Leyther_Matt
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2 hours ago, Dave W said:
It was only Gateshead being a basket case that saved Leigh from relegation that year. You wonder how things might have turned out in that scenario. Proper 'Sliding Doors' stuff.
We lost twice to Gateshead that year, too. The home game I went to France v England at 9pm in Paris. Got back to the hotel at 3am. To the airport at 8am to fly back to Liverpool, drove straight to the LSV and we lost 42-10
1 hour ago, JohnM said:If so, he's probably still stuck in the traffic jam.
My mate set off at 11 this morning and has only just got back. Just in time for the end of the cup parade. We got the train at half 12 and were sat at home for 3!
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33 minutes ago, RL Tragic said:
So based on the fact Wigan ( been there a zillion times ) played Huddersfield( not noted for their away following )there last year and got 51k , your saying that with Leigh and HKR ( first cup finals for decades hyper passionate fans , RL towns took 40k between them ) that it would have bee significantly less than 58k yesterday, That doesn’t add up , Regardless 10000 empty navy blue seats at spurs looks a S?!T load better than 35,000 empty bright Red ones at Wembley. It look’s an appalling advert on TV , either we fill the empty ones FOC with the forces , London NHS workers or some other scheme or move on .
Filling them with freebies would actually cost the RFL money as they would have to pay to open areas with zero revenue per seat.
And, yes, I have no doubt whatsoever that all of the participants yesterday would have taken smaller followings to literally anywhere other than Wembley.
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1 hour ago, Dave W said:
My Mrs (no interest in RL or sport in general) described DB's suit and the whole leopard thing as 'vulgar' when she saw it on the TV.
As far as I'm concerned,your team can be dressed as Coco the clown and it doesn't matter if they win you the Challenge Cup at Wembley in such dramatic fashion.
I'm sure that many of the 40-50 Leigh fans who turned up at Barrow in 2009 and watched their team get beat 74-6 were there yesterday.
That win was for them and everyone who suffered the lean years.
I can’t tell you how many times that game was mentioned yesterday
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We didn’t see any of the first half as we just needed some time to chill out in Club Wembley and absorb what we’d seen in the Challenge Cup Final. Made our way round to the Fax end as we have a few friends who support them (and had the pleasure of joining for breakfast at Baker St). Fair to say we had the perfect view of the late Batley try from the front row of the second tier!
They did have the SL-style countdown clock at least but understandably the Batley fans won’t have been able to see it as it was on the same side as the majority of their fans. Using the Our League stream on the big screen was tinpot beyond belief. It literally buffered a couple of times. Incredible stuff.
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33 minutes ago, Wellsy4HullFC said:
Is there a big sporting event going on every weekend in London? Or do we purposely choose to pick them to clash with?
Clashing with the opening of the PL season seemed a terrible decision! And if we're clashing with the union final next year it only invites comparisons.
There were also 74,000 at Twickenham for the rah rah’s which must have shaved off a few of the potential local sales
(I note that it was below capacity so presumably there is a clamour on Total RU to take internationals to Henley on Thames and then there aren’t any empty seats on telly)
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9 minutes ago, EggFace said:
Well I hope the IMG and RFL have a dedicated team who aim is to sell out both CC and SL finals targeting the othe clubs pro and amatuer/Touch and Tag and selling VFM Packages.
This already exists, and then some. Saw loads of groups of junior RL teams yesterday.
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Nope, nope and nope again from me (and probably 7 out of our group of 10 yesterday). But plenty seem to have bought in to it so crack on
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1 hour ago, Pie tries said:
Nah - GF to look forward to ?
It’s probably an attitude tied to the threads about moving the Challenge Cup from Wembley, but it’s always been the Challenge Cup that has been the dream. We could win the next 10 Grand Finals and it wouldn’t match that feeling. Could be wrong, but I think that’s maybe a preference for a lot of the clubs outside of the usual suspects.
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I can now happily retire from watching rugby league forever. That’s never being topped. Ever.
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I dreamed all my life of seeing us win at Wembley. Today I achieved it. I’m not sure it would have been quite the same elsewhere. It wasn’t full…so what. Not a prayer it would have been such a good crowd at Spurs or god forbid Anfield, Newcastle, wherever. There’s a reason 90,000 football fans walk past rugby league statues and murals every time they go to an England game.
