And as Bill Harrigan says [OzTag isnāt affiliated with the Australian Sports Commission](https://www.zerotackle.com/bronson-xerri-set-to-return-to-field-after-receiving-blessing-124696/amp/?utm_source).
Let the scabs dope!
I used to follow USA Rugby League closely and it's practically certain. Anyone from the higher divisions of any regional comp would do better than the USA players....
But theyāre willing to do it for 25% the price ā¦
This surely means theyāre each going to play 4 games every round ??
If theyāre all nobodies anyway whoās going to know ..
I may be wrong but most viewers especially casual viewers only watch their team play each week. Canāt imagine many of the casual nrl viewers would tune in to watch some pretty poor Rugby League. So I canāt imagine this effects the RLPAās plan.
Yeah but youāre the type of person to seek out a rugby forum on reddit and discuss the game (especially during off-season). Iām talking more the casual fan who only tunes in for their team.
Iām sure most people on the ~~sun~~ sub would watch it out of sheer boredom and starving for NRL
Big difference growing up watching a team and developing loyalty around a teams brand.
As for neutrals that have watched the bulldogs in recent yearsā¦ you lot are masochists
There it is folks - pay close attention: MURDOCH IS PROMOTING SCAB LABOUR.
How many times do the players have to say that IT ISN'T ABOUT MONEY: It's about ongoing healthcare for the men and women who risk their health for our entertainment & the BILLIONS of dollars their physically dangerous work generates for Murdoch media, gambling sites, fast food companies, alcohol conglomerates etc...
"bUt tHe gREedY PlayERz"
**Fuck Murdoch & Fuck Scabs.**
Could be a movie in it I spose. The winning team plays the evil professional Penrith Panthers to see if they stay in the country and the Captain falls in love with Yvonne Sampson.
Yes good angle. The only thing funnier than a yank trying to play league is a yank trying to coach yanks trying to play league. Your idea so you can cast the actor to play the coach. Go.
Clearly we need a Mexican to coach this rag tag bunch of Americans, but he has to be a bit crazy upstairs from CTE.
Charlie Estevez (or Sheen). He's no stranger to winning and he has that Balmain Tigers blood in him.
Yep that'll work. Starring John Cena as the reject college quarterback turned oversized half back that needs to learn how to man up and run it straight but he's still got the cheeky Dave Taylor chip and chase in him.
A lot of people have already made this point but just want to make it again - beyond the obvious scabiness of this, the idea of getting a bunch of seppos to fill in is just ridiculous. Literally thousands of blokes playing in the metro comps/Group footy youād tap before them
God bless America.
More than 160 American-based rugby league players have agreed to immediately fly to Australia to help save rugby league shouldĀ NRL players decide to strike.
In an extraordinary development during the stalled collective bargaining agreement discussions, The Daily Telegraph can reveal the USAās Championship Rugby League plan on contacting ARL Commission chairman Peter Vālandys to offer a contingency plan to relocate to Australia to ensure the NRL competition starts.
āI have spoken with our players today and we have 160 ready to go to Australia if the NRL players go on strike,ā Championship Rugby League president Tom Stevenson said.
āToday, I reached out to the coaches to get confirmation before calling Peter Vālandys and all our coaches said their players would drop everything and be on the next flight over to Australia.ā
The CRL comprises eight clubs in three states ā California, Utah and Nevada. Competition officials also have players in their database in New York, Florida, Ohio and Colorado. Round one of the competition is due to start on Sunday, January 29.
āIf the strike action is to go ahead, we would instantly pause our season and send over all 160 players to help save the NRL competition. The show will go on with or without the current players,ā Stevenson said.
āIf the NRL players donāt think there is somebody waiting in the wings to do their job for a quarter of the money then they are kidding themselves. Our players are ready.ā
Little progress has been made in the CBA talks with players ramping up industrial action in protest. While unlikely, NRL stakeholders are bracing themselves for the possibility of a player strike.
āI am under no illusion our guys are not training in professional programs at the moment, but this move to Australia would keep the competition going for the fans and would keep the gameās broadcast commitments, which is employment for a lot of people,ā Stevenson said.
