Sir Kevin Sinfield
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17 hours ago, OriginalMrC said:
Do 'expansion' clubs need more support? Yes
Has 'expansion' failed? No
Do large numbers of people outside the heartlands love the game? Yes
Do we need the constant debate about expansion failing? No
That's all I have to say on the matter
Some great points, Rugby League started with 22 clubs from the North of England in 1895. We now have significantly more than 22 clubs in the UK, as well as Professional clubs in France, Australia, New Zealand, PNG and Fiji. The game is played at an amateur level all across the UK and in a significant number of countries across the World. It has expanded. I think when people claim it hasn’t what they really mean is the sport isn’t as big as Rugby Union.
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19 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:
I actually feel very sorry for the French lad, this Johnny Foriegner would keep out of HIS National team should Schaumkel elect to play for France.
You should feel sorry for the local Leigh lad, they won’t get a look in with the number of Jonny Foreigners at Leigh. On a serious note living in a country for 5 years is a big commitment and rightly gives you the right to represent them in Rugby League as is the case with most International sports with a World Cup.
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1 hour ago, Damien said:
And Parish now stays. He's more lives than a cat. They've even increased their coaching brains trust with the addition of Richard Agar as an assistant. All good news for England if nothing else:
However, the Toa Samoa board has finalised its coaching staff for this year’s internationals and confirmed Parish will remain in the role. His assistants will be Andrew Webster and Richard Agar, joining Geoff Toovey as members of the brains trust.
Why does it seem their only 2 options were to keep Parish or go with the Johns brothers. Surely there’d be plenty of applicants to take on the Samoa job part time in a World Cup year.
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7 hours ago, frank said:
How could Toronto in a new area and attracting gates of around 10,000 and building be allowed to fold? Yet we have teams like Leigh (in a League area) who on a good day can attract 3,000 be allowed into SL. Then there is the French teams being asked to fork out to enter the Challenge Cup.
RL needs to be run by an independent body, who would administer the game for the good of it. The self serving clubs should have very little input in how the game is run. Until this happens SL will continue to struggle.
Toronto weren’t allowed to fold, they were forced to fold by being denied any central funding, forced to pay other clubs travel costs and to play all games away from home for a full season. Absolutely disgraceful. As it is that Toulouse gavel to pay other clubs travel costs.
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14 hours ago, meast said:
It was the 2nd lowest attendance at Wakefield in the super league era, only the 2,837 who turned up in July 2001 was lower.
And it was the 3rd lowest attendance between these 2 sides this century.
11 hours ago, fevtom said:10,988 at Saints tonight.
11 hours ago, Barley Mow said:13,333 at Headingley v Hull KR
11 hours ago, daz39 said:10.100 at Wire v Wigan, jeez that's pretty poor on a bank holiday Friday for one of the comps prestige fixtures.
On 27/04/2022 at 23:03, Sir Kevin Sinfield said:Leeds once again have the best attendance of the round
On 28/04/2022 at 10:05, fevtom said:Still think they'll top the attendance table at the end of the year?
On 28/04/2022 at 13:37, Sir Kevin Sinfield said:I also think we’ll again have the best attendance of the round again this week in, although it should be close between Leeds, Saints and Warrington.
I thought it would be closer, but Leeds have blown Saints and Warrington v Wigan out of the water to once again take the best attendance of the round
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8 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
It was a great game mate....
The best stand at the best ground in the UK
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10 hours ago, Old Frightful said:
Good grief!
On 27/04/2022 at 23:05, Sir Kevin Sinfield said:Leeds by 12
Called it spot on
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20 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:
When was it Leigh last went bust Kev, please remind me?
Regards the Visa, I would be surprised if Leigh have not already confirmed that it will be OK, it must be about a month or so ago that his signing was first mooted plenty of time to dot the i's and cross the t's I would think Kev.
2018 Leigh had only 9 players after doing exactly what they’re doing this year, it’s Super League or bust
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1 hour ago, Harry Stottle said:
@Sir Kevin Sinfield here you go another NSW country player that Leigh sign.
Unbelievable, Leigh seem to be splashing the cash and going for a World record attempt of the most overseas players. As I’ve said before my concern is Leigh and Featherstone are overspending and playing a game of Super League or bust. It wouldn’t be the first time with Leigh.
Will he get a visa with his recent conviction for drug offences?
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6 hours ago, ShropshireBull said:
I'll note that when York were on tv in the freezing cold of Monday vs Fev they got 3602. So already better than Wakey.
All the talk is of either Leigh or Featherstone getting promoted, I’d love it if York sneaked in under the radar and won promotion this year. The new dual registration deal with Leeds could help if Leeds can get over the injury crisis.
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8 hours ago, Scubby said:
3166 at Wakefield. Trinity really are that drunken uncle of Super League.
Absolute shocking attendance for the West Yorkshire derby
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3 hours ago, Eddie said:
If we took our games to the highest bidder they’d end up at Thatto Heath.
You can always rely on Rugby League supporters to talk their own sport down
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16 hours ago, Jughead said:
Two sub eighty thousand crowds (not including the Covid years) in something like 25 years would surely mean the finances would have to be very, very good to play it in a 52,000 Suncorp.
I imagine if they did do this and played finals in Brisbane, they’d have to give Magic Weekend to NSW as you could have an origin game, Magic Weekend and a Grand Final in Brisbane in one year.
