Can the BS or be prepared to wear it.

[fulvio sammut]

Why does the Associates Rugby Club, on their public website refer to my club as "Fiji Palmyra" and to Nedlands as "New Zealand Nedlands"?

I am sure they would be as mildly displeased as I was if I were to refer to their Administration and sponsors as the Kastellorizian Club.

[goony]

Yeah that is asking for trouble... I vividly remember when i was alot younger seeing a recruitment ad in a rugby paper from soaks that said "new players welcome, except maori's and islanders" - there was a huge uproar about it, it certainly opened my eyes up as a youngster!!

[pieter blackie]

Well these names doesn't sound true blue aussie to me either

Tukia Muli - a powerful and skilled new #12;
· Michael D’Adamo - the sidestepping prop;
· Zac Holmes –boy does this fullback have some gas!;
· Ben Hales – an athletic No 5;
· Jason Missen - a new #6 from South Africa;
· John Kirkman - a hard tackling #2;
· And Scott Daruda the #10 – a contracted Force squad
member who we glimpsed last season.
Cameron Webb from Whangerei NZ

[BDAVEY]

Bayswater Bros should be docked points for being allowed to import 10 plus players from the land of the long white cloud where is our local comp. third tier NZ comp. we are wose than the French comp. we will never be able to produce local talent if this keeps going

[fulvio sammut]

With respect, Bill, your argument may or may not be valid, but it is a different issue to the one I am raising.

[brokendown gunfighter]

perhaps Soaks is actually a sub branch of the KKK?

[pieter blackie]

Bayswater Bros should be docked points for being allowed to import 10 plus players from the land of the long white cloud where is our local comp. third tier NZ comp. we are wose than the French comp. we will never be able to produce local talent if this keeps going

you are misinformed mate.

[BDAVEY]

By The West today they realed off a number of players coming in from OS......NOT saying other club dont do it! Bayswater seam to want to win this year at all costs.. It will catch up on u
Good luck

[goony]

What perfect club do you support BDAVEY? Because every club has recruited pretty majorly, it just so happens that Rick Boyd is a Baysie boy and probably was allowed the most interview time with our coach. Alot of the players listed in the paper are fringe 1st grade players, only a couple are starters and most came across on their own accord - not everyone that comes to Perth is here for the money...

[GIGS20]

Hang on Goony, was it you arking up in the other thread on this topic about Perth not having 10 imports or was it pieter?

I don't particularly care, but I would think it's one or the other, Either the club has a number of fringe first graders from interstate/overseas or they haven't

(Just to clarify, if you want to build a club this way, I'm all for it, as long as the players who come along are genuine prospects looking for some game time and will give some loyalty to the province that assisted in their development after they (seemingly) ran out of choices wherever they came from.

I would say guys who made their own way over to Perth in search of a S14 contract and got noticed from the Perth club scene are (to some extent) local product. Sure it's a different level of local than kids who were born and bred, but not far different.

[goony]

The question is what makes you be classified as an import? technically I am an import if you wanted to say that, even though I have been playing for Perth bayswater since i was 4 i still wasnt born in Australia. I just think it comes down to how you define the word "import".

What I am saying my interpretation is an import is someone that has been bought in from another club/state/country, not someone who has just turned up on their own little journey.

[Soak]

Just found this site and noticed your interesting comments. We don't allow islanders and maoris for good reason. They drink and fight to much and don't play the structured type of football we play.

[bunter]

Let's hope you can be structured on Saturday when you meet a few of "those types" in the Rocko team.
Seems to me Soaks have not been too structured against them over the past couple of seasons.

[Soak]

Rocky's best 2 players are both Aussie, Tyrell and Longbottom. It's always their erratic islanders that let them down

[goony]

Just found this site and noticed your interesting comments. We don't allow islanders and maoris for good reason. They drink and fight to much and don't play the structured type of football we play.

Is that the type of structured football that has won you so many premierships lately??