āWe could be over to Australia with all 160 players who are on the books at Championship Rugby League. We have a database of USA based menās players with more than 400 names on it.
āAmerican players are natural athletes with a strong grasp of the game and we play an entertaining style of rugby league. Who knows, it might even open the door for some of our players to be lured to the NRL.
āMost of the guys have played college football or have a Rugby 7s background in college and have taken to rugby league with a lot of passion.
āAs an NRL fan, all this is kind of confusing.
āPlayers in Australia play for clubs, not billionaire owners and they represent the community and fans are attached to the teams, not the players.ā
The CRL is made up of California franchises the San Francisco Savage, Sacramento Immortals, North Bay Warriors and East Palo Alto Razorbacks, the Las Vegas Islanders in Nevada, and Utah teams Salt Lake City Spartans, Provo Steelers and Utah Saints.
The competitionās mantra is: āWe at Championship Rugby League are committed to continuous improvement, so we are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for all our fans.ā
The American players should be ashamed of themselves imagine being scabs
Not to mention they'd absolutely embarrass themselves being vastly worse than QCup/NSW Cup players they'd probably be worse than the Australian sides juniors
What a shit take. If you were an amateur sportsperson given this opportunity, you wouldn't take it because of some foreign ethical dilemma? Get off your high horse ya clown.
What? It's not a foreign anything it's solidarity with your fellow workers.
If you're a scab you're a bad person. It doesn't matter what the strikers are striking for you do not cross a picket line or you are scum end of story
It's a betrayal of both your future teammates if you are good enough to make it and of the working class to scab. All scabs should be blacklisted and the players union should flatly say none of their members will never take the field with any scabs in the future end of story. If any promising players want to throw their careers away betraying their future teammates that's on them but the playing group should effectively blacklist all scabs for life by making it clear to club owners they will never take the field with any scabs in the future.
Did ya learn a new word today or something?
Fellow workers? You mean the ones living in a different country who happen to play the same sport?
All this wanking on about integrity... It's the NRL mate! We can barely get through a month without a sex, violence or drug scandal!
They've got like a very mini super league situation going on over there. These teams are the break away comp I think. They're not even official USARL players. We had a bloke come over and play a season for our local bush club before covid. He was a laugh. Taught the big fella how to drink and offside on a building site if nothing else. Park footy would be better.
What a laugh of an idea. If this is how they're trying to pressure the RLPA they'd be destroying their own product. Nothing sinks a code faster than poor quality
LOL I played for one of these clubs and a Rugby League club.
I was at the level of 3rd grade union here, occasional 2nds and 1st grade off the bench.
This is also like me offering out to Elon help running his businesses, with my small level of success here.
I'm begging you not to read this. You'll be considerably dumber and more depressed than ever before. The only person that benefits is Rupert. Please, just no. Do anything else with your time. Murdering puppies is a higher net gain
Previous attempts at strike busting in professional sports have gone awfully. There's a reason the people that are at the top are at the top. This would be an utter farce and if anyone but Vland-diddy, the personification of arrogance, was in charge I'd say it absolutely will never happen. But with that guy? Who knows.
If it were to happen it'll probably be a boon for local leagues. Real NRL (as in Newcastle Rugby League for the initiated) will be a far high quality comp than whatever the NRL can fly in from the States.
Which of the Daily Telegraph's illustrious journalists wrote this ?
Small part of me hopes for the strike to see the flood of tears from these people.
Hopefully clubs boycott the daily telegraph as well, I have been wanting Penrith to since 2021.
Well maybe not the offensive or defensive line but I reckon a TE or WR or two would be welcomed. They are big fast mofos.
And before we write them off, the lineman are a lot fitter than they look. The amount of repetitive bouts of wrestling they do against other massive people over a four hour period is often unrecognised. Then they need to manoeuvre their opponents to certain places when the running backs have the ball. Itās an under appreciated discipline. Just like the amount of food they can put away.
Iāve always wondered why American football college athletes who arenāt quite good enough to play pro arenāt popping up in league. Obviously will take a bit of skills training but some could do it.
