OK - WHO'LL BE THE FIRST AUSSIE RUGBY PLAYER TO STAR ON MILLS AND BOON...?

It just gets weirder and weirder, doesn't it..?

Actually, I think it is fantastic where this game leads...

Now the RFU marketing department has come up with the idea of linking Rugby to Mills and Boon novels. Dressed up under the guise of bringing the game to more women (in reality finding a new market for their books) we now have Rugby playing glamour boys falling in love with Princesses etc etc .. get it?!

......."Publisher Mills & Boon is betting that nothing goes with champagne and diamonds like the bone-crunching, mud-churning wallop of a rugby match. The romance imprint has teamed up with rugby's British governing body for a series of novels in which gorgeous women fall for athletic alpha males adept at making passes......"

I loved these lines from their promo....:

"We didn't want all the heroes to be rugby players _ we needed heroes who could devote their time to the heroines," she said. The heroes _ described by the publisher as "red-hot and ruthless" _ initially need taming. The reader's heart goes out to Holly, heroine of "The Prince's Waitress Wife," for the letdown after her passionate encounter with brooding Prince Caspar: "To Holly it was the single most intimate moment of her life, and when he opened his mouth to speak, her heart softened........."'The match has started,' he drawled flatly. 'Thanks to you, I've missed kickoff.'"

You've gotta love em..hope he didn't belch at the same time!

But think about the possibilities for the Wallabies?

Who can we use to be the first Aussie Mills and Boon hero?

Will it be a big fat beer swilling prop? Or maybe a slinky half-back? Who are the obvious candidates? I'm not going there - I wouldn't want to be sued for destroying the carefully built up image of the Front Rowers' Union, but I'm sure the mind pictures aren't too hard to imagine..

This is yet another example of what I have written about recently - let's get some interesting stuff going on our websites.

I hope you guys have been following the articles on this over the last few weeks, because it makes for some interesting debate on a whole range of issues - not the least satirising some of our current crop of (Rugby) lovers.

Come to think of it - it gives the term "Rugby Lovers" a whole new connotation, doesn't it?

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