Honor James
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1 minute ago, redjonn said:
The choice of a Leopard to represent what you want people to associate with your sports club is not a bad choice.
Its the execution and communications of the rebrand that is the problem.
Oh? Who, what and how should have been executed and communicated? It all sounds rather worse than seeing a leopard in a tree.
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2 hours ago, Honor James said:
Not fifteen minutes ago, I finished reading an actual, 'dyed-in-the-paper' copy of the introductory, Leigh Leopards brochure, and to me it looks great; high-quality item, and the new name (Leopards replacing Centurions) great.
More modern for a start. Centurions are ancient history. How many people nowadays would automatically think, "Centurions - really snappy name!"
Whereas sports clubs using the names of fast, fierce or fascinating animals abound.
I see some people laughed at my remark (quoted above). He he!
As for the Leopards, only time will tell but at times it can be useful to remember the old saying: "He who laughs last, laughs longest".
Leopards in Africa {for example), for those who don't already know this, can surprise the unwary by slipping silently down from a tree branch above, as you walk past.
A circumstance which, if it comes your way, can quickly and very well illustrate the saying, "He who laughs last laughs longest
Happy 2022-2023 season to you all.
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19 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:
this one that's been linked to and ridiculed numerous times in the thread.
Have a look through it and see if you think it's good.
https://indd.adobe.com/view/3d3e261d-1fa5-41de-8aee-f89dad654e96
Not fifteen minutes ago, I finished reading an actual, 'dyed-in-the-paper' copy of the introductory, Leigh Leopards brochure, and to me it looks great; high-quality item, and the new name (Leopards replacing Centurions) great.
More modern for a start. Centurions are ancient history. How many people nowadays would automatically think, "Centurions - really snappy name!"
Whereas sports clubs using the names of fast, fierce or fascinating animals abound.
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Oooops! I just scrolled back and noticed that I was supposed to be naming Ozzies not Brits.
Thousand apologies!
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I could start one, although players whose names I can remember are few and far between, in comparison with the number of players who's names I have heard discussed, seen written about and even seen playing for 'n' number of clubs over the past 20 years I have worked for League Publications Limited.
Almost as many as pebbles on a beach, and I'm afraid that quite a lot of those who came easiest to mind might all be a bit past their prime by now, but here goes . . . . . . ..
Danny McGuire, Lee Briers, Kevin Sinfield, Denny Solomona, Henry Paul, Pat Richards, Iestyn Harris, Chris Hill, Ben Westwood, Sam Tomkins, Dom Manfredi, Stefan Ratchford .......... I need two more for a team, but could those make a start at least, if not for a team, for the core of an imaginary Super League team?
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22 hours ago, Oxford said:
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On 03/08/2022 at 20:09, graveyard johnny said:
Seems that somehow I must have posted a blank page quoting Graveyard Johnny (see above).
Thousand apologies, he must know a great deal more than I do, and it is now so seldom that I post anything on any website, anywhere, I have probably just hit 'go' instead of 'stop' somewhere, ........ or something.
No problem, there is almost certainly little or nothing I could add to any Rugby League discussion that won't have been read before by almost everyone.
Fun reading a bit of it though, from time to time.
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I have always been wary of the idea that, above all, Rugby League needs to `get bigger', 'do X to grow'. `do Y to grow' etc. ad nauseum.
What is wrong with being `small' so long as your `small' is sustainable?
Diamonds are generally on the small side, glass baubles can be considerably bigger but who (with any brain at all) would swap even a small diamond for a big glass bauble?
Or, to put that another way: Rugby League is a bit like caviar; you don't need much of it to realise that once acquired, it is a taste you will always prefer to the ordinary.
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On 04/02/2022 at 18:12, Futtocks said:
Andy Goldsworthy uses what he finds on-site, so I assume they are leaves and petals.
Thank you. I only work Wednesday to Saturday these days so I only saw your post this morning.
Lovely way to work, out in the woods and hills, using only what you find and leaving nothing messy, noxious or toxic behind. I am going to have a look at some more of his work. I assume there will be plenty online.
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On 08/01/2019 at 19:54, Futtocks said:
About time we had another Art thread. Anything goes, as long as it floats your boat.
Prompted by a Birthday gift of a DVD about landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy, amongst other things. Here's a sample of what he does; often lasting a few minutes before the wind or the water carries it away.
Fascinating. Does anyone know what the little leaf-shaped pieces are made of? Are they real leaves or petals? Some kind of very light paper perhaps? Although that would tend to make him persona-non-grata in most places. It makes you look, which is good for all of us - looking, I mean.