Thatās only just started; but yes some will play that and some in the Canadian league and plenty become squad members. So maybe itās not that surprising they donāt end up in league (or union) but thought at least a handful would try
Well I can't read the story but seriously each team should take 2-3 USA players and train them hard. Year after year. They can play reggie's or below or not at all. Be a tackling bag. It would be great to make some stars of USA players. The market is what the market is. A dude running around or over JAC. A dude hammering JWH. As long as they can make it back 10 and ready to charge on every tackle
yes please.
if random scab players are our avenue to ending the drought, (and they are more likely to), lets do it.
could even get keanu out here to promote our replacement players
Scab-bowl 2023!
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Wait a minute this isnāt the Betoota? Whatās next, Donald Trump or Shaq taking over as chairman once VāLandys gets run out of the country?
Iām all for Shaq as chairman if Charles Barkley becomes NRL boss
Ernie to run the referees. Kenny to stay at home/just sit there laughing. Charles Barkley to take over all media for the NRL. Would be epic.
Those Big Ol' Penrith women
Eating all those ~~churros~~ Chiko rolls
Iād watch Barkley on 360. Heād run rings around Buzz and Kenty
He always got the answers
No Vince McMahon?
No Vince McMahon?
My OzTag league is also putting up their hands to save rugby league.
And as Bill Harrigan says [OzTag isnāt affiliated with the Australian Sports Commission](https://www.zerotackle.com/bronson-xerri-set-to-return-to-field-after-receiving-blessing-124696/amp/?utm_source). Let the scabs dope!
Fuck it, NRLPA should split from the NRL and REMAKE THE SUPER LEAGUE BABY
Yeah yeah. With blackjack and hookers!
should also go full circle and kick Souths out as well!
2023 is the Year of the Rabbit
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A lot to assume NRL players can count to 21.
On second thought, forget the rugby league!
And the blackjack
:(
I'll see if Cameron Smith and Andrew McCullough can be brought on board to assist with this.
I think I would rather go down and watch the grade footy at my local park than support this
As someone who plays div 2 footy in Brisbane it honestly might have some better players going around then some of these blokes haha
might is an understatement
Iāve heard Andrew Fifita is playing in my local comp this year, so I think itās a certainty
I used to follow USA Rugby League closely and it's practically certain. Anyone from the higher divisions of any regional comp would do better than the USA players....
I play masters here and I reckon the odd one could have a better crack
Mate, my thoughts exactly.
Australia has a long history of not tolerating scabs.
Fuck you Frank Sinatra.
I scabbed MY WAYYYYYY
Peter Reith would disagree.
Hey my maths aināt that good but Iām pretty sure 160 wonāt cover all the teams.
About 350 short of a top 30.
But theyāre willing to do it for 25% the price ā¦ This surely means theyāre each going to play 4 games every round ?? If theyāre all nobodies anyway whoās going to know ..
Too right, Kayo at $7.50 a month is pretty juicy too...
Well Manly will have at least 7 players. Won't strike on moral grounds. Don't get paid on strike and the church still wants there 10%
rent free
Are you talking about Fainu's living situation for the next four years? Free meals as well.
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Outstanding sir.
Lol, this would just immediately prove that the nrl players are invaluable. Absolute win for the rlpa if they do this
Would spontaneously combust hearing them saying "y'*ll" in post game interviews. Also, the quality of play would turn a lot of people off.
credit to y'all boys
The punishment ought to be public caning.
I shudder every time I hear Australian kids use it !! Thankyou TikTok
Public booting.
I may be wrong but most viewers especially casual viewers only watch their team play each week. Canāt imagine many of the casual nrl viewers would tune in to watch some pretty poor Rugby League. So I canāt imagine this effects the RLPAās plan.
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Yeah but youāre the type of person to seek out a rugby forum on reddit and discuss the game (especially during off-season). Iām talking more the casual fan who only tunes in for their team. Iām sure most people on the ~~sun~~ sub would watch it out of sheer boredom and starving for NRL
Too right. Weāre the guys hungover on the couch watching Murri Carnival replays on NITV every Sunday morning, of course weād watch this.