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Given the circumstances of the motorway accident today, I find this thread a little distasteful to say the least and, on one of the biggest days of my life, I’m gutted it’s the first thread I’ve opened.
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Feel a bit guilty now for having an extra pint before the France v NZ(?) game at Warrington now rather than watching the PDRL final
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Didn’t realise it was on but turned on C4 coming back from a few beers round Elephant & Castle and there’s rugby league on the telly. Poetic.
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18 hours ago, meast said:
At least Leigh fans can park their coaches at the closed stations then
Strolling through Euston behind Kevin Brown and Kyle Amor a whole 121 minutes after eating a Galloway’s pie barm at Wigan station
#knowyourwestcoastmainline
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3 hours ago, moorside roughyed said:
I work with a bloke from Leigh,he's got two brothers and a sister. They're all going down together minus they're other half's as none of them are from Leigh. He's absolutely buzzin. He got a bit teary wishing his dad was still here. They're all proper Leythers. I'm backing Leigh too. Hope you enjoy,I assume you're going too.
2 hours ago, Dave T said:Hope you enjoy it mate. My four trips to Wembley in recent years, seeing us win each time were unbelievable days.
Cheers, both. Been going for 31 years and barely missed a game home or away for the last 22 years (Toronto, Perpignan, Toulouse, Skolars, Broncos, the lot) but only been to 3 games this season for one reason or another. Reckon I’ve earned the right to enjoy it though.
Train down (there’s one for the Leigh bingo card) with the wife on Friday afternoon and 17 of us in Club Wembley. My brother and two of our mates have been going to games together for the last 25 years so it promises to be something special, particularly as my nephew is coming with us who is currently with Saints academy. We genuinely thought Spurs last year would be the pinnacle of our Leigh supporting lives but I’m going to be a blubbering mess during Abide With Me.
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27 minutes ago, Havenlad80 said:
What exactly is this cataclysmic event that would happen if we took the challenge cup final away from Wembley?
Because there’s folk like me who spent their entire lives dreaming of seeing their team play at the most famous stadium in the world.
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Probably not the right thread for it (not least because it contains positivity) and pretty much a carbon copy of my earlier post, but never in my lifetime did I think I’d be seeing Leigh in a Wembley cup final, even less so in the actual main event! Couple that with another bucket list tick in seeing Bolton lift a Wembley trophy in April and it’s been a hell of a year.
We’ve got open train tickets and giddiness dictates we’re already aiming for a train on Friday afternoon three hours earlier than initially planned.
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I’ve literally waited all of my life to see this game.
I can certainly understand why any neutrals wouldn’t fancy shelling out a good few quid without a horse in the race, though.
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On 02/08/2023 at 23:09, meast said:
Is there any real point playing a game in London and limiting the crowd to 18,000?
Surely you go big if you're gonna go to London?
I’d go with that. Even mid-high 20,000s would be a start at Charlton (who would need the cash more than Fulham). Although personally I feel any London internationals should be aiming much higher and sticking to whoever will have us from Spurs, Arsenal and Wembley.
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This is where it pays off to make investment gambles
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2 minutes ago, Ovenden Grunt said:
Can you gain entry half way through the main event, i.e. about 3.45? As for food it's a hearty home packed brunch at a services on't way down to Borehamwood followed by half a dozen London pints and a tesco express supper late on.
Assume so given the gaps in the Widnes sections during Saints-Warrington a few years ago
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This is what happens when you order a Castleford shirt from Wish.
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6 hours ago, Snowys Backside said:
Is that Bedford High Matt ??
It is. Sadly 25 years too late for me!
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15 minutes ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
I'm going with my wife her mate, our kids and some other friends....they are all adamant they want to watch all 3 games from start to finish....or I think that's what they said and so I'm sticking with it
What a father,husband and mate I am
Wait until they find out there’s the year 7 final before the women’s final!
Challenge Cup confirmed for 2024 and 2025
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I do think union would have a slight effect with potential local sales but maybe less so than a RU international
Hard to see how you’d fit all the rounds in then though (particularly as I feel the SL clubs already enter a round too late)