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gingerjon

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  1. So the clubs want less weighting assigned to things like finance?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. The launch post/image on X is … actually even worse. https://x.com/swinton_lions/status/1866223637822312469?s=46
  7. 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.
  8. Someone has to hold the camera
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. How much do you think you need to cover part time players out of season training costs?
  12. Blew it against Magdeburg yesterday.
  13. 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.
  14. The Broncos are a zombie club and have been for years. They have to exist to have bills to pay and they barely do.
  15. Infrastructure development and soft political ties. The international development of rugby league could be a consequence. It's not an aim.
  16. That's not what the Australian government is looking to achieve with its funding.
  17. 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?
  18. 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.
  19. This is my view. It feels equivalent to Wigan playing that game at Millwall.
  20. 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.
  21. Has now. The Yahoo page it was on earlier as well - GONE.
  22. 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.
  23. Disappointingly, someone appears to have deleted the Euro XIII pages from Wikipedia.
  24. Do we play Ashes Tests in World Cups?
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