guest blogger: introducing ‘Angry Man’

We’re sure you’ve noticed the rate of Errol blogs has slowed down somewhat this year. We know you guys love us, think we’re awesome personified and get uncontrollable sexytimes urges when you watch our Errol TV videos…right? Yeh, thought so.

We’re sure your lives are much darker without our regular lolz, so since we aren’t as available to blog at will as we once were, we’ve decided to be all clever and modern and OUTSOURCE! Hoorah! Our new guest blogger is from our nation’s capital, a boy and holds a shitload of barely supressed rage. That’s all we can tell you about him. Behold, Angry Man!

I should have been born in the 1930’s.

Life was much simpler then. There were no metal detectors at pubs and night clubs. There were no complicated gadgets starting with an uncapitalised “i”. People back then had better manners and a sense of subtlety that’s absent in our modern plasticine culture.

Sure – the 30’s started badly with the Great Depression….. and the rising tide of militarism eventually led to the Second World War. But still, it was a much simpler time.

And I wish I had of been born in that golden decade.

Rugby League is a terrific game. The best game.  Though I guess I still view the game through the eyes of a bloke that was born generations after his time.

And those eyes tell me there’s room in Rugby League for improvements.

Though don’t be fooled by the incessant bleating emanating from the self-appointed doyen of Rugby League commentary Phil Gould.  If ever there was an example of someone who professed to love something they constantly beat up, it’s this man. It’s easy to dislike Gould and I make no apologies for it.

No – the majority of the improvements are “subtle” and could easily be made. The 30’s might be over but we could use some of the qualities that were vogue in that time to reinvigorate and restore Rugby League to it’s rightful place as Australia’s favourite winter sport.

Over the coming months, Angry Man will look at some of the “real” pressing issues effecting Rugby League. Things like:

- The awfulness of players wearing white boots with their socks pulled down;

- The Melbourne Storm salary cap debacle – whose really to blame; and of course

-  The obsession Rugby League commentators have with placing a “y” on the end of players’ Christian names. Hence all Tim’s become Timmy and not a single Matt in the comp is called anything other than Matty;

Angry Man is often told he has an opinion on everything. Well, to paraphrase the great Winston Churchill, a man who dies without any enemies never stood for anything in his life.

Perhaps the one good thing about our current age is that in the year 2010, anyone can make an impact. And by promulgating some of Rugby League’s less covered issues, Angry Man hopes to mould Rugby League back to the type of game that a fine gentleman from the 1930’s would be proud of.  Hope you’ll stick around.

(Note – everything said in Angry Man blogs are HIS opinions, not ours. Please react accordingly.)