A ‘traditional’ rugby league’s fans attempt to bring the game he loved back to the people has been torpedoed by Facebook.
Dazza (56) is sick of the “Woke V’landys touch footy played by sooky fairy men who cry to the referee with every little love tap!” and started a new Facebook group called Dazza’s REAL Footy of the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s: a page described as “An attempt to remind footy fans what proper footy used to be like before Peter V’landys ruined rugby league!”
Not content with simply talking to fans, telling stories of his 20 years of bush footy all across Queensland (“When you’d rip each other’s heads off for 80 minutes and then drink with them until midnight!”), and sharing clips and replays of old games on YouTube, Dazza organised Friday and Saturday night streams, showing fans two games each night (from between 1970 to 2019) voted through a page poll.
The exercise lasted one night before Facebook administrators took the page down due to copyright violations. While he can still run the Facebook page, he’s banned from livestreaming any games via YouTube on Kayo.
“Typical woke nonsense!” grumbled Dazza. “I betcha that CLOWN V’landys has those Facejerk w*****s in his pocket and told them to take my streams down! Rugby league will be DEAD in five years if that CLOWN is still in charge!”
Dazza’s wife Fiona is glad the streams. “I don’t care if he watches footy, but those streams were so loud and annoying that I couldn’t concentrate on the shows I wanted to watch. I ended up going to the movies instead. Thank heavens I get some peace and quiet back!”
While he can’t stream anymore, Dazza will keep up his routine of watching old games on Friday and Saturday nights, as voted by the poll, but will wait until after it’s finished to talk about them on the page instead.
“It’s a crying shame, but still better than watching the JOKE of a sport that dares to call itself ‘rugby league’ now! Let me know when V’landys is gone and I might start watching again!”
