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IC11 Preview - All new GB Bulldogs pushing to achieve more

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, July 21 2011 @ 07:16 pm ACST

Kolja how can you say you don't mean to offend anyone but then call it a monstrosity?! I'd hate to hear you when you decide to be nasty on purpose! Someone out there designed it.

For what it's worth, maybe it could be better, but I seriously think it will make not one single point difference to their performance. It's still based on the Union Jack and they'll be proud to pull it on.

I know players have to be proud of their jumper but it's still the Union Jack. Maybe there's some touchy feely people or designers who would feel less determined to play well but I just couldn't imagine even the slightest let down myself, not even some subsconscious thing..

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IC11 Preview - All new GB Bulldogs pushing to achieve more

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Friday, July 22 2011 @ 07:01 pm ACST

I'd be more worried about the person who felt obiliged to put a dirty big red arrow pointing to the UK . If the Union Jack represents Britain what represents the UK ?

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IC11 Preview - All new GB Bulldogs pushing to achieve more

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Friday, July 22 2011 @ 07:19 pm ACST

Well, you could argue that the Union Jack represents the UK (ie England/Scotland/Wales and Northern Ireland), but Northern Ireland's footy talent (ie the Belfast Redbacks) plays as part of the Irish Warriors, so therefore the Union Jack isn't 100% accurate either. But I think that might be splitting hairs.

They don't call themselves the UK Bulldogs (which would be inaccurate), but rather the Great Britain Bulldogs, which refers to the island of Great Britain (basically the UK minus Northern Ireland).

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IC11 Preview - All new GB Bulldogs pushing to achieve more

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, July 22 2011 @ 10:21 pm ACST

I do the maps Cos, so it's my arrow. And for the life of me I can't work out what your point was. If you can explain the question I'll try to answer it.

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IC11 Preview - All new GB Bulldogs pushing to achieve more

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, July 22 2011 @ 10:24 pm ACST

Or is it what Aaron is talking about - do you feel it shouldn't point at the UK but instead GB? In which case my answer would be it's pointing at the same thing, and as Aaron says, ARFLI gets first crack at any players in Northern Ireland.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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IC11 Preview - All new GB Bulldogs pushing to achieve more

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Saturday, July 23 2011 @ 11:07 am ACST

Just a light hearted attempt to deflect criticism away from the GB jumper which IMO will be fine full scale .Thanks for confirming the GB/UK arrangement .It's interesting how RU has GB operating under it's member countries .It'd be nice to see how a Scandavian , North American and a British isles teams would operate (but not in the IC)

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IC11 Preview - All new GB Bulldogs pushing to achieve more

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Saturday, July 23 2011 @ 02:39 pm ACST

Ok no worries.

Speaking of region rep sides, I'll still love to see an effort made to get a South American team to an IC. I would've liked IC11 but oviously not going to happen, so how about 2014. Will modest growth there should be enough players from Argentina, Chile and maybe Peru and Brazil to put together a squad.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN