Blind side johnny
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3 minutes ago, Clarence Street said:
Certainly sounds useful. I see he was born in Toowoomba. I seem to remember that's where Clint's from too.
And Eric Harris.
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2 hours ago, HaxbyKnight said:
For me the ideal solution would be to leave SL at 12 teams next season, and move to 14 the year after. There is a possibility that whoever wins the Championship this season could well be promoted if their IMG score is better than Salford, Cas., or Huddersfield, but looking at how the Knights are developing, another season preparing for a possible promotion would be the best scenario.
Under the current set of conditions league position would be almost irrelevant in terms of moving into SL ahead of any existing club. IMG scores are all that would be considered.
Until the system is changed, of course, in which case alphabetical order might take precedence.-
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8 minutes ago, Cam varley said:
From what I’ve heard I don’t think there’s anything to worry about
You are RL fans - there is always something to worry about!
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4 hours ago, Wakefield Ram said:
The 6th tackle bit has puzzled me all season.
Do they practice 6th tackle kicks in opposition 20 in training?
If they do, why don't they do it in games?
If they don't, why don't they?
Crusaders forced some goal-line drop outs. We didn't.
They don't work so well in the Conference league.
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I can see no prospect other than another comprehensive defeat. A really fit team would struggle in this heat whilst an unfit one would noticeably wilt. Add in uncomfortable travel and poor recent form and only one winner looks likely.
I will be absent, once again, largely due to other arrangements but frankly our recent performances don't really generate much enthusiasm to travel any distance.Prove me wrong boys!
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On 10/07/2025 at 20:15, Wakefield Ram said:
One way would be to make the game more exciting. The 5 drives and a kick "arm wrestle" where the name of the game is avoiding errors and laying on as much as you can to slow the game down is frankly pretty dull to watch.
Even 2nd half of State of Origin was boring.
I'm old enough to remember the 10m offside was brought in to encourage open play. It's done the opposite. And if there were fewer bigger head on collisions, there'd be less CTE cases....
Just watch how fast, dynamic and exciting the 2000 GF was compared to the current game.
I believe that this is the key WR - messing around with structures and distributions is simply reorganising the deckchairs whilst the liner sinks.
The game as a whole has to become more attractive. The vast majority of team sports have now been sacrificed on soccer's altar so a means to get more of the general public aware of and interested in the sport is the fundamental priority.
Whilst the game is constantly run by the same inward-looking, self-interested people this looks doomed to fail. As Steve P says, we old codgers can simply nod and recall our own glory years whilst the game that we love(d) continues to wither. (This state of affairs is not limited to RL alone, by a long chalk.)-
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I love the way that so many RL fans come out with "the only way ", followed by their quick fix. However, truly the only way is to get more money, much more money, into the sport. There are no quick or simple ways of doing this and it requires a strategic approach. Whilst such strategic approaches are being developed many clubs could easily fall by the wayside.
There are those in the upper echelons, and aspirational middle echelons, who woulld shed few tears over this.
Sadly, many solutions proposed start in entirely the wrong place.
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On 07/07/2025 at 16:25, NickD said:
Many a club have been close to closing and haven’t. And many have had success on the back of a bit of over spending - You panic too much BSJ. We’ve had two moments of magic in my 50+ years of following Dewsbury. 1973 and 2000. One of them was down to Bob the great. If you never dream Wots the point? Long live Sir Dermott I say.
I prefer facts. You do realise that DRLFC was still ultimately a members club at that time? This meant that, had the club actually gone under then every member would have been liable, severably and jointly, for the debt. Every season ticket holder was a member so, had MS not have stepped in, then members could have been in danger of losing their homes.
Your dream might have been others' nightmares.
You also know, of course, that Uncle Bob was struck off for many years from becoming a company director. Why might that be, do you reckon?
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On 05/07/2025 at 10:32, NickD said:
But we didn’t close down did we? And we aint had much else to cheer about since so thank goodness for Bob McDermott I say. Will always be a hero for me
We were within 24hrs of doing so, all thanks to your hero.
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So sad, a true Dewsbury RLFC legend.
We shall all miss hearing those gently proffered words of encouragement to the team. I am sure that she enjoyed every minute of her involvement with the club going back so many years.
