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You’re making a huge assumption …
my grandfather fought in syria > back home in shell shock ward > up to new guinea before the ‘real’ troops could get back …
according to my father he would have supported Kaepernick’s kneel …
and certainly not “… be dismayed …”
he was a socialist, anti-racist, honourable man
Kaepernick or any of the others that refused to stand did not initiate the riots
i suggest the tensions were well and truly there already …
of what faction were those charming us citizens that were planning to abduct a governor ?

The Wallabies taking a knee is a matter of conscience

” … disrespecting what they died for… “,
please elaborate, thanks

” … to support a worn-out trope from America.”,
2016, Kaepernick, “… worn-out …” ?

The Wallabies taking a knee is a matter of conscience

” … putting your hand on your heart.”
a US tradition, yep

The Wallabies taking a knee is a matter of conscience

Brought up on League (Sydney); dad played first grade Parramatta ’52 and reserve grade St.George ’54) but stopped watching it when they mutilated the scrums. Don’t even watch ‘Origin’; league is too much like ‘touch football’ nowadays, boring. Am fully converted Union fan now

What can rugby union learn from rugby league?

” right up there with Mark Ella and Stephen Larkham at their best,” drawing a long bow there methinks

SPIRO: Brilliant Wallabies boot England out of World Cup

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