I seriously wish people would stop saying that he is the only openly gay athlete in the world. He really isn't. For god sakes, there's another openly gay player in his old sport.



Look u Ma'a Nonu.

You're obviously from Wigan with an education like that.

Your comment was no better than dally's to be fair. You are still angry that your fans abused him and came out of it in a bad light? Through absolutely no fault of his own you are still whingeing about your club being fined last year.

is women's tennis no longer a professional sport then?

im smart enough to spell too you twit

That is a grammatical error, not a spelling mistake – ironically, the same as your 'im' which should be I’m



Stones and glass houses?

Schoolboy error!

Methinks Dally was taking the rise?

thanks for that reply, its in accordance with recent contributions on here, good work



i dont care who gareth thomas sleeps with.



if a RL player is on a high profile show and doesnt use it as a chance to promote the sport and indeed just spends time talking about himself then hes nothing in my eyes



at least mention how much hes enjoying hes new sport and promote it.



where he sticks his ding dong is something i couldnt give 2 s***ts about

First of all, at risk of sounding like a play ground fight, if you check the thread you will find that you started the ‘contributions’ around spelling errors – I was simply trying to help you understand the differences between spelling and grammar. I guess I’m just a helpful soul



Back to topic. We cannot expect Gareth Thomas to promote the game of Rugby League on national TV in the US – perhaps we would if it was a UK programme but the vast vast majority of the US public don’t know there are two forms of rugby (in fact the vast majority probably only have a remote idea what rugby is at all)



I’m sure that the producers would have loved it if Gareth started the interview with... “Well Ellen, in 1895 the Northern clubs met at the George Hotel in Huddersfield to discuss the emotive topic of broken time payments to players etc etc etc”



When I go and visit my Italian in laws, they know I enjoy rugby so they mention the six Nations/RU World Cup and so on – I don’t bother trying to correct them that they are not talking about the right form of rugby because (here is the important bit) they don’t know and don’t care, they are just being nice! (my wife of course knows all about the differences because I bang on about it all the time... but that’s her fault for marrying me)



You really should just try and calm down a little

Surely 'coming out' is a bit retro now? Ok it was clearly hard for the guy but in honesty jumping at every ounce of publicity (Inc OTT aftermath from Cas game) does more to harm 'equality' then the chants themselves IMO.