Stuff Smith
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18 hours ago, Magic XIII said:
Plans - hahaha
London are reaping what David Hughes has sown.
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Frank Napoli.
Because he was playing for my team.
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4 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:
I think there would have been more of an outcry if Fev had gone up this season and most people would accept them as been the dominant team in the Championship for well over a decade and a pretty forward thinking club yet if they had gone up they would still face the same consequences as London in getting relegated after the 2024 season which again just sounds like madness.
4 hours ago, Chrispmartha said:Exactly, the only club from the Championship this year that had a chance staying up in 2025 was Toulouse.
To me, this is something significant that's getting glossed over.
Promotion this year wasn't just pointless (and there's a chance that'll be literal) for the eternal basket-case that is David Hughes' London Broncos.
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6 hours ago, Rovers13 said:
If London are in the top 12 clubs based on what we know in the public domain on gradings then it’s fixed, as the top 12 will surely be the usual 11 plus wakey? You have to remember the grading is over a 3 year period (the last 3 years) so surely the 12 SL clubs outscore anyone else.
100% in agreement with this. (And all those who've expressed similar opinions.)
Sort of renders this season and next season a bit pointless in terms of Super League places doesn't it? Just put Wakefield back in now.
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Before anyone kicks off. That last penalty. Really?
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Moderators may ban me. The hegemony on here may castigate me. But there were a fair few home home-team influenced refereeing decisions in that first-half.
I'm 100% biased. Obviously.
Sorry!
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Whether Keighley's opinion is disgraceful or not is open to debate, but in this case IMG's criteria is fair in my opinion. For one thing, it's a lot easier for Keighley to recruit players who have previously played for nearby teams than it is for Cornwall.
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26 minutes ago, DEANO said:
We need to accept it’s by and large a northern sport for northern people.
This is a local sport for local people. There's nothing for you here.
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4 hours ago, haskey said:
This is a northern sport and , to me, always will be.
This is a local sport for local people. There's nothing for you here.
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Londonbornirishbred is on the nail here.
David Hughes: saved the club?
That depends what you mean by saved.
47 minutes ago, Londonbornirishbred said:The club is like a young junkie, who's parent (Hughes) made the decision to try and gradually break the addiction rather than make some tough decisions. As a result, over a dozen years later, the Junkie is not only still an addict, but is now reliant on the parent to provide it with its fix.
And Mr Hughes could have employed experts to help cope with this! But he didn't, he employed the people he employed instead...
47 minutes ago, Londonbornirishbred said:Many London fans used to decry posters who ranted on about how bad Hughes was for the club, saying things like there's be "no club without him....."
Many? A few zealots even worse than me, maybe.
47 minutes ago, Londonbornirishbred said:Guess what? There isn't a club!
I agree.
Still, we can buy a new hat, in colours I like!
https://london-broncos-shop.myshopify.com/collections/merchandise/products/2023-london-broncos-bobble-hat(Apologies to supporters of other teams. London Broncos fans of a certain age, like me, can be very bitter, cynical and petty. Because, you know, experience.)
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Just now, Hemi4561 said:
I accept your take,even though their initial entry into the top division was protectionism, not equality or ranking based. Let's see what IMG's future holds.
And that's an absolutely fair point about our entry into the top division.
In my opinion, other—more established—clubs have had a few more favours from the hierarchy since though.
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2 hours ago, Hemi4561 said:
The obvious tinpot club that has been protected since the early nineties is London xxxx (insert moniker). Abject failures.
London Broncos?
Tinpot? Yes!
Abject failures? Yes!
Protected? No.
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10 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:
...very rarely do foster parents take the upper hand when push comes to shove
I'm not a foster parent, or fostered. But I've done some work for people who encourage people to be foster parents, and I don't like this analogy.
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OK, I'll revise what I said at half-time: you are not going to find eighty-minute's entertainment better than that anywhere.
Ever.
Absolutely amazing.
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This is an absolutely pointless comment, I know, but I really enjoyed that.
You'd have to go a long way to find 40 minutes entertainment better than that.
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5 hours ago, The Masked Poster said:
It's quite a well known tale and is allegedly the inspiration for the line in Eton Rifles "all that rugby puts hairs on your chest".
As an aside, Weller must like a bit of a scrap as he's recently been saying he wants to chin Robert Smith from The Cure.
So I say the 78 Aussies were innocent.
At least Weller is a bit more sensible now.
If you had to pick one out of the two to try and "chin", who would you pick? Robert Smith in 2022 or Les Boyd in 1978.
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We need to score next. There is still hope!
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4 minutes ago, Eddie said:
They haven’t heard of rugby league, there’ll be something about Ronaldo whining or England v whoever in a Union game.
Sean Long and Martin Gleeson would disagree. There's plenty of space for Rugby League headlines when they can portray it negatively.
I'm joking (at least a bit), but they do have form for this.
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This will be back page of the Daily Mail tomorrow.
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I'm losing the plot here.
We lost very narrowly in a thrilling game: a game that had us on the edge of our seats. Any neutral supporter, or potential fan of the game watching for the first time, would have loved every minute. If Samoa had won like that against Australia or NZ, we'd be eulogizing about it.
But they beat England instead. It was still an amazing game. England lost; the sport of Rugby League didn't.
(The result may have dented the potential for the growth of the game in this country, but only may. I'm not sure, even if we'd won the tournament, that the sport in the UK would have been able to capitalise on it.)
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20 minutes ago, Jughead said:
The obsession with playing France on Bastille Day when many on here moaned that Toulouse and Catalans played on a national holiday and people couldn’t go, is strange.
I'm not sure a couple of posts constitutes an obsession.
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1 hour ago, Maximus Decimus said:
And they are a nation much much smaller than its rivals.
True.
I don't think the size of the nation really matters though. Rugby Union may (arguably) be THE major sport in NZ, but it isn't anywhere else. Population of the country isn't really a factor. Australia has a bigger population, England massively.
But other sports dominate there.
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10 minutes ago, Big Picture said:
Surprised in a negative way I'm sure, as anyone who googles Samoa most likely will be too.
PNG has about three times the population of Wales. So considerably bigger than Scotland and New Zealand too.
How many people in the UK would believe that, people who weren't Rugby League fans? About twenty.
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Harsh.
But fair.