on aussies who can't get into the main Aussie side

Look at the names of the players.

It’s hardly good old John Smith, ninth generation white Australian, is it?

They are either Tongans or mostly first generation New Zealand or Australia citizens to two Tongan parents.

Re: International Rugby League madness : Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:04 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Well considering the £2k match appearance fee England football players get offered is like offering Joe Public 10p then it’s not really that much of a gesture.

Glad you think donating £2k to charity isn’t much of a gesture. Before you even try and justify yourself, don’t even bother

Regards

King James

Re: International Rugby League madness : Sat Aug 25, 2018 12:12 am  

Lebron James wrote:

Glad you think donating £2k to charity isn’t much of a gesture. Before you even try and justify yourself, don’t even bother

Regards

King James

It isn’t the big gesture you make out. Given they earn sums of £50-100k or higher a week and sponsorship deals on top on that then £2k isn’t really any different to Joe Public donation £10 to charity.

Likelihood is you didn’t know just how little the appearance fee was by their earning standards before trying to put them on some pedestal.

Re: International Rugby League madness : Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:58 am  

Should the King really need to plea to include his country in International Rugby League? For years we have been crying out for another country to become competitive with the 3 tier one nations. It’s outrageous that 1 year on from Tonga’s unbelievable World Cup display, they haven’t managed to arrange a fixture with one of the tier one nations. https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/08/25/kin ... st-happen/

Should the King really need to plea to include his country in International Rugby League? For years we have been crying out for another country to become competitive with the 3 tier one nations. It’s outrageous that 1 year on from Tonga’s unbelievable World Cup display, they haven’t managed to arrange a fixture with one of the tier one nations. https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/08/25/kin ... st-happen/

Re: International Rugby League madness : Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:10 am  

Been to numerous England games a great event. The RFL needs to build on that and make them even more of an event.

Re: International Rugby League madness : Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:17 pm  

Lebron James wrote:

Glad you think donating £2k to charity isn’t much of a gesture. Before you even try and justify yourself, don’t even bother

Regards

King James

It's a nice gesture and I'm sure the charities are grateful to receive it, but let's not pretend that it's causing the players to have to make much of a sacrifice. I'm sure that many players do far more for charity than that anyway, so it's not a criticism of them.