The Virtual Terrace • Re: Future of the Game
Donnyman wrote:
Cut the dude/die rubbish
If you think there is any discrimination in the game then point it out and call it out.
Let me know where anyone is discouraged from coming into Rugby League to play the game, organise the game or get tickets to a game because of the colour of their skin?
Jamie Jones-Buchanan has played the game for years, he goes to watch games, he works in the game and he is brilliant at encouraging the kids to play. He doesn't have any problem with discrimination and he'd be the first to call it out...
When I first started watching the game Roy Francis was a well respected top coach, and Clive Sullivan was captain of Great Britain...
Colin Dixon, Tony Banham, Frank Wilson and Dennis Brown were stand out players and I never came across racism, and as the years have gone by more and more such players have come through, although I an loathe to list them simply because of the colour of their skin.
No doubt there are individuals on the terraces who may harbour discriminatory thought but the idea there's a problem in the game is laughable.
You are missing the point completely. Nobody has said rugby league has discrimination problem. Rugby league in this country has a problem with a lack of non whites either playing the game or watching the game.
Again this is not because of discrimination. I am not sure why you thought people said it was. Nobody has claimed that so I really unsure what you are reading in here as you are clearly missing the main points. Why can't you accept that the for all the good that rugby league in this country has done in accepting all races, religion etc etc over last 125 years it is now a sorry state for non white participation.
It's like you just wanna brush it under the carpet and not actually try to reverse the trend. Doing nothing will achieve nothing so in 5 years time the numbers will be even lower.
Also now go and ask Jamie Jones-Buchanan why people of the same colour of him are in ridiculous low numbers when it comes to being in the stands and why are less black athletes playing the game. I am sure he would like to see this trend reversed with some actual action plans put in place.
Statistics: Posted by kobashi — Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:24 pm