JonM
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21 hours ago, Rupert Prince said:
Given the intense game last night, a similar Origin game, with England places at stake, might be worthwhile.
Or realistically, a half-hearted game played midweek before 5000 at Leigh or Headingley. Half the Lancashire/ West of Pennine + random draftees team will have pulled out with groin strains/ unspecified other injury that magically heals before the next SL game in the week beforehand, as no-one really cares about the outcome. Just like it has been for the last previous ~125 years. It wasn't even a popular concept in the 1900s, why would it suddenly attract an audience now?
It was only 2016 when we had 21k for an England v Scotland four nations game at Coventry. That's a measure of just how dismal the RFL has been in the last few years.
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I thought this was a pretty good article on how the virus is spread - particularly on indoors vs outdoors, mask wearing and how length of time with others matters.
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2 hours ago, Loiner said:
You are quite correct with all that, I just think there must be an answer out there that we as a sport can do.
An England RU international was called off last weekend. The big cycling thingy in Italy in the last couple of weeks had multiple teams drop out due to Covid. Loads of football players have missed games, including UEFA champions league and Nations League. Plenty of sports and leagues with far more money than us have just abandoned the league for this year.
Seems to me we're making the best of a very bad situation.
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There was a 0-0 between Burleigh Bears and Wynnum-Manly Seagulls in the opening round of the Queensland Cup in March 2010. Televised game, two professional clubs, decent weather conditions. Bodene Thompson, Clinton Toopi and Kurt Sorensen Jr playing for the Bears that day.
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Looking on social media, seems like there's been a fair bit going on. The same two clubs contested the national youth final last week and Lvov have managed to get a local tv channel to do a report on them. The West Tigers vs Kiev 3rd place game was played before the GF, and is also on youtube.
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8 minutes ago, langpark said:
Lviv's home ground.
Which is just over 1 000km away from Legion's home ground. At least twelve hours if they went by coach.
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3 minutes ago, del capo said:
This is a decent watch. Some strong looking athletes on the park. Nice stadium as well
It is a pretty good game, ball certainly getting some air. Fair amount of building rubble dumped around the sidelines though.
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4 minutes ago, DoubleD said:
Which team is which? The team in black are 10-0 down now but have actually looked the better footballing side from what I’ve seen.
Good professional broadcast and officiating
Score is up on the right hand side of the screen. Legion shown as Kharkiv, Харків. Lviv is Львів.
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1 hour ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
Another one is visiting 100 countries. I'm half way there with that and fancy it before I'm 60
I've done 70ish, but I think it might be quite a while before I add to the list, particularly as I'd prefer not to do any more flying.
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5 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said:
Are you saying the British English pronunciation used to be "erb", was exported thus to USA, and then changed to "herb" in UK?
Google turns up this https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2014/09/herb.html which says yes to the above.
[Is this a new record for speed of thread drifting off-topic?]
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1 minute ago, Tommygilf said:
Oh no, and there I was being told I'm not a proper Yorkshireman! Thanks!
You're still not a proper Yorkshireman, You were complaining about the cold, instead of telling everybody how much better the cold was in Yorkshire and how cold was so much better back in your day.
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Just now, Tommygilf said:
Omg so its not Yorkshire then?
Not if you take wikipedia as a reliable source. Even Chaucer used it. Maybe just an age thing. Now that we all have central heating and coats and that...
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39 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:
Indeed, does seem to have a south yorkshire twang about it.
I grew up within a mile of the Mersey and 'nesh' was definitely a word used when I was a kid.
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As has been said, it's only the pro version of RU that may switch.
Decline in playing numbers is a different thing entirely - all adult outdoor team sports have the same problem, it's not just us. We need to accept that times have changed and do much more to promote versions of the game that are easier to play and which have smaller teams. The days when you could 13 blokes in a pub or factory to play rugby are not coming back.
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21 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
I'll definitely do it one day.
Why wait?
It's national novel writing month in November. The basic premise is write 2000 words or so every day for a month and you've got yourself the draft of a novel. Happens every year and there's lots of support and resources. https://nanowrimo.org/
I've written a few non-fiction books, had a call with the publisher yesterday about making a short promotional video for my current one (technical, university-level textbook). That seems easier to me than a novel though.
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The fact that the RFU are actively considering switching to summer for the same reasons that we did it in 1995 tells you all you need to know.
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17 hours ago, Big Picture said:
If casual viewers tune in anticipating the sort of crowd a soccer or RU match between the same countries, what will they think of seeing small crowds like that?
When I lived in Cardiff, I went along to several Wales football matches that were attended by crowds of sub-5000.
Cricket internationals are often played in front of largely empty grounds. It doesn't appear to affect anyone's enjoyment.
What cheapens our internationals is when you have coaches and administrators describing them as 'friendlies' or 'warm-ups' and unlimited substitutions or whatever. Fine when you have dozens of games per year, not so good when it's England's only home game in 2 years.
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Steve Rogers, all-time Cronulla great, named in NSW team of the century, captained the Kangaroos, got 13 minutes in a Widnes shirt before a career-ending broken leg.
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34 minutes ago, DavidM said:
I was thinking more the fact that if he didn’t we wouldn’t be able to pick him
Looks like Portugal did actually ask him, but he had to wait a couple more years to be eligible and England u-17s got in first. I guess Southgate rates him more highly than you do
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9 minutes ago, DavidM said:
Why did he have to pick English ?
I guess the fact that his granddad, Ted Croker, ran English football for decades might have been a factor?
Interesting childhood though - his mum left England to work for the Portuguese FA to promote Euro 2004, he got picked up by the Sporting Lisbon academy (which also produced Cristiano Ronaldo, Luis Figo etc.) at the age of 9. His family stayed there until he was 16, when he stayed living at the football club and they came back to the UK.
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Great final, one of the best in many years. Well done to both teams (and well done to the referee). Best team did win in the end.
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Six drives up the middle and a DG from Brown.
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Just now, Futtocks said:
A better break than a pass from Watkins, there.
I think it would've needed to go forward to get to Williams.
Pennine Origin
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Sure, we could pick two decent squads. But you can't force people to care very much about who the winner is - history suggests most of the players don't care and not many spectators do either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_League_War_of_the_Roses
England vs Rob Burrow's all-star foreigners XIII would get more of a crowd and probably more feeling on the pitch and would at least give Mr. Wane a chance to try a few combinations out.