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<blockquote data-quote="Fred187" data-source="post: 238610"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (melon @ Jan 18 2009, 09:17 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=371729" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p></p><p>You can't use the term 'No.8' in Rugby League, because the loose forward in numbered 13, so it wouldn't make sense, and the term 'fly-half' just isn't really used; it's five-eighth (Australian) or stand-off (British).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>You're a fool Fred...(or a simpleton as I made reference to in my original post). Read the post properly. </p><p></p><p>Be off with you. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As for you St Helens...you interpreted my post correctly. Congratulations. But you are WRONG! WRONG I SAY! </p><p></p><p>You may have invented this, that and the other but all things invented are adopted by others and improved upon. HA.</p><p>[/b][/quote]</p><p></p><p>Well, it could be worse - I could have been born an Australian... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> </p><p></p><p>But yeah, I see what you meant now - I thought "FIVE-EIGHTH AND LOCK!!!!!" was an expression of dismay rather than emphasis. But anyway, those are still stupid terms, and we invented the sport, so we decide what the positions are called - any other terms are just colloquial and wrong. What does five-eigth even mean? Is it supposed to be some clever term about being between the half-back and the three-quarters? Well I'm not impressed...</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Fred187, post: 238610"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (melon @ Jan 18 2009, 09:17 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=371729']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> You can't use the term 'No.8' in Rugby League, because the loose forward in numbered 13, so it wouldn't make sense, and the term 'fly-half' just isn't really used; it's five-eighth (Australian) or stand-off (British). [/b][/quote] You're a fool Fred...(or a simpleton as I made reference to in my original post). Read the post properly. Be off with you. As for you St Helens...you interpreted my post correctly. Congratulations. But you are WRONG! WRONG I SAY! You may have invented this, that and the other but all things invented are adopted by others and improved upon. HA. [/b][/quote] Well, it could be worse - I could have been born an Australian... :P But yeah, I see what you meant now - I thought "FIVE-EIGHTH AND LOCK!!!!!" was an expression of dismay rather than emphasis. But anyway, those are still stupid terms, and we invented the sport, so we decide what the positions are called - any other terms are just colloquial and wrong. What does five-eigth even mean? Is it supposed to be some clever term about being between the half-back and the three-quarters? Well I'm not impressed... [/QUOTE]
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