Jaded

Yeah so I've got the Monday blues as usual, I didn't quite realise our Sunday lunch at the pub with the flatmates was going to turn into a marathon drinking session, but never mind.
I will have to brave the crowds at the gym tonight, Monday night is always really busy and you often have to wait for the equipment. I usually don't go on Mondays because of this reason but I have other commitments the rest of this week. After the gym though I'm off to Rob's place. He went to Prague on the weekend to visit a friend with whom he killed a pig (yes that was the intention of the trip) So tonight we will be feasting on the result of this slaughter.


I usually flick through the TNT on Monday's, it's not a bad read. Occasionally something bothers me enough to write in to letters about it. This week, in response to a sentence in an article about Andrew Johns, I sent in the following.

I find it very difficult to understand how Andrew Johns can be regarded as the best player in either rugby code (TNT 1125.) Andrew has never played Rugby Union before, people merely assume that as he is such a quality league player, he has what it takes to be the best in union. The ARU decided that he didn’t when they blocked the Waratahs’ attempts to sign him late last year. Whether he could play the game or not is irrelevant, Johns never has and never will have anything to do with Rugby Union so let’s have an end to these ridiculous claims.

I could rave on for longer about this matter, but I have to keep the letter brief and succinct so it will be printed. It really does piss me off when people say Johns is widely regarded as the best player in either code. I don't regard him as such and neither does anyone I know who supports Rugby Union. In fact I would go as far as to say it is insulting to suggest that a player, who has never had anything even remotely to do with Union in his lifetime, could be regarded as the best player in either League or Union. We don't want him to have anything to do with Union either. He might have the skills, but he doesn't have the passion and the instincts for the game, that course through the blood of all true Rugby people. Besides, I find it hard to believe anyone who spends all their time on the treatment table can be regarded as the best at anything... cough cough Jonny Wilkinson.
Oh and Willie Mason, you can piss off too.

So staying with Rugby; well done Tahs, good win, played as a team, probably should have picked up a bonus point but apart from that. Well done Wales, played some great rugby throughout the tournament and throroughly deserved their grand slam. And well done Don Cameron, kicking off Uni's Shute Shield with the first try of the season.