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3 hours ago, yipyee said:
Whilst there log In principle........?
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3 hours ago, JM2010 said:
Thats a good point. Fans could be engaged for longer as their club’s games would be spread out over the day/weekend
Yes indeed.
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1 minute ago, Mumby Magic said:
To me it should be a celebration of the game. Every club side represented. Army, Navy etc too. Have sprint challenge, Ladies final, Conference finals.
Hear hear!
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35 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:
I'd rather pour raw Scotch Bonnet juice into my eyes while my nuts are constantly jolted by electrodes than watch that.
That costs a lot of money up in London.
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On 06/06/2023 at 10:23, Harry Stottle said:
Even that shopping centre, is Mile's behind the Trafford Centre this side of the pennines, I'll give you this though Yorkshire has much more sheep s4it and wimberries.
Well done 'Arry, that's the best "put down" I've heard this century! Ha ha ha. Talk about being damned with faint praise. Keep up the good work.
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6 hours ago, Barley Mow said:
Sorry to put a downer on this, but how do Midlands get away with playing their matches at sub-standard venues?
Last year they played at a ground that is essentially a recreational union club, on the basis that it was just for one year and they were moving to the Alexander Stadium.
This year they're at the training venue for the Alexander Stadium because the main facility isn't ready yet. There doesn't seem to be any stands, just ground level standing and a marquee with obstructed views.
They're now planning on taking this match on the road, but to another recreational union club - essentially a field with a clubhouse.
These are the kind of places that our amateur clubs play.
We haven't done away with ground requirements for League 1 because North Wales were refused permission to play a match on a 4G at Eirias Park because of the requirements.
Why are they doing it? Why is their home ground unavailable?
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I think the Balkan Super League is an extraordinary idea. The fact that (however modest) they are making it work (all on their own initiative) is nothing short of amazing. You could argue that we'd better leave them alone to get on with it, unless we put the kibosh on it. Although, I think it might make sense to ask them to advise us (BARLA) on how to do it, over here.
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Cardiff (please).
Working with the WRL to benefit the game here, as Newcastle RL benefits from Magic.
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3 hours ago, The Rocket said:
I think it would be a very brave (or foolish) person who underestimates V`landy`s ability to turn this into a big event. This is the bloke who created `The Everest`, the second richest horse race in the world with $20m prize money, he loves the big stage and he loves even more to be at the centre of it.
The stories are public knowledge of him at the Everest working the room full of the who`s who of the Australian entertainment and business world stone cold sober (he doesn`t drink) while all around him everyone is as ###### as a newt and having a great time. This Vegas thing just gives him a bigger stage and I dare say he will revel in it. It`s going to be very interesting to see how much hoopla they put on around this thing.
Keep your ear to the ground mate, I can't wait. Any news on this, is good news.
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13 hours ago, Tex Evans Thigh said:
RLU i.e the North East isnt under the jurisdiction of the USARL for many reasons. Growth at the moment for everywhere in the US is playing games and picking up the pieces of the NARL debacle.
Perhaps, more than most, I'm really interested in any and all news from the USA. If you would like to tell us the reasons you believe they are not affiliated, I'd be pleased to hear them. My other question was whether you believed the changes to the USARL would make any appreciable difference to the near/midterm future over there?
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It's great to hear of these matches going ahead. If they can spread the game (on their own ) why can't we (BARLA) do it in the UK?
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Tell that to the kids these days. They'll never believe yer.
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1 hour ago, gingerjon said:
What's this about mate?
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5 hours ago, Tex Evans Thigh said:
We kick off on June 17th
Can you please tell us if you are party to this new constitution of the USARL? Any more information would be welcome? Do you believe it will lead to further growth?
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3 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:
Yeah, well back in my day, my son used to walk 20 miles to school every day!
Tell that to the kids these days, they'll never believe yer!
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I'd like to see it in Cardiff (or Swansea) football grounds. RL fans travelled well to past events in Cardiff. The city is very accommodating.
Personally, I'd give away tickets to Welsh school kids, as a promotional effort and let the WRL promote the Welsh league to the local spectators.
I'm certain it would draw plenty of new ( amateur) participants to the sport here in Wales.
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8 hours ago, Anita Bath said:
But Richard Branson already had a go. Is there another crazy billionaire.....
He won't be a billionaire for much longer.
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Great news.
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This is heartbreaking news.
Again the burden, falls on the poorest to make anything happen. Good.
The sooner the games fledgling (NH) nations realise and accept that no-one is coming to the rescue, the better.
So what now?
If I were trying to organise an international calendar I'd begin with a merit table and "encourage" teams to play one or two matches a year (at most) against the team/s above and below them.
Each year the merit table is redrawn based on the results.