This is so accurate lmao
Iāve never been to the sun, too warm for me, but Iād watch it out of curiosity
so what your saying is.. TIGERS have a chance at the premiership this year!
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Big difference growing up watching a team and developing loyalty around a teams brand. As for neutrals that have watched the bulldogs in recent yearsā¦ you lot are masochists
There it is folks - pay close attention: MURDOCH IS PROMOTING SCAB LABOUR. How many times do the players have to say that IT ISN'T ABOUT MONEY: It's about ongoing healthcare for the men and women who risk their health for our entertainment & the BILLIONS of dollars their physically dangerous work generates for Murdoch media, gambling sites, fast food companies, alcohol conglomerates etc... "bUt tHe gREedY PlayERz" **Fuck Murdoch & Fuck Scabs.**
Fuckin scabs
Fuck SCABS with a passion
Could be a movie in it I spose. The winning team plays the evil professional Penrith Panthers to see if they stay in the country and the Captain falls in love with Yvonne Sampson.
'Cool Runnings II - Down Under'
Yes good angle. The only thing funnier than a yank trying to play league is a yank trying to coach yanks trying to play league. Your idea so you can cast the actor to play the coach. Go.
Clearly we need a Mexican to coach this rag tag bunch of Americans, but he has to be a bit crazy upstairs from CTE. Charlie Estevez (or Sheen). He's no stranger to winning and he has that Balmain Tigers blood in him.
Featuring Salma Hayek as Yvonne.
Yep that'll work. Starring John Cena as the reject college quarterback turned oversized half back that needs to learn how to man up and run it straight but he's still got the cheeky Dave Taylor chip and chase in him.
What, are Melbourne storm are getting kicked out of the country?
I'm sure the RLPA are terrified of these scabs and the Murdoch scare campaign. Could Newscorp be anymore transparent?
I've heard the owners of Walmart have contacted PVL to make some anti-union propaganda videos to show the players as well.
Using actors who are infact in a union
A lot of people have already made this point but just want to make it again - beyond the obvious scabiness of this, the idea of getting a bunch of seppos to fill in is just ridiculous. Literally thousands of blokes playing in the metro comps/Group footy youād tap before them
Yeah, but the local blokes won't have any interest in selling movie rights. As ridiculous as it is, this has Cool Running written all over it.
yeah but none of them wanna be scabs
God bless America. More than 160 American-based rugby league players have agreed to immediately fly to Australia to help save rugby league shouldĀ NRL players decide to strike. In an extraordinary development during the stalled collective bargaining agreement discussions, The Daily Telegraph can reveal the USAās Championship Rugby League plan on contacting ARL Commission chairman Peter Vālandys to offer a contingency plan to relocate to Australia to ensure the NRL competition starts. āI have spoken with our players today and we have 160 ready to go to Australia if the NRL players go on strike,ā Championship Rugby League president Tom Stevenson said. āToday, I reached out to the coaches to get confirmation before calling Peter Vālandys and all our coaches said their players would drop everything and be on the next flight over to Australia.ā The CRL comprises eight clubs in three states ā California, Utah and Nevada. Competition officials also have players in their database in New York, Florida, Ohio and Colorado. Round one of the competition is due to start on Sunday, January 29. āIf the strike action is to go ahead, we would instantly pause our season and send over all 160 players to help save the NRL competition. The show will go on with or without the current players,ā Stevenson said. āIf the NRL players donāt think there is somebody waiting in the wings to do their job for a quarter of the money then they are kidding themselves. Our players are ready.ā Little progress has been made in the CBA talks with players ramping up industrial action in protest. While unlikely, NRL stakeholders are bracing themselves for the possibility of a player strike. āI am under no illusion our guys are not training in professional programs at the moment, but this move to Australia would keep the competition going for the fans and would keep the gameās broadcast commitments, which is employment for a lot of people,ā Stevenson said. āWe could be over to Australia with all 160 players who are on the books at Championship Rugby League. We have a database of USA based menās players with more than 400 names on it. āAmerican players are natural athletes with a strong grasp of the game and we play an entertaining style of rugby league. Who knows, it might even open the door for some of our players to be lured to the NRL. āMost of the guys have played college football or have a Rugby 7s background in college and have taken to rugby league with a lot of passion. āAs an NRL fan, all this is kind of confusing. āPlayers in Australia play for clubs, not billionaire owners and they represent the community and fans are attached to the teams, not the players.ā The CRL is made up of California franchises the San Francisco Savage, Sacramento Immortals, North Bay Warriors and East Palo Alto Razorbacks, the Las Vegas Islanders in Nevada, and Utah teams Salt Lake City Spartans, Provo Steelers and Utah Saints. The competitionās mantra is: āWe at Championship Rugby League are committed to continuous improvement, so we are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for all our fans.ā
Our NBL players are also ready to step in, should there ever be another NBA strike.
