Jenny!!! You are definitely not the only one. GO THE MIGHTY NEW SOUTH WALES BLUES!!!
[RANT]Queensland just haven't gotten over the fact that they could still have been New South Welshman but for a silly rash decision by some idiot in 1859. Have you ever seen a group of people carrying so big an inferiority complex as these banana-benders? I grew up close to the border, and I now live in Brisbane, so I've had a fair sampling of the drivel they go with about themselves. I'm surprised there hasn't been a referendum up here to secede from Australia and become a separate republic. I've waited my whole life to hear a Queenslander admit that anyone from anywhere else in the world actually has any sort of ability, and I'm still waiting. Well, Andrew Johns did get roundly booed after we wiped the floor with you at Suncorp in game 3, 2005. I'll take that as a tacit admission. Oh, and I don't recall ever hearing that Ian Thorpe won gold for New South Wales, but I distinctly recall news reports claiming Kieran Perkins won gold for Queensland. Love to slap your fellow countrymen in the face up here, don't we? You'd think at the Olympics maybe these silly northerners could get over it and just root for anyone wearing green and gold, but no, not even there can they forget this whole us-vs-them mentality about their fellow Australians, particularly those from just south of the mighty Tweed. Oh, and for those who've been rubbing it in about Inglis the New South Welshman playing for Queensland, from memory they weren't quite so smug when the boot was on the other foot with Dell, Tiquiri and Rogers turning out for the Tahs (though Rogers should have played for NSW, he was born and raised in Kempsey). But I guess we should feel sorry for them for one thing: it did take them 75 years to win the Sheffield Shield. But hey, now they've won the thing a couple of times, they can hop back in their hole and wait another 75 years![/RANT]
Jason
p.s. This is meant in jest, no offence intended.
p.p.s. Well ok, maybe just a teensy weensy bit of offence was intended...
p.p.p.s. I see you silly sig/avatar bet, and I raise you:
a) If Queensland win 1 game, I will sport a maroon sig for 1 month
b) If Queensland win 2 games, I will sport a maroon sig for 2 months
c) If Queensland win 3-0, not only will I sport a maroon sig for 6 MONTHS, but I will also change my avatar to a photo of myself wearing a Queensland jersey, which photo shall also be included as part of my sig, and I shall make a lengthy post on this forum praising Queensland for their wonderful effort and denigrating those useless Blues for the bunch of gutless losers they are.
Any takers?