Folau and the Southport Tigers

[jirskyr]

Millionaire madman Clive Palmer doing a press conference to announce Folau is playing rugby league in Australia again at the Tigers... the Southport Tigers that is.

Boring story notwithstanding, how's the logo infringement? Not something I think the club would appreciate being accidentally identified with.

>Best rugby player in the world’: Palmer to sponsor Folau’s return to rugby league
>By Toby Crockford and Michaela Whitbourn
>
>Queensland billionaire businessman Clive Palmer has announced his mining company Mineralogy will sponsor Israel Folau’s return to >rugby league with the Gold Coast team Southport Tigers.
>Israel Folau and Clive Palmer on Friday.
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>Israel Folau and Clive Palmer on Friday.Credit:Toby Crockford
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>Mr Palmer says Folau has signed with the Tigers for the remainder of the season. Mr Palmer is a patron of the club.
>
>Folau’s two brothers are currently with the Tigers and were a big reason for the deal being agreed. The three brothers have never played together, according to Folau.
Israel Folau said on Friday he was excited to return to the “grassroots level”.
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>Israel Folau said on Friday he was excited to return to the “grassroots level”.Credit:Nine
>
>Folau, a devout Christian, was sacked by Rugby Australia in 2019 after posting on social media that “sinners”, including “drunks [and] homosexuals”, would go to hell unless they repented.
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>Asked about his social media posts on Friday, Folau said he believed what the Bible said and he didn’t write the Bible.
>
>“Anyway, I don’t think that’s a really big issue. We’re here to win the premiership,” Mr Palmer interjected. “This is just a beatup.”
>
>Mr Palmer said he had “sworn on the Bible in court”. In April he was ordered to pay $1.5 million in damages after the Federal Court found he had used a Twisted Sister anthem in political advertisements without permission. Justice Anna Katzmann said he gave “false evidence” in the proceedings.
>
>Folau last played NRL for the Brisbane Broncos in 2010. In February the St George Illawarra Dragons pursued Folau before the club backflipped.

 

[jadtiger]

2 frauds sitting side by side,it just needs Peter Dutton and the 3 stooges have been reincanated

 

[TigerWest]

Millionaire madman Clive Palmer doing a press conference to announce Folau is playing rugby league in Australia again at the Tigers... the Southport Tigers that is.

Boring story notwithstanding, how's the logo infringement? Not something I think the club would appreciate being accidentally identified with.

>Best rugby player in the world’: Palmer to sponsor Folau’s return to rugby league
>By Toby Crockford and Michaela Whitbourn
>
>Queensland billionaire businessman Clive Palmer has announced his mining company Mineralogy will sponsor Israel Folau’s return to >rugby league with the Gold Coast team Southport Tigers.
>Israel Folau and Clive Palmer on Friday.
>
>Israel Folau and Clive Palmer on Friday.Credit:Toby Crockford
>
>Mr Palmer says Folau has signed with the Tigers for the remainder of the season. Mr Palmer is a patron of the club.
>
>Folau’s two brothers are currently with the Tigers and were a big reason for the deal being agreed. The three brothers have never played together, according to Folau.
Israel Folau said on Friday he was excited to return to the “grassroots level”.
>
>Israel Folau said on Friday he was excited to return to the “grassroots level”.Credit:Nine
>
>Folau, a devout Christian, was sacked by Rugby Australia in 2019 after posting on social media that “sinners”, including “drunks [and] homosexuals”, would go to hell unless they repented.
>
>Asked about his social media posts on Friday, Folau said he believed what the Bible said and he didn’t write the Bible.
>
>“Anyway, I don’t think that’s a really big issue. We’re here to win the premiership,” Mr Palmer interjected. “This is just a beatup.”
>
>Mr Palmer said he had “sworn on the Bible in court”. In April he was ordered to pay $1.5 million in damages after the Federal Court found he had used a Twisted Sister anthem in political advertisements without permission. Justice Anna Katzmann said he gave “false evidence” in the proceedings.
>
>Folau last played NRL for the Brisbane Broncos in 2010. In February the St George Illawarra Dragons pursued Folau before the club backflipped.

Isn't Folau in his early 30's? Hasn't played RL for over a decade. Not sure why he persists with this stuff?

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

good luck to him
they let Lodge, Hunt and Packer back to rugby league

 

[TillLindemann]

I wouldn't trust him to mind my umbrella, but part of me loves characters like Clive.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Isn't the Tigers logo some generic logo?

I've seen US high school football teams with our logo.

 

[Demps]

No one:
Izzy: look at me

 

[Guest]

He's found the right level for his current ability.

 

[JD Tiger]

Hope that's about the last we hear of him.
Good luck to you Izzy, now off you go into obscurity.

 

[Rugba]

Nrl is stupid to let him , hunt and all the others that left league.
They joined the competitors and actively promoted the games competitors in our stronghold areas and have cost the game money and juniors by the publicity they gave our competitors.
They can go back to AFL or union for all I care , the NRL has no obligations to them to give them a final payday when they are in their 30s and well passed their prime and don’t offer anything on the field

 

[jirskyr]

Isn't the Tigers logo some generic logo?

I've seen US high school football teams with our logo.

No I dont think so, I think those teams ripped it off us. I think its moderately commom for the thousands of US amateur sports teams to rip off logos from overseas clubs.

 

[jirskyr]

BTW this wasnt intended to be a commentary about Folau, it was meant to be a note about an amateur club using our logo and potentially getting WT mixed up in their nrws.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Isn't the Tigers logo some generic logo?

I've seen US high school football teams with our logo.

No I dont think so, I think those teams ripped it off us. I think its moderately commom for the thousands of US amateur sports teams to rip off logos from overseas clubs.

Honest mistake on my part. It does look like the product of a year 10 graphic design project...

 

[balmain boy]

BTW this wasnt intended to be a commentary about Folau, it was meant to be a note about an amateur club using our logo and potentially getting WT mixed up in their nrws.

Pretty sure there's dozens of clubs using our logo, and more abroad.

Personally i prefer the easts tigers logo to ours.


 

[innsaneink]

Isn't the Tigers logo some generic logo?

I've seen US high school football teams with our logo.

No I dont think so, I think those teams ripped it off us. I think its moderately commom for the thousands of US amateur sports teams to rip off logos from overseas clubs.

Pretty sure it was around before we used it

Good luck to Izzy... Great player

Football... Do t care about opinions, religion, sexual.prefs

Isn't the Tigers logo some generic logo?

I've seen US high school football teams with our logo.

No I dont think so, I think those teams ripped it off us. I think its moderately commom for the thousands of US amateur sports teams to rip off logos from overseas clubs.

I think it's been used before
we used it

 

[barra]

Well it's not like Clive worries too much about copyrights...
But I don't like that it seems our logo is a generic logo, surely we are big enough to create our own logo and have it exclusively!

 

[diedpretty]

Isn't the Tigers logo some generic logo?

I've seen US high school football teams with our logo.

I think its pretty common - i know both Wingham Tigers and Comboyne Tigers have the same logo as us.

 

[kiwitiger]

Nrl is stupid to let him , hunt and all the others that left league.
They joined the competitors and actively promoted the games competitors in our stronghold areas and have cost the game money and juniors by the publicity they gave our competitors.
They can go back to AFL or union for all I care , the NRL has no obligations to them to give them a final payday when they are in their 30s and well passed their prime and don’t offer anything on the field

Unbelievable that SBW and Wendall spent so much time in the other code but came back for one season and got nice media jobs. its a joke really rugby union would never give them those jobs but we seem to. Why? they left our game to make more money but get nice after career roles in the game they left. This really annoys me.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Isn't the Tigers logo some generic logo?

I've seen US high school football teams with our logo.


I think its pretty common - i know both Wingham Tigers and Comboyne Tigers have the same logo as us.

The Entrance Tigers on the Central Coast have the exact same logo also. I watched the 2005 GF at that club, it was the closest I could get to the Tigers on that night!

 

[dazza65]

Rather a bible thumper than a wife thumper.