dkw
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I mean even at the most basic level having all the SL games broadcast is an immediate upgrade as a selling point to sponsors. Rather than once every few weeks being on or being unable to say with certainty how many games until very near to the start of the season a club can say at the very least they will have every single game broadcast on Sky in some way or other, plus a much better highlights package and internet/social media presence.
Anyone arguing that is either being disingenuous or willfully ignorant.
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3 hours ago, lucky 7 said:
That might explain why there are no Cumbrian teams in Super League
No, money explains that.
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2 minutes ago, Worzel said:
Yup. Reputational damage to IMG would be zero, they have big wins in the bank across multiple sports in multiple contexts. Rugby League in this country on the other hand has a long track record of infighting, oscillation between competing plans, shambolic decision-making, small-minded pettiness and a series of failed executions because of not being able to commit the time and effort needed to achieve anything.
I mean, I wonder which party will be to blame for any such failure now? It's a coin toss, clearly...
Oh no, wait, I've got it: The outsiders! People who aren't "rugby league people".
"They just dont get Rugby League"
Or rather they didnt bow down and doth their cap to the blokes with a little bit of cash so dont know what they ae doing....
The cult like deference to a load of blokes who put a few quid into a club is embarrassing, its almost Stockholm syndrome for some fans.
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I wonder when we went from the overseas players being almost inevitably in the top 3 or 4 players at a club, to padding squads out with them. Weirdly in Cumbria its often cheaper and easier to bring an overseas player in that one from yorkshire/Lancashire, so we`ve had some absolute quality players at Town, Haven etc.
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24 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:
Maybe but if the game has player welfare at its heart like we constantly hear, then neither should be happening. In my head one way around any shenanigans at the play the ball trying to work out if someone is injured or not would be a live review by the VR as the game went on. Play could easily be brought back and time reset if its an incident that warranted a card. Its not like the VR is doing anything else in their down time apart from maybe drinking tea and eating cookies.
The vast majority of the time a ref encouraging a player to get up is along the lines of "are you able to play the ball/carry on?" Its a question, not an order. You dont really think Refs are forcing players to get up and play the ball when showing signs of injury? There will be outliers obviously, but its 1% of the time.
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18 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:
As I explained in my post, from conflict comes resilience and conviction and those are two of the most valuable attributes a referee can have, let alone the ability to make quick, rational decisions under pressure which again is a skill which can be improved in an environment of conflict.
Heck, looking at it rather bluntly, a game of Rugby League is a conflict and the team which is best prepared for that conflict is often the best performer. So to send a referee into an environment of conflict and to expect him or her to be the arbitrator, I would suggest exposure to conflict at training would be a valuable experience for a referee.
You wouldn’t train soldiers without a hint of exposure to conflict, training should match the needs of the individuals tasked with the job they have signed up for.
In saying all that, I don’t know what actually constitutes this “toxic” environment which was suggested earlier, so I am not making an actual call on Ganson’s effectiveness as a boss of referees, but in my opinion, exposure to conflict in the right way can certainly help the performance of a referee.
Managing by conflict between Ganson and his referees is just not going to work, its a ridiculous way to do it, and as history has shown was doomed to fail, massively.
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56 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
The clubs don't like IMG or the twenty-first century - and so lock in Toulouse and London to Super League and pull up the drawbridge whilst nobody can be bothered to put in place any kind of useful structure or strategy for any other aspect of the game.
There's something about unintended consequences right there.
It would be awful and I may never stop laughing.
The mental gymnastics by the IMG haters when this new mob completely ignore p&r and just cherry pick a few clubs to go in on the back of no metrics and just "vibes" is going to be hilarious.
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2 minutes ago, Dave T said:
It can't work like that. What happens if next time somebody has a broken neck and the tackler decides to just lift them like a rag doll because they can't control their discipline?
I dont understand anyone who finds these punishments harsh, it literally could mean the difference between life and death in the most extreme situations, in others it could impact an injured players life forever.
All the players know the rules and the level of punishment, so dont do it, its that simple.
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7 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:
What is “confusing” or weird about that comment @dkw?
All of it, its just a weird thing to say, why on earth would you "want" conflict.
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One I remember is Anthony Samuel, who while not exactly a world beater was much better than the majority of players around him during his tome at Town.
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1 minute ago, Padge said:
You must have watched a different game, it was a collision.
Of course because its Wigan it is a terrible attack by a Wigan player dragging the opposition around the field and trying to kill him, as opposed to the reality of two players colliding and interacting as happens time and time again.
Your just embarrassing yourself now, behave.
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1 minute ago, Padge said:
There was f'all in it, nothing anymore than happens in loads of tackles every game.
On another angle, the challenge should only look at the incident challenged. I don't see why we are looking at what happened outside the challenge, yes you need to know how to restart, but how to restart following the incident looked at.
Absolute nonsense.
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Just now, Padge said:
If we penalised every similar collision the game would never get going.
Stop it.
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Watching it again its even worse, the Wigan player knocks it in too
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There's no way any ref should ever get that decision do badly wrong.
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48 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:
I think Bradford could afford comfortably at least for the next 2 or 3 seasons.
Can't beat a bit of satire....
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Wells desperately trying to jinx it
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I honestly can't understand how he watched that and said nothing in it, it's blatant.
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How can he say there's no pull back there
That's incredible when we are all seeing Smith do it.
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Just now, Dave T said:
Nailed it.
The sun even shines on a dogs ass sometimes....
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Half time really had a massive impact on this game. Hull were wrll on top going into it, wire looked out on their feet and a right mess.
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4 minutes ago, Mark S said:
The number of knock-ons over the last few games I have watched is worrying.
It's mid season, squads are depleted and knackered, its the same every season about this time.
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45 minutes ago, Futtocks said:
Ese'ese then Eseh one after the other don't make things* easeh for defenders.
*sorry
I'm hopeful we see a day where hull play catalans away. Ese'ese passes to Eseh to score, and video ref gives it as a Essais....
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6 minutes ago, Futtocks said:
Toa Kohe-Love junior? Excellent news for the club, if he's anything like a chip off the old block!
Horrible news for us old sods who remember his dad coming through as a young un....where has the time gone eh...
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SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Is that what they`ve done, that a different way of doing it, interesting to see how that works out.