The Final should go to the highest bidder, revenue from the likely ticket sales will be taken into consideration alongside each bid to select the best deal for the sport. Not doing this is madness, do we want to bring money into the sport or not. The same should happen with Magic Weekend, the Challenge Cup and the Grand Final both here and down under.
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2 hours ago, Scubby said:
This is an NRL international window there is no need to speculate, conveniently filling the Fox Sports Super Saturday broadcasting commitment with 3 games back to back on a blank weekend. Who is getting the TV revenue from this?
1 hour ago, Damien said:Its always been sold/given away as part of the NRL TV deal. Obviously when the NRL then say how much money these matches will lose these things aren't taken into account.
This needs to change, the International rights are bundled into the NRL deal, the NRL then pays the Kangaroos players $20,000 a game and players representing other Nations nothing. If the NRL sells the rights, both teams facing each other should be on equal pay. Will this be the case for New Zealand v Tonga?
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3 hours ago, fevtom said:
Still think they'll top the attendance table at the end of the year?
10 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:Sir Kev will almost certainly think so.
Myself, I think it will be close between Leeds, Saints and Wigan - perhaps a few bumper crowds for Saints will push them up to the top.
Hopefully Leeds and Wigan, indeed everyone else, can start pushing back to better levels.
Yes I do, Saints have already played Wigan and Warrington at home, their local derby and 2nd biggest derby, they still have Wakefield, Huddersfield, Hull kr, Cas and Toulouse to play at home, Saints average will come down. The opposite is true for Leeds.
I also think we’ll again have the best attendance of the round again this week in, although it should be close between Leeds, Saints and Warrington.
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1 hour ago, UTK said:
The SH and NH rep rounds actually aren't aligned this year so England v CA is on the 18th June and France v Wales the 19th, the week before these games.
I had a similar thought re players not declaring but realistically given Origin is on the same weekend, any that are in the frame for Australia will be playing in that match and therefore won't have to declare til the end of the year.
Carrying on from my response above, given the lack of matchup between the two weekends any SL players would obviously now require to be granted a release from their club commitments for that weekend. This could indeed put some strain on the Combined Nations as any players considered for both will effectively have to spend a fortnight away from their clubs, strong-arming players into choosing the CN closer to home is something I wouldn't be surprised to see happen.
I’m sure any Super League player would pick playing for Tonga/Samoa/Cook Islands/Fiji/PNG over the combined Nations. Clubs can’t officially stop a player playing in an International, but they can obviously informally put pressure on them not to play. The game is in a bad place if clubs stop players playing in Internationals.
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11 minutes ago, bobbruce said:
It never did.
Going back a few years you had to declare for Australia to play Origin
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6 hours ago, UTK said:
https://www.nrl.com/news/2022/04/28/arlc-confirms-2022-representative-round/
NZ v Tonga, Samoa v Cook Islands, Fiji v PNG - all on June 25 according to this.
Brilliant these games are going ahead, it’d be even better if they were in place 12 months in advance rather than 2 months in advance but that’s where International Rugby League is at the moment.
It’ll be interesting to see the squads and who is committed to Tonga, Samoa and Fiji for the World Cup. Cook Islands have a much smaller player pool to select from, I wonder if they’ll fly some Super League players over, Dylan Napa, Kenny Edwards, Brad Takairangi, Zane Tetevano, Tinirau Arona could potentially feature for Cook Islands.
Hopefully Sky Sports show these games. If Sky Sports don’t, could Premier Sports buy the UK coverage, or will these games be already part of the UK NRL tv deal?
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13 hours ago, The Great Dane said:
The problem with this place isn't trolls, there're very few genuine trolls on this site.
The problem with this place is that a lot of people on here seem to believe that anybody that presents an idea or piece of information that challenges their preconceived notions is a troll by default, and that gives them the right to try and bully them off the site.
That leads to fights and a lack of civility, which leads to a bad atmosphere.
In other words, if you want to fix the atmosphere problem you need to crackdown on the people who add absolutely nothing to a discussion except to insult or mock other people.
Well said
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11 minutes ago, JonM said:
Cas 7 649
Leeds 11 167
Warrington 8 102
Wigan 10 783
Hull 9100 or so
HKR 7061
Leeds once again have the best attendance of the round
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56 minutes ago, dkw said:
Just hope these players leigh are signing weren't under contract, or had it bought out or anything, as that's a terrible thing to do....
I hope Derek Beaumont is running the club in a sustainable way and isn’t playing a dangerous game of Super League or bust. Championship’s central funding was significantly reduced remember, but Leigh and Featherstone seem to have gone on a mad spending spree.
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If Featherstone are promoted I can say as a Leeds fan I probably wouldn’t bother going to Featherstone away, it has very little appeal. If Featherstone think they’d double their attendances in Super League they’re completely deluded.
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1 hour ago, ShropshireBull said:
About 3k atm this season. Can imagine that if they went up with Leeds , Wakey, Cas all being sell outs they would be 4k and above. 5 seems a stretch but if they go up, first season in SL and buzz then it´s not impossible.
Wakey v Cas recently only managed 5000, I can’t see why a game against Featherstone would be any bigger
PNG launches bid to become 18th NRL team
in The General Rugby League Forum
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I’d love to see an NRL team in PNG but can’t see it happening unfortunately. The Hunters haven’t had a great start to the season sitting in 12th from 14 in the Queensland Cup, but they are still above the Dolphins who will be an NRL team next year, it’s a bit different to our system of promotion and relegation, but it sure has built a strong competition in the NRL.