JonM
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20 minutes ago, Scubby said:
I won't! Not in a million years.
But very commendable and will be amazing for the cause. Hope it is a roaring success and Rob can be there to start the race.
I'll put you down for a bit of sponsorship then
Good point about Rob being there for it.
Looks like a reasonably challenging course with a climb on to the chevin.
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3 minutes ago, sgorpioncaerdyddrob said:
about the furthest point from the North of England on this island.
Widnes is closer to Llanelli than to Newcastle. Skolars and Cornwall will spend a lot longer sat in a coach than WWR in any given season, I'm sure.
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Excellent, I'll be signing up for this.
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It was the year that Bradford went bust and had their results removed from the second division table, I believe. Crowd of just over 300 back then.
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23 minutes ago, fighting irish said:
Can't find it there.
They're on live - not sure that the recordings of the games are available for later viewing.
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Bradford 4 Barrow 8 HT. Bulls were 4-0 up near the end of the half when Barrow had a player sin-binned after 4 penalties within a minute.
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Best half of RL I've seen this season. Two very good teams to watch, and I don't think I would've said that in recent seasons.
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Great scrum move from Wigan, great tackle from Murphy.
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Two tries conceded off identical plays. Same thing happened for Cornwall against N. Wales - several repeated scores at the same point at the start of the game.
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Certainly got a crowd in at Penryn.
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1 hour ago, tim2 said:
Less good news today. Back home at Rother Valley and my calf went at 4km.
Annoying. Hopefully it'll only need a few days of rest rather than anything more serious.
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I walked over to Elmpark Way to watch Heworth beat Beverley 40-8 in the NCL2. Very enjoyable afternoon. £2.50 admission, £1 for match programme. I'd guess about 300 people there, although some were in and out of the clubhouse watching the challenge cup on tv.
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Miloudi is on a grade F charge, facing an 8+ match ban. Other players sin-binned in the game have received no charge.
I think Jarrad Stack has been a bit lucky to escape with just the sin-binning, tbh. The disciplinary panel in the past has taken a dim view of a club captain arguing with the referee in what was a fairly heated situation.
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2 hours ago, Oxford said:
What you've just said is fascinating, Jon.
They're dull sports but saying they're dull is moaning about them.
The role of money and its attendant effects is essentially what the discussion is all about.
There are other very important elements too. The Boat Race doesn't just speak volumes it screams them at you.
My Grandad used to say that the Oxbridge ru match was the best version of rugby "No quarter asked and none given!" It's terrible when growing up you discover that the people you love don't know what they're talking about and you can't rely on their advice and opinions any more. And you have to depend on your own and not worry if someone doesn't agree.
The Oxbridge RU match has largely died a death as an event from what I can tell. Seems to have been on at Twickenham last weekend. Didn't see any press or tv coverage. We were actually in Oxford, with the former head of one of the colleges, and he didn't mention it, and I know he follows rugby (union and league - a Dewsbury fan, improbably).
I think people might be surprised at how big a participation sport rowing is outside the university in Cambridge. My ex-employer had multiple mens and womens teams, and I don't believe any Oxbridge graduates were involved. The "town bumps" races typically have around 100 teams taking part and many thousands of people watching (and BARLA style committee spats over who is or is not eligible to take part).
It's sufficiently popular that there is a charity which has spent the last twenty years buying land to build a second river, parallel to the existing one. They've scaled back their ambition somewhat (now planning to build a couple of miles of dedicated rowing lanes next to the river along with cycle and running tracks, facilities for anglers etc.) but it's slowly taking shape.
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On 07/04/2022 at 08:40, Oxford said:
It is fascinating how in defence of this it's never about the sporting characteristics of the event.
The moaning about it is never about the sporting characteristics of it either.
IMO, it's dull, but less dull than say motor racing or golf. Still, some people like to watch those sports. It doesn't involve people being paid large sums of money, or indeed any money at all. It does feature people who are enormously dedicated athletes, among the very best in the world at what they do. It's half an hour of cheap tv that gets good ratings. No-one is forced to watch.
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3 hours ago, del capo said:
Just looked on Skyscanner.
Ryannair doing return flights for that weekend from Stanstead for £25 return to Toulouse - train to Albi from there ( an hour ) about a tenner return........tempting
Albi is a really lovely small city to visit - UNESCO world heritage sites, the Toulouse-Lautrec museum etc. Different world to British RL towns. You'll know there's a game on though, the mairie will make sure of that, and I've always found the locals happy to talk RL. Last time I went, it turned out the hotel manager was sponsoring the women's RL team.
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4 hours ago, stevecl said:
I understand why we allow it but watching Wales is always tempered by the fact we are essentially an England development side and any real talent will change to the Tier 1 side.
It is pretty crazy that Wales have not played a full mens international since 2018 (and as things stand, no home game in 2022 either).
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On 03/04/2022 at 18:39, The Future is League said:
Its an outdated event that has very little appeal nowadays
Bigger tv audience than wimbledon men's singles finals most years. Certainly bigger than the challenge cup most years. Not sure they got 250 000 people lining the Thames this year, but still over 100 000.
It is like Formula 1 - incredibly dull unless there's a crash or the boat sinks or something.
Olympic medallists in 3 of the 4 boats, the 4th boat (Oxford women) had a world champion gold medallist. I would be pretty confident that the mens boats had a way lower percentage who went to a British private school than the England rugby union team, and probably cricket team too, just because about half of the rowers are foreign.
It is one of those threads that we get every year though.
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4 minutes ago, Eddie said:
Mick Hogan isn’t Newcastle’s chairman any more unfortunately.
Not sure about the 'unfortunately' as hopefully he will help deliver a successful world cup. I think he's put the right things on place to keep rugby league growing in the north east.
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1 hour ago, Davo5 said:
Fraction of the marketing budget,they had Shane Richardson in charge,a large player investment and plenty of marketing and still averaged only 3500.
Richo famously regarded it as his 'chip shop'. Sunk his life savings into it, expecting to have a job for life and instead his money was gone by the end of the season. There was neither much marketing nor a huge amount spent on players.
If there's anyone currently in British RL who could make a go of a SL club in a new area, it's Mick Hogan. Let's give him the time to do it properly rather than rushing them in.
Thunder did a good job of promoting a Monday night game vs Widnes, just as Dewsbury did a few weeks back, both got an extra 1000+ people showing up. Trick is to get those people to keep coming back.
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9 minutes ago, OMEGA said:
Quite a few of the team have no experience with the play the ball and the 10 metre retreat etc,
AFAIK, there is only 1 player in the squad who hasn't previously played rugby league elsewhere.
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Cru having no trouble creating an overlap against Cornwall, kinda feels like they have more men on the pitch. 18-0 after 10 minutes.
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48 minutes ago, langpark said:
Is there a points table anywhere? I have a feeling those may have been cup matches.
There is on the match report of the top game. Quite a few of the match reports on the front page are for the Balkan Super League, or the Serbia Super Cup.
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