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5 minutes ago, fighting irish said:
I usually managed to get 3 passes per game
BH you were priviledged! Per Game I used to get that many per season playing K&C!
7 minutes ago, fighting irish said:I think the man deserves a knighthood.
He's a TGG legend he's no chance of the New Years Honours!
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Will a British Coach ever be a head coach in the NRL?
No!
Unless England win the WC and stuff the Aussies in their own back yard and mullers Queensland and NSW !
What do you reckon the chances are?
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2 hours ago, Toby Chopra said:
If that's how it pans out on the financial aspects, then that's a tick for me.
It also suggests that IMG will be given free rein to make proposals on structures and competitions from top-to-bottom of the game, where they think it will support the commercial goals. This is also good, although the way I read it any changes will have to be signed off by the SL/RFL JV before they go ahead.
It's right that the game's current stewards have a say in this, I just hope it doesn't end up with them watering down radical proposals out of short-termist thinking. I do think there are signs that the clubs have grasped that this is a key moment, where they have to see the big, long-term picture, so hopefully they will be brave when IMG puts their plan forward.
They may have grasped the nettle finally but when you see the final implications for you club life can become a very different place.
There are some sides who are regarded and regard themselves as invulnerable from and to the changes that affect everyone, and their view of world is always guided by well we'll be safe!
If it is mainly based on structure change rather than gain sponsors, coverage income streams and changing the media's attitude to the sport ......
12 Years Before the Mast!
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20 minutes ago, audois said:
Alan picked up in the La Depeche today that L'Equipe are covering it.
For those of you who aren't in the know this is the equivalent of the Mail doing a three page spread on RL.
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2 hours ago, Old Frightful said:
I believed all the updates Toulouse Olympique's Twitter feed posted on there from yesterday's game.
(Once I hit the "Translate this" button that is.)
Beware of Twitter and the translations as well in that case!
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I've no doubt the Wolves will be fine.
They are not a laughing stock anymore than Myler at Leeds.
Taking the mick is just a part of RL culture as much as any other sport.
Whether or not Powell will be given time to change what he needs to at the club is another matter.
There is no doubt that change can have an adverse effect and they're missing Hill almost as much as Salford are missing Gil Dudson.
I don't think they should lower their expectations and aspirations though.
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21 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:
The pass score on the ones I was doing was 80%. The final test was just 10 questions so you could get 2 wrong and all the questions were were just questions that were taken out of the earlier stages of the training, questions that it wasn't possible to get wrong in the earlier stage because you could change your answer as many times as you wanted until you got it right and moved onto the next video. I did 3 modules and got 90% on 2 and 80% on one despite, as I said, not even watching the videos that accounted for the sum of the training.
The ones I was doing were so poorly put together that not only was some of the info misleading but it was full of grammatical and spelling mistakes as well. A training course that couldn't even get basic English right. The test I got 80% on, I actually failed the first time and was allowed to retake it so just changed one answer I was unsure about and didn't bother checking the rest because I knew that would take me up to the 80% necessary. I was only unsure about the one I changed because it was a number of pictures that were so small and such poor resolution that I simply didn't see the difference between them. I still have no idea which other 2 I got wrong because none of the other answers in the multiple choice made any sense at all so I'm attributing that to incorrect info as you allude to.
It's not just a measure of those making up and creating the test, it's a crystal clear symptom of the importance they're given and lack of any real substance. E Courses the new outsourcing!
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1 hour ago, YCKonstantine said:
Ok you do you and I’ll do me.
Nice one.Karaoke it is then!
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The point was not the rumour or whether or not he goes to Cas ... it's believing stuff on Twitter!
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7 hours ago, YCKonstantine said:
90p well spent
You have to pay to vote ... well on that basis alone.
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The ones I liked best though were the ones where the information is misleading and even wrong so that when you go back to answer that question you still don't know the correct response.
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I think the pass score necessary on these is a bit of a give away about just how legitimate they are.
If I listed all the ones I've done online, I'd look like a cross between gifted and talented, mensa and qualified for every job ever invented.
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15 minutes ago, Wakey Til I Die said:
Don't rule it out.
You can never rule out player movements but if we're depending on Twitter ?????????
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"Accentuate the negative,
Ignore the affirmative,
Latch on to disadvantages ........"
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"C'est la vie say the old folks goes to show you never can tell!"
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8 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
Calm down Oxy, your frustration is coming out even though the games not started yet.
Harry I know the printed word can be unhelpful at times but I'm always a little anxious on match day. I think that doesn't make me stand out from the crowd.
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1 hour ago, Damien said:
I'm pretty sure it will take off again when we actually get some detail. Its pretty poor that there is so little information around this but not surprising either.
I'm sure you're right about that it just didn't seem normal for posters.
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1 hour ago, Toby Chopra said:
You wouldn't expext IMG to work getting the local builders on board
I hesitated to say high level sponsors as I assumed you'd know I didn't mean Arkright's corner shop Trafford Road Salford.
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6 minutes ago, Damien said:
Is 16 pages of that not enough for you?
No It's not when it's this imprtant Damien.
I count 16 pages as just enough for a run of the mill, common or garden, everyday issue like what Leigh's chairman is cross about this week.
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11 minutes ago, Toby Chopra said:
I assume increasing our TV ratings for SL/CC/Internationals will be a key target for IMG, as everything else commercially will have to come off the back of that.
And I assumed IMG would be engaging sponsors for the game as a whole.
If it means what I'm most suspicious of, I won't care either way.
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Just now, Toby Chopra said:
Martyn has promised a story for Monday so hopefully that will take us forward.
Well I asked Martyn if he could at least say if it was positive and I haven't seen his Martyn for dust.
Details were short but that doesn't usually prevent posters basking in the heat of confusion, suspicion and dire expectation.
The RFL is hardly the most transparent organisation and could give the present government and several of the previous ones a run for their money in this respect.
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1 minute ago, Toby Chopra said:
Our viewing figures are not "very good" they pretty much exactly reflect the level we sell our rights for, that of a second tier sport.
I agree to some extent with what you say Toby but the viewing figures are much better than this statement suggests.
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It's interesting that this thread seems to have lost interest when it's a crucial and dramatic event.
Does rugby league need another fighter like Maurice Lindsay?
in The General Rugby League Forum
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The problem for TGG is not having a Mo it's not having enough of them.
We do need Mo's without their club baggage though!
When pundits talk about his ability to make the tough decisions this was true but only because it never affected Wigan.