This removes the grandiosity, gives governing bodies sensible, achievable goals with the ability, for the better organised nations to climb the ladder as they develop.
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On 04/05/2023 at 10:11, Eddie said:
Excitement is building across Norfolk as the Anglian Vipers prepare for their season opener on Saturday, at home to Bedford Tigers in the East RL cup. A good crowd is expected at Barnards Fields in Wymondham, 2.30 kick off, bar open
Good luck to all concerned, please let us know how it turns out?
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3 minutes ago, Big Picture said:
No we haven't been. The Wolfpack's efforts were stymied by the roster regulations which put North American players in the same category as Aussies and Kiwis, plus they didn't have the sort of money needed to attract the best prospects. Monté Gaddis and Akarika Dawn (both former NCAA linebackers) are examples of Usonian gridiron players with no rugby background at all who took up RL.
There certainly is a pedigree for Canadian players to go from giridiron to rugby (either version): in Canada the guys on the high rugby team in the spring are often also on the gridiron team in the autumn so they're two-sport athletes. So a decent percentage of the Canadians in the CFL played rugby too in high school.
Yes we need kids in the Québec-Windsor corridor to take up RL, but for that we need something to inspire such a development. And the history of such developments shows us that only a high-level pro league which pays good money and gets good media coverage can inspire it.
And that can't happen if it relies on converting RU players because in the US and Canada RU players are all a bunch of nobodies. Not a single one of them would help raise a new league's profile and help it sell tickets.I don't know anything about your situation but you seem really inspired to do something here but not actually committed (yet) to getting stuck in.
I'm sure your idea of a pro-league (in North America) has real potential, in fact my gut feeling is that the States (or Canada) is probably the only place in the world, with enough potential investors, to actually make it work.
Perhaps you are limited by your personal circumstances (?) but otherwise why don't you give it all you've got and try to gather support for your idea, over there?
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12 hours ago, langpark said:
You are deluded beyond repair if you actually believe that.
I think I make my point fully and unambiguously in the two or three letters posted.
I stand by what I've said (because I don't have any evidence to refute it).
As far as I could tell at the time, there was some support for his initiative, but (even if it had proved ultimately to be a damp squib) it was the Covid pandemic which prevented cross border travel, so killed any possibility of this kind of initiative from coming to fruition. Didn't it kill the 2021 World Cup?
I'm a bit dismayed that you conclude I'm ''deluded beyond repair'', I don't think I deserved that personal insult.
However, if you want to explain your judgement (about the comment you emboldened), providing some supporting evidence I'd be happy to (listen) see it.
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15 hours ago, OriginalMrC said:
Rules do matter. A sport with weak governance will fail. The examples you cite are where people weren't playing fair and by the rules.
Franchise RL or the latest version of the NARL lack credibility because many of the teams involved don't exist. Surely the first step in any competition is the have actual proper teams. I could set up some social media accounts tomorrow and set up my own competition. I guarantee it would make the headlines of some RL publications and people on here would be discussing it. Thats effectively what's happened with these new competitions and that doesn't seem right to me. Lots of people work very hard to grow the game and I take exception to chancers.
I think we are in total agreement here.
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2 hours ago, OriginalMrC said:
These people massively damage the credibility of the game and hold it back. There's a reason these people don't like rules and that's because being compliant with 'silly rules' costs money. Most of these 'entrepreneurial types' don't have two pennies to rub together because if they did they'd go through appropriate channels to achieve what they want.
Well you're entitled to your opinion.
I don't see how you can claim they are holding the game back when (more often than not) they are quite literally, the only people trying to move it forward. Ask Pulga?
Without them there would be nothing to hold back.
Who said ''they don't like silly rules'', you? That's your own construction, your interpretation of ''entrepreneurial types'', it's certainly not my own. It's true they're often not prepared to wait for inept, or impotent administrators to deign to help them.
What if the Greeks, who persevered against ''silly rules'', in the face of very real threats of criminal prosecution (for years), sat on their backsides and waited for the IRL to do something? Well my friend I can tell you, they wouldn't have been playing in the last World Cup.
What if the Welsh, had been cowed by threats of life-time bans from RaRa (even as visitors and paying spectators) and followed their ''silly rules''? There'd be no rugby league in Wales.
The ''appropriate channels'' you laud, in most cases (abroad), either don't exist, are not listening, or are unwilling or unable to help or even cooperate with them.
I did qualify my comments by adding that as long as he's not a charlatan or a fraudster then we could do with more people like him. I'm still undecided about him. You seem convinced.
I admire anyone who's giving of themselves to promote our game and more than happy to cheer them on. God knows we could do with a lot more.
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Anglian Vipers
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Great result.