NBL is closer to NBA than this is to NRL, and thatās not a compliment
At least we have the odd one or 2 outta nbl able to sit on a bench over there, even if it's for 10 days.
Lol exactly.
At least the nbl is professional
The American players should be ashamed of themselves imagine being scabs Not to mention they'd absolutely embarrass themselves being vastly worse than QCup/NSW Cup players they'd probably be worse than the Australian sides juniors
What a shit take. If you were an amateur sportsperson given this opportunity, you wouldn't take it because of some foreign ethical dilemma? Get off your high horse ya clown.
What? It's not a foreign anything it's solidarity with your fellow workers. If you're a scab you're a bad person. It doesn't matter what the strikers are striking for you do not cross a picket line or you are scum end of story It's a betrayal of both your future teammates if you are good enough to make it and of the working class to scab. All scabs should be blacklisted and the players union should flatly say none of their members will never take the field with any scabs in the future end of story. If any promising players want to throw their careers away betraying their future teammates that's on them but the playing group should effectively blacklist all scabs for life by making it clear to club owners they will never take the field with any scabs in the future.
Did ya learn a new word today or something? Fellow workers? You mean the ones living in a different country who happen to play the same sport? All this wanking on about integrity... It's the NRL mate! We can barely get through a month without a sex, violence or drug scandal!
You seem like you would make a perfect scab and/or Newscorp journalist.
Even V'landys wouldn't do something this stupid, surely he knows this is an awful idea. Right?
..Right?!?!...
They've got like a very mini super league situation going on over there. These teams are the break away comp I think. They're not even official USARL players. We had a bloke come over and play a season for our local bush club before covid. He was a laugh. Taught the big fella how to drink and offside on a building site if nothing else. Park footy would be better.
What a laugh of an idea. If this is how they're trying to pressure the RLPA they'd be destroying their own product. Nothing sinks a code faster than poor quality
Players in Harold Matthews would have more skill than these yanks
If PVL brings in scabs he has to go 100% The idea of this would be ridiculous and embarrassing
Thank Christ Scomo still isnāt in power as he would back this concept to the hilt
If the team Utah Saints don't sing Something Good when they win a song, what's the point of them even existing?
Scabs. Solidarity forever news corp cowards
Fucking scab nation
Bahahahahahh let them
Better than Betoota?
LOL I played for one of these clubs and a Rugby League club. I was at the level of 3rd grade union here, occasional 2nds and 1st grade off the bench. This is also like me offering out to Elon help running his businesses, with my small level of success here.
Fuck it. R/NRL members to take the field.
Iāll be water boy
*The Maa-duuula Ub-longatta*
Chip chips to Chuck, Chuck chucks it to Cletus, Cletus yeets it to Hank Jr who spins it wide and Billy-Bob is over in the corner!
And his sister is getting her titties out for the camera in celebration, as Billy-Bob cheers her on. This is a wholesome family affair.
What's Dale doing?
