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Crowd at The Shay announced at 1800+.Thought there a few more in that although it was a younger audience than usual. Think Fax must have been in the schools this week dishing out a few free tickets.If that is the case don,t know if they are counted. Not a great weekend with all 8 results going to form and a lot of one sided scorelines although the 4 Championship clubs did better than 3 SL teams.
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Restructure of Championship and League 1
bamfordsbeans replied to Rene_Artois's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
From a playing point of view a top NCL club would do a lot better than an area out of the heartlands. However I agree that would be a step backwards and just hope that a development area can provide the right kind of backing that has been sadly lacking in the games history. -
Whilst the new regulations are probably the right solution in the long term,I hope the players learn quickly. The downside is that you are more likely to see 13 v 12 or 12 x 12 games as last weekend. With the number of suspensions clubs are going to need large squads.
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Challenge Cup: Third Round Draw
bamfordsbeans replied to Futtocks's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Just got my tickets for Siddal v Wakefield. Can't remember the last time I had to queue for Challenge Cup tickets. Might have been the 1987 final. -
Where did it go wrong? International RL
bamfordsbeans replied to ehbandit's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I used to dream of us beating the Aussies. That dream has now been downgraded to just playing them. -
Odsal - RFL Selling the lease
bamfordsbeans replied to Whippet13's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
If it goes for a quid it will be a good result in the long term for the RFL. At the moment they(and in effect the clubs) are subsidising Bradford and stock car racing. -
The true sleeping giants of the game
bamfordsbeans replied to Kirmonds pouch's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Fax's capacity is around 10,000. If the Skircoat side was developed this would increase to about 13,000. In my opinion its a far better stadium for SL than the rest of West Yorkshire with the obvious exception of Headingley. -
Question - the Northern Union
bamfordsbeans replied to Coastal_Geordie's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
One of the biggest mysteries to me is why the boundaries of the game stopped at Wakefield in the east(Hull excepted) and didn't spread to North Lancs in the west. Areas like Barnsley,Burnley,Blackburn etc are only a few miles from our so called heartlands yet have had virtually no exposure to the professional game. Whilst soccer was obviously dominant in these areas you would have at least thought league would be the rugby of choice. -
Just as it looks as we are getting a decent team together it seems likely that they are not going to get a meaningful test for at least 2 years. No creditable national team can stand this. Again it puts into question the international schedule that was laid out.
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Loop fixtures to stay......
bamfordsbeans replied to Bring back GB's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
The SL clubs in there own way are as bad as the NRL clubs. The Aussie clubs are very anti-the international game and at home the "Chosen 12 " are only interested in there own well being. Historically this should never have been allowed to happen,but now that it has other sports with better vision will overtake our own regionalised efforts. -
There are numerous issues that the game needs to address. The venue for the Grand Final is not one of them.