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Raggytash wrote:Knowing you, as I do - as a relative newcomer to Rugby League - I'll excuse you for your pessimism, but young Islanders almost never fail in SL. Currently, Satae is easily the best prop in the comp - and he came over later than 22. I am thrilled we've signed Pele, and I'm absolutely certain you would be too.
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Raggytash wrote:Knowing you, as I do - as a relative newcomer to Rugby League - I'll excuse you for your pessimism, but young Islanders almost never fail in SL. Currently, Satae is easily the best prop in the comp - and he came over later than 22. I am thrilled we've signed Pele, and I'm absolutely certain you would be too.
I was summarising the opinions of others and, as far as SL goes, they’re not at all pessimistic.
“Belongs in Super League” means the same there as here… but also carries an additional wider meaning, of course.
I am (technically) a part-time professional RL journalist now, btw. And after the weekend my general pessimism may be diminished… or even more deeply ingrained.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Mild Rover wrote:I was summarising the opinions of others and, as far as SL goes, they’re not at all pessimistic.
“Belongs in Super League” means the same there as here… but also carries an additional wider meaning, of course.
I am (technically) a part-time professional RL journalist now, btw. And after the weekend my general pessimism may be diminished… or even more deeply ingrained.
Mild Rover wrote:I was summarising the opinions of others and, as far as SL goes, they’re not at all pessimistic.
“Belongs in Super League” means the same there as here… but also carries an additional wider meaning, of course.
I am (technically) a part-time professional RL journalist now, btw. And after the weekend my general pessimism may be diminished… or even more deeply ingrained.
You’d have to be part time as you appear to spend most of your waking hours on this forum, strange that, for a Rovers fan, do you devote the rest of your day on their forum???
Armavinit wrote:You’d have to be part time as you appear to spend most of your waking hours on this forum, strange that, for a Rovers fan, do you devote the rest of your day on their forum???
Think he spends the rest of the day with his head buried in a dictionary looking for big words to use
Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12672 Location: Leicestershire.
Armavinit wrote:He’d call it a thesaurus, bet he’s good at Scrabble too
What, my synonomicon?
Mrs Mild routinely, effortlessly and mercilessly beats me at Scrabble.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
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