cjhatesunion wrote:
:lol: Sorry Catalancs will do.
You have to admit though he is a bit of a tool.
Bit?
cjhatesunion wrote:
Brilliant,and yet you get the RU fans in Aus especially having a go at RL players for their behaviour.
It's nothing to do with the sport he plays to be fair. It's a terrible waste of talent in my opinion. Cipriani isn't one to go hiding when it gets a bit rough as Charlie Hodgson and to a lesser extent Jonny Wilkinson have done throughout their careers.
cjhatesunion wrote:
Catalancs what are your thoughts on the Ackford interview with Ashton.
First of all I think it's a rather poor read. I wanted to give up after the first paragraph or so but I'd been asked to read it by a friend so stuck it out till the end. Ackford may have been an England international (preferred Wade Dooley myself) but he's more village pub team when it comes to journalism. Maybe he was looking for a way to get some attention and couldn't be bothered thinking of anything original or thought provoking so went for the easy option.
Ashton seems to be an intelligent lad when he's interviewed on television or radio but now I'm really starting to wonder if it's just a media created image or indeed if it's a case of myself getting him all wrong. He famously went down the M6 to pose in a Northampton RU shirt while he was still a Wigan player. At the time I put that down to him being a naive young lad pressured into a cheap publicity stunt by his new club and his agent (Phil Clarke's brother, Andy). Now you could say that he was naive this time and that Ackford shamelessly manipulated and exploited him, but after spending the last two or three years in the national media spotlight I'm not having that for one minute.
If he's happy in union then that's fine and he'll obviously feel he made the right decision to leave rugby league, but I really don't understand why he needs to revisit Wigan and his first sport in such a negative and dismissive way if he has truly feels he has moved up and moved on.
Sorry Catalancs will do.