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1 hour ago, Man of Kent said:
Some nuggets from Dutton at the postponement press conference.
- 85% of players surveyed via the RLPA said they wanted to play.
- The BBC broadcast arrangements are unaffected by moving to 2022.
- RLWC2021 expects to be in a stronger financial position than 2021 as they can do more commercial deals - they've had new approaches since the initial 'selfish, parochial and cowardly' decision for some "really interesting" prospects that could well be announced soon.
- They have drafted provisional 2022 dates with the FIFA World Cup very much in mind, i.e. RLWC 2022 will end before that starts.
- The fixtures will remain the same, eg. England vs Samoa will be game one, although some venues may have to be switched around (although he expects the same host cities to remain onboard).
- The 2022 schedule is due to be published - and tickets will go back on sale - before Christmas.
- They've started "positive conversations" with the ARLC about signing a participation agreement for 2022, and they are having conversations with Andrew Abdo and a number of NRL chief executives with the aim of strengthening relations between relevant governing bodies.
- It will still be called Rugby League World Cup 2021 (not 2022).
All the above taken into account, there is still no excuse for arrogance.
At least, not for me.
My grandmother used to say 'handsome is as handsome does', and no verbal whitewash can ever change what has just happened in the world of Rugby League, into anything other than an exceedingly unhandsome display of arrogance.
Not arrogance, I am sure, within the NRL player community. Rugby League players generally learn, at a very early age, that their game does not easily swallow and move on in the face of on-field arrogance. A lesson which, for the most part, they later carry with them for life.
But at NRL owner and administrator level?
There are currently athletes in all disciplines, from countries all over the world taking part in an omni-discipline Olympic Games.
One must therefore assume - from this almost overnight, unilateral decision - that in Australia and New Zealand there has secretly existed a previously unknown, entirely different interpretation of what was once ubiquitously known (within the English speaking world) as `sporting behaviour'.
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16 minutes ago, Scubby said:
We have to threaten legal action for compensation here. We also have to admit that the WC in 2022 is played in the British Summertime (June/July) if it is cancelled now.
Cancelled? Why would we cancel and ###### up every other signed-up country's arrangements, hopes and aspirations just because a bunch of molly-coddled Aussies are too scared to travel.
Ignore them. They would probably have won anyway (which can be something of a bore at best), which opens the door at last to Tonga, England, France, New Zealand (if they don't 'toe the Aussie dictat'), and every other mother's son on the planet who plays this game and is happy to get down off 'mummy's lap'.
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14 minutes ago, DI Keith Fowler said:
To be fair New Zealand's was apparently and they've reneged.
Scared that the Ozzies will penalise them by refusing to play New Zealand some time in the future, if they don't 'fall in line like good little Australian acolytes!
Pooo !
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Just now, JohnM said:
Schoey demanding that Aus and NZ excluded from 2025 and 2029 World Cups
Well done Schoey! What a bunch of wimps they have turned out to be `down under'.
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Pitiful ! What a bunch of little fluffies a lot of the once proud, fearless ANZCs have become.
My kids and their offspring are all there, one lot in Oz and one in NZ, so I hope their younger generation members don't let their children grow up without a strong, working knowledge of that wise old chestnut "nothing venture nothing gained".
Mind you, it's my belief the real reason for this incredibly inconsiderate, late withdrawal from the World Cup, is that the once proud and much admired Australians (in particular), have for many years thought themselves too important to waste time playing against other nations.
The only use Australian Rugby League had for their multiple, and highly `Rugby League competent' neighbouring island peoples was to tap their wealth of natural talent, to the benefit of Australia's own ARL and NRL clubs.
I guess this is as much about the NRL being peed-off with Britain for encouraging the Pacific island nations to attract their own Oz and NZ, eligible young NRL players, to the idea of representing their own heritage islands instead of bolstering ANZAC teams, as they did for so many years.
And what a joy it has been to watch them blossom!
Tonga, in particular, is now more than able to field a team of its own, eligible, heritage and local nationals which could probably beat Australia more easily than our own England team are ever likely to.
Bad show, bad form. Booo.
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3 hours ago, DavidM said:
Sorry for the family , but do they need this on every bbc channel ? I was looking forward to masters highlights
I doubt it is the family that have either instigated or `need this'. It is the country. It is respect.
If he had been the husband of any head of state, world wide, his death would have been suitably recognised, as this is being suitably recognised right now, in countries all around the globe.
