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  1. The 2019 playoff game between Leigh and Fev. Probably the best game I've ever seen, a credit to both sides and the Championship
  2. I thought it was a brilliant piece. Rugby has been played at the Mount for nearly 150 years, but for how much longer under IMG? I was there the week before to watch Fev. Great atmosphere, very competitive game could have gone either way.
  3. He, Malcolm Reilly, Steve Norton, and Bill Ashurst were the tall long striding type of forwards the Aussies based their new style game on. Lowe was a great player. Wish he was available for GB today. RIP
  4. Long term grievances if not put right, can fester and turn to hate over the years. Again IMG had better watch out. |It won't just be Fev
  5. But the roots of today's problem lies there. The victimised feeling of Fev fans has been passed down.
  6. Fev's totally artificial exclusion from the original SL is the cause of all the problems IMO. There was absolutely no reason from a football point of view why they should not have been in the original SL, but manipulation from Lindsay etc meant they were excluded. A team that that very year were CC semi finalists, plus former champions, and CC winners. Had they been included and failed IMO there wouldn't have been a problem. Same goes for 1998. They lost the final somewhat controversially and Wakey were promoted. On false promises of a new ground and very dodgy financial data. And they somehow survived and have benefitted from that survival. That's it in a nutshell for me. Being the best team in the Championship in the 2010's but excluded hasn't helped matters. It all goes to prove that when you try to manipulate sports comps. there's usually trouble ahead. Watch out IMG.
  7. I wonder Wakey dominated the RL in the 60's big crowds, championships and Wembley wins. But when the goose that had been laying the golden eggs died suddenly it was "save Trinity" they've never really been a force in the game since. Same applies to Bradford although their goose was more of the Ponzi variety
  8. When I was a kid in the 50's my relatives in S Kirkby, S.Elmsall and Hemsworth were all Fev fans, That's how I (from Morley) come to be a Fev fan
  9. That's the point. SL has decimated Fev's support. Pre SL there were supporters buses from as far away as Pollington bringing Fev fans.
  10. again I worked for a company that had not been paying my NI contribution, it only came to light when i changed jobs. In business I'm afraid cash is king
  11. Both sides were out on their feet at the end. Batley were 18-0 up after twenty minutes, but they had the advantage of the slope. Fev scored one up the slope at the close of the first half. By the end there was only a penalty separating them. Could have gone either way.
  12. My information is that this sort of thing is endemic in Rugby League. Personally I think it's appalling. I went to Batley yesterday and watched two teams who at the end were out on their feet put up a tremendous advert for the game. They deserve every penny and should be first in line for payment.
  13. Rugby Union at the top level, from playing in front of two men and a dog (not Leicester or Northampton) but that was the sort of crowd some of the top London clubs could expect have gone to multi thousand crowds. In you post the key phrase is "in the top flight" the rest are struggling. To have a worthwhile game we need more than just the "top flight"
  14. And of course the switch to summer has been a wonderful success hasn't it?
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