nadera78
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11 hours ago, Man of Kent said:
Obscure and hidden? I mean, how many more transport options do you want other than train, tube, tram and bus?
As an aside, I heard last night that AFCW is happy with the money Broncos has brought in this season so there’s no dissatisfaction from that side of the groundshare.
You've got some nerve coming back onto a Broncos thread. Chief.
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I think it's time we started to take a serious look at Serbia and see what we can do to help them out. They have a good, solid domestic scene, seniors, juniors and schools playing, and yet at international level they'e really stagnated at both seniors and juniors. This isn't meant as a criticism in any way, shape or form - it's our fault as a sort for leaving them to fend for themselves all this time. We need to find out what the blockage is (perhaps coaching expertise, opportunities to travel and play, whatever it is) and fill in the missing pieces for them. We really can't afford to waste an opportunity there, like we have in so many other places before now.
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12 hours ago, Toby Chopra said:
For me, it all starts with an on-the-pitch turnaround.
London is effectively a brand new expansion market again, and that means 'doing a Toronto' or even 'doing a 2018 version of London' and investing in the sort of full-time team that can win against the top championship teams and be a viable promotion candidate.
Do this, and the crowds and positive vibes WILL rise, and the club will start moving forward.
Obviously that costs serious money and it's not for me to tell Hughes or anyone else to do it.
But if they don't do it, the club won't go anywhere off the pitch.
I had a very long post re the situation at the Broncos and what it would take to turn it around, but it isn't really worth it. It will never happen. The club's dead, it is long past being revivable, we're all just waiting for someone to sign the certificate.
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2 hours ago, gingerjon said:
I agree.
It is very revealing that the whole programme is now based on reaching only existing fans.
Not just this tournament, but the entire sport. The fishing net is getting smaller and smaller.
Having returned to England fairly recently I had thought I'd pick up some tickets for the RLWC, make a weekend of it I suppose and fit in 2 or 3 fixtures, but I can't say I'm enthused by it in any way. The whole game - on the field, in the stands, on TV, on here - looks and feels moribund and this tournament just seems to embody that.
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In large part the discussion around this fixture is indicative of the lack of facilities in RL; at professional, semi-professional and community levels. The RLWC grants is helping some of this but it's an area in which we really fall down compared to other sports.
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I wouldn't be announcing anything before the RLWC - we know how much this sport likes a public bunfight and we should be doing everything possible to avoid that before such a big and, for the whole sport, important tournament.
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58 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
I'm not sure French pride would tolerate being entered into a Commonwealth competition.
I don't know, most of their former colonies seem to be joining the Commonwealth, maybe they'd also like to join the fun?
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5 minutes ago, steve oates said:
I'll finish on this one, well said.
Can remember us putting teams into the cities of Cardiff, Nottingham, Carlisle, Liverpool and Gloucester.....
Not many in their crowds
Nowhere near village club Featherstone Rovers crowds.........
"We" never put teams anywhere. What happened was people applied to the RFL for permission to enter a team into their competitions. The RFL, usually, replied "Sure, of course you can, but we won't do anything to help you. Good luck".
"We" didn't do a thing.
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2 hours ago, David Shepherd said:
I agree that the French clubs have to stay, but they need to bring a TV deal to the table. Our main source of funding is Sky, they don't operate in France, so the French teams offer them nothing which is a risk to future TV revenue.
2 out of 12 teams when we're relying on a British broadcaster doesn't seem sensible. The French teams have got to bring significant revenue to the overall pot to justify their inclusion. If we can also generate a regular France v England game or annual tournament as part of that package, all the better.
14 or even 16 teams is the way forward for me, combined with a major increase in the international game. As entertainment, it's all a bit samey at the moment with only 12 teams in the elite competition.
I know we don't like to ape Union, but a 5 nations competition would allow for a mid-season break at elite level and drive TV revenues. The casual TV viewer won't care if England are pretty dominant, or that all the Scotland team are from Cleckheaton. Both Union (and Cricket) know that only the international game really funds everything else. We're still to work that one out.
Not at all. It is SL's job to find a French broadcaster.
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Minor point, I know, but I don't see how they are 13 chevrons on that shirt, unless you're counting the white bits in between the blue chevrons. But that doesn't make sense to me because white is the colour of the actual shirt, it's the blue bits that are chevrons. It's a white shirt with blue chevrons.
You wouldn't say the Kangaroos jersey has 3 chevrons, you'd describe it as a green jersey with 2 gold chevrons.
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On 27/07/2022 at 10:21, DI Keith Fowler said:
Argh knew it was going to go this way. It's just another kneejerk movement into a another direction that will be quietly dropped in a years time. It's not even an objectively bad shirt, it's fine, it's just so inconsistent with what's come before.
Just decide what an England shirt looks like, decide on a fairly classic design and combination of colours and then don't change it... ever. You can do variations on it, modern, traditional etc. by all means but keep the outline design the same.
The England shirt is always something defined by what it isn't rather than what it is. It can't be red and white hoops because Wigan, it can't be a rev vee because Saints, it can't be a blue and red vee because GB.
I've said on here previously the most logical thing to do would be to return to the thin hoops of the original Northern Union shirt, probably swapping the yellow out for blue (to more match a typical England sporting team colour scheme and also a nod to the Lancashire and Yorkshire origins of the game). Then you've got something with a historical link back, that you can do lots of variations of, that other RL teams haven't made untouchable.
