gingerjon
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1 hour ago, sweaty craiq said:
I would gladly contribute to legal proceedings
Go on then
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9 hours ago, meast said:
Old men arguing over newspapers in 2024
Stand by for the forty-year-old quote from Yes, Prime Minister as if it could possibly be true now.
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Probably, in terms of atmosphere and drama, the 2003 Challenge Cup final between Leeds and Bradford.
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1 minute ago, Dave T said:
I'm sure somebody somewhere enjoyed that Olympic Stadium game.
You go too far.
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11 hours ago, Dave T said:
I think a poor match would leave both sets of fans and neutrals disappointed.
It's a personal thing. You're allowed to have as your worst match something that someone else would have as their best. I'm sure, objectively, I have absolutely loved some low quality games entirely because of the result.
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4 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:
Must admit it did sound familiar. Even the bit about Fev being Toulouse’s opponents. Which begs the question as to why it wasn’t announced months ago, but I guess we all know the answer to that one.
Are we counting a post on a forum as being an announcement now?
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24 minutes ago, DavidM said:
Sumo wrestling while surfing would be a brilliant sport
This is the future for our game that the Hearns want.
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Someone's already mentioned the England v New Zealand game at the Olympic/London Stadium. God, that was ... the last time I took anyone new to a game. And all wrapped around with the worst matchday 'entertainment' possible. In my entirely humble opinion, the fact that England can't even get any fixtures confirmed can probably be traced to the attitude and delivery of that day.
Otherwise, London Broncos 12-10 Hull Sharks lingers as being just awful but there was a game against Huddersfield a few years later where I remember an ironic round of applause because two consecutive passes were held. That match could easily have had more knock ons than spectators.
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4 minutes ago, JohnM said:
"What irks me is the slavish coverage of Union in the so called quality papers of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mail and yes Guardian."
I agree completely. I don't rate the Express or Mail as "quality" though, and the Guardian has a trivial circulation of mainly Owen Jones/Melvyn Bragg-ish acolytes (present company excepted, of course) There's a real story there for a Guardian reporter to investigate why that is.
None of them has a circulation worth mentioning, hence why none of them do any more, and the Telegraph is a comic these days. No idea about the Times as it's behind the paywall.
Sports coverage in the UK is not in a particularly healthy spot, really.
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6 minutes ago, Damien said:
I don't think they could possibly do it worse really.
Even ignoring the triple header nonsense there are essentially 2 full time French teams playing at a decent standard and one of them is playing after the England match, with presumably their players unavailable. Considering France struggle for players anyway and struggle to be competitive it's just a joke.
Pile high. Sell cheap. Do badly.
Have people on this forum yelling that we should all attend to show willing and it will be better next time.
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1 hour ago, Griff said:
I can remember going to Old Trafford to watch Academy Final at 11.30, Second Division Premiership Final at 1.30 and the Premiership Final at 3.30.
Not possible today - games last longer and so do warm-up routines.
I also remember the ground filling up during the first game for the second. People did the same then as they do now - go for the one game they want to see and maybe catch some of the rest.
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6 hours ago, unapologetic pedant said:
The way the above-mentioned murder victim was targeted with threatening messages while incommunicado herself had me pondering the state of electronic communications back in 1987. Would the Fax machine have been the closest contemporary approximation to the domestic paraphernalia in Star Cops?
They had pagers and bleeps when it was made.
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Many of the settings for Star Cops were based on real plans for orbiting stations that were in development at the time.
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25 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
So why did the Batley Chaiman question and objected to the IMG scoring methods, if like you say Daz Batley don't have any ambition to be in the top flight why the protest?
You can Google and find out. He felt there were three scenarios that the scoring failed to avoid which would undermine the whole system. He was supportive of the idea of grading and, in the report on TRL I’ve just read, said he would be in favour regardless of Batley’s score.
Someone with better googling than me may be able to get their current view.
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7 hours ago, Gerrumonside ref said:
My overall feeling is Southgate has done well by creating a nucleus of a team and staying loyal to them whatever their club form.
I think once we lost Walker there was always a danger the defence might get exposed at the back by pace and it did eventually (even by a non vintage Brazil side).
I still think we lack a scheming playmaker who can open things up with a cute pass when tournament football slows in tempo in the last week.
England have got a group they should win and will probably beat all the teams that they should beat on paper before falling to the first major footballing nation they play in Germany.
Southgate's credits pretty much outweigh those of any England manager except Alf Ramsay. He has consistently got results out of his players ahead of those achieved by any other England manager.
The annoying part is that it still feels like England fall short.
But, the more annoying part, is all those failures before Southgate and those which will occur after him.
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2 minutes ago, LeeF said:
The teams got more 20 years ago
The Isuzu FA Vase
Season 2023-24
Prize fund paymentsRound Winning club Losing club First round qualifying £550 £160 Second round qualifying £725 £225 First round £825 £250 Second round £900 £275 Third round £1,125 £350 Fourth round £1,875 £600 Fifth round £2,250 £725 Sixth round £4,125 £1,350 Semi-Final £5,500 £1,725 Final £30,000 £15,000 The FA Vase is for (effectively) divisions 9 and 10 of English football.
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Just now, LeeF said:
This article explains the split in the challenge cup
Christ:
- 1st round losers: £0
- 2nd round losers: £500
- 3rd round losers: £750
- 4th round losers: £1,000
- 5th round losers: £1,250
- 6th round losers: £1,500
- QF losers: £8,000
- SF losers: £18,000
- Runners-up: £35,000
- Winners: £100,000
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A few from the Hastings Half Marathon this morning
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2 hours ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said:
You obviously haven't seen them under Hodgson, Capello, McClaren, Erikson, Keegan, Taylor, Robson then.
International football friendlies are usually deathly anyway. People tend to forget that as well.
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On 23/03/2024 at 09:57, The Blues Ox said:
Bradford having to cancel their game against Saints as they are unable to raise a team. I know they are hoping to pull in 1 or 2 girls from the winter league who have their finals next week and might be wanting to avoid injury but its a worry so early in the season. My own local team Halifax struggling as well after their new coach quit within a couple of months and they have yet to advertise the position and seem to have stopped trying to recruit players.
The BBC have it as 48-0. Is that the walkover score?
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Just now, philipw said:
There wasn’t though, was there?
I thought there were? Apologies if not but I'd understood that was broadly the figure.
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1 minute ago, The Rocket said:
Yeah that crossed my mind as well, but there`s no getting away that the one million unique viewers over 24hrs is pretty amazing.
My maths is ropey but I think it means they have in the region of 700,000 in equivalent periods normally so you're looking at around 300,000ish more, of which 40,000 are in the States at a time when there are 30,000 NRL focused Aussies in the states.
I think it speaks to the huge success it's been in an Australian visibility sense.
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11 hours ago, The Rocket said:
Of those, 40,870 unique users were from the US, a 185 per cent increase on the opening round of last year.
Given there were 30,000+ Aussies in Vegas presumably checking in for match day information from time to time this would not be a surprising figure?
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6,500 watching the YouTube stream ...
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John Asiata completely vindicated on appeal.
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Have you met Harry? Agree with him and he'll still argue with you.