JonM
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1 hour ago, gingerjon said:
Until it turned out that they'd spent £30m on an app that didn't work, I did say the Australian sport the RFL could learn the most from would be soccer.
Except soccer in Australia is far bigger than RL is in the UK and has all kinds of marketing advantages that RL doesn't have.
If you're picking an Australian sport which seems to have been well run for decades, AFL would be the one to go for, although RL has done a far better job of international expansion on a fraction of the income. And maybe the fact that AFL gets essentially zero coverage here means that whatever things they mess up go unnoticed.
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Would've been a complete non-starter up until last year, as most NRL players wouldn't have got a working visa to come here. But the RFL got the home office to change the rules for 2024, so that anyone under 24 who has played in NRL, NSW or Qld Cup can come here now. So now it's just the small matter of non-availability of certain stadia, the likely loss of tv contracts due to overlap with soccer etc. that would be in the way. That plus whenever Aussies have tried to run clubs here, it's always ended badly.
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I did parkrun in California a couple of weeks back, quite an attractive bayside location in silicon valley, on part of a 15+ mile long cycling/ walking/ running trail. Mostly British & Australian volunteers, and tourists from UK, Australia & Canada, but a nice friendly feel with a monthly post run picnic and plenty of silicon valley 'locals'.
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4 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:
This is a very British mindset.
It really, really isn't. It's pretty much universal. Just about every other international sport has neutral officials - football, cricket, rugby union, events in the Olympic Games.
Maldives Football flies in a referee from India or Sri Lanka for big games because every referee they have is an ex-player of one of the small number of clubs they have.
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1476 for Workington T vs Whitehaven.
3700+ for Keighley v Bradford
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1 hour ago, Jim from Oz said:
What is the all-time attendance record for a six game super league round? Thanks
83 357, Easter 2023.
Castleford Tigers v Wakefield Trinity 8,075; Hull FC v Hull KR 20,985 (capacity), Wigan Warriors v St Helens 24,275 (capacity); Leigh Leopards v Salford Red Devils 6,002, Catalans Dragons v Warrington Wolves 10,786; Leeds Rhinos v Huddersfield Giants 13,234
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If that 76,699 aggregate is correct, it means Catalans got 8755 or thereabouts.
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10 170 the attendance
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Just now, Click said:
Gosh, not sure if I have ever seen that penalty happen before in RL about "jumping into contact" But yeah, he definitely launches himself over the Cas player and into the other one.
Odd thing to do - it was a blatant penalty.
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Be interesting to see whether Harry Smith is playing against Penrith next week.
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Just now, Chrispmartha said:
Shoulder to the head, that’s a red card
Exactly. No attempt to use his arms to make a tackle.
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1 hour ago, yipyee said:
UFC boxing and NFL all added layers of protection to the athlete, albeit not as much in UFC.
Amateur boxing head guards mandatory. Only 3 rounds so fatigue less of a factor (when most injuries occur). Big gloves.
NFL starting to remove head contacts and now horse collar tackles which can lead to whiplash. Helmets and pads including 7 point lower pads provide enough protection to keep the aggression levels high
NFL has already paid out around a billion dollars in compensation related to concussion and head injuries, with more to come.
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On 09/02/2024 at 08:58, JohnM said:
Way back in 1989 my then boss used an HP pocket scientific calculator, which is when I first (and last!) heard about RPN.
Still used in quite a bit of low level computing - the Java virtual machine is all RPN, for example.
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2 hours ago, Eddie said:
Serious question - do you read Lebanese newspapers or watch their TV?
Only when looking to see whether the Lebanon RL team got any publicity by playing in the world cup.
In answer to your other question though, Lebanese people I know here all have family in Australia, Canada and elsewhere too, and might go "home" once a decade or so. They still consider themselves and others like themselves as Lebanese and I don't think would care about the fact that all or nearly all of the team was born elsewhere.
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15 hours ago, Eddie said:
I doubt a load of Australians playing a match in England will register so much as a blip in Lebanon.
The last two times that Lebanon have played here, it appeared to generate rather more TV and newspaper coverage in Lebanon that England RL gets in England.
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5 hours ago, Irish Saint said:
In Nevada five wagers of over 1million dollars were placed on the game. 2 on the Chiefs and 3 on the 49ers.
In total Nevada Sports Books took 185.6 million dollars in bets on the game with bettors losing 6.8million.
That puts my tenner on the49ers\Bills final in perspective.
The news on CBS said that 19% of Americans had bet on the game, which is shocking to me, considering it was basically illegal before 2018 and still is in about a third of the states.
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2 hours ago, Maximus Decimus said:
Again, it's what you're used to. A lot of British fans will scoff at it, but don't have the same problem with a slow game like cricket. It's about expectations. If you're watching with people, it allows you to chat etc over a longer period of time and dip in and out.
Yes, I was at a party, and the to comparison with cricket is a good one - people very much were dipping in and out, until the fourth quarter and overtime.
I suspect watching in the UK you probably don't get the full set of advert interruptions they have here - really quite jarring to cut away to an advert say for a politician less than a second after the player has run over the sideline.
I'm staying a couple of minutes from the 49ers stadium, which is about 60km out from San Francisco, in silicon valley. The next event is a golf day in April!
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On 11/02/2024 at 00:39, The Hallucinating Goose said:
Decided I wouldn't buy the book on account of having about 50 books on my shelf at home that I am yet to read.
This is not a valid reason...
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Barely gets a mention on the local bay area news this morning, although the half time show gets a nod
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I guess overtime wasn't the best news for those of you watching in the UK. Streets are silent here in the Bay area.
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3 minutes ago, Irish Saint said:
They are different games I don't compare them.
Valentine Holmes tried and failed to have a career in the NFL.
That wasn't my point - I was just imagining Ray French or Eddie Hemmings moaning about the amount of penalties or dropped ball to the exclusion of everything else. Which is emphatically not what the commentators here are doing.
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I'm in California - finding it a tough watch as a non fan, so many stoppages and adverts. Funny to think what an RL commentator would make of a game with so many penalties, dropped ball costing the first TD, scoreless first period and so on.
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2 minutes ago, N2022 said:
Sad to hear that. Out of interest, would you get a seat for the £22?
It's an all seater stadium, so yes.
The crowd for the challenge cup game against wests warriors last year was only about 100 higher and they brought quite a good following up from London so I think the number of people staying away in protest against Chris Hamilton is a bit overstated. First game I've missed in quite a while - in California on business.
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On 04/02/2024 at 12:14, gingerjon said:
The fact that nobody thinks 399 in the fourth innings in India is impossible shows you how much the dial has moved in the past couple of years.
India started to look a bit rattled at one point, so clearly they thought England might do it.
The series has caught the imagination of cricket fans in India too, which is really important. Test cricket has faded in popularity there and they are the biggest and richest market, so it's important in keeping test cricket alive to play exciting cricket. Hearing a lot of positive comments from Indians about the atmosphere generated by the English fans in Hyderabad and Vizag and how the locals have responded.
I'm expecting India to win all of the remaining tests but should be a great occasion at the world's most beautiful test venue at Dharamsala.
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NRL Europe? In Winter?
in The General Rugby League Forum
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There have been plenty of administrators and officials who've worked in both SL and the NRL too.
Shane Richardson was Souths CEO for over a decade, also Cronulla & Penrith & now at Wests I believe. He was NRL Head of Strategy (and on the RFL board at one point). His attempt at expanding UK RL by setting up Gateshead ended up with them being merged into Hull FC.
Blake Solly went to boarding school in NSW before coming here and ending up as the SL General Manager before going back home to become CEO of the club he supported as a child - Souths.