If he was honest in his rants he wouldn't bother me but like the British trolls -Jones Gallagher etc he just talks to much shit to think of as anymore than a clickbait whore.
Having said that , that was an interesting article and the one Rattue wrote about the time he was beaten up by a gang of ferals was really good too.
Interesting article, I think @taniwharugby hates him the way he does cos he was so cool and handsome at polytech. It's obviously all jealousy on his part.
how did I know @MN5 would somehow include me...TBH, the only time Twattue crosses my mind is when you alert me to stuff about him, I don't sit there hating on him 24/7 like you think I do.
I don't really care for his reasoning as to why he is a troll after clicks, I don't rate him, so don't read him.
As I mentioned in the Stephen Jones thread I genuinely like it if the "Troll" is actually clever or witty in what he says ( and as someone else mentioned actually having played international rugby helps the credibility too ) but Rattue and Jones haven't done this and aren't.
There's not many sports writers I do like, Phil Gifford will either wank on about a ) the Crusaders or b )) some All Black of yesteryear....Marc Hinton and Toby Robson are just plain boring.....Spiro Zavos doesn't seem to write anymore....
Ironically the one I do enjoy is someone who I fucken hated as a player, Austin Healey. From all his carryon when he played I thought he'd be a real fuckwit but his articles are really good. I remember feeling the same way about Will Carling too who is a real funny bugger, I had to take a cold shower afterwards.
Thank god there's Matt Dawson, he'll always be a cock and just in case I ever forget that the Hakarena video is only a Youtube click away.
@MN5 said in Spinoff Article about Chris Rattue:
As I mentioned in the Stephen Jones thread I genuinely like it if the "Troll" is actually clever or witty in what he says ( and as someone else mentioned actually having played international rugby helps the credibility too ) but Rattue and Jones haven't done this and aren't.
There's not many sports writers I do like, Phil Gifford will either wank on about a ) the Crusaders or b )) some All Black of yesteryear....Marc Hinton and Toby Robson are just plain boring.....Spiro Zavos doesn't seem to write anymore....
Ironically the one I do enjoy is someone who I fucken hated as a player, Austin Healey. From all his carryon when he played I thought he'd be a real fuckwit but his articles are really good. I remember feeling the same way about Will Carling too who is a real funny bugger, I had to take a cold shower afterwards.
Thank god there's Matt Dawson, he'll always be a cock and just in case I ever forget that the Hakarena video is only a Youtube click away.
I enjoy reading Peter Fitzsimons. Richard Loe is good too, straight to the point type writing.
Exactly my point dude and both of them have been there and done that which helps the cred immensely. Add Will Greenwood and Gordon D'arcy to that too, the latter in particular did some great stuff last year and his brutal honesty about why he was dropped in a land of midfield giants was cool.
As I said Hinton and Robson are just dreary. We all have eyes and ears, we know BB is a silky attacker, Kaino hits hard, SBW can off load.....it's like they've given up even trying to write with any flair.
I actually think Marshall writes some pretty insightful and analytical stuff, but definitely better with pen than microphone!
@taniwharugby said in Spinoff Article about Chris Rattue:
I actually think Marshall writes some pretty insightful and analytical stuff, but definitely better with pen than microphone!
I disagree. The evidence for the prosecution:
Leeds halfback and former All Black Justin Marshall says closed-roof stadiums and no pushing in scrums are changes he would like to see to the game of rugby.
In an interview with British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, Marshall said he thought scrums were too weighted against the lighter or weaker pack.
"You should be able to win your own scrum and create a comfortable platform. The purists in the forwards will be going mad at that, but it is just the way I feel," Marshall said.
Sure it's from 2006. But once a retard..
There's also another rule which would be interesting, drop a couple of players ( who needs flankers after all, dumb pointless position, that Rueben Thorne guy didn't do ANYTHING ) and have a rule where one teams gets it and if they get tackled six times they have to turn it over.....
THAT is the way of the future.
John Drake was excellent in the Fairfax papers and behind the mic.
Liam Napier is the best traditional rugby journo in NZ.
@antipodean said in Spinoff Article about Chris Rattue:
I'd have some semblance of respect if he just admitted that clickbait headlines and articles designed to inflame opinion were what kept him employed, what paid the mortgage.
Its just a matter of putting certain things in the Clickbait Bucket and leaving them there. Never touch them because it just perpetuates the myth.
Like the fucking Kardashians.
@gollum said in Spinoff Article about Chris Rattue:
......When you read the backstory - adopted, raised on welfare etc, you do get a pretty solid insight into why he is the way he is. Its like when a porn star says "So my uncle used to touch me.." & you go "ooohhh!, phew! now I'm seeing how you ended up doing triple anal".....
Really? Really??
I don't know where to start with that appalling comparison. It's just plain offensive. And wrong.
@Nepia said in Spinoff Article about Chris Rattue:
@Duluth I think closed roof stadiums is a great idea.
Did you think I was calling that idea crap? You'd have to be a complete Justin Marshall to think that.
I was clearly talking about the scrum suggestion
@Nepia said in Spinoff Article about Chris Rattue:
@Duluth I think closed roof stadiums is a great idea.
Cracker idea. Should be more of them. Marshall was well ahead of his time.
