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Dave T

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  1. I can't help but feel that the Aussies fixation with the AFL is an issue at play here. Let's be honest, the AFL don't have an international game and are rich, like the NRL are. They see little value in investing in internationals, they can have a few vanity projects like staging some games in Sydney for Tonga and Fiji, but they see the ARU and their international game failing, yet the AFL succeeding without one.
  2. Where I have a level of belief that this one may be delivered is that it is utterly unambitious in the main. It has the Aussies leaving their shores only in 2028, six years after they came here for the WC.
  3. Covid disrupted the delivery of the last calendar, the Aussie coup has disrupted much of the rest. Are we due an Euro nations this year?
  4. This year is an appalling car crash, and heads should roll at the RFL. I wonder if the CEO has had his call from the Samoan yet that may or may not happen, or something.
  5. The last 'calendar' was announced in 2017, this is what was promised vs delivered: 2018 - Euros & Kiwi tour to Eng, Aus v NZ Test all delivered 2019 - Pacific Tests, Lions Tour, 9s WC, Aus v NZ (all delivered). Then covid hit, which cancelled the 2020 Ashes series that was scheduled, the Euros, Kiwis tests etc. Everything basically. 2021 saw the WC postponed, which crashed into 2022 and cancelled the Kiwis touring here. Covid has clearly been a huge issue here, and the key things that have been failures are the continued sporadic nature of the Euros, the 9s has predictably been abandoned, along with the equally predictable Lions tour. The French blew the World Cup, as did the Americans. I'll always be very critical of the IRL, and the biggest failure for me of the international game was the abandonment of our most successful tournament outside of the World Cups (4N) and to not replace it with anything meaningful.
  6. That's fine, but you have to accept that you're not the type of person to ever want a 10 year calendar or similar. Announcing a long term calendar is quite different to having tickets on sale.
  7. Dates, times and venues are always announced pretty close to the events. But we do have stuff announced. And a lot of people aren't spouting a calendar that is set in stone at all.
  8. It depends what you mean by announced. Those series' have been announced. Of course that doesn't guarantee anything in this sport.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. I don't think you'll get too much disagreement about Wilkin being an idiot tbh.
  13. Plenty of tackles that players were doing at aged 8 are now banned.
  14. 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.
  15. Hey, if we could be as organised and regular as Oxen, we'd be delighted!
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