I suppose it's logical that rugby league supporters would be drinking Tooheys and XXXX. The former from NSW and the latter from Queensland. No self-respecting AFL supporter would be seen dead with a galss of these in their hands.

The Australian Football States [VIC, SA, WA and Tasmania] manage better with VB [or VIC Bitter] or Carlton Draught or Boags, or even Coopers if there's nothing else.. Fosters Lager seems to be less popular these days.

Actually the beer companies are doing it tough these days; the public is going soft and drinking wine or mixed drinks from a can. From companies owned by beer makers      (-:

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On 02/01/2011, at 12:21 PM, THDW wrote:


On 28 Dec 2010, at 17:59, Geoffrey Heard wrote:

Cricket is very simple, Ferren. It is a form of offensive-defensive play like soccer invented by the English so they could impose it on other peoples then demonstrate pseudo humility when beaten on the field by those people whom they look down on.

I was talking to an English chum today and he told me about a rugby league match in Wigan he'd been to many years ago where the Australians were thrashing the Great Britain team. This, he said, was cause for much merriment among the Australian supporters.

Then for reasons that pass understanding the British team got their act together and actually started winning points. Despite the Tooheys and XXXX that Australians had drunk in great quantity, their vocal reaction to the good play of the British was pukka, generous and totally unpartisan.

Quite clearly, Geoff, the Australians have inherited all that is good from their English forebears ( those who abandoned them when the poor lads had landed up on the hulks at anchor in the Thames) with absolutely none of the bad.

Please don't blush. You know it's true,

No need to tell you that the Australians won the rugby match, though.

T