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Cottect. That is why professionaly-run successful clubs employ proper cleaners. That is why professionaly - run successful clubs don't have player-coaches, and that is why clubs have directors of rugby so that owners etc who invest don't also need to have rugby-brains. Incidentally, what was the ultimate result at Widnes of Laughton's chequebook coaching?
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The Reality of the IMG Grading System
JohnM replied to DemonUK's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Couldn't agree more and would add that It's one thing being a critic of the Reimagining project. It's another thing entirely wanting and hoping for failure. -
Saints were not below par, in my view. It's just that teams are learning how to handle Welsby, Roby, Hurrell etc. Couple that with Wire protecting George Williams to give him the space and time to deliver his best performance for ages. Couple that with their "go forward" and positional vision, they could have beaten anyone.
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The Reality of the IMG Grading System
JohnM replied to DemonUK's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Somehow, though, I've managed to support and follow the game in varying degrees and intensity when I lived in Swinton, Manchester, Atherton, Hampshire, Switzerland, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Surrey, France and Lincolnshire. Expansion had been just as successful as keeping the game alive in the frozen north, though. Whatever happened to Huyton, Trafford, Liverpool, Belle Vue, Nottingham.....and although they are still going, look at the great names of the past: Bradford, Halifax, Widnes, and clinging on are Wakefield, Castleford, Salford. We don't even know if Leigh are going to be sustainable in the long term. Perhaps it's not geography, perhaps it's northern folk who don't want the game at all or folk who want to keep the game small and local for fear of losing control, like an episode of "The League of Gentlemen". An exaggeration and a simplification, maybe, and not intending to demean and minimise the efforts, donations, loans, investment etc. that fans and directors and owners put in, but really, it's a more complex issue than merely saying it's a northern game for northern folk. It's 2024 not 1895. The world and is people are entirely different now, compared with them. Hence IMG. They live in the here and now. -
The Reality of the IMG Grading System
JohnM replied to DemonUK's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Filmed in Thetford, Norfolk. Leigh might be aspiring to the Parochial Div 1 of the League of Insular Gentlemen, but others may well differ. -
List of Rugby League towns
JohnM replied to SouthBedfordshireFan's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I suspect but can't prove that soccer fans from "Wigan" support and watch Bolton Wanderers, Man City, Man Utd, Everton, Liverpool. With the diaspora from poor quality town centre housing to out of town "new" housing estates public and private,I'm not convinced there are rugby towns any more.... everything is much more homogeneous than it was 50 years ago.