kiggy
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7 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:
People bang on about our budget but this season we will be around the 4th biggest spenders once again behind Fev, Tolouse and Bradford
Do you have a link where I can see what each club spends on players? Even I don't know the individual spend on player budget at TO. I know the overall budget is around 3.4m, but that includes everything from the top team down through the rugby schools, so Elite, U19, U17 etc.
Halifax are a top 6 side so I wouldn't worry too much just yet, half a season to go still.
It was nice for Bernard to see a win in his final game in charge of the club.
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1 hour ago, Ragingbull said:
Cas reserves lose again. Got to be huge questions asked of Grix now. Bringing in duel reg players has obviously upset the apple cart.
I agree, I don't like bringing players in for a match it doesn't work.
I thought Halifax were very bright today, quick, up for it, using the width of the pitch well. Couple of lucky plays, ball off the post etc. but all in all, the plucky amateur side only just losing out to the fully professional french outfit.
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11 hours ago, meast said:
Corporate hostility doesn't sound worth paying extra for.
It's not....it's not quite the same as a corporate box at Old Trafford !
But we got the tickets free anyway so I can't complain.
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2 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:
Considering the format of being in either the Championship or SL doesn't change in that there are away and home fixtures, do I take it that in the weeks TO had or again could have away fixtures in the top division, is it reasonable to think that they only did/will have 2 days training?
When they do travel, then yes, as an ensemble they only train together for those 2 days.
Certain players, those that are injured/recovering, get a more extensive plan over the week but that will be in isolation to the others.
Those weeks that they had no matches they would have spread the training over 3 days. They have individual tailored plans for the most part, which includes team time.
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29 minutes ago, DoubleD said:
I would expect it’s because he’ll benefit from training in a full time environment at Toulouse, whereas the Broncos are part time
How often to part time teams train? When they have away matches TO only train Tuesday and Thursday. So a lot of 2 day weeks for a while now.
Another question, if he is part time, how has he managed to get a load of time off work to ###### off to the south of France for 6 months?
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7 hours ago, The Phantom Horseman said:
In the wacky world of loans, Wigan's Ramon Silva - who played on loan for London against Toulouse in their win on Saturday - has now left London and joined, er, Toulouse on loan. Think the same thing happened earlier this year to London when they signed Wigan's Harvie Hill on loan before he too was switched to Toulouse. Strange goings-on.
Shame about Harvie Hill, he was very promising and would have been great for TO if he had stayed more than a couple of matches
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12 hours ago, Ovenden Grunt said:
Get ready to be astounded
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Not very optimistic to be honest, TO play 5th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd in the next 4 games. They could very well be still on 14pts come the end of June.
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On 24/05/2023 at 18:09, Gomersall said:
Corey Norman to London Broncos.
https://treizemondial.fr/corey-norman-quitte-lezignan-et-signe-en-angleterre/
Has Norman still got some games to miss for his ban?
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8 hours ago, Fevrover said:
Easy this week all home wins ( although Fax MAY sneak a win)
I think TO have lost even more 1st team players, so I would be astounded if they won this. But I did say on one thread that they would win all their home games 2nd half of the season, and we haven't got there yet.
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On 03/05/2023 at 09:13, kiggy said:
Not many tickets left to be honest. I bought two yesterday and a lot of the stadium is sold out. Not a very big stadium though, but if it can be almost full for some games it would be good.
That aged well!
My wife's nephew tried to book 3 tickets together and couldn't. So I have no idea what planet the stadium booking software was on as it wasn't planet earth. We got him 3 tickets with us in corporate hostility in the end, so he didn't even need to buy the tickets.
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37 minutes ago, Billy King's Boots said:
Yes and Yes.
Pros: Decent seats for not a lot of money, fan zone was good (bands, food, drinks, Ice-Cream and a lot of good natured banter), parking was cheap and dead easy, Three ok games and one real contest (London/Toulouse).
Cons: Poorly supported by participating teams' fans - essentially a York home game, but their fans barely filled half a block / no more that 150 Widnes fans / about half that number from Whitehaven and Swinton / about 100 or so from Barrow / 25 disproportionately noisy fans from London and no more than a dozen from Toulouse. Fev the best supported - probably five or six-hundred.When the bash kicked-off there can't have been more than 750 in the ground. Over the day, there can't have been more than 3,500 in/thru' the ground (e.g. All the Widnes fans left after their game). We were sat in a virtually empty West stand all day - and were able to sit anywhere we liked. None of the West stand concessions were open, so if you wanted a brew or a bite, you had to exit into the fan-zone - and go through the rigmarole of showing your ticket and having your bag checked again (which we did three times). Also, we parked about 100m away, but there were no signs/banners/indications that there was an event happening. Having not been to the LNER Stadium before, some event signposting would have helped.
Did we enjoy it? Yes. Four games of RL for £40 - can't complain at that: and we enjoyed sitting in the sun between games in the Fan zone (the band, espacially were very good). Having done two previous Bashes at Blackpool, this one lacked the big-weekend / big-event gathering feel of Blackpool. And there wasn't much between games for kids TBH.
