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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3355442, member: 9853"] **** sake. It's the Courier Mail. It's the sport pages. And it's Rugby League. The base conversation this season is we have a new halfback. Who are we going to pair with him? The conversation about his son being a candidate is a water cooler meme that's barely even hit beyond the most diehard fans like us. Every member of this board was bagging the **** out of Billy before the first trial and most were aghast he might bring in his son, who hasn't exactly come with his own brand. As for nepotism being a dirty word, you're talking about a coach who already has two brothers on the payroll. It's a legitimate, and very very common narrative right now. Not everyone has watched every ball of every game. 90% of fans will not even have watched the trials. As for what Badel has written. He's said the opposite of what [USER=1769]@Foordy[/USER] said. Which is typical of that guy. He distorts everything. Kind of what he accuses journalists of doing. No exactly. Badel has turned up to the press conference, taken Kevvie's quotes and padded them with context. It's bread and butter reporting. Here is all he's written. It's **** all: [INDENT][I]"There is a view Billy has to perform even better than expected to justify his place at the Broncos, but Walters hit out at talk of a father-son bias, insisting family ties will not creep into the selection room."[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] The subs have rewritten the heading and lede several times: [ATTACH type="full" alt="ScreenScreenshot 2022-02-24 at 08-11-11 Broncos Broncos NRL Team The Courier Mail.jpg"]16912[/ATTACH] As for Badel being a shit writer. Big deal. The Courier Mail is staffed by shit writers. It's a low tier rag aimed at the barely literate. Badel almost exclusively covers the Broncos, whose fanbase isn't the exactly the Algonquin Round Table. You're talking about a paper with Mike O'Connor and Peter Gleeson pipelining their opinions from between their arsecheeks. [/QUOTE]

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