JonM
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Swinton win 42-40 at Fev, I'm being told.
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York 18 Widnes 22 FT.
Widnes do to York what York did to Swinton last week. Steal of a win for Widnes, with York being well on top for most of the game. Comedy booing of the officials by the York fans happening at the moment, they were upset at several obvious knock ons being given against York near the end.
Got to give Allan Coleman some credit - Dixon had an absolute nightmare first half, was taken off by the coach at the start of the second half, but came back on and scored two tries.
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York 14 Widnes 0 HT. York completely dominant so far, but not really been able to turn it into points due to some decent goal line defence from Widnes. Vikings have barely had the ball in the York half. Kieran Dixon has had the game from hell - dropped kicks, missed tackles, several passes to team mates who weren't there.
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42 minutes ago, Padge said:
Looking at that, currently about 62k sold with just over a week to go.
I hope you're right.
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Just now, Dave T said:
Well, the post was obviously talking about buying tickets when it was posted, not buying tickets 6 months earlier.
Right, but I suppose most neutrals don't wait to see who is going to be in the finals before buying their tickets. It's only since the semi-finals that people have been unable to just go on the ticket site and buy tickets in whatever section they wanted. I mean, it all seems like the usual ticketing shambles, but I don't think it's particularly been a problem for neutrals.
The pricing is such for that I'll probably spend 3x as much on food & drink as the match ticket, and 3x as much on transport as the match ticket in supposedly premium club Wembley.
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22 hours ago, JonM said:
Can we look forward to the tweets from RL commercial / nonsense from other RL websites suggesting that there's not many tickets remaining then?
Right on cue, up pops a Love RL journalist to oblige
Happy we're hoping for 70K rather than hoping for 50K or 60K though.
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On 25/05/2024 at 08:13, Dave T said:
Club Wembley is the best view but it's almost impossible to get them as a neutral, yet it just won't be full.
I bought several tickets in Club Wembley for £20 apiece at some point in 2023 IIRC. Not sure that counts as 'almost impossible'.
(Obviously I want both Wigan & Warrington to lose, so not sure I really count as a neutral.)
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2 hours ago, DoubleD said:
Also that federal government money won't make a difference, given they will be subject to the same salary cap as others.
I would guess (not in any way an expert) that there is rather more scope for paying less of your income as tax by being employed as an expat in PNG compared with being an employee in Australia.
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Can we look forward to the tweets from RL commercial / nonsense from other RL websites suggesting that there's not many tickets remaining then?
Should top 60K I would've thought?
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30 minutes ago, Damien said:
Money talks, I'm sure it would be more appealing for many than moving across the world to SL for starters. There are also over 10,000 Australians in PNG, it's not like people don't go there to work as is.
One of my friends from Devon worked in PNG for quite a few years, installing mobile phone infrastructure. Plenty of expats work there in Mining and Oil/Gas industries. RL players could easily fly-in, fly-out in any case.
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35 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:
Another what if......
Widnes and fax fans know.
Have to love the commentators opptimism about the speed of Kevin Penny.
I still fondly reminisce about that moment from time to time
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5 hours ago, oiseau said:
Enjoyable game at Toulouse and an important win. Widnes had chances at the end with the man advantage but errors cost them with the French on the ropes. Not a bad player on the pitch and well reffed by Liam Rush.
Agree with this.
Very small crowd - presumably the fact that Stade Toulousain were in some kind of final on the same day, plus Catalans being at home at the same time were contributory factors.
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Toulouse 18 Widnes 14 at half time.
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On 28/04/2024 at 08:57, Pie tries said:
Any full list of the teams in the BSL ?
Smaller league of 8 clubs this season
Arsenal Tivat (Montenegro)
Mad Squirrels (Czechia)
AEK Athens (Greece)
Radnički Niš, Red Star Belgrade, Partizan 1953 Belgrade, Dorćol Tigers (Serbia)
Lokomotiv Sofia (Bulgaria)
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On 24/05/2024 at 05:07, The Partisan said:
Would be a reward for a domestic player from an emerging European nation if they got to go to a next tier.
Not sure that it would, tbh. Playing for your country means something - it's a big draw for people to take up RL. Even playing with or against someone who has played for their country means something. Playing for your country in a European Championship, or a World Cup or against one of the world's best countries, even more so. Playing for some regional combine featuring people from a bunch of other countries that we don't necessarily like, not so much, bit meaningless. Can't think of any other sport which does this in Europe.
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Arsenal Tivat 20 Mad Squirrels Vrchlabi 52 in Serbia - excellent win for the visiting Czech team over the Montenegrins. Played in Belgrade - not sure why.
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2 hours ago, ivans82 said:
Not much on TV last night anyway , but Election announced , schedules altered lots of people talking it to death for hours on end , be prepared for lots of the same for the next few months
Be grateful you live in a country where elections only take 6 weeks. The Americans have to put up with a whole year of it.
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1 minute ago, Eddie said:
Thanks. England v Iceland in a friendly though, who on earth would go to that.
I've watched Wales vs Iceland in a football friendly, tbf.
Tickets for this game went on sale to the general public in February. I bet there's more there than the challenge cup final will get. Try buying a ticket for France v England in RL next month
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52 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:
That's pretty poor for Bradford in a league game against a top 3 rival.
It seems a bit on the low side. Figure from the Eagles' match report rather than Bradford themselves.
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1 hour ago, Spidey said:
I still wouldn't be surprised if Widnes ended up in a relegation battle TBH
We were doing the sums on the way home and reckoned 1 more win should see us safe
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2741 Widnes v Whitehaven
2234 Bradford v Sheffield E
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3 hours ago, Jill Halfpenny fan said:
Oh, and I wouldn't say no to Jake Maizen at Widnes.
I was thinking he hadn't particularly stood out for Halifax against us last year, but I suppose we won the home game very easily and I think he didn't play in the return game at the Shay. Funny that Haven have so many overseas players - don't tend to get that outside of SL these days.
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Widnes 28 Whitehaven 28 FT
Absolutely cracking game. Widnes dominated possession and territory for pretty much the whole game, but Haven got 3 length of the field tries, plus a great solo try from Maizen from a scrum move and were never behind at any point.
Whitehaven worked really hard throughout and defended their line superbly, clinging on for dear life for the last 20 minutes in particular. Jake Maizen caused problems for Widnes every time he had the ball.
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29 minutes ago, kiggy said:
On a side note: what's with the Georgia Stanway chants aimed at OAB? Couldn't quite make out the detail where we were. It looks like he picked up another leg injury.
Are they still going out with each other - they had been living together in Widnes for a few years? She is from Barrow originally of course.
Fri 31st May-Sun 2nd Jun: The Betfred Championship Match Thread
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Really surprised he's been loaned out by Saints - he looked absolutely class at Barrow.
Incidentally, I'm looking forward to the video of the Widnes game. Looked like a blatant touch judge error for York's 3rd conversion - from behind the posts, the ball appeared to be nowhere near going through the sticks. Turned out not to matter in the end.