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2 minutes ago, Madrileño said:
Nonsense.
Every time there is a thread about League in France on here, we find some old duffer droning on about 'Vichy'.
10 posts about it since the start of April alone.
Newsflash: Nobody Cares!
Well you obviously do given that you’ve gone to the trouble of counting them
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1 minute ago, Madrileño said:
Don't.
(Unless you want to hear the usual tripe excuses which inevitably include the word "Vichy"
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No, one post mentioned vichy and that was just to say this is French RL’s worst moment since then.
You’re being deliberately disingenuous
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Another from the Siddal ranks
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9 hours ago, Josef K said:
I’m looking forward to my visit, i haven’t been there since they was last in the top tier. I hope Fax make a bit of cash from the game.
We usually have a pint in the Three Pigeons before the game if you fancy it?
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23 hours ago, Damien said:
Exciting times for RL in the region and as I've said before hopefully Greece, Serbia, Lebanon and Turkey (and whoever else) can focus on playing each other regularly so they help each other develop and progress. That can only help to expand the game to other countries in the region too.
This, absolutely this
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60-0 to Fax at The Shay, Whitehaven didn’t really have much to offer.
Bring on St Helens
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There’s been some cracking championship games on viaplay this season
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4 minutes ago, The Masked Poster said:
1) How can you and others make the nonsensical gesture of saying "I feel sorry for their proper fans" whilst wanting their club to die out? It's ludicrous.
2) I'm interested to find out exactly what it is that's going around. Is it because they had the nerve to attain some success? Thus they deserve some sort of retribution? It's actually insane thinking.
One things for sure, neither Huddersfield or Halifax are going to set the world on fire anytime soon.
No, not because they achieved success but the way they dealt with it.
Remember Kipling? “Meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”? But they didn’t, they crowed in victory and whinged in defeat, and when they hit bad times people remembered the triumphalist crowing and thought that hubris was well served in this instance
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That wasn’t a knock on ffs
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Please Barry, just shut up, please.
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The ref had obviously forgotten the text that all 50/50 decisions must go against Catalan when he binned Hurrell so he had to even it up by binning Ikauhifo for a solid contact
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Nothing wrong with that at all
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Jesus!!! This commentary team are absolutely dire. Plus they have a collective chubby on for Saints
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Heart says Les Dracs but head says Saints
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8 hours ago, meast said:
They WERE good and got 5 figure crowds 20 years ago didn't you know?
Dinosaurs ruled the earth, didn’t you know?
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Out of the 17 man Siddal squad that faced Wath Brow a couple of weeks ago, 13 were products of the club’s junior system
Parents take their kids to Siddal because they know they’ll be coached by qualified coaches, not “Bob from the 2nd team” as well as having top class medical and administrative back up. Plus clean, decent changing facilities with hot water.
It’s up to other clubs to match this
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51 minutes ago, Jughead said:
But surely that also matters? If you can’t see NRL players and you then can’t see the best of Super League, why is it any better than watching third rate players playing in a white and sometimes blue, sometimes red shirt against some second rate Toulouse reserve players? Why would anyone travel from Yorkshire to Lancashire or vice versa to watch the above if you’re watching blokes that are, at best, fourth and fifth choice for their nation?
I don’t get the fascination with Yorkshire and Lancashire. I thinks a little bit of the old rugby league mantra of “well, it’s what them Aussies do”. At least over 50% of the population of Australia has a buy in with Origin as their home states are represented. A shade over 10% of the UK population are from Yorkshire and the Humber (so not really Yorkshire) and Lancashire. Alienating the vast majority of the country is just sheer lunacy. There’s simply no other way to put it. Commercially, you’re probably then reliant on the Wetherby Whaler and businesses of that ilk putting up any money for the game. You’ll be lucky if the man of the match gets a free supper in a game of that standing.
We still don’t understand that the antipathy and sheer hatred between Qld and NSW doesn’t exist between Yorkshire and Lancashire.
To understand I suggest anyone read the essay “Queenslanders and Sydneysiders” in Geoffrey Moorhouse’s excellent “At The George and other essays on Rugby League”
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4 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:
The U16s who as u15s I assume did very well and have since had most of their players signed to SL academies?
If anything I think it adds to the impression I feel that young players should be left well alone at their community clubs till the age of 18 at least.
Yes, although that team was low on numbers and usually had 13-15 available on match days.
the players signed to academies are still playing at local community clubs at least one of the clubs they are signed to insist on this
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Just a little misunderstanding by The Contours a huge Northern Soul sound
With Elaine Powell and Fred Astaire
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On 28/04/2023 at 09:45, Mumby Magic said:
For me officially one, Phil. Saw his band play in Halifax. Funny though he talked to me in the 3 Pigeons before the Monday league match and I didn't cotton on it was me and he didn't recognise me. Weirdly I've stood next to Hindle xii at a Bulls Leeds game. We didn't talk and he didn't recognise me.
nb. I am serious mind. Hindle and I were friends on fb in the early days.
Oops!!! Now I feel silly
so yeah you obviously and also the mysterious angel late of this parish
and as he states Gazza77 who was a neighbour for a couple of years
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2 hours ago, Leonard said:
That was TO.
But then the CL clubs did all they could to screw them over (not saying they would have stayed up anyway).
That would help - but clearly a viable domestic comp would be as/more beneficial long term.
Maybe not insisting French clubs pay the travel expenses for visiting SL and championship clubs would be a massive start
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4 hours ago, Tommygilf said:
Siddal is an interesting case because in recent years they've become a super club of sorts at junior levels, attracting talent from all over at 14+.
Academy scouts like it because it means they have to visit less teams. For Siddal its a double edged sword. On the one hand they get a good reputation as a club that regularly sends players to Super League academies, but on the other hand their teams are decimated by this transfer of players and they can't raise teams at some levels because the locals who would have turned out were pushed out for the imports from other clubs.
Siddal’s “problem” is an enviable one, they have a coaching and back room setup from U/6 to open age that many championship and Division one clubs would envy.
They’ve only had one junior team unable to fulfil fixtures and that is the U16s which folded at the beginning of this season
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12 minutes ago, Leonard said:
Whatever the name, I was very disappointed with him today. Strutted around but had no impact.
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12 minutes ago, Leonard said:
Whatever the name, I was very disappointed with him today. Strutted around but had no impact.
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Fri 19th May: CC6: Halifax Panthers v St Helens KO 19:45 (Viaplay)
in The General Rugby League Forum
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I’ve voted for Fax because they’re my team but as long as we don’t disgrace ourselves I’ll be happy enough