Rugby League

The only game in town...

Most people of Australia have come to accept that Rugby League is a dying game, except a few strongholds in Queensland and NSW. The Hunter is one of those strongolds, let's examine some probable causes

Fitness

You don't have to be very fit to play Rugby League. AFL players have been known to run up to 35kms in a game, and soccer players over 12km, but big fat blokes can lumber around a Rugby League field for years like a fat sloth

Meat and Beer
Closely linked to the lack of fitness is the fact that the Hunter diet is highly compatible with League. Hunter people generally eat meat and drink beer which keeps them fat and stupid, the perfect animalistic condition for league

Skill

As we know, most blokes in the Hunter are Miners, and therefore, not very smart..so Rugby League is the perfect game for such lummoxes.

How it works is as follows

• You have six tackles before you have to turn over possession
  
• For the first 5 tackles, you give the ball to the biggest fattest bloke on your team, who runs straight at a big fat bloke from the other team and gets tackled. This continues for the whole game...it's very linear so the players don't have to use their brains at all
• On the final tackle, pass the ball to someone who can kick the ball up high, and someone who can run (eg. a winger) will run through to catch it and hopefully score a try.

Rugby League's greatest hero:

Andrew "Joey" Johns is considered a god by the Rugby League fraternity...a Hunter player too!!!!

Johns is so revered he can snort heaps of coke and pop heaps of pingers, and no-one cares a bit.

The reason for this worship would be due to the fact that he could actually pass the ball, run, sidestep, and kick...IE: he actually had some skill as opposed to the fat idiots surrounding him