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PurstonJavelin

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  1. QUOTE (Jimmy B @ Jul 24 2010, 12:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I personally believe that the only real reason for the setting up of SL Europe - in truth a form of breakaway from the RFL - was to capture the control and distribution of Sky TV money amongst a self appointed "elite" group of clubs. Well said, Jimmy B. You will hear lots of justifications, explanations and arguments from those inside the self-protection club that is Super League, but above is the simplest, most honest, and most accurate description of what it is really about.
  2. Success, entertainment, thrills and excitement will bring back most of the missing long-term fans, and take the attendance up around the 2000 mark. After that it gets hard. A dozen new supporters every match - a very ambitious target for a small town team - increases the attendance by less than 200 in a year. A long term strategy is needed, along with match by match efforts. A child in for free with every adult, a turnstile set up for such, could be a worthwhile endeavour. There could be kids who encourage a parent along, and parents who encourage a child along. And every new customer is a valuable resource to the club, and should be treated as such. Seven new kids will one day, as adults, be worth at least
  3. Yes it did happen one time live on BBC. My memory (which I don't trust) is that there was a missing ball at the end of the draw and I think they found it in someone's lap and put it in the last away place. There was a fuss, and they produced a new draw later which was not live on BBC (I assume Leeds got a nice home tie in the new draw!). But please don't tell me it was in the 60s. Where did all those intervening years go?
  4. I thought we did get 100% effort. There looked to be a great deal of frustration and even anger amongst the players. It is beginning to look to some of us that we have a coach who struggles to prepare his team for a campaign, struggles to prepare his team for the matches that count, and - judging by the number of poor starts we have - struggles to prepare his team for the kick-off. Certainly, the attacking structure - surely the coach's domain - was, again, woeful. There was almost nothing we did throughout the whole game which challenged the Leigh defence. This looks to me to be a good squad this year and I think we'll do OK - eventually. Though I don't think we'll do as well as the squad is capable of, and I expect a lot more frustrations along the way.
  5. We did seem to give away too many damaging penalties last year. Many of them, it seemed to me, were as a result of wrestling in the tackle to keep the tackle going and slow down the attack. The new rule interpretations suggest that the RL may be looking to cut a lot of this out this year, and bring the tackle to an end more quickly, so I hope we haven't spent too much training time on it.
  6. I suspect you're right about this. It's interesting to speculate what it is that a coach might do to develop a defensive team. (Those who know what training is done don't have to speculate) Does it mean that a greater proportion of training time is devoted to defensive patterns and organisation, tackling technique, strength in the tackle, and wrestling techniques? And what about the 50 or so percent of the game when the team is in possession? More drives, less passes, little in the way of speculative moves, more inside ball, and a generally conservative approach looking to physically dominate the opposition? Not long now, before we start to find out. I'll cheer thrilling rugby and I'll cheer the thrill of a victory. I hope we get plenty of both.
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