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In response to many comments on here, I feel it's now time to comment. Firstly, I'd like to congratulate our coach, our DOR and the staff who work within our set up who have steered us through the tough first 1/4 of the season. Today was a good performance and I feel a stronger win than the score suggests. We have been challenged, come up short on occasion and also excelled too. There is much to be very positive about this season as it develops. As a club, we strive to involve the whole local community. Someone asked on this thread, Is this the type of club we've become? We have become one that has opened it's arms to the community, and one that wants all people connected to be part of sustainable change and improvement. At the home fixture v Oldham, a long standing supporter was asked to move his flag to an area over the popular side perimeter fencing that does not obscure the view of a sponsors boards. For me a very reasonable request, and a request that I'd expect to be met with a reasonable response. These requests have been met with uncooperative responses and even when club Ground safety officers have approached said 'supporter' we have been met with a completely unacceptable response. Factually I'd like to make all aware that since my involvement with the club (6yrs) that this has happened each year. Directors have asked directly for him to not do this. A supporter, who I'm aware has been a huge supporter and done many things to help over the years simply has chosen to not comply with requests. I have spoken and had private messaged the person in question, and must say, I have enjoyed good dialogue, so for this to keep recurring is frustrating and disappointing in each equal measure. I compare this simply with this: If I go into a pub and consistently refuse to adhere to the landlords requests I would expect to be asked to leave or be asked not to return. What is the difference? I am involved directly with attaining and retaining sponsors and now as Chairman, I'm responsible for leading this club forward, to evolve and develop. Hindering this progress does not sit well with me, it is a very challenging time, trust me I know how hard it is to get new sponsors and also how important it is to retain our current ones. I also know how difficult it is to find ground safety officers, trust me this essential role is absolutely vital to any game going ahead at any sports ground, so to have a very unhappy GSO puts some clarity on the response and respect given to our staff member. If any of the posters on this thread would like to discuss the issue, please don't hide behind your forum name, contact me and we will discuss this and any other point you'd like to talk about. I think I'm approachable, fair and listen to our fans. So my email is graemepeerstownrlfc@gmail.com I look forward to hearing from you. The decision by our board wasn't made easily, but as for every decision made, we make it with the best overall interests of Workington Town RLFC at the top of that decision making process. Please enjoy the win, we deserved it and any comments / discussion you can contact me. Graeme Chairman Workington Town RLFC UTT

It's almost as if years and years of fans hurling abuse and calling into question the integrity of referees wasn't a good way of enticing people into the roles.

"Five reasons why the RL media is dead"

The user flaggymcflagface has been banned and their posts removed. It's not appropriate to use our forums on TotalRL.com in that way.

I don't feel like it all can be put down at my doorstep, cut me some slack.

You should have got yourselves relegated years ago.

If you are gonna come on to the forum and personally attack someone you should grow a pair and reveal yourself. I myself have witnessed the hard work Graeme puts in to ensure we have a club to continue to follow. He is an approachable guy and will happily discuss any issues you may have. What makes you think the club are going to be in financial turmoil again? If you think you can do a better job than Graeme and the current people running the club you should go down and offer your expertise. If anyone is holding the club back it’s people who spout ###### like you.

Dave Naylor.No one better in my eyes. He dragged the previous administration kicking and screaming into today's world. The club website improved dramatically as soon as Dave started to work his magic. He's a massively important part of the club.

2,041 today for Oldham vs Rochdale. And yesterday at the same venue, roughly the same for Rochdale Mayfield vs Waterhead.

Dave Naylor. . Well deserved. https://roughyeds.co.uk/2024/04/dave-naylor-our-techy-guru-wins-club-award/

No complaints. Great game. Catalan were superb. Well done to them.

Thanks a lot Johnny I was going to watch that later. I won’t bother now.

Especially for Cas in recent years

Today is Anzac Day and the football codes will be full of fixtures. The NRL does a great job of honouring the Australian and New Zealander veterans of conflict since the Boar War. Unforgotten are all the British and other veterans who have made the same sacrifices as our veterans to defend our freedoms. I hope as many of us can take the time to watch the pre match ceremony of one of today’s or this weekend’s fixtures and take time to consider how lucky most of us are to have had such brave people stand up for us all. Lest We Foget

Wonder why the sport is having trouble with numbers of match officials available.

Completely inaccurate, contract is signed and process for Visa on track. Kind regards. Graeme Workington Town RLFC

Plenty of threads on here about poor spectator facilities, poor development, poor administration, poor ground maintenance, poor marketing. I'm not going to single out clubs but the fact is that there's more to running a club than winning games. You can sneer about the importance of decent toilet facilities but, eventually, having your customers paddle about will have an effect on your club's income.

Ive looked on the forum Today for the first time in ages , wow what a meltdown , re the Rochdale Topic. The one thing i will say is ..if i have anything to say i will use my own name. Lets just leave it at that..relax ,enjoy your rugby All the best.

Wheldon Road isn't up to SL standards .

The tragedy is that there is an easy fix to make everyone happy. A grade clubs protected; B grade clubs can go up or down via P&R. Clubs can still aim for A and get precisely the same reward, no short-term tinkering/gaming required by B clubs, no appeals holding the system up in October, excitement and at the bottom of SL and top of Champ. Win-win.

Hull, its not you, Leeds its not you, Castleford it could be you.

I just had a quick peek at the disciplinary thread when Morgan Knowles was cleared of twisting the arm of Chris Atkin to see if you posted that Knowles had been completly vindicated on appeal. No, instead you typed "I honestly would not mind if some newshound actually reported and screened on national TV the ongoings of the last week with the manipulation of the Bateman ban and this total abhorrent saga concerning Knowles, and show the country just what a complete shambles this game is in". Well, colour me surprised.

