bobbruce
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Brilliant from Wigan bringing the past winners out
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4 minutes ago, Damien said:
Pretty brilliant atmosphere and vibe and it's still way off kick off. The feel of it actually reminds me of a packed Central Park again.
I am jealous. Good luck.
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3 hours ago, Fly-By-TheWire said:
Is it true that only one insurer will cover the RFL? If this is the case I guess and they're dictating the terms then we're stuffed and have to accept it. What else can we do?
I mentioned it earlier, slightly in jest, but if the above is true then we really need to come up with some revolutionary thinking. Can we get the NRL's insurers to cover us in some way? Maybe the NRL could assist with the premiums as they seemingly want to get involved over here? Other than that just make tackling the legs the only allowed method.
I'm not that hot on legal stuff (I'm not Zak Hardaker before you ask) so I'm not sure whether getting players to sign a waiver for 'accidental contact' would stand up in future cases?
What if they don’t want to sign it do you sack them.
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10 hours ago, jacksy said:
Do we think they will even say it was wrong?
I think that’s the key here they either need to come out and say it was human error. Or explain to everyone the thinking behind it being a red.
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I think Panthers will be too strong hopefully Wigan can keep it competitive and not end up on the wrong end of a blow out. As that would crush all the positivity for SL from last years result. To be fair to Wigan this current team/squad are the strongest in SL for me I think Walters and Thompson are going to be big misses.
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2 hours ago, AB90 said:
If SL teams had an NRL budget (£6.4m) then the teams would look nothing like what they look like now!
That a good point you make. When making these hypothetical comparisons people generally just look at the starting 13 or 17 man, strongest line ups. Generally speaking, SL clubs depth is made up of young kids under the age of 21 who wouldn’t be anywhere near ready for 1st grade NRL. Depth is the biggest difference between the two competitions
Which is why in a one off game SL teams can be competitive but I don’t think that would transfer to a full season.
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3 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a penalty try given for an incident that is so far away from the line. And zero mention of any covering players. And no card. Literally making it up as they go along.
You generally don’t get a yellow with a penalty try anymore t’s usually one or the other
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1 hour ago, Dunbar said:
I can answer that.
Only if he lets you.
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9 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
All circumstances are individual and subject to scrutiny of course
However...if someone is displaying threat to you then you can preemptively strike
Related to the Sau incident.....it is even easier to reduce
Sau's face was being grabbed/potentially eye gouged ....he had every reason to suspect the attack might end up blinding him .....in law he would abso- ****ing- lutely be entitled to do what he did
I'm speechless that some people don't get it
If Sau was being gouged and thought it might end with him losing his sight. Wouldn’t the first thing you’d do be to let go of the ball in order to free your hand up to defend yourself.
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3 minutes ago, Damien said:
That's the same as the year quoted.
Yeah and we won’t get close to it unless we get a year like that again.
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1 hour ago, Damien said:
Obviously with no Wakefield we can't have the same set of fixtures but if we could I think that's certainly beatable. There is certainly scope for Leigh, Leeds and Cas to get more there. Also was the Hull derby really a capacity, the stadium holds a touch over 25k?
We need a year where Wigan and Hull fc and Leeds are at home on Easter weekend.
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I don’t understand why this and the Catalan game are kicking off at the same time surely they could’ve been staggered.
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Ideally a week after the grand final. If the WCC was in England have that a week after the Aussie grand final and have the winning Aussie team in the stadium watching to see who they will play. If the WCC is being held in Australia then do the reverse and have the SL team in the stadium. Would be great publicity and build up to the final.
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18 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:
Another strange decision by the RFL especially not allowing players who don't wear the mouthguards back on to the pitch if they need a HIA. That has to fall around a restriction of trade or discrimination line hasn't it?
Surely this is no different from football insisting all players wear shin pads.
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58 minutes ago, DavidM said:
I watch inside the factory … for about 2 minutes then I have to knock it off
Was that when Cherry was in the hot bath last week.
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7 hours ago, Adelaide Tiger said:
Hey Bob, your number 9 choice, Topless Darts for Females ……. What channel is that on?
I’ve just kept the old live tv tapes.
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2 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:
They're just 1.2 points short of being one of the gold-standard A-graded clubs. I think that says a lot more.
Is anyone suggesting that the A grade is gold standard. I think it’s set at a level of the bare minimum that should be expected from professional clubs. The fact that so few can actually achieve it is more telling. I’m sure IMG would love to have 12/14 clubs reaching this so they can start cranking up the standards.
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10 minutes ago, johnmatrix said:
Top 10 british boxers
1 joe calzaghe
2 carl froch
3 ricky Hatton
4 Lennox lewis
5 naz
6 Lloyd honeyghan
7 nigel benn
8 Ken buchanon
9 ricky burns
10 David haye
1/ Calzaghe
2/ McGuigan
3/ Lewis
4/ Eubank
5/ Honeyghan
6/ Benn
7/ McKenzie
8/ Hatton
9/ Conteh
10/ Naz
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On 28/01/2024 at 12:30, The Hallucinating Goose said:
I was gonna try to do this list but I too don't follow enough sports but here we go anyway.
1. Snooker
2. Football
3. Rugby League
4. Motorcycle road racing
5. er..that's it.
1/ Rugby League
2/ Football
3/ Squash
4/ Cricket
5/ Athletics
6/ F1
7/ Snooker
8/ RU
9/ TDF
10/ Darts
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Hearing rumours of a big name moving from Saints to Catalan.
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44 minutes ago, Mumby Magic said:
There's a new thread here. "Fringe or nobody Aussie players who became SL greats.
I’ll start off Robbie and Henry Paul.
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31 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:
my beef is that we are forced by law to pay without choice to make these individuals very rich indeed
You are not forced by law to pay without choice. Don’t use it and you don’t have to pay. It’s like saying I am forced by law to pay for my shopping at Asda.
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On my way out of St Helens town centre I saw a sparrow hawk eating a pigeon. What was unusual it was in a built up area and I only spotted it as I drove off because a man walking past it stopped to look which caught my attention. This man was less than a metre away from it and it didn’t flinch just carried on eating.
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Sat 24th Feb: WCC: Wigan Warriors v Penrith Panthers KO 8pm (Sky/BBC/SuperLeague+)
in The General Rugby League Forum
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That’s a mile short why didn’t they look at that last angle.