Where did you get that shirt from? I always thought the original NU shirt was red and white hoops (as worn in the replica used for the 2010 centenary test v New Zealand).
You could probably do something with that colour combination - eg white shirt with a thick red and thin yellow chevrons - that would be distinctively ours and at the same time remove the "it looks like X club shirt" complaint.
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They've put out some photos of the unveiling at Old Trafford - Fred Done holding the new white and blue shirt, standing alongside Shaun Wane and Ralp Rimmer holding bright red scarves. It just feels like another example of the RFL's slapdash approach to everything they do.
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It looks like the Yorkshire shirt worn in Academy Origin games.
Truth is, the RFL went to the discount bin when they signed up with Oxen and this is a result of that.
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4 minutes ago, 17 stone giant said:
They should never have split GB for the 1995 World Cup.
Mate, you are one of about three dozen people who pine for the GB team. Give it up, it's dead.
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I get the geo-politics of it, but I can't help thinking that the Aussies would be better off putting a comprehensive junior development programme in PNG - building on the bones of what is already in place, utilising the 4 PNGRFL confederations, with a scheme that allows kids to play only if they continue to attend school and that builds like a pyramid to a PNG Academy that plays U18s and U20s in Queensland. Within 10 years you'd have two dozen PNGers in the NRL, similar in SL, and the remittances they'd be sending home would be considerable. Plus, those who don't make it that far would have benefitted from the enforced education programme. And, of course, the Kumuls would be a match for anyone.
Besides which, in practical terms the NRL has Perth, Christchurch (even Adelaide) that need teams. The rah rahs have Pacific teams because they literally have nowhere else interested in hosting a team.
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21 minutes ago, Derwent said:
You can’t have meaningful mid-season internationals without buy-in from the NRL. So it’s a non-starter.
Of course you can, England (selected from SL only) v France is a meaningful game. In fact, any England game is meaningful if you want it to be.
England football and cricket teams regularly adjust their squads according to which players are available due to club commitments, and the rahrah's play test matches even when all of their best players are appearing for a made up GB&I touring team. It feels like it's only RL fans who have an issue with making these types of adjustments.
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19 minutes ago, Scubby said:
Without the switching option, Ireland and Scotland would essentially be pub teams. We can't have it both ways. It is a necessary evil sadly
Scotland should be a pub team tbh, there is virtually no rugby league played there. It's gone on too long now, and the IRL just ignore it.
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12 minutes ago, Gomersall said:
“if required” are the operative words for me.
But above that it says the event will take place in 2023. So, as a whole, I took that to mean that the event will take place regardless but will only serve as a qualifying event if the results of the RLWC21 make one necessary.
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20 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
It's all in the annual report and on the website and on other newspapers' websites and pretty much anywhere one would care to google.
Dude, can't you do the work for him?
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3 hours ago, The Rocket said:
Thought this thread was appropriate.
Phil Gould calls for relaxed State of Origin rules following Brian To'o decision (msn.com)
Speaking on 100% Footy on Monday night, Gould said rugby league needs to differentiate Origin from international football to make the latter more sustainable long-term.
“I just can’t stand the absurdity of the argument," he said.
"Origin and international football are two completely different beasts.
"For all of history, anyone who has grown up in Australia played for Australia, we belted everyone and there has been no international football worth serving up.
"Suddenly we have an opportunity to create a whole new range of international football. We’ve got emerging nations who love to play in second tiers – what is the problem with kids that grow up in this country playing State of Origin.
This is the part you`ll really love.
"International football is a whole new world that has never been explored. NRL needs to take control of world rugby league and there is a real opportunity there for a whole new level and a whole new brand of football. "
"If anyone can’t see that, they are brain dead."
You`ve got to laugh, it`s like he`s the one who has discovered the potential of international football and is now its` greatest champion. Breathtaking."For all of history, anyone who has grown up in Australia played for Australia, we belted everyone and there has been no international football worth serving up."
Just on this one point, and I know I shouldn't take it seriously because Gus is a bloated idiot, but this just isn't true. Australia have played England/GB 161 times, winning 88, losing 72 and drawing 8. Thats a win percentage of 54%. But, you know, we can't expect one of the game's leading experts to know anything abut the game.
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There isn't an issue in the world that Gus doesn't have the answer to.
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3 hours ago, watcherofRL said:
Well said, get out of Wimbledon and over to Kent - train service good from north or south
Yes, absolutely. One game with an attendance better than the abysmal gates at Wimbledon, and yet still apparently lower than those at Ealing, is all the evidence needed to uproot the club once more and move to a stadium in Kent. Are you David Hughes by any chance?
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To be honest, this will be the second RLWC in a row where Scotland have participated despite not meeting the IRL's membership criteria. It should be the last. If they can't find 4 teams to play a domestic competition that lasts a minimum of 1 round of fixtures (the - frankly pathetic - minimum requirement for an affiliate member, their current status) then they shouldn't be playing in the World Cup. There really does have to be a minimum standard enforced.
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Wigan have taken two players from London's academy in the past two years.
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London Broncos - Looking more positive now
in The General Rugby League Forum
Posted · Edited by nadera78
Does he actually have any experience of coaching RL, outside of these past few months?
It really feels like a typical Hughes appointment.