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Well, I shall be missing this one. I do like to see us beat Keighley but dislike the journey there and will be otherwise occupied at the time.
We should win, I reckon, although not as comfortably as we did at home. On the other hand, as NickD says, who knows which Dewsbury will turn out on the day - Dr Jeckyll, I hope.Keighley 16 - 22 Rams
FTS Collinson
MoM Coates
Att not many
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12 hours ago, silcoates said:
Ha Ive got you lot going.Come on then please tell.The clubs been going down hill for years.That's why there is only a few o f us sods left.
This seems to make you happy. Why is that?
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Dewsbury, Midlands, North Wales and Swinton but any of these games could go either way. It should be a good weekend of L1 matches for a change.
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18 minutes ago, NickD said:
I’d have thought
I’d have thought he would have been asked. He might have spent a tad too much but had he not no one would have been up there celebrating on Saturday- cos we would have won nowt. I won’t say anything bad about him. One of best teams we ever had.
At the same time we owe MS a massive debt of gratitude.If you were to be offered the opportunity to win the Championship once again but the club would close down within a year, would you take it?
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20 hours ago, Wakefield Ram said:
And they've signed Jack Teanby...
Aye, on a decent contract until the end of the 2027 season. Money to burn, some clubs.............................until it runs out, that is!
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Sheffield in disarray, some players wanting out, some not wanted by the coach. Surely this must be a real opportunity to gat those two points that might make all the difference?
Dogs by 10.
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Really, really poor by the Giants. Some decent players simply looking uncommitted and lost without any sort of system. Sadly only a change in the coaching set up will change this and Uncle Ken doesn't do that sort of thing. -
Counter to my earlier supposition, at a supporters meeting of Sheffield Eagles last week their chairman said that in 2024 their income was £394k and expenditure £1.3M. This is a huge deficit for what is, in reality, a small club.
Apparently their backers are prepared to carry on but want the club to become more sustainable. This might explain a few recent departures and rumours of unrest amongst the players - nobody likes their gravy train to dry up, do they?-
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11 hours ago, JohnM said:
Just as bad as "pre-order"?
Exactly!
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On 20/06/2025 at 15:19, daz39 said:
Over 3,100 signatures which allows us to present the petition to the full council meeting, we want 5,000 to force Kirklees council to a full debate of it.
Please share or sign if you haven't already.
Thanks to everyone who's contributed so far.
I would expect the council to only take account of those signatories that come from Kirklees. Any others are quite irrelevant to their area planning decisions.
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On 24/06/2025 at 08:48, Tommygilf said:
A simple question: how do you "pre-submit" a question?
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14 hours ago, Hopie said:
Could they not organise "friendlies" on blank weekends this year?
And of course lobby to sort the short fixture list for next year, although given the state of the game, it is quite difficult to plan for how many clubs there will be next season, so the RFL isn't entirely at fault.
Only with permission, which the RFL have generally turned down, citing difficulties with availability of officials etc.
As far as I am aware next season's fixtures and structures for Championship and L1 are still under discussion, once they finally decide upon the future structure of SL. Don't expect an announcement any time soon.-
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21 hours ago, dkw said:
Well I can tell you for a fact they have turned down requests from clubs to play cancelled games on free weekends for clubs with no discussion to be had. the clubs asked for more games before this season started, they got a few thrown their way with the cup changes.
L1 is way down the list of priorities at the RFL, they do the bare minimum for the clubs, all clubs have and will continue to ask for more fixtures.
My understanding is exactly the same as yours. L1 clubs have little clout.
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Unfortunately family commitments will prevent me from attending. Even in my absence, however, I'm sure the rest of you will manage to enjoy yourselves somehow.
Have a great evening.-
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Dewsbury Rams v Swinton Lions 20th July, KO: 15:00
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Swinton were quite poor when we played them earlier in the season but have improved considerably since then, no doubt due to a couple of astute acquisitions and clever coaching. We lost a couple to injury that day who won't be making any real impact this season, have had some departures and no meaningful reinforcements, so we aren't as good.
Analytically this points to yet another defeat in a disappointing second half of the season. Predicting the score is guesswork, predicting the outcome, less so.