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10 hours ago, 17 stone giant said:
What are you going to do instead with your time?
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1 hour ago, EssexRL said:
Well the alternative is that it is never mentioned or is mentioned negatively so I’ll take the positive and you know what it did please me this morning!
I didn't say you shouldn't celebrate it but what the real problem is beyond it.
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17 minutes ago, EssexRL said:
I was very pleasently surprised reading today's FT that they had a very positive piece about Wigan and Warrington in Vegas which made up the bulk of an article about sports tourism. I am not sure how accessible articles are if you are not a subscriber but the link is - https://www.ft.com/content/5e2ebb5c-7625-42fb-aabe-f081668c3bf2
The writer seemed to really enjoy his experience of watching the games and being with the fans. He also noted that a number of locals had come along with one Wigan fan describing RL as "NFL without the padding"! It was also positive about RL's attempt to expand its market. It sometimes feels the game is all about one crisis after another or missed opportunity so reading something positive and that presented the sport as having its act together was great.
If it disappears from it's pages until the next big event then it really doesn't matter how good the article is or how surprising and pleasing it was they covered it.
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You'd imagine that Nene's unpaid leave decision means the end is near.
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Also went to a Roman Bridge site which has more signs showing the way to it than actual stones recently. Continuity with the past was at a low ebb that day.
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As I work through my books on this area I can't help thinking about visits to sites of interest I've made. Some are tremendous full of interest and stuff to see and others where no real effort has been made and really depend on the visitors imagination far too much. I found this one fairly impressive
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This is a fantastic piece of news and should have happened long ago.
Hard not to say it has been down to those Newspapers treatment of RL as much as anything else.
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I'll make an exception because I've just heard he's passed away; PETER BANNER! RIP
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3 hours ago, Padge said:
I am fascinated with archaeology
Yeah me too, brilliant, in'it?
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Wouldn't single out even one for special attention, every single signing for me. They wore the shirt and that makes them that best signing.
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I shouldn't let this worry you too much though, when SL dumps the French sides in change over that should see off everything but the stump.
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15 minutes ago, soulboy said:
Warringtons season officially over .
Spectators will have to be “press ganged “ to watch that dross for the rest of season .
Didn't see the game but from an SRD point of view,"swap with you!"
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1 hour ago, langpark said:
Defunct clubs: Roanne XIII and Lyon-Villeurbanne*
*Awaiting someone to confirm.
I believe both of them faded some time during the pandemic years. Tragic considering both were foundation clubs of French RL (1934) and also losing them meant we lost an whole other region of the country.
Though it's not like the majority of RL people care one way or another, is it?
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24 minutes ago, The Masked Poster said:
I'm not sure you're totally right there. I think the game today is cleaner and more professional and the lack of dangerous play is not to be sniffed at.
But I can't help thinking it could do with bringing back *some* elements of the game in that time. I feel it has lost a lot of its charm today and is refereed too pedantically - this is just my opinion.
Two very different ideas there.
Yes the game is more professional which has nothing to do with the Biff and cleaner certainly but has lost something.
The refereeing is an entirely different matter because we moan when they do and we moan when they don't. Although if almost anyone in the crowd was reffing I dread to think what the result would be!
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19 minutes ago, turn it in said:
Sure but there’s a huge middle chunk of France missing and then saint-hippolyte!!
French ru did an awful lot not only to stop its development but also to kill it where it had grown, not only that but Degaulle, lui meme, helped the arch collaborator sport to prosper post war. Such is the nature of politics.
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52 minutes ago, turn it in said:
Seemed to play a big part in French RL in the 80’s I’m led to believe.
Played a huge role in the history of RL and only those who wanted to "clean up" the game would and will deny it.
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1 minute ago, turn it in said:
how on earth did RL spread up to near the borders of both Germany and Switzerland??
Because it's fan- chuffin- tastic of course!
I shall miss it.
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24 minutes ago, Henson Park Old Firm said:
Celtic Paris, wasn't that one....
I'd love for some repro defunct french club shirts to buy though.
Once when Cavaillon came on tour I was in the Kit washing room at SRD and I swapped a Salford shirt for a French one with the shoulder protection sewn into the shirt itself. I wore it for years with a certain joie de vivre and a smattering of bravado too! Dai Watkins came past and took an interest, he was too nice to ask me for it, and I think it was the only time a legend was jealous of me.
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What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning
in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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