Steve Smith
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Yes we will offer more than both Keighley and Whitehaven,
1 Local Derby for you
2 We will bring 300 to post office road like we always have
3 Our ground has some of the best facilities in the division
4 Our History
5 The fact we WON our league
5 The fact we DESERVE to be in the Championship next season
I wonder how you will respond when Cas and Wakey ask the same questions about Fev?
Asolutely right, don't tar all Featherstone fans with the same brush. What a team needs to 'bring to the competition' is finishing top and thus earning the right to promotion, nothing more, nothing less. This appalling 'management-speak' which has crept into our sport is, quite frankly, sickening.
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A bit like the school bully praising you for taking a punch well. Not all praise is necessarily worthwhile.
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Relatively short lifetime ......who are you kidding
old manI meant relative to yours...obviously (and your lass).
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As I understand it, thats the value of the land that Wakefield Council are providing for both locations which both clubs will borrow against. So its not
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Council arent funding the Wakey/Cas stadiums as far as I know and if they were they wont be now! Theyre also supporting our case arent they with planning guidance etc.
This excerpt from the Wakefield Express would suggest otherwise:
"DREAMS of two new stadiums for the Wakefield district have been shattered after the Wakefield Wildcats and Castleford Tigers were told they must share.
The original plan was to build a stadium for the Tigers in Glasshoughton and one for the Wildcats in Stanley, each getting
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top tackle
top game
top scrap
top derby
happy days
We don't need two teams in Hull, all teams should be a minimum of 20 miles apart. Expansionism has no place for derbies.
These are the games that really show what RL is about...passion!
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So Wakefield & Cas have been told by the council they either share a ground, or relinquish the potential funding the council were offering.
There is to be an independent study to ascertain which of the two sites would be best and quickest to realise, then the clubs have to make a decision as to whether they share or not.
Interestingly, the chap from Stadium Wakefield Action Group has said they wouldn't move to the Glasshoughton site if that was the result of the study, they would be 'tackling life at Belle Vue and whatever that throws at it'. So perhaps the deal isn't done on BV after all.
In the event that a joint stadium is developed, could we not use that in any application to SL if we so wished (in the even that POR wasn't deemed good enough under whatever rules the RFL were choosing to apply at the time); we are under the same council, after all.
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I won't claim to know anything, but I would suggest both!!!
fairy snuff.
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Why is it interesting Colin? He's not for us.
Is that because you know he isn't coming, or just that you don't rate him? I'd say he could do a good job for us. Seeing him play in sl on sky, I rate him highly myself. But if he's not coming here then so be it.
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No, that wasn't my point at all.
So the issue of a club claiming they should be in SL and at the same time chasing overseas players isn't a problem to you then? I'm not trying to be awkward, but that's pretty much what you said.
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I thought Whitehaven decided the only way they would have a chance was intimidation and it patently didn't work. Although I'd love to know what Jim Gannon did or said to Howard Hill at the first scrum, 'cause he didn't half come out fighting!
Doran had a great game for Widnes, showed some great skill. Is he contracted for next year, or might he fancy a trip over the pennines to Featherstone?
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Nope, you will also see plenty of threads criticising SL overseas signings.
But your point was that a club like Workington looking to sign overseas players doesn't belong in SL. It's almost compulsory for SL clubs, it would seem. I'm surprised that one of the criteria for a license doesn't involve signing half a dozen kolpacs.
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Yep I agree. When Cumbrian clubs are boasting about the amount of talent that they have in that region, and that they should be in SL, it is hard to stomach when you see notices like this.
At least the Scorpions one seems to be targeting three areas, whereas Town's doesn't even specify positions.
But of course, it's perfectly acceptable for SL clubs to pack their squads with overseas players, whilst simultaneously boasting about the amount of local talent they're developing... Does this suggest that any team looking for overseas players doesn't belong in SL?
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Dont think Salford will get the boot because there are more teams in from this side off the hill, plus there stadium has started. I would put money on either Cas or Wakey wouldnt bet on which of those gets the boot though
Bearing in mind Wakefield have already sold Belle Vue, where will they play if the new stadium doesn't happen? (Which is looking likely) I'd say They're looking pretty much doomed at this stage, and that could save Cas.
