Wanderer
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49 minutes ago, Mr Frisky said:
Officially they are less than 1mm apart as they are states (not cities) that sit next to each other.
the closest derby in the world then!
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34 minutes ago, Cameron Highlander said:
A sell-out!!! And, for them, a "cold" night at 7 degrees....
and two teams 900km apart !
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15 hours ago, Jill Halfpenny fan said:
Not official but seen 3,442 mentioned as the Widnes v Barrow game.
Good effort. The next home game is v. Leigh on Good Friday so hopefully will be pushing towards 6,000.
Looking at the Widnes website seems like hospitality packages in the South Stand are selling well too for this game. Not sure who gets the benefit of this though - the club or the council. Anyway, onwards & upwards...
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1 hour ago, Chrispmartha said:
Regarding the Leeds attendance, I was disappointed with it (although the atmosphere was very good).
We do have to accept the downside of terrestrial tv coverage could mean a small drop in the usual attendance for that game.
I can well imagine a fair few people deciding not to bother going because of the time, weather and the fact its live on channel 4.
It does feel and look like Leeds are trying more this season to get crowds back, we’ve had the perfect storm of, stadium rebuild, ###### performances and covid over the last 5 years!
Someone should have told Sid
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8 hours ago, The storm said:
Media presence is also garbage at widnes
and so is the beer selection !
Anyway, looking forward to Sunday v. Workington, hopefully crowd will be 3000+
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On 21/12/2021 at 22:42, Hopping Mad said:
In the Liverpool area, there's only Waterloo of any stature. And, of course, they don't play in Liverpool. The handful of Wirral clubs, none of them in the upper levels, aren't Liverpool either. Liverpool Collegiate (Aigburth) and West Derby-based Sefton (where Liverpool Buccaneers ARLFC used to play) are tiny operations.
Caldy RUFC (Level 3 - National League 1 currently in 4th place) and Wirral RUFC (Level 5 - North Premier) are both semi-professional and operate at a higher level than Waterloo who are currently Level 6 - North 1 West, so they tend to pick up the best local RU talent from either side of the Mersey at the moment. The demand seems to be well served with the clubs in existence at the moment and I think it would be tough for Rugby League to try and grow in this small market.
Back on topic, it's good to see RL clubs developing facilities as this is one area that the Union clubs have an advantage.
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4 hours ago, Henson Park Old Firm said:
So to summarise this, they are staying at the AJ Bell for 2022 whilst various feasibility studies are carried out with Moor Lane option not being without complications
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44 minutes ago, DI Keith Fowler said:
I'm not, currently the RFL, FA and RFU only recognise 3G as a technology. What is being called 4G, 5G etc. is marketing for products which while may be better than predecessors are fundamentally the same 3G technology otherwise they wouldn't be allowed.
I think from when you said hockey you're thinking of 2G astroturf i.e. sand without rubber infill.
I have also seen reference to Synthetic and Hybrid pitches - where do these fit into the picture?
We probably need a separate 'plastic pitch' thread to discuss
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50 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:
The plan is vaccination. It’s been a slow rollout and the success of eliminating widespread COVID for much of the last 18 months, moreso than most countries on this planet, has allowed the government the luxury to ensure that the right vaccination programme proceeds.
The time is now to get moving on that strategy though and we are seeing uplift in vaccinations, so we will get there very soon.
That’s about all I’ve got to say about our Federal and individual State government’s plans for overcoming the threat of COVID.
Surely the answer is another hard lock down ?
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On 30/07/2021 at 17:27, Marauder said:
Game postponed, Kinsleys ground has a tribe of Travellers camping on it!!!
Travellers Rest ARLFC?
Seem to remember a team or similar named team from the National Cup in the 80's&90's but based in Widnes was never sure where they were from? Did they actually exist and where are / were they from - Wakefield area?
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3 minutes ago, Oxford said:
This reads like a potted history of growing up in the North, "I wouldn't start from here!" but we had to.
things we ate in the North
could be a sub-thread
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11 minutes ago, hindle xiii said:
I saw this in Asda...
Ready meal box for 2:
Chicken phaal 6 chilli score, chicken vindaloo 5 chilli score, pilau rice, chilli naan 4 chilli score, chilli onion bhajis 4 chilli score.
Shine a light.
2 years ago I would have been dangerously tempted by this, but these days it would destroy my sensitive gut.
It's a new product apparently but it was already reduced to half price in my local Asda.