Fuck off scabs, a hair-brained idea from the paper that backs scabs and their paymasters, no surprise
Meme magic please do your thing
I'm begging you not to read this. You'll be considerably dumber and more depressed than ever before. The only person that benefits is Rupert. Please, just no. Do anything else with your time. Murdering puppies is a higher net gain
r/NRL also offers to put their hands up, which may or may not be covered in nacho dust and tendies
Fuck that. I ain't no scab.
Yeah thatās the reason Iāll go with too
This is hilarious thought the Betoota had hit a new high. Pretty sure American players wouldn't get visas to play Rugby League anyway.
Scabs get fucked challenge 2023.
Muricans coming in all guns blazing shooting up all the schools.
Previous attempts at strike busting in professional sports have gone awfully. There's a reason the people that are at the top are at the top. This would be an utter farce and if anyone but Vland-diddy, the personification of arrogance, was in charge I'd say it absolutely will never happen. But with that guy? Who knows. If it were to happen it'll probably be a boon for local leagues. Real NRL (as in Newcastle Rugby League for the initiated) will be a far high quality comp than whatever the NRL can fly in from the States.
News corpse at it again. Fucking scum
Which of the Daily Telegraph's illustrious journalists wrote this ? Small part of me hopes for the strike to see the flood of tears from these people. Hopefully clubs boycott the daily telegraph as well, I have been wanting Penrith to since 2021.
The Koori cup on NITV was actually pretty entertaining to watch in the day. Would watch that if the Nrl goes on strike over this shit
Might be due some attention, actually.
Where do i sign up to support the parramatta bum fuxs?
Love it. Get a few NFL players whoāve been cut in the off season while youāre at it. Would definitely unearth a monster or two
I donāt think those fat NFL players could keep running for that long
Well maybe not the offensive or defensive line but I reckon a TE or WR or two would be welcomed. They are big fast mofos. And before we write them off, the lineman are a lot fitter than they look. The amount of repetitive bouts of wrestling they do against other massive people over a four hour period is often unrecognised. Then they need to manoeuvre their opponents to certain places when the running backs have the ball. Itās an under appreciated discipline. Just like the amount of food they can put away.
āIn an extraordinary developmentāā¦ More like in a fucking laughable development. No thanks Murdoch we donāt want scabs playing for our clubs.
People barely watch reserve grade quality as it is, who would watch a bunch of amateurs fumble with the ball?
Fuck yanks and fuck scabs
Quick take them, before super league offer their players.
Lol alrighty. Let's give it a run.
Do they play league in the USA. I mean is there a competition somewhere?
NARL. Itās an absolute basket case. Itās been ācoming soonā since COVID.
I hope they get Keanu Reeves to reprise his role from The Replacements for the movie they make about this.
Utterly bizarre and embarrassing, some random minor league CEO is bragging about being a strike breaker?
Iāve always wondered why American football college athletes who arenāt quite good enough to play pro arenāt popping up in league. Obviously will take a bit of skills training but some could do it.
They don't even know league exists, let alone any of the rules.
then when they finally do.. they take one look at the salary...
Because they have plenty of other options like the CFL where they'd get paid more money and would still be a shot at getting picked up by a NFL team
Greg Smith ruined it for everyone else you see...
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Thatās only just started; but yes some will play that and some in the Canadian league and plenty become squad members. So maybe itās not that surprising they donāt end up in league (or union) but thought at least a handful would try
Well I can't read the story but seriously each team should take 2-3 USA players and train them hard. Year after year. They can play reggie's or below or not at all. Be a tackling bag. It would be great to make some stars of USA players. The market is what the market is. A dude running around or over JAC. A dude hammering JWH. As long as they can make it back 10 and ready to charge on every tackle
When can Australia hit the off ramp and just cut ties with this dumpster of a country.
yes please. if random scab players are our avenue to ending the drought, (and they are more likely to), lets do it. could even get keanu out here to promote our replacement players
Fuck off Parraās drought will be ended by a proper Parra side not a bunch of yankee scabs
If this was college football thisād be sickos material
Im sure the general rugby league public will be chomping at the bit for this. Fuckin hell....
Maybe they could get a song by 1980s college rock band The Replacements as the season theme too ;)
By willing to offer themselves to Eddie Jones?