Daily Telegraph Today 10th March

[wolftone57]

Primmy, He doesn't drive and has all this time to read.

Interesting though Wolfy. I shall commit to memory. It would be a good addition to the RWO Wiki regarding history in NSW.

It makes sense as for me growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney , union wasn't played at all. I wasn't aware of it played locally anywhere until I went to Hawkesbury Agricultural College where that was the only game that was played.

I remember having a visit to my Primary School in about 1972 of two VFL players. I can't remember who they were but they gave us a demo and a bit of a kick around. Unfortunately too busy to track down with the AFL the origins out of curiosity.

Bas I get most of my info from the Victorian State Library Website. It has heaps of Australian Football History listed in it's archives and on shelf. There are also I-Journals and these are written by historians at Universities who research their topic thoroughly. But they do leave some things untouched like motivations and political affiliations and their consequences. They mention them but do not make judgements as to the effect they had on the outcome of the NSW Footy Power Struggle. Those effects would have been extremely damaging to NSWFL because of the power of invested in RL & RU. I naturally go to Scholarly sources as an academic because they can provide proof as to where the information came from.

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An article replete with the "nothing new". It was obviously one of those days when it was just too hard for Rebecca to research, so she chose to just make some crap up.

[Bas]

Bas I get most of my info from the Victorian State Library Website. It has heaps of Australian Football History listed in it's archives and on shelf. There are also I-Journals and these are written by historians at Universities who research their topic thoroughly. But they do leave some things untouched like motivations and political affiliations and their consequences. They mention them but do not make judgements as to the effect they had on the outcome of the NSW Footy Power Struggle. Those effects would have been extremely damaging to NSWFL because of the power of invested in RL & RU. I naturally go to Scholarly sources as an academic because they can provide proof as to where the information came from.

Thanks for that. I'll have to have a look.

Reading your information reminded me of the idiot that abolished trams in Sydney just because he couldn't stand trams. Now 2012, they want to bring them back when they shouldn't have removed them in the first place.

People in power. My children's new prinicipal on the Central Coast is pro soccer and nrl. The old one supported AFL. So it should be interesting to see how things go as I will have to meet him shortly.

I will be a smarty pants if I encounter any problems, ask him why rugby league is dominant in NSW over aussie rules. Now I know.