gingerjon
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7 minutes ago, M j M said:
The only ones I know the specifics of aren't particularly recent -
Bradford collar sponsorship was £30k a year back in around 2005.
Leeds' Tetleys shirt sponsorship (1995-2004) was worth around £230k a year.
I believe, though I don't really know the reasons, that the value of shirt sponsorship is declining everywhere. Happy to be corrected.
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Just now, dboy said:
That's a peanuts deal. That ain't paying the rent.
Shirt sponsorships in UK RL don't.
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5 minutes ago, LeytherRob said:
And right on time to back up my point from earlier this week, here comes the University of Salford pushing the Manchester name.
They've been doing that for a while.
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12 minutes ago, Barley Mow said:
So the clubs want less weighting assigned to things like finance?
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23 minutes ago, fighting irish said:
I confess I don't know much about RaRa other than it's played here in my home town.
Perhaps the lesser countries you mentioned failure to improve is due to a lack of international competition?
That wasn't a rhetorical question, I've no idea, if they do or not, so do the minnows play other minnows in some kind of ladder, enabling them to grow (and measure their improvement along the way)?
They play a decent number of international games. A general idea would be twice as many as the most active RL nations but not as many as soccer. Numbers rise around World Cups and championships.
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In a short period, I saw London Skolars kick off as professional team with a game in the Northern Rail Cup ahead of a league season, and then South London Storm do the same as a member of National League Three. Really felt like a national breakthrough was possible in a sustainable, bottom-up, way.
So it's just the decade plus of disappointment since.
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55 minutes ago, sam4731 said:
There are a number of differences here:
Top quality opposition: The top nations weren't reliant on one team to play high level matches on demand. In the NH you have the 6 Nations and in the SH there was Australia, NZ and SA. These teams could throw the odd tier 2 team as bone without having to worry about getting a high level match elsewhere.
Italy: you're whole analogy with Argentina completely falls down with Italy. Despite plugging away for 25 years in the 6N, they have still got the wooden spoon 18 times, including 8 out of the last 9.
Money: what it always comes down to. World Rugby have far more money, resources and influence that the IRL have. They can afford to help the development of tier 2 nations without them having to see to themselves.
There are a lot of ignored countries in RU as well. Just going back to their first World Cup in 1987 and Zimbabwe, Romania and Canada are there. Three countries who have gone backwards in a global sense, along with the USA who have never progressed but who are kept going by dead horse floggers and will host in 2031.
You can probably add a tier of countries like Uruguay who were 'big' enough to be noticed pre professionalism but who aren't anything special now.
A lesson to be learnt from RU could easily be: why have so few countries joined the top table and why have a greater number gone backwards?
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So … the home kit is the white one and what looks like black on my phone is dark blue.
They’re getting attention and that works for some but not convinced there’s even half as much behind this as Degay did with the Leopards at Leigh.
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7 hours ago, Ordell Robbie said:
Apologies for the poor quality pic, screen grab of the Swinton Insta that I can't log into from work laptop.New Swinton shirts are stinkers. Home is appalling and away is just poor.
The launch post/image on X is … actually even worse.
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9 hours ago, NRLandSL said:
They’ve deemed the France game “not living up to its potential” after 2 iterations. I suspect the PNG game isn’t happening so if they were to play “Ireland” (England) Instead it would make a mockery out of international rugby league.
England and England Knights have played France 60 times.
France's record is P60 W8 D2 L50.
The average scoreline is France 11-28 England. The last three were 8-40, 0-64, 18-42. So the average is getting worse.
There are good reasons to play France. It being a competitive or interesting game is not one of them.
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20 hours ago, langpark said:
It looks like it was taken at full-time, so an injured player could have been off getting treatment.
Someone has to hold the camera
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Just now, Click said:
No idea, but it isn't going to be zero.
It's not going to be much either. As Archie says, costs at the minute are likely to be no higher than a community club running its off season.
