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LMAO at the start of this article.
We were all commenting on how kids say the funniest things on another thread well here is some more examples. Note the possible 5/8th option who would be more disliked among fans at the club than the current option hehehe
from the SMH
Storm in a teacup as NRL reaches out in Longreach
By Brad Walter
February 17, 2005
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After being introduced to David Gallop on his visit to Longreach yesterday with Melbourne players Billy Slater, Steve Bell and Dallas Johnson, children at a primary school were asked if they knew who was the NRL chief.
"The coach of the Melbourne Storm," one answered.
"A referee," said another. "A five-eighth," was the next response before one girl seemed convinced she had it right.
"A retired player," she said hesitantly, before deciding to prove her knowledge by adding "from the Melbourne Storm".
Gallop may have been in the middle of Queensland, in a town with a population of 4200 whose most prominent NRL player is North Queensland rookie Matt Scott, but it seemed most people wanted to talk about the Storm.
How would they go this season? What was their future? Would they remain in the competition?
Bell - from Emerald, a Queensland town the locals think is nearby as it is only a four-hour drive away - said whenever he came home people were always asking him to where the Storm would relocate.
Gallop was adamant that the club was around for the long haul, even if a 16th team was added to the premiership in 2007.
But why were more than 60 players visiting 37 regional towns throughout NSW and Queensland as well as Perth and Adelaide for the NRL's link program, while Victoria missed out? "I think we went to regional Victoria last year," Gallop said.
"Rugby league is never going to threaten AFL in Victoria but there's an opportunity for us now to make sure it's something even AFL fans pick up on as an alternative - maybe not every weekend but a couple of times a year."
Back in Longreach, converting people to league is not a problem and Queensland Rugby League special projects manager David Trudgen is kept busy in his job, which covers the area from Mackay on the coast to Mt Isa and north to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Longreach is in the middle and it's about an 11-hour drive to either of those places from the town best known as the home of Qantas and for the Stockman's Hall of Fame.
"We love our footy in these parts," Longreach Mayor Pat Tanks told Gallop, who was impressed to learn more than 50,000 tourists visited the town annually. "If you build a good enough stadium we'd consider putting a team here," Gallop joked.
We were all commenting on how kids say the funniest things on another thread well here is some more examples. Note the possible 5/8th option who would be more disliked among fans at the club than the current option hehehe
from the SMH
Storm in a teacup as NRL reaches out in Longreach
By Brad Walter
February 17, 2005
Page Tools
After being introduced to David Gallop on his visit to Longreach yesterday with Melbourne players Billy Slater, Steve Bell and Dallas Johnson, children at a primary school were asked if they knew who was the NRL chief.
"The coach of the Melbourne Storm," one answered.
"A referee," said another. "A five-eighth," was the next response before one girl seemed convinced she had it right.
"A retired player," she said hesitantly, before deciding to prove her knowledge by adding "from the Melbourne Storm".
Gallop may have been in the middle of Queensland, in a town with a population of 4200 whose most prominent NRL player is North Queensland rookie Matt Scott, but it seemed most people wanted to talk about the Storm.
How would they go this season? What was their future? Would they remain in the competition?
Bell - from Emerald, a Queensland town the locals think is nearby as it is only a four-hour drive away - said whenever he came home people were always asking him to where the Storm would relocate.
Gallop was adamant that the club was around for the long haul, even if a 16th team was added to the premiership in 2007.
But why were more than 60 players visiting 37 regional towns throughout NSW and Queensland as well as Perth and Adelaide for the NRL's link program, while Victoria missed out? "I think we went to regional Victoria last year," Gallop said.
"Rugby league is never going to threaten AFL in Victoria but there's an opportunity for us now to make sure it's something even AFL fans pick up on as an alternative - maybe not every weekend but a couple of times a year."
Back in Longreach, converting people to league is not a problem and Queensland Rugby League special projects manager David Trudgen is kept busy in his job, which covers the area from Mackay on the coast to Mt Isa and north to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Longreach is in the middle and it's about an 11-hour drive to either of those places from the town best known as the home of Qantas and for the Stockman's Hall of Fame.
"We love our footy in these parts," Longreach Mayor Pat Tanks told Gallop, who was impressed to learn more than 50,000 tourists visited the town annually. "If you build a good enough stadium we'd consider putting a team here," Gallop joked.
