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8 hours ago, Futtocks said:
On the other hand, England's women pulled off an unexpected win over India in the 3rd T20.
England looked *appalling* in the field and watching a couple of them - really not sure what is going on with attitude and fitness.
India will be gutted but should probably still win the series. And Sky did avoid mentioning a non called wide in the penultimate over as well.
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10 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:
To be fair, it's up to GH to prove you wrong. Over to you, GH.
Why does Hetherington need to prove the bizarre assertion that Southampton couldn’t support a top flight RU team?
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4 minutes ago, Damien said:
Who would that be because I highly doubt it.
I presume Vannes?
Not bigger than every SL club but seem to be bigger than some.
Also, whilst RU isn't as big in France as some voices claim, it's also not a regional niche like RL sadly is.
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11 hours ago, THE RED ROOSTER said:
Just a bit of uniformed speculation on my part, We now have Newcastle Red Bull in Rugby Union but how many people recall the latre Keith Hogg floating the idea of London Red Bull back in the Ian Lenargan era.
Now Gary Hetherington is looking for investors and sponsors bringing something to the party,so we were told at the fan forum, so what about this for an idea. the clubs shirt sponsor is Brewdog. What if Brewdog was to become a major investor in the club which would mean its pub chain network across the UK would be promoting the London Hounds and the sport of Rugby League. and it can be done economically, I still have my Adrian Morley beer mat from the 2000 World Cup. Better value for the club and game than the Eddie Stobart deal.
As I say it's pure speculation on my part but perhaps the search for investors means that the club is looking more for a commercial partner than an Australian NRL Club tie-in .
Red Bull lost around £60m last year and is currently closing pubs. Not sure they're the most secure direction right now.
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2 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:
As I often say, I am a big fan of exploring how regions can be used for rep rugby. For that reason, I'm a bit disappointed that we are running with a WotR and Eng-Wal. We seem to be accepting the same constraints as the men's game - i.e. that we are a Northern game that occasionally does a bit of missionary work. It would have been far better IMO to have run a regional comp involving London, South Wales, Occitanie, as well as Lancs and Yorks. This plan seems to be just another selection from the 'minimal effort' playbook.
That’s fair
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44 minutes ago, Damien said:
Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota killed in car crash:
Diogo Jota killed in car crashpublished at 09:40 British Summer Time
Portuguese footballer Diogo Jota has died in a car crash in Zamora, Spain, the Guardia Civil confirmed to the BBC.
His brother, Andre Felipe, also died in the crash, which happened at around 00:30 local time (23:30 BST).
The car, a Lamborghini, left the road due to a tyre blow out while overtaking another car. The car set on fire, and both are confirmed to have died.
We'll bring you more updates on this as soon as we have them.
Know a few people who are cut up by this one
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6 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
How convenient, all depending on which side of the argument your perspective is coming from.
Basically, the contract took more games and gave less revenue, good deal.
Tell me you haven’t a clue about the wider sports market at the time nor about the value of decent production sellable streaming without telling me etc etc
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6 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
That may be well true Chris, but those elected or should I say promoted from within - jobs for the boys and girls - have not been very good have they?
Some better than others whilst the clubs have been consistently voting for whatever takes the pressure off them in the moment.
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9 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:
Total waste of time unless England use this to put out a development squad which knowing Stuart Barrow, they won't.
No point putting out a development squad as there are no other games they are being developed for - and if they play a full strength side they will win by whatever score they want to win by.
It probably would have made more sense for Wales to play Scotland first and then England but we seem to be in a 'beggars can't be choosers' approach here.
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Just now, Eddie said:
It’s the fifth sport down on mine, actually fourth if you don’t count Formula One as it’s not a sport. Seems about right, football, Cricket and Yawnion are clearly more popular.
See above. It is always the difference between accessing in the UK and then outside the UK.