It's all very well the RFL having these edicts, but if there aren't enough teams with what they consider to be an adequate stadium, then what? House of cards springs to mind...hope it's not too breezy at Red Hall.
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Same info is in the Wakefield Express. Apparently Catalan's ardour has cooled due to the compensation due to Wakefield if he breaks his contract.
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I thought we might get beat due to our recent slump in form and Halifax's recent upturn but wow, what an effort, especially in defence.
Moment of the game for me was in the second half when Tony Tonks recieved the ball and changed direction to run at Watene when 99.9% of players would have kept going away from him.To front up to these players and let them know they're not worried about their reputation showed the confidence in our squad and to be honest I wouldn't swap too many of our players for those turning out for Halifax last night.
I'd agree with your last statement and I can think only of one exception. I think Shad Royston would look good in a Rovers shirt next season. I have no idea what contract he's on or anything else, but out of that Fax team, he's the one I'd have at POR.
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The Lin-pac one was my favourite by far, but I reckon that's as much to do with the team at the time as the design of the shirt. I still have two playing shirts from that era, one given to me by John Gilbert, the other by Kenny Kellet and I can't get into either of them....by men were thin in the 70's and 80's!
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John steel also has pace, hardakers 1st try was mainly due to briggsy great ball outwide, his 2nd was pace which is something we have always had out wide.
Yes he did show his youth, he wanted to play the ball quickly the toulouse player too his time getting up and hardaker got wound up. Dont get me wrong but i dont see what likes of john steel and liam welham have done wrong to be dropped?!?
Have we?
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True Steve, but as yet there hasn't been any that has impacted on our sport. That's the risk assessment issue - i.e. is it likely?? Not it isn't. This natural disaster is a completely different event!
No we don't, but we have them nonetheless. All this is, is a problem that has been solved - and in our favour Steve!
I'll live with this one.
Oh, I don't dispute that the issue of playing Keighley this week instead of Toulouse is no great issue, personally, I'm just glad we didn't lose our Sky game because of it. I don't have anything against the French at all in general, I positively like France and the French, I'm just not convinced (to put it mildly) that putting overseas teams in is the right way forward. But I accept that this argument has possibly been done before.
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You stiil haven't explained why a volcano going off in Iceland is proof that the French shouldn't be in OUR league. Dewsbury were not asked to bus it twice in 6 days as you reckon the french should be. If this were FEV being asked to do the same you'd be going mad. Show a bit of commonsense. Oh and trust me i haven't even started with the condescending bit.
It's not specifically the volcano eruption that is an indicator of the unsuitability of French clubs in the english league, it's a more general 'travel disruption' issue. It's far more likely that there would be travel issues between the south of France and the north of England than between say, Leigh and Featherstone.
The fact that it's a natural occurance that has caused this particular disruption is largely irrelevant, there are plenty of other possible disruptive elements, be they natural or man-made.
All that said, as has been pointed out, they are in this league and we have to make the best of it, doesn't mean we have to like it!
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Nobody is saying otherwise, but i reckon we can give the Wires a good game then back up with a similair team to beat tolouse. Playing against top quality super league players and doing well will give the players bucket loads of confidence, and if we pick up 1 or 2 injuries there is plenty of players to come in that wont weaken the team
But there's a danger that we play against Warrington and not do well, I'm not sure that being on the wrong end of a 60 point thrashing would do the confidence any good at all. If we put up a good showing, I agree, it'll boost the confidence,but Warrington are a damned good side, from a league above, even with half a dozen first team regulars out.
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3pm Sundays, because for my generation, that's when rugby's played. Plus our lass won't let me out on a night...
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Aye.......In the street
(Egress also means entrance if used as an antonym!!)
BTW, don't ask what an antonym is, haven't got a clue
Hehe... Antonyms are opposites, up and down, wet and dry, ingress and egress, or rovers and cas. But like you say, preventing their egress from the street! Not long now to our sixth victory...
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Well done to Liam Finn for making the Ireland squad, the lad deserves it.