Chris Taylor has been named in the L1 team of the month, along with Stevie Scholey and Matty Hensen. Well deserved for all 3 of them.

As I asked the question of you in the other thread, I will reply. I understand your frustration with some of the Sky coverage, including the replays as the game continues. But ultimately, looking at the big picture, I would never of dreamed growing up that I would ever get a chance to see so much live Rugby League and I am happy to live with a few gripes about the coverage to watch so much of my favourite sport.

At Hull?!

Looking like another big crowd for Trinity v Toulouse over 6000 tickets sold so far could be a full house with 10 or so days to go

How it started: How it's going: Seriously impressive from the Trin!

That's sadly a very common view. I remember a time when the RL family used to sell out Wembley and you'd see every professional club's shirts. The disenfranchising of RL fans outside the top flight has led to this decline. We almost feel like we are not really part of the game anymore.

Can’t tell you how much Graeme has done for me and our family . Top guy , works his socks off there and deserves more than that

What a disgusting and unneeded personal attack that is, at least have the guts to put your name to it.

England RU, cant bring myself to cheer for them no matter what!

So, does anyone think we've missed the boat on Samoa?

Think this is worth sharing. It's not easy to do this, but it can be done. You need a patient investor and a good front-office team, but it can be done.

New TV deal Basically, all the next home matches will be on viàOccitanie Grâce à cet accord avec Le groupe La Dépêche du Midi, viàOccitanie et la société de production Fulls Prod, les supporters du TO XIII, pourront, et ce dès le 20 avril prochain avec la rencontre TO XIII – Whitehaven, voir tous les matchs en direct d’Ernest Wallon sur viàOccitanie. Les 12 prochains matchs de la phase régulière du Toulouse Olympique seront donc diffusés sur la chaîne régionale ainsi que sur les sites internet des éditeurs du Groupe : Midi Libre, L’indépendant et La Dépêche du Midi.

Sorry but people need to get over tee,theirs no conspiracy,no shafting,as in many many cases a SL club has cherry picked out the championship,paid a fairly hefty fee, I don't get the xfiles syndrome people have,he's a saints player,their DR with Swinton , and I'm going to be controversial maybe here but even if he came back theirs no guarantee he'd score shed loads as for me alot of his success was massively helped by having miloudi inside him ,who's of course at London,stop babbling about it and back those in the wing jerseys,all about the now,not the then

I had thought that the Great Britain scraping past Burleigh Bears before going on to be utterly embarrassed in the 1999 Tri Nations was the lowest ebb. Turns out, I just didn't have the imagination.

That was never a strip in a month of Sundays. Minchella can’t actively strip the ball with his shoulder, the ball carrier was responsible for holding onto it or not. Absolutely incompetent.

As a Bulls fan, I think Rohan Smith is a fantastic coach and deserves a 5-year contract-extension.

This year has been fantastic for brands advertising at SL matches Optty/Mastercard /Bulldog Skincare/Wendys Restaurants/Duracell to name but a few. Over 40 new clients for us to RL this year + RL commercial have done a fantastic job attacting the german beer company and retaining Betfred who have been a fantastic sponsor. I would add that having an exclusive betting partner also stops the game being infested (Like football) with betting companies. France v England in Toulouse totally sold out with sponsors. Clubs doing a great job to with local sponsors. All in all a great year so far.

I think both lots of fans need to learn how to handle their beer. We are not Football/Soccer but Rugby League where banter and shaking hands afterwards should be the norm.

True, but he is 53 now.

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'.

Cast your minds back 18 months ago , or to any time over decades before that - anyone talking in such terms would have been laughed out of the room or be sent to have their medication checked! The movers and shakers behind all this are heroic. I can feel the excitement. I’d say they should run the country but no, let’s keep them for Oldham and give them every atom of support we can. Come on, you ‘Yeds!!!

I'm not sure the current system will really achieve what people hope it will do, as it is ultimately a fudge between keeping a closed shop and keeping P&R in some form. I can see that my club, Leigh, are in danger of being relegated again. But under this system, 1 bad season in 2021 will derail the work done in 2022, 23 and 24. Because of how skewed the system is in favour of teams in Super League, that one year in the Championship after relegation in '21 will see our score dragged down in a number of areas because of one season in the Championship during the qualifying period. Whether clubs build well isn't down to the system and structure of the league. It is down to the investment and good decision making of that club. Bradford built up to world beaters while we had a P&R system, while they declined during the 6 years of licensing. They didn't decline because of licensing, but because of bad decisions. Hull KR have built themselves up to be challengers during a period of P&R, again, because of sound decisions and good investments. I get the idea this IMG grading system is supposed to encourage more clubs to be more like Hull KR of recent years than Bradford of years prior, and I don't mind the concept, but I don't think that the system itself will achieve that. Cas have replaced short term investments in the playing squad for short term investments on padded seats. Will that improve the matchday experience for fans or sponsors? Will it make them more commercially attractive? I'm not so sure. The annual review will inevitably lead to clubs in danger of dropping out of the top 12 to seek 'quick wins' rather than longer term growth. Straight P&R may be a flawed system, but I don't think the system we are replacing it with is any better, or even as good.

Here's one for you that's kind of mind blowing... every current team in SL apart from London has played in a CC final since 2017.

The Dupree one is a poor decision from the panel for me. They say he is 'bracing for contact' but that contact was an elbow direct to the tackler and I thought it was very dangerous. If a tackler can be found to be reckless then so can a ball carrier and raising your elbow like that and getting it wrong is just as bad as high contact in a tackle (even if intent was not there). Seems like a different standard is set depending on whether you are carrying the ball or not - which for me is wrong.