JohnM
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flasks vs professional digital marketing campaign? I know where I'd put my effort.
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As Stevo used to say, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself."
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Watch current League Express YouTube podcast to see their take on this.
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16 hours ago, gingerjon said:
Great thread this, not least because it's an absolute load of balls.
The headlines for rugby union, when I checked, were pretty much the same as for rugby league in terms of matches being close, tense, whatever.
The Guardian went with "George Williams dazzles" in their headline.
Which rather ruins the add on stuff.
We don't get enough exposure but this thread is embarrassing nonsense.
"this thread is embarrassing nonsense.'
So no one would notice if it were seamlessly merged with the IMG and England\GB thread.
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12 hours ago, WN83 said:
The Aussie media make me smile with the pre game lines of Samoa being 'undercooked' and then after the game saying Samoa will be better for the run out.
I must've missed all those warm up games England have been playing.
Go and have at the NRL Facebook coverage. It's excellent. "Like" it, share it etc.
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To repeat - Marketing /PR gold. Made for social media and digital marketing. Adds pizzazz, excitement, tension, passion, confrontation, self-control, atmosphere. Think how much mileage NFL and MLB would make out of something similar. We're looking to attract a younger segment of sports fans..let's give 'em something exciting to entice them!
More, please.
Edit: Look at the NRL Facebook page. They seem to have liked it.
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1 minute ago, StandOffHalf said:
First time I've heard him called 'Michael Lewis'. It sounds funny.
I do it because it annoys his mum
(I hope)
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Am I alone in thinking that this incident was beyond the pale?
Yes, it seems.
In fact, I was just about to post that having just watched that part of the BBC coverage, we need a to splash that segment , a couple of minutes, all over social media, Facebook YouTube, Tiktok ...in fact everything, Our league, club web sites etc. The closing frames showing Michael Lewis head to head with the Samoan caller ard brilliant.
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14 minutes ago, Toupée Turtle said:
Usual fantasy island dreams of getting nigh on full houses at the big football stadiums always leads to half capacity or less which looks awful on telly. Keeping it real and take yer pick from Bolton, Wigan, Hudds, Hull, will be lucky to sell any of them out unless by some miracle England can sneak one of the first two setting up a decider.
Northern game for northern folk?
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3 hours ago, JonM said:
LOL. I'm helping my son move flat in London tomorrow as he's broken his collarbone. From here, it's a 12 hour round-trip by car if things go well, or a very expensive and unreliable train journey.
Understood. Travelling was the case for some at the Cup Final and the high attendance RWC finals quoted. Having it at Wembley is less about northern RL fans and more about home counties sports fans sweling the ranks, in my view.
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9 minutes ago, Whippet13 said:
Most people who identify as Samoan live elsewhere, over 300k in AUS and NZ with similar numbers in the US.
.Same with Wiganers...my wife , her brothers etc. and a few on here, too.
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This is why London
Great Britain Vs Australia at Wembley
28th October 1995
England 8 - Australia 16
Attendance 66,540
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Some background information
Population of Samoa= 200,000
Population of Wigan= 329,000 (ONS)
Read Wikipedia on Samoa. Really interesting.
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Nothing to add really to what has alread been written, really. No issues with the refereeing, Farnworh, Williams etc outstanding. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole afternoon. Just enough uncertainty. The palpable fightback from Samoa never materialised. Two unfortunate mistakes from England, though, meant the score didn't really represent how good we were.
Although we were in the West Stand, I have the same complaint as last time about the stadium. The Heatable Stand is NOT the heated stand, which is a shame.
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1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:
the only reasons I dont fawn over Dom Young
never breaks a tackle
never makes a try for himself
never makes a try for anyone else
a turnstile in defence - will be dropped by the roosters mid season next year in favour of the wallabie guy
And to cap it all, his mother smells of elderberries.
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3 hours ago, JonM said:
There was a pretty good atmosphere for the first 10-15 minutes until it became obviously a training game. Might wake up a bit now.
Nonsense.
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1 hour ago, Dullish Mood said:
Just to reinforce that I’m not a COMPLETE misery I’m actually a season ticket holder at my club for 30+ years, go to semi finals, finals as a neutral, internationals, vegas this year and next year, replica kits galore for all the family, going today with 4 mates. Hoping to enjoy the day. Just get so frustrated with (a) the state the sport is in and (b) the amount of people who think everything is actually not too bad with the sport. Just wow.
Tell us honestly, that you are not a returning member under another name.
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1 hour ago, gingerjon said:
After last night's Game 1, baseball may be my second favourite sport this morning
Just seen that on YouTube....What an absolute fantastic moment. Un...bloody...believable. !
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There are issues surrounding using satellite imagery to measure distances accurately. Some of these are covered here.
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Fiind My Past has made its entire newspaper archive FREE until 28 October. Instead of bickering about IMG, why not look at some match reports from the far distant past? For example, this one, from Saturday 12th Jan 1901. Swinton won, 7 - 5
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1 hour ago, M j M said:
I use soccer partly because I've been brainwashed by consuming so much Australian sport content and American news. It also makes sense as it's got about as much right to call itself football as rugby union has to call itself rugby.
The term soccer is of English origin, nothing to do with Aus and the US, and is still correctly in widespread use in England, and long may that continue.
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Easy-peasy. According to quite a few on here,all sports, especially soccer. are rubbish, played by over-paid, under-performing and cheating softy no marks. Whilst in my view most fans take our sport on its own merits, some fans of rugby league seem to demonstrate some sort of inverted snobbery.
The word "soccer" is derived from the term "association football"12. The term "soccer" was first used in England as university slang. It was originally spelled "socca" and later "socker" before becoming "soccer". The -er suffix was popular slang at the Rugby School and Oxford University and used for all sorts of nouns the young men shortened. The term "soccer" was used to distinguish association football from other forms of football, such as rugby football or American football.
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12 hours ago, Gooleboy said:
Not moaning at all. Wakefield have done a lot of improvements under their new owner.
" Never knowingly under-moaned"
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John Lewis)
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33 minutes ago, Wakefield Ram said:
So aside from re-hashing licencing, what exactly is in IMG's 12 year plan? Increasing sponsorship, marketing the game, raising the profile of the games top players...
1. Marketing the whole game world wide?
2. Marketing the game in the UK?
3. Marketing SuperLeague?
4. Marketing international?
Wht is the remit of Commercial?
England v Australia 2025 - coming to the UK?
in The General Rugby League Forum
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