Now we're coming to the rub . Remember when I made the comment about Anglocentrism? That old bulldog spirit dies hard, eh? I'd love to know what the four nations are too... because the last time I looked, Ireland wasn't part of GB.
Last time I looked Northern Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom, and if you knew your RL history you'd know that in the 90s the Lions were called the British Isles XIII to incorporate NI whereas before that GB merely represented the 3 nations of GB, as seen by the badge representing all three nations and the blue and red vees on the shirt to represent them both. Much like Team GB in the Olympics is GB & NI. I haven't mentioned Ireland in any post, no idea why you've thought I have.
It's amazing that you think national sides representing, y'know, the nations of England, Scotland and Wales are artificial whilst one representing an artificial imperialist entity isn't, umm, a nation.
I didn't say national sides representing Wales and Scotland are artificial, I said the way we are trying to fill them with players that aren't Welsh or Scottish was artificial. You're big on people reading things properly, have a try yourself. Wales have had a national side for ages as I've repeatedly said, and it got tests against the Kangaroos regularly when they toured. I'm in favour of national sides, I'm also in favour of a GB side that can compete with Australia and give the sport something unique that other sports cannot provide. GB was unique to RL, everyone knew what you meant when you said Great Britain, and in a world where RL struggles for recognition it was a thing we had that got us instant recognition and something unique.
From a Welsh point-of-view, better to die on our knees with a sketchy national team that represents Wales than stand on two feet as part of something foisted upon us
Did Clive Griffiths, John Mantle, Phil Ford, John Devereux, Allan Bateman, Jonathan Davies etc play for GB at gun point?
But I don't imagine you'll understand the reasons a Welshman would say that.
No, no idea at all. I'm not from a Liverpool family with loads of Welsh and Irish blood in it. I don't have an Auntie and Uncle who owned a hotel on Anglesea for decades, I don't have a cousin who lives in Llandudno, I don't have another Auntie who lives nearby, I haven't been going to Wales regularly for 40 years visiting them and other relatives, and I never discuss RU, RL, politics and independence with any of them ever. I also didn't share a house with a lad from Neath at uni who I've been mates with for twenty years and visit regularly etc. In fact, no idea where Wales even is, sorry. I must be one of those people that thinks everyone different from me is an ignorant idiot who I can lazily and insultingly stereotype on a public forum.