Would we do it again? Yes, most probably - a chance to watch four games and eight teams we'd never usually watch is good. Would we do it again in York? That's just a 'maybe' TBH, it's stuck out on a trading estate miles from anywhere and, while I might find a stroll round Decathlon a good way to kill 20 minutes, I appreciate that most people wouldn't.
Should the RFL do it again? That's the 64 thousand dollar question. They took it to smaller capacity venue this year (presumably to try and 'right-size' the stadium to the anticipated 'crowd') - and interest still fell way short. Which is a shame, because it deserves a bigger audience.
The Solution? Take it back to Blackpool? Find an even smaller venue somewhere 'interesting'? Or concede that, as a concept, the Championship just doesn't have the critical mass of support to make it credible/viable?Fnally: if all those people complaining that 'it looked empty on the telly' had got off their sofas and supported our great sport, then it would have been considerably less empty. Fans have a role to play in supporting/promoting our game too.
Good résumé of the day...totally wrong on the Toulouse fans though. There were at least 28 of us.
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41 minutes ago, Szymala said:
Was it a good day out ? Anyone sit through all 4 games ? Great to see Barrow get up.
We should have been there for 2 and half matches but with the traffic problems we only saw 1 and a bit, not all York's fault, just the general M62 bank holiday car park.
Didn't take part in the fan zone so can't comment on that.
There are good links to the city centre with the park and ride so it didn't matter about where the ground was for us, and there is enough around the ground to keep you fed. Just not enough people for my mind. Fev and York fans made a noise but that was about it.
Good for us as a family as it gave my 3 boys a rare chance to meet up. Blackpool is still our favourite Bash venue though.
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I was quite disappointed at the lack of a crowd. You could have probably got everyone in to the East stand. Maybe the Summer Bash has run it's course
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1 hour ago, Wolfey Rovers said:
Fev lost around 9 earlier on the season, that's not an excuse
When you only start with 20 it is
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Paul Marcon starting at full back for TO. Very patched up side for today.
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2 hours ago, Jill Halfpenny fan said:
Had to negotiate that plus the customary jam between Bradford and the M1.
M61-m62 solid too. 4hrs from Blackpool today. Mrs Kiggy sick all the way so will miss the match.
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9 hours ago, Ragingbull said:
Whats the general view on the bash as a whole on here?
The decision. To move it to york hasnt gone down well with our fans at all. (Maybe we are just a grumpy bunch at the min!)
Personally im treating it like a normal away game and just heading to the ground about 45 mins before kick off like i do every other week. Ive not bought in to it all all this year .
Just wondered if other clubs fans we going for their own game or making a full day of it?
I prefer Blackpool as a neutral venue, as my mum still lives in St Annes so a win-win for me. We are in Blackpool today funnily enough but heading for York early tomorrow for the full day.
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8 hours ago, The Phantom Horseman said:
To be fair Kiggy was correct in that all 4 are fringe players at Catalans, and clearly wouldn't make the French 17 if everyone was available, but they are good players to be bringing in as replacements.
I would much rather they field a team of their own Elite players, even if they are lesser players. I'm not a fan of duel registration as I think it weakens the team, unless they have a loan period of a month and actually train with the team. Scimone is a case in point, he played last time but never trained with the team before.
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London should beat Toulouse this time, TO don't have 13 fit so will have to rely on Elites or Catalan fringe players.
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On 13/05/2023 at 21:51, distantdog said:
Both teams really good this afternoon. Batley dug in deep after playing Widnes on Monday but defended like demons against a good, physical side. Woods proving the value of a drop goal yet again.
Batley played well, although TO didn't... apparently. Missed Shorrocks who pulled out on the Saturday morning.
Interesting stat I was told today. Batley didn't give away a single penalty, knock on or six-again in the whole 80 minutes. Isn't that some sort of record?
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Not really related but I read somewhere the U19 semi final was decided on a red card?
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9 minutes ago, Wolfey Rovers said:
Are you expecting 9 home wins? I'm not haha. They are struggling.
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25 minutes ago, Wolfey Rovers said:
Toulouse looking to scrape the playoffs by the looks of it
Still 2nd tonight...maybe 3rd after tomorrow.
The last few weeks have been travelling, it will be 2 months between home games. 9 home games in the 2nd half of the season so I still reckon they will be top 3 come the end of the normal season.
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Poop.. 17-16 to Batley at le Fin
Sat 3rd Jun-Sun 4th Jun: The Betfred Championship (Non-TV) Match Thread
in The General Rugby League Forum
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The 1st team do get the lions share but Toulouse have spread themselves many teams which accounts for more of the cost. Player wages are not that high though, they rely on sponsors to help out with other costs, cars/accommodation etc. I know when they were in SL the backroom staff don't get paid anywhere near the same as their peers at other clubs. As for the off season, they had sights on quite a few players but very few wanted to play in France...even the French players preferred to go to the UK.