Does it come with a free toilet roll holder?
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Liverpool's attack
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44 minutes ago, Bleep1673 said:
Europa Cup draw
Ajax v Young Boys
Dynamo Kiev v Villareal
Roma v Shaktar Donetsk
Olympiakos v Arsenal
Dinamo Zagreb v Tottenham
Man Utd v AC Milan
Slavia Prague v Rangers
Granada v Molde
At least there's a bit of variety here, Champions League bores me to death.
Was disappointed by Arsenal's late winner last night and we'll probably end up with a final of usual suspects e.g. United v Arsenal
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Any artists impressions available yet to view?
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1 hour ago, Bleep1673 said:
Do you think after the draw Jose Mourinho was looking at his AA Road Map of GB trying to find Chorley?
So he could go and watch Derby County?
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14 minutes ago, HawkMan said:
I haven't trawled through these pages, so I don't know if this has been mentioned, but for me Corn Whisky is tops. Genuine old style wild west gulping whisky. Luckily I can get it from a specialist shop in London's Old Compton Street, very hard to get, and at about £30 a bottle is expensive but worth it. 50% alc (100 proof)
so is that what the cowboys used to drink? You see them gulping it down in the old westerns, always thought they must be hard core
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18 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:
We the mighty BECKENHAM TOWN had 450 yesterday v Chatham Town (300 officially LOL:) but I won't talk abut the 5-1 thrashing:(
W
Just checked out your club crest - is that a cannabis leaf?
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I would regionalise from the old division 4 downwards with 20 team divisions. Its just crazy that clubs like Stockport have to cram in 46 games in a season with trips to Torquay (their 1st game last week), Bromley Dover, Maidenhead etc etc. Below that the National League North and South could be split in 3 or even 4 divisions of 20 teams for more local derbies and if you're happy were you are playing, even if you win the league you don't need to move up to the next Tier
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12 minutes ago, ATLANTISMAN said:
We the mighty BECKENHAM TOWN had 450 yesterday v Chatham Town (300 officially LOL:) but I won't talk abut the 5-1 thrashing:(
Will be interesting to see if the FA abort the season again this year if its not completed we were top last year and this season have no chance of finishing in the top 3 due to budget cuts and the obscene amount of money being thrown around by some clubs like Chatham Town budget of £ 5000 a week total madness:( the sooner this crazy pyramid system is dropped at our level and we back to a traditional Kent league the better.
couldn't you just play in the Kent league anyway and leave the pyramid for those clubs who want to be part of that?
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2. It was a withdrawal of the SKY money that stuffed them. You very conveniently forget the SL clubs kept £1,200,000 of Bradfords SKY share for themselves. How would Fartown do if they had that taken off them? I suppose Davey would resign on principle maybe or just write a cheque?
I thought they received an advance of sky moneys to help them through financial difficulties and it was this that was subsequently with-held. So they got the same money as every one else but just at different times I am remembering incorrectly?
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Let's look at Leigh. 2005 bottom four of Superleague with Salford, Wakefield and Widnes. Average SL crowd 4,750. Average league crowd against those three clubs they were trying to overtake to stay up was 4,289.
They went down, but stayed competitive and scrapped to return to superleague with HKR, Widnes, Whitehaven and Rochdale. They held second spot for most of the season.
Just add the league crowds they had over the period they were fighting to stay in SL and then fighting to get back, against those seven clubs who would have been their "Middle 8" and the average is 3,328.
KPMG appear to say that this middle 8 will bring the crowds in, the figures say otherwise.
What the figures say to me is the top 8 Superleague clubs is where the crowds will go right up. It's only my opinion and I respect others opinions but the choice is whether we believe that the top eight clubs are voting for this because it will be great for the game as a whole, OR whether it will be great for the top 8 clubs crowds???
Finally pushing clubs down a division historically does them a lot of damage. Anyone care to have a thought for the Championship clubs already struggling badly who will be downgraded to third and fourth grade??
I'd guess not, not after 2761 posts of them being ignored.
This figure of 3328 (in an outdated facility) would probably represent nearly a 100% improvement in attendances for leigh compared to their 2013 CC average (don't have exact figure at my finger-tips) so I am sure they would be pleased if they got that again or even topped it
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Walsall for balti pie would be good aswell
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surprised this story is generating so much interest
Salford Bailout
in The General Rugby League Forum
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You really are confused, but so am I. As far as I understand Batley are more like Swinton but they own their own ground