JohnM
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Player pathways. Compare that of union to that of league. Looking at the route taken to the top (top club/country) of union and league, whats the difference?
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4 hours ago, phiggins said:
I wonder at what page this thread stopped talking about the actual game
Wot game?
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4 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:
It wouldn't be a boxing match, do you know Mr B is a black belt at Shukokai Karate.
Really? I'd heard Beaumont was a bBack belt at Origami
Ah, but Shukokai is known for its relatively high stances, which aid mobility, and its signature double hip twist, designed to maximize the force of strikes.
So THATS what has doing on the pitch. The double hip twist!
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1 hour ago, Blind side johnny said:
A simple question: how do you "pre-submit" a question?
Just as bad as "pre-order"?
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phew....that was close! Phenomenal Penrith defence.
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Penrith to hold out, I reckon.
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1 hour ago, Zilla Budgie said:
Maybe we could get Sky to arrange for'know it all' Jon Wilkins to give Derek Beaumont 20 lashings before the Leigh v Wigan game live on TV. After all it's what the disgrace to RL would deserve, eh guys?
How about instead, Beaumont behaves in a manner befitting a Rugby League SuperLeague club owner in 2025?
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Despite all the problems over many years, I do hope that the club does not enter the burning fiery furnace but is saved by Hetherington etc. Linked as the clubs future is to the result of the club-led whole-game strategic review, its vital that the club can survive to the publication date of the year 2525 at least.
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"You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical."
Diane Abbott
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1 minute ago, Henson Park Old Firm said:
Thats what they said out Leigh Leopards also.
O..M..G! Noooooooooooo!
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TBH, until it's authoritatively confirmed or credibly denied, I'd be somewhat skeptical of this as a first team re-name.
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Leigh is fine. No problem.
Don't get this "Mr" Beaumont nonsense though. It's not an issue of liking him or not liking him.
With his serial drunken clownish behaviour he's bringing the team, the club, into disrepute. This is 2025, not 1925 and societal norms, what is and isn't acceptable behaviour has changed. Posters on here are the first to poke fun and ridicule the drunken exploits of rugby union oiks, initiation ceremonies etc. Sauce for the goose etc...
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52 minutes ago, Anita Bath said:
As fan I am still waiting to be consulted, as we were promised.
Me too. I wish they'd get on with it. I've just turned 79 a couple of weeks ago and it would be nice to see the promised consultation before it's too late. However, I fear the worst. Maybe Martyn can help by rather than being a mouthpiece for the junta, he becomes a feedback channel into the RFL.
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Fret ye not. All will become clear when the club-led whole-game review task-farce presents its report at the end of August September October November Easter 2026 Christmas 2099.
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JVGL ilquidate the club then buy it back from the liquidator at a knock down price after HMRC get something . Is that allowed?
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Stolen from Face ache.
In 1997 oil rig maintenance diver Don Murphy from Cork in Ireland was welding a cracked steel beam under water on a rig in the North Sea when he saw a baby shark that couldn't see or move because of a work glove covering its head.
Out of concern for the little shark and bravely not considering that there might be other sharks nearby, he dived further down and removed the glove from the baby shark's head enabling it to happily swim away.
An hour later the baby shark came back to Don and swam around him three times as if to say thank you but his welder accidentally burned a hole on the top of its fin so it swam away again.
Seven years later when on holiday, Don was sea swimming off the coast of Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria and suddenly a large dangerous looking shark swam up beside him and circled him.
Don was scared at first but then he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the same hole on the fin that was on the baby shark from his welder in 1997.
The shark then opened its mouth and devoured Don in ten seconds flat.
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Maybe his clock is running a day late. When should we start to worry? Who do we notify?
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2 hours ago, Eddie said:
It’s reasonably for groups considering investing not to want it made public, as much as we all want to know who it is.
Quite so. So if they didn't want it made public, why did they leak it, via the RFl and League Express?
But nevertheless it seems to me to be reasonable journalism to look deeper into the story, unless of course, you've been recruited to the cause.
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53 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
Has anyone heard or seen any reaction from Sky?
If we do get a status quo or even a further reduction in the next contract then we can firmly blame Beaumont for his actions on Saturday.
No. But my mates are laughing at Beaumont, Leigh and a sport that thinks it's ok for a drunken club owner to cavort in the background when the club coach is being interviewed on live television.
The fact that this hasnt yet made it to the front pages of the national press is a sure sign of the inconsequentiality and obscurity of our code.
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23 minutes ago, Martyn Sadler said:
Not in the clubs, in the competition.
39 minutes ago, Eddie said:I appreciate you probably can’t say everything that you know Martin, but are you saying that there are actually foreign groups in talks to invest in SL clubs?
Why not? We could be forgiven for thinking that tthis has been fed to League Express as evidence that the new regime is having an immediate impact. However, as the report of club-led whole-game review been significantly delayed, maybe it just to keep the pot boiling in the interim.
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The problem posed by the Salford situation, as with other things in Rugby League over the years is separating fact from fiction, truth from falsehood.
The nature of truth is a central topic in philosophy, with various theories attempting to define what constitutes truth. The correspondence theory, often traced back to Aristotle, posits that truth is a relationship between a statement and reality, where a statement is true if it corresponds to a fact. Other theories include coherence theory, which suggests that truth is determined by the coherence or consistency of a statement within a system of beliefs, and pragmatic theory, which emphasizes the practical consequences and usefulness of a belief as a criterion for its truth.
Philosophers like Nietzsche have also explored truth through the lens of perspectivism, arguing that truth is subjective and dependent on individual perception.
So, re Salford: Do we go with Aristotle or Nietzsche?
Disclosure: just waiting at the dentists and have nothing better to do.
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1 hour ago, JonM said:
Unusual to see a News Ltd. publication talking up the value of tv rights owned by Sky by suggesting a rival bid is in the offing, rather than pouring scorn on it. Most unusual.
I expect that Martyn is digging deep into this story today and I think we need to look nearer the Etihad campus for the "source".
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Well, the Sun article indicates progress of a sort, with someone somewhere feeding Gary Carter with this story. Of course, his source must remain anonymous but speculation is rife in the peasants' hovels that have sprung up outside the walls of Château-Forteresse JohnM that the story has come from deep inside Maison Blanche à Stade Etihad for the huddled masses to talk about over their meagre rations of gruel and hard-tack.
I guess Martyn is investigating further, as I write
SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Exactly. I wonder if the club-led whole-game strategic review (it IS whole-game, I understand) benchmarking our player pathway against that of rugby union, crikit, tennis and soccer and adapting those pathways to our sport. Money won't be a problem, as indicated by Martyn's recent revelation of investor intention.