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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
I'm sure you are right, but surely a person in her position, with a team of researchers probably, can check the ins and out of the game before making a speech!
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I think there is a reasonably sensible assumption that if you haven't heard of any other type of Rugby, then you assume there is only one Rugby game. Let's be honest; RL is a minority sport followed by about 264 people in this country, with a few more in Australia. Also, Rugby Union has a divisional league structure to decide who is the better team, so there you go. Rugby Leagues. Easy mistake to make.
 
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Cityzen said:
RH will be in meltdown and this will dominate Sportstalk. Gollum will be wheeled out to ask if she is red and white or black and white.
“The culture secretary Nadine Dorries made an embarrassing gaffe during a speech at a Rugby League World Cup event in St Helens on Thursday as she reminisced about her favourite memory from the sport – Jonny Wilkinson’s iconic drop-goal in 2003 to win the rugby union World Cup.

Dorries – the secretary of state for digital, culture, media, and sport – appeared to confuse the two rugby codes as she told her audience: “I’ve always quite liked the idea of rugby league. My long-standing memory is that 2003 drop-goal. I’ll let you into a seret, we were drinking Bloody Marys at the time, it was 11 o’clock in the morning. But wow, what a moment that was.”


She added: “I’m not going to stand here and pretend I’m an expert who watches it all the time, but it’s an incredibly physical, sometimes quite brutal sport and it often ends up in a scrum which actually reminds me very much of politics. I think we have a lot in common and given a lot of the media like to call me the prime minister’s attack dog, I wonder sometimes if I should give rugby a go.”


Dorries was speaking at an event setup to unveil the findings of a report which claims the 2021 Rugby League World Cup – delayed by the pandemic until later this year – has already made £25m worth of positive change in communities across the north of England through its social impact programme.”

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'kinell! And people like her are running the country! <doh>
 
John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
I'm sure you are right, but surely a person in her position, with a team of researchers probably, can check the ins and out of the game before making a speech!
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You would. But I remember Tony Blair saying how he remembered taking his seat on Gallowgate End at Newcastle to watch Jackie Milburn. Wor Jackie stopped playing for Newcastle when Blair was 4 and seats weren’t put on the Gallowgate end until 37 years after he retired. No doubt his scriptwriters thought these claims would make the Geordies think he was one of them and one of the lads.
 
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Plum said:
'kinell! And people like her are running the country! <doh>
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She was spouting what her scriptwriters wrote. Just as Blair did about Wor Jackie and made himself look at it when he was PM. Might be a good idea to have someone supposedly involved with ministries dealing with sport who knows something about it. Though that hasn’t happened for years with either party.
 
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Anal Frank Fingers said:
I think there is a reasonably sensible assumption that if you haven't heard of any other type of Rugby, then you assume there is only one Rugby game. Let's be honest; RL is a minority sport followed by about 264 people in this country, with a few more in Australia. Also, Rugby Union has a divisional league structure to decide who is the better team, so there you go. Rugby Leagues. Easy mistake to make.
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Cityzen said:
She was spouting what her scriptwriters wrote. Just as Blair did about Wor Jackie and made himself look at it when he was PM. Might be a good idea to have someone supposedly involved with ministries dealing with sport who knows something about it. Though that hasn’t happened for years with either party.
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Whoever it was is likely not to be in a job much longer. But you are right, most ministerial positions know nothing about what they are ministers for. I had some dealing with the fisheries minister when I was in the fish business, and he knew next to nothing, it was his advisors that made the bullets and he shot them.
 
Cityzen said:
She was spouting what her scriptwriters wrote. Just as Blair did about Wor Jackie and made himself look at it when he was PM. Might be a good idea to have someone supposedly involved with ministries dealing with sport who knows something about it. Though that hasn’t happened for years with either party.
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To be fair to she is also clueless when unscripted
 
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Cityzen said:
RH will be in meltdown and this will dominate Sportstalk. Gollum will be wheeled out to ask if she is red and white or black and white.
“The culture secretary Nadine Dorries made an embarrassing gaffe during a speech at a Rugby League World Cup event in St Helens on Thursday as she reminisced about her favourite memory from the sport – Jonny Wilkinson’s iconic drop-goal in 2003 to win the rugby union World Cup.

Dorries – the secretary of state for digital, culture, media, and sport – appeared to confuse the two rugby codes as she told her audience: “I’ve always quite liked the idea of rugby league. My long-standing memory is that 2003 drop-goal. I’ll let you into a seret, we were drinking Bloody Marys at the time, it was 11 o’clock in the morning. But wow, what a moment that was.”


She added: “I’m not going to stand here and pretend I’m an expert who watches it all the time, but it’s an incredibly physical, sometimes quite brutal sport and it often ends up in a scrum which actually reminds me very much of politics. I think we have a lot in common and given a lot of the media like to call me the prime minister’s attack dog, I wonder sometimes if I should give rugby a go.”


Dorries was speaking at an event setup to unveil the findings of a report which claims the 2021 Rugby League World Cup – delayed by the pandemic until later this year – has already made £25m worth of positive change in communities across the north of England through its social impact programme.”

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My favourite was the time Jonny Wilkinson passed to Eddie Wareing in that classic Aussie Rules SuperBowl…
 
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