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IMG Grading System (Many Merged Threads)
gingerjon replied to marklaspalmas's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
So the clubs want less weighting assigned to things like finance? -
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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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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The all new 2025 Kit Thread!
gingerjon replied to Gav Wilson's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
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. -
The all new 2025 Kit Thread!
gingerjon replied to Gav Wilson's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
The launch post/image on X is … actually even worse. https://x.com/swinton_lions/status/1866223637822312469?s=46 -
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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Someone has to hold the camera
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London Broncos (Merged Threads)
gingerjon replied to Magic XIII's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
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. -
The Planespotting Thread
gingerjon replied to The Hallucinating Goose's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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. -
London Broncos (Merged Threads)
gingerjon replied to Magic XIII's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
How much do you think you need to cover part time players out of season training costs? -
Handball is back ...
gingerjon replied to gingerjon's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Blew it against Magdeburg yesterday. -
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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London Broncos (Merged Threads)
gingerjon replied to Magic XIII's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
The Broncos are a zombie club and have been for years. They have to exist to have bills to pay and they barely do. -
Can PNG name a competitive side from UK players?
gingerjon replied to Rene_Artois's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Infrastructure development and soft political ties. The international development of rugby league could be a consequence. It's not an aim. -
Can PNG name a competitive side from UK players?
gingerjon replied to Rene_Artois's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
That's not what the Australian government is looking to achieve with its funding. -
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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London Broncos (Merged Threads)
gingerjon replied to Magic XIII's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
What bills? -
This is my view. It feels equivalent to Wigan playing that game at Millwall.
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We literally gerrymandered the tournament to get an England v Oz final and then England clucked it up. I’m not sure you can get more rugby league than that.
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Disappointingly, someone appears to have deleted the Euro XIII pages from Wikipedia.
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Do we play Ashes Tests in World Cups?