[Sun 24th Mar: The Betfred League One Match Thread]

On 22/03/2024 at 15:29, Chronicler of Chiswick said:

Cornwall - Crusaders has been moved to Truro College, but due to limited capacity you won't be able to pay at the gate only ticket holders can get in.

Wonder what the capacity of the ground is if it's so limited that there's no ground admission on the day.

Ironic that it's the Cru game that's been moved, given all their ground problems last year. 

[Sun 20th Aug: The Betfred League One Match Thread]

19 minutes ago, SUPERSTUD said:

What a shock. Integrity of the league and all that. Should be booted out end of.

Expecting a side to play 3 games in a week, all of them involving 400 mile round trips is ridiculous. Can't believe the RFL would expect a club just off the M62 to do that these days, with their focus on player welfare.

Expecting Rochdale to play Oldham at home on Sunday, Skolars at home on Wednesday and then travel down to Cornwall for Sunday is a mighty ask as well. 

Integrity went out of the window 2 years ago when Barrow and Workington managed to avoid re-arranging their game thus not risking either of their win percentages.

[Cornwall RLFC (Merged Threads)]

On 17/01/2022 at 23:14, Niels said:

It was me who asked about it. There was a groundshare between Truro and Torquay a couple of years ago so there has been previous co-operation between the counties. 

Also Toronto were planning on playing a game in Copenhagen I think. And did one of the established sides, Wigan maybe, play a home game far away?

I understand your point but I did get a reply from Christian on here who said in the future it might be possible. 

 

London Broncos have certainly played a lot of home game far from London. Not a good advert for the idea.

[Statement - Board of Directors of Sheffield Eagles RLFC (Merged threads)]

given that oldham are talking about playing at Leigh Sporting Village, maybe they could move there and we could have 4 sides playing there.

[Wood pays tribute to Northern Rail winners]

Didn't realize that Leeds was in Wales.

Read it again - he says Wales AND London, not Wales or London.

ouch

[Wood pays tribute to Northern Rail winners]

RFL Chief Executive Nigel Wood has pointed to the victories by Leigh Centurions and North Wales Crusaders on Northern Rail Finals Day as further evidence of an exciting year for Rugby League.

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In the press release, Nigel Woods says

“Just 10 years ago it would have been unthinkable that teams from Wales and London would contest a major final and the success of the Crusaders and Skolars offer compelling evidence of the burgeoning appeal of Rugby League.

 

I seem to recall a team from London actually reached a major final just over 10 years ago. They made the Super League play-offs 10 years ago. Has Nigel Wood forgotten about Broncos when he wrote this ?

[20/07/13 - Northern Rail Bowl Final: London Skolars v North Wales Crusaders KO 2.30pm (Premier Sports)]

I wonder which player will miss out on the Final for Skolars so they can bring Mike Bishay in who played all the Northern rail Cuppool games for Hemel Stags an actually played against Skolars in the Northern Rail Cup.

And has also played for Skolars in the Northern Rail Cup.