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Dave T replied to Wellsy4HullFC's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
If you've paid the £130 for 12m you've got a great deal whether you use it in the three months of the off-season or not. It's excellent value. -
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Dave T replied to Wellsy4HullFC's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
If you've paid the £130 for 12m you've got a great deal whether you use it in the three months of the off-season or not. It's excellent value. -
John Asiata completely vindicated on appeal.
Dave T replied to Harry Stottle's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Saints won their appeal against Morgan Knowles' tackle so he could play in the Grand Final when he put the Salford players' arm in a dangerous position. I think they appealed twice before getting somebody to agree that the arm wasn't in a dangerous position. It was absolutely a technical win for them, but I'm not a big fan of that. I don't think the disciplinary is covering itself in glory on these technical cases at the moment, not sure if it's them or the legal wording that is stitching them up. -
John Asiata completely vindicated on appeal.
Dave T replied to Harry Stottle's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I don't think you'll get too much disagreement about Wilkin being an idiot tbh. -
John Asiata completely vindicated on appeal.
Dave T replied to Harry Stottle's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Plenty of tackles that players were doing at aged 8 are now banned. -
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Dave T replied to Wellsy4HullFC's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I think in reality people are unlikely to pay for 12m, so you'd probably knock £60 quid off meaning the max is probably £180. -
Hey, if we could be as organised and regular as Oxen, we'd be delighted!
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John Asiata completely vindicated on appeal.
Dave T replied to Harry Stottle's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I think some fans need to be careful before celebrating a victory here. We have seen Saints win certain appeals which may be a victory on technical grounds but reasonable people don't agree with them. These are unorthodox tackles, genuinely nobody else in SL seems to be tackling regularly like this, they are often reckless and whilst he may win the odd case because of a disagreement about point of contact being a few centimetres here and there, these are risky tackles. I think phiggins is right, the focus here should be about him improving his tackle technique rather than celebrating techonal 'wins'. -
POtentially - hopefully we will look back on this year being a blip i the grand scheme of things. I do think what my lists do mask are the fact that underneath the headline internationals, we have done little. We have played the major Test matches regularly, and held World Cup's with an element of regularity, but we haven't grown any of the other internationals - either v France, Wales, or even SH nations.
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Dave T replied to Wellsy4HullFC's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Things like this could be real value-add pieces for SL+. Offering exclusive matches that can't be seen elsewhere can be a nice differentiator between them and Sky. I do think SL+ is a little too niche at the moment based on Sky offering everything they do plus more, so I think SL+ has to focus on these extras that can be unique to it. -
Didn't you just copy and paste from some idiot on a forum?
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Dave T replied to Wellsy4HullFC's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
It's poor that it doesn't explain it properly, and I have gone through to try and find out. -
In reality, things aren't quite as bad as they maybe appear right now. Covid did hit us hard. We don't have many games so wiping those couple of years out has made it seem worse imo. But on top of my list, without covid we'd have had a 2020 Ashes and a 2021 World Cup. When we look at the fixtures for the next few years it ain't that bad if it comes off. It's really 2024 that is the car crash. I would also add that we are meant to be touring Australia in 2025 for an Ashes series, how good would it be if we had dates and fixtures now so that tours could be saved for and planned?
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Well according to the IRL's calendar: 2024 - God knows 2025 - Men's and Women's Ashes tours to Oz 2026 - SH WC 2027 - Home series v NZ 2028 - Home series v Aus It really hasn't been a great plan in terms of flipping hemispheres.
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Even beyond the often touted halcyon years of the 80's and 90's we've had a great couple of decades in general. 2000 - Home World Cup 2001 - Home Ashes 2002 - Home series v Kiwis 2003 - Home Ashes 2004 - Home Tri Nations 2005 - Home Tri Nations 2006 - Aus/NZ Tri Nations 2007 - Home series v Kiwis 2008 - Aus World Cup 2009 - Home 4N 2010 - Aus/NZ 4N 2011 - Home 4N 2012 - Home Tri Nations (Fra/Wales) 2013 - Home World Cup 2014 - Aus/NZ 4N 2015 - Home Series v Kiwis 2016 - Home 4N 2017 - Aus/NZ World Cup 2018 - Home series v NZ 2019 - Tour to NZ/PNG 2020/21 - Covid affected 2022 - Home World Cup 2023 - Home series v Tonga It's a travesty where we are now ending up.