JonM
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Keighley v Cornwall 971
Doncaster v York 1463
Widnes v Barrow 1758
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1 hour ago, JM2010 said:
Which club would be the preferred 12th L1 club on here? Carcassonne, Skolars, Hemel or maybe Manchester Rangers, Bristol All Golds, Nottingham Outlaws?
Carcassonne sound like the favourites
Skolars would be my preference.
This is rugby league though. We'll have decided 14 clubs in SL or something before 2026 comes around.
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30 minutes ago, Griff said:
That's financial prudence for you.
Decades of compounding. (And of course, owning an expensive house without a mortgage makes you 'wealthy' in asset terms but doesn't necessarily give you an income to pay your £20 to watch Dewsbury or whoever.)
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17 hours ago, Josef K said:
The Breeders both in Manchester. The Breeders are fine as that is midweek.
One of my favourite bands, never seen them live. Kinda impressive that I reckon the best 'rock' track of last few years was released by some sixty-something women. Hoping to go to the Leeds gig, but there's a good chance I won't be in the UK that week.
Was supposed to see Irish fiddle/accordion player Sharon Shannon in Masham last month, but she cancelled due to illness. Was supposed to see Urban Folk Quartet over in Swaledale last week, but they cancelled due to illness, their banjo player Dan Walsh did a very good solo gig instead. English folk band Leveret up next for me.
Piece Hall in Halifax has a bit of an all-star line-up this year?
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11 hours ago, Pulga said:
Who would want to watch NZ teams bully Aussie teams until the end of time?
I could certainly get used to it, in rugby league and cricket at least
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34 minutes ago, JM2010 said:
I’d rather see a team from an area without an existing pro club in the pyramid such as Manchester, Nottingham, Carcassonne, Avignon etc rather than a NCL club from Wigan, Hull, Halifax, Oldham etc
Yes, would be madness to add an NCL club from a place that already has a pro club in the area - and I think that is all of the current members.
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47 minutes ago, Griff said:
Yeah - but you live in leafy York. Probably your pensioner mates do too.
The over-65s own over 90% of UK wealth. Obviously there's a huge inequality in how that wealth is spread out and plenty of pensioners who are not very well off at all, but overall pensioners are by.far the richest group in society.
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And back on topic, 35 507 for Broncos v Bunnies in Brisbane.
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18 hours ago, Griff said:
Disastrous idea if we're expected to play, in effect, a 29 game league season.
It's a big increase in games for the L1 clubs.
Very much hoping that Skolars will be in a position to rejoin in 2025.
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9 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:
Yeah its a ridiculous amount of money for postage. I'm surprised so many people think that is ok.
MIght it be registered/ tracked in some way? I'm assuming a Fev season ticket/ membership has some monetary value
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5 hours ago, JM2010 said:
Any news on expected crowds for this weekends matches?
Assume it'll be a 22.5K sell out for Penrith vs Parra on Friday night.
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7 minutes ago, Eddie said:
Yes fair enough the EU did force that and it hasn’t changed back.
The Metrication Act was passed in 1965, well before the UK joined the EU.
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1 hour ago, glossop saint said:
I understand the discussion about crowd figures being tickets or people in the crowd but how does that differing in imperial and metric!?!
Some clubs (e.g Bradford last season) were counting the number of feet in the ground?
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The dizzy heights of 9th place again this season would exceed the expectations of many fans I reckon.
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6 minutes ago, Trojan said:
And of course the switch to summer has been a wonderful success hasn't it?
Average crowd in the top flight pretty much doubled since the last winter season.
Amount of money in the game enough to support at least a dozen full-time clubs vs just 1 back then.
Fair to say that football has got a lot, lot bigger since then too, and rugby union has gone professional.
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412 for Swinton vs Sheffield - surprisingly low.
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785 for Halifax v York Acorn
1067 for Widnes v Batley
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32 477 for Dolphins vs NQ Cowboys.
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Very good game this. Some great handling moves given the conditions.
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Was there some reason why Lolohea threw the ball to Naiqama for the final try instead of just touching down himself?
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1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:
is the fev v wakey match free on youtube?
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4116 for London B vs Wigan.
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3 hours ago, Mumby Magic said:
My initial thought was Doncaster however I'd say let down on current fanbase.
Not a bad shout - bigger town than most of SL and growing quickly, plus a decent catchment area around it without a historically successful sports club. You've got Doncaster Rovers & whatever the RU team is called, but hardly big clubs. Nice stadium, supportive local council, amateur teams & decades of RL background in the area, not too far from the M62 heartland so you can persuade top players to move.
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36 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:
Do we think 22,378 in Newcastle is good enough?
More than their first home game of last season.
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Fri 15th-Sun 17th Mar: The Betfred Championship Match Thread
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Until Good Friday, anyway. No home games for Widnes in April.