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1 hour ago, Les Tonks Sidestep said:
This comes up regularly - you are almost certainly on the bbc.com not bbc.co.uk site
We need to make this a sticky because it comes up every summer without fail
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29 minutes ago, Archie Gordon said:
If they get bumped up to SL in 2026, it will be special treatment.
It will be a complete joke but very much in keeping with the “anyone but IMG” noises that have allowed the current loser mob to take unimpeded control.
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27 minutes ago, DEANO said:
Sorry they were parachuted in the first year of super league. With the amount of funds made available to them over the years from rich benefactors they should be stronger than what they are. Fact is the game isn’t wanted enough down there
Unfortunately most of the rich benefactors’ money went on the rich benefactors’ whims.
But why is the game so weak in its supposed M62 heartland where it is meant to be beloved. More people in every council area play and watch more soccer than rugby league.
And yet the RL there have an embarrassment of resources.
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Both games in Neath. England on 1 August, Scotland on 3 August.
The latter will be Scotland's first ever senior women's international.
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Beatrice Egli - a bit of a superstar in that there Europe - sings the anthem and we're all set for Switzerland v Norway.
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21 hours ago, Irish Saint said:
Bohs FC debut Oasis strip with help from Paul Weller https://share.google/CXv0HkRtIpokK5ZP8
Meh, their (our) Gaza blockade busting one is better.
As worn by Kneecap the other day, in fact.
In the light of that, the Oasis match up is a bit of a surprise!
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1 hour ago, DEANO said:
Pathetic what’s going on at Salford but they shouldn’t be replaced by a failing London team. Salford may have their problems but have never been placed in sl and ring fenced or the money thrown at them like London have
You live in absolute fear that rugby league in England will break out into new places.
Thankfully for you, with a five decade pedigree, it's a traditional sport in London.
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1 minute ago, Dave T said:
If I was IMG I'd be getting out of here tbh.
It will be button money to them but a big deal to us.
The same with the reputational damage.
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30 minutes ago, LeeF said:
I’m sure that they will know the cost as they will have read & understood the contract in full before agreeing to it (or not as is likely to be the case)
Negotiating a pay off has been mentioned on this thread.
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29 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:
The discussion here, from about 1/3 of the way in is on this topic.
Key takeaways:
Clubs are fearful of Catalans and Toulouse being in SL with Loop fixtures meaning they "could" play them 4 times out of 13 home games.
14 is the preferred solution. With clubs willing to accept lower central funding in return for a place in the competition to facilitate this.
London could be handpicked despite clearly needing a whole new squad.
Oldham an outside bet, already spending lots and could spend in SL to make up for only getting £600k central funding.
No mention of the Lower leagues or of if P/R will be maintained.
All of this is likely to go poorly at such late notice. And in a few years time it will be thrown in the bin again by the clubs.
The clubs don't like IMG or the twenty-first century - and so lock in Toulouse and London to Super League and pull up the drawbridge whilst nobody can be bothered to put in place any kind of useful structure or strategy for any other aspect of the game.
There's something about unintended consequences right there.
It would be awful and I may never stop laughing.
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3 hours ago, StandOffHalf said:
Wigan's letter in support of Horne should have been the end of it.
The clubs don't get to decide which rules they can be bothered to follow.
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1 hour ago, Route66 said:
In non league football both Widnes and Farsley Celtic won’t play this season, big disappointment for the northern premier league with Widnes going , will have to run with 21 teams now
Farsley have been in that weird ownership one, haven’t they?
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25 minutes ago, phiggins said:
Is that really the only reason it is being torn up? I may have missed something, or forgotten something. But I've not heard a single club express any praise or confidence in IMG in the last year to 18 months. I think if they had laid out a plan to the clubs that would lead to income being generated within a particular timeframe, then Johnson would still be RFL chair, until the end of the season anyway.
The clubs wanted a magic bullet. There are no magic bullets.
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To play that badly and only lose 2-1 … all hinges on the Netherlands game now