Dave T
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43 minutes ago, langpark said:
Here's a heartwarming article for those of you applauding large sums of money being spent, but do not care how effectively it is being spent.
AU$618,000 spent by LRLF in 2017 (not including WC expenses). 7 years later, what exactly do they have to show for it?
Where does it say they spent $618k in 2017?
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16 minutes ago, Damien said:
Its peak Rugby League, and I don't mean this as a dig at you, that better organisation is just booking a band a little earlier.
it really is though isn't it? It's not unusual for us to announce this stuff quietly just before the final instead of tapping I to neutrals and Co who maywbe attracted to an overall event.
Small, simple things. Do them well. Then do them well again. And again. And again.
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A real positive of being on the front foot and arranging this well in advance means that the ads for the Grand Final feature the Lathums as part of the package. Quite often we announce at the last minute, and this seems far better. I do still think that the actual presentation of our Grand Final entertainment is pretty rubbish, but the organisation appears to be slightly better so far this year.
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9 minutes ago, Damien said:
I do think that Hull FC writing off the season is a narrative just being spun solely to criticise IMG. Sure they're been awful but we've seen that with teams before and no team aims to do deliberately bad, that's disastrous on a number of levels from a club point of view, and I find it hard to believe that Hull FC just game up so early.
It's just really dumb analysis and makes RL people look like a bunch of neanderthals unable to actually understand the complexities of sport and how a team can have a poor season for a huge number of reasons.
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I must admit, I had the game on in the background while making a Sunday roast and I enjoyed it.
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As a comparison price point, SL+ does 106 live games for £130, and Watch NRL does every game for around £120 a year.
So 21 games for £120 seems high.
But hopefully it finds a market and does well.
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34 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:
So we’ll play against Australia who will be wearing one of the most iconic kit designs in RL which has barely changed in it’s design for its existence.
And we’ll be playing in a 1979s rip off football kit with some weird added Vs on the sides, that looks like an advert for betting.
great.
That's fine. Some like it, some don't. There's no right or wrong.
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1 minute ago, 17 stone giant said:
I see that it's the kit for 24/25, so can I presume we'll be wearing it for The Ashes next autumn?
Yes. Announced the other day.
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1 hour ago, ATLANTISMAN said:
Well it cannot be any worse than the rugby league world cup final the entire entertainment experience was MINUS ZERO.
Cool story and entirely relevant.
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Just now, StandOffHalf said:
What a strange ending with the time running out as they stood around for the scrum.
Were London set? Shouldn't time have been off, if so?
Utterly bizarre.
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1 minute ago, ATLANTISMAN said:
Regardless of the result this is a total embarrassment 1500 fans standard of rugby poor.
It's just basically c--p
Sitting here in a bar watching this on my phone surrounded by French people watching La Rochelle v Toulouse packed stadium great atmosphere rugby c--p
Super sometimes we are not name has to be stopped it's totally naff in this day and age.
NRL please come ASAP and drain the swamp
OK, we get it.
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1 minute ago, StandOffHalf said:
I think it is good to challenge and examine points, regardless of one's view. I agree on Carney.
Carney actually challenged Burgess' view and stated that Vaughans tackle was bad and everyone agreed and he was banned, so we got the right decision.
Burgess deflected by saying it was the same as the Hull KR binning.
The goalposts just move. The hierarchy appears to be 1. Faking/cheating, them moves on to 2. Not a card, then 3. Inconsistency.
It becomes almost impossible to address the issue when the goalposts move as much as they do.
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One other area that was interesting is that Burgess complained that a player stayed down and then stayed on the pitch after treatment. Yet when the Leigh player left for a HIA he labelled it 'convenient'.
Almost like he has a bee in his bonnet and is making it up as he goes along and nobody is challenging the inconsistencies.
I must admit I think only Brian Carney is being challenging on this. I think at the moment he is by far the best speaker we have in RL.
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Just now, StandOffHalf said:
Yes, it wouldn't be perfect.
Coaches would complain that their player has passed a HIA but is banned and we'd go back round this cycle again.
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1 minute ago, dkw said:
It's a horrible situation for the authorities to try and tidy up, but as ever my opinion is they need to somehow push this back on the players and coaches.
It's obvious some are playing the rules, which frankly is disgusting when there's a worry players actually injured could be looked at for cheating.
No idea how they would do this though.
Where it does come back to the RFL is that some really quite bad tackles are being waved as play on by refs. It's a tough situation.
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2 minutes ago, Barry Badrinath said:
Saw philbin in town last night, his left eyebrow came in the pub about two mins before he did.
He's starting to look like the player from five years ago again now. Pleased for him as he has had a bad couple of years.
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6 minutes ago, johnh1 said:
Late on in the Salford Catalan game yesterday, there was a far worse double shoulder to the head than anything in the Wire Saints game. It was just put on report. It's the inconsistency that is the main problem.
That was fine, it really wasn't clear whether there was contact. On report was the correct decision imo (if we're talking about the same thing).
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8 minutes ago, fenster said:
It’s a big enough area for both and would be great for RL in Bolton area.
My point being that needs coordination. A free for all creates overlap and wastage.
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13 minutes ago, bobbruce said:
Absolutely take the review away take the ball off the player and play on its the only way I see dealing with this without somehow punishing the player being fouled. As I said yesterday I’d then like to see it accepted that fouls that go unpunished in a game should get a heavier punishment at disciplinary.
Yes.
The Philbin incident threw a spanner in the works for many yesterday. If you listen to the noise recently, people are doubting that a player could take a hit to the head, be injured and then be cleared to play on after treatment/assessment. Nobody is calling Philbin a cheat for the above situation.
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12 minutes ago, fenster said:
Leigh should not only target the metropolitan borough of Bolton for fans but also players i.e. school coaching clinics at primary and secondary school levels.
Don't Wigan already play in that space? Should they be sharing that work?
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1 minute ago, bobbruce said:
Yes it’s a nonsense idea just because people are getting frustrated.
If this is a genuine problem that means a change is needed, you just scrap the VR interaction here and deal with it in disciplinary. If players are hurt (like Philbin yesterday) allow them to get treated and assessed without fear of being labelled a cheat or being banned.
You don't need to start messing with HIA protocols.
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9 minutes ago, StandOffHalf said:
My understanding is that it only relates to head knocks, so crushers and other injuries wouldn't be affected.
I think it's an interesting proposal worth considering/exploring, but I don't know whether I support it.
It's basically a proposal for a 1 match ban for getting fouled and hurt.
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8 minutes ago, StandOffHalf said:
My understanding is that it only relates to head knocks, so crushers and other injuries wouldn't be affected.
I think it's an interesting proposal worth considering/exploring, but I don't know whether I support it.
Thewlis also went down following a high tackle as well as the crusher last week.. And Philbin would now be out.
We saw unintended consequences at play yesterday with the Philbin HIA nonsense. That was because of time wasting previously.
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1 minute ago, Fly-By-TheWire said:
Not sure if you watch the NRL, but CTW is almost identical to Reece Walsh in terms of size, balance, footwork and style of play. Worth a Google or YouTube search.
Yeah, I can see that, his footwork is outstanding but he does it at pace. Really exciting.
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We'll see how serious the NRL/IRL are right now.