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2 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:
My biggest passion in the aviation world is passenger airliners due to my love of travel and like you, I prefer older, simpler planes.
I also prefer smaller, more regional airliners rather than the huge Boeing and Airbus models. I love the ATR 42 and the de Havilland Canada Dash 8 models, and even smaller turboprops such as the Bae Jetstream 31 and 41.
Up in the islands of Scotland they use 19 seater DHC Twin Otters to get between the islands and the mainland a lot of the time but i havent had the pleasure of flying on one of those. The smallest plane I have personally been on is the Dash 8 on a flight from Leeds to Belfast. I certainly prefer a turboprop to a jet.
In terms of helicopters, my knowledge there is nowhere near what it is for planes but we do get a lot of helicopters around the Hull area because of so many being based at Humberside with the big Sikorsky coast guards there and a lot of Leonardos taking workers out to the oil rigs.
The smallest plane I've been on was a Britten Norman Islander flying between Tingwall and Papa Stour in Shetland. Eight seats and a route that is no longer flown.
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2 minutes ago, Click said:
They still have re-signed and signed 13 or so players, they have to have had some money to pay for them.
How much do you think you need to cover part time players out of season training costs?
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24 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:
Gehe Gehe, Füchse, Gehe Gehe!! Gehe Gehe, Füchse, Gehe Gehe!!! Meister der welt!! Alle anderen sind scheiße, ahhhhhh!!!!!
Blew it against Magdeburg yesterday.
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7 hours ago, langpark said:
Threads that stay on topic seem to be such a rare thing these days.
There's not much to say about Valencia Huracanes though. They've played one game mostly using another team's players and are now preparing to do the same again. They are also conncted to someone who has a habit of making statements, setting up clubs and leagues which never seem to happen but get a surprising amount of oxygen, and flogging merch to people who want to pad out their exotic RL shirt collection.
Talking about street names seems a more useful use of time.
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10 hours ago, lucky 7 said:
Are you serious?
All professional and semi professional clubs still have bills to pay in their off seasons.
The Broncos are a zombie club and have been for years. They have to exist to have bills to pay and they barely do.
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Just now, warriors 95 said:
What is Canberra trying to achieve in PNG??
Infrastructure development and soft political ties.
The international development of rugby league could be a consequence. It's not an aim.
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Just now, warriors 95 said:
Tours overseas yes but hosting tours could be massive for PNG.
England and France touring PNG would be awesome imo. Heck there was a time when the kiwis toured PNG.
That's not what the Australian government is looking to achieve with its funding.
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32 minutes ago, sam4731 said:
So use the fixture as a platform to get youngsters interested. Imagine how many young Barca fans we could get in with good marketing.
How many? Roughly? And why are they following Catalans as opposed to the other sports departments within their own club that are already Barcelona branded?
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Before everyone starts boring on that this is some hypocrisy from the Telegraph. At least a dozen stories from the last few years about drug use in rugby union published by them.
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45 minutes ago, The Future is League said:
Somebody must be paying the bills in the meantime, and if so is that David Hughes?
What bills?
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29 minutes ago, Eddie said:
I have to disagree here, while accepting I’m not coming at it from an informed viewpoint. Perpignan to Paris is 550 miles and Paris is a huge city with loads going on where a one off rugby league match wouldn’t register with anyone. I’d have thought they’d be better off taking their games to places like Montpellier or Bordeaux.
This is my view. It feels equivalent to Wigan playing that game at Millwall.
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1 hour ago, RigbyLuger said:
Maybe someone from TotalRL can explain the mystery of the missing story!
All the secondary ones were just quoting directly and indirectly from the Telegraph. Once the Telegraph pull it, they are essentially putting out a potentially very litigious story that they themselves have not sourced.
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Thursday night fixtures
in The General Rugby League Forum
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There's no guarantee that the Thursday games will be the Sky main channel selections.