If he had been the equally long-serving, well known and almost universally recognised (with respect) partner of the head of state of any country in the world, his passing would now be being marked in much the same way.
Though not identical - and for different reasons - the closest illustration I can think of, for that, is the death of United States President, John Kennedy. Within minutes of the event the whole world knew, and responded with due respect.
I was at a film showing, in the dining hall of my college `res' when that news came in. Everything stopped.
And I was miles away on another continent, in the middle of central Africa.
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Somebody mentioned Magpies a few pages back.
Does anyone know a way to discourage them - humanely?
A pair of them has taken up residence in the large cherry tree in front of my house, and they appear to have frightened away every other bird.
I used to have a blackbird that regularly came down onto my front, handkerchief sized lawn and hopped about, pecking the ground - seemingly unconcerned about the (feral ) cats that pay an occasional, unwelcome visit.
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I have just been given the answer to that question.
Mark Covell of the RFL has just called our office, to let us know there is no RFL imposed limit to the number of children who can be admitted with one adult who has paid.
Obviously, the various schools and clubs will each have their own idea of how many kids make a suitable `bunch' to go with one teacher (or two), one mentor (or more). That may be more or fewer for different outings, but ...............
for this offerered opportunity to enjoy an outing free ............
the RFL, with their partners in this venture (the Salford Club and the social housing landlord, City West Housing Trust) are keen to encourage as many children as possible to take up this opportunity, and know the joy of watching your own country play international Rugby League live.
Good one!
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Seems to me this is a great opportunity for teachers, club mentors and so on, to offer children who might not normally attend internationals, a chance to watch the best from two other countries, and see England's best in action.
I wonder how many children will be admitted free per adult? I'm sure that when I was teaching it would not have seemed unusual if I'd been asked to escort a group of 10, 12 ..... 16 ....... 20?
Of course, there were no international sporting fixtures on offer in the small Zimbabwean villages I taught in, but two of us would regularly take that many to the swimming pool without incident.
What a great opportunity for the game to interest a wide new swathe of youngsters in this most exciting of spectator sports.
Does anybody know how many?
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Small news, perhaps, for most Rugby League fans but a BIG thing for a club that has been through more difficult times, of late, than any club's players, coach and dedicated core supporters deserve, in exchange for their efforts.
Cas is a great club no matter how delapidated `the Jungle' may be. Beauty is only ever skin deep. A club might have the money to build ten Wembley stadiums three times over but they'd get nowhere without passion for the game, and you can't buy passion.
Great news, Cas fans. Stick at it!
Thick and thin ........... pff! They go around and they come around no matter what but your home town is your home town and home is where the heart is.
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Wigan fan (and Wigan U20s kit man) Richard Catterall, has just telephoned us to say that he has a camera in safe keeping for the young lady who left it, on Saturday, on her seat at Old Trafford at the end of match.
There are photographs on the camera which Richard feels sure the owner would be very upset to lose.
If this camera is yours, please telephone Richard to make arrangements to collect it. As a safeguard, he will ask you to describe the photographs already on the camera.
Please would all other Saints fans help by passing on this message by grapevine, smoke signals, bongo drums, facebook, twitter, text, email, sign laguage and/or semaphore. Also, if you know the webmaster for the Saints' online message board, please ask for this message to be repeated there. I'm sure that between us we should be able to reunite this young lady with her lost camera in record time.
Richard can be contacted on Tel: 01942 512140 Mob: 07935 692593. These are working hours numbers and may be engage at times, but if Richard isn't free to answer please leave a message and he will get back to you.
Many thanks, on their behalf, from Richard Catterall and from the young lady who inadvertantly left her camera behind at Old Trafford.
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The roof will be on
If it snows we can build a snow
Plus have snow ball fights
Ganson in the firing line
I was thinking more about snow on the roads than a bit of snow on the pitch or the fans. But now I realise that's just plain wimpish!
With an attitude like `we can build snowmen' we can move mountains.
So let's move mountains then!
Millennium Stadium full to the ginnels ......... it's gotta be a good idea.
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So let's all get busy asking mother earth, providence, lady luck or whichever god or gods you believe are listening for a
no snow or
low snow February
Can't do any harm to start lighting candles
- if nothing else, it keeps the mosquitos away in Africa.
Leigh changing their name? Bored journo doing a rumour?
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Help! Now they are being executed and laughed at into the bargain!.
Seems a little excessive to me but what do I know.