Eddie
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3 hours ago, N2022 said:
Fair enough. Wasn't sure of capacity, but part of the point of my reply, perhaps not well made, was that the poster was pleased with the number of 10k plus gates when actually Hull KR v Leeds and Leigh v Wigan should never come in below that. So it was really just that the game between Saints and Hull drew 11k.
5 years ago Hull KR and Leigh wouldn’t have dreamed of 10k+ crowds, what those two clubs have done is phenomenal.
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4 hours ago, langpark said:
I think the scheduled match in Paris next year is a good start. I see match like this as the "establishment" meeting us dreamers halfway.
There is at least some RL presence in Paris, no matter how minimal. So that is something I can get behind. Unlike suggestions of playing a game in Dubai, Bangkok and wherever else, just for the heck of it.
How about Ulaanbaatar? Mongolia is crying out for top class team sports and there’s no Union or football to compete with.
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On 03/07/2025 at 19:51, The Future is League said:
I would like to see the WCC played in Singapore and chase the corporate dollar there, plus it has lots of British and Australian and Kiwis living there.
I would like to see some NRL games and a Super League game played over a weekend in New York, which according to stats is the richest city in the world and again chase the corporate dollar and also quite a few ex British and Australian and Kiwi ex pats live and work the there.
We could potentially have had a NY club in SL, if only Toronto wasn’t so far from Burtonwood Services.
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7 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:
The RFL have enough difficulty sustaining clubs with rising travel costs in this division. Adding more French teams instead of extinguishing the division would be a mistake.
In my opinion, the RL pyramid from the top should be SL, Championship (both pan European) with regional divisions below, including the French Elite.
I believe the French pyramid should have space at Elite 1 or more likely Elite 2 as a gateway for new clubs from Italy, Spain, Belgium and Serbia looking to cut their teeth at a higher level.
Do you know of any clubs from Italy, Belgium or Spain?
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12 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:
I think the general vibe from the RFL right now towards France is "no thanks" (at best) so I doubt it.
Far too far from the M62, can’t have that.
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44 minutes ago, Gambass said:
A sell out for every games though. Anyway, I was thinking more about the financials side. But if you don't like the 'larger' bit, fine, "a big club with a large turnover' that demonstrates a decent foothold in the region then.
Income comes from being in the wealthy tournament, Bournemouth have a bigger budget than Sheffield Wednesday but I know who the bigger club are.
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Just now, Gambass said:
11,000 players in Brittany and a pro club likely larger than any SL club...
Fair enough, but there’s not much evidence of it when you’re there.
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9 minutes ago, Welshleaguelover said:
My girlfriend is from Bretagne. Not a rugby place at all. Gives us a reason to visit and for me to not moan about it.
To be fair other than in the SW of France there’s little sign of rugby when you go over there, not even any posts on sports fields etc, it’s all football.
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2 hours ago, NRLandSL said:
Are you kidding. Every other sport does it, the NRL have 3 origin games. Of course they can fit in 1 fixture. They could fit in 3-4 if they really wanted.
The difference is that origin is massively popular and a money spinner. If it was as popular as an England v France test match they wouldn’t play it.
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2 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:
Surely there they could play the week before Wembley?
Players could probably do with a break. Also I suspect an end of season England v France test a week before a three game Ashes series starts would be a loss maker.
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1 minute ago, Barley Mow said:
They worked a gap into this season for it (or some other representative game) before deciding it wouldn't go ahead.
consequently SL round 20 at the end of this month has been split over two weeks to fill the gap in the schedule - 3 games in each week.
Thanks, I didn’t know that. Still it’s better than a game against the Exiles in front of 2,000 in Warrington.
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1 hour ago, NRLandSL said:
Great too hear the England test will be back next year, still can't understand not happening this year. You'd think England would be keen to get a game in before the ashes.
There’s no time to fit it in with the club season.
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On 02/07/2025 at 20:07, DavidM said:
Disaster. The green bits on the top were there but the orange bits under the soil weren’t
I tried carrots a few years but never got anywhere so gave up on them. Beetroot and parsnips are much easier where I live.
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On 02/07/2025 at 14:33, Jimmy DoNut said:
Not being funny, but wtf has this got to do with Rugby League?
You get to moan about a lot when you grow veg: pests, dry, wet, birds etc - it’s a lot like rugby league.
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11 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
They were woeful this season before he left Eddie, if not perhaps he would still be there!
I know, but they’ve got worse since he left.
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13 hours ago, The Future is League said:
Joel Tomkins appointed coach until the end of the season
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/c9dg0770037o
Strange decision given how woeful they’ve been since MacNamara left.
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17 hours ago, Gooleboy said:
France have had far better shirts than these.
Their last World Cup one was mint.
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La Bombonera, it always looks amazing on tv and a Boca game there is on my bucket list. As we’re fantasising I’d like to see Argentina v Brazil in a high quality RL international there, in front of a sell out crowd.
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It’s the fifth sport down on mine, actually fourth if you don’t count Formula One as it’s not a sport. Seems about right, football, Cricket and Yawnion are clearly more popular.
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On 30/06/2025 at 22:57, Futtocks said:
Some potentially interesting ideas here: https://youtu.be/SJnIZiH5fyM
Skirret sounds like an interesting and easy-to-grow vegetable.
I’m more of a salsify man. It’s hard to imagine a root vegetable that tastes of oysters.
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4 hours ago, JonM said:
2 456 for Barrow v Bradford, pretty decent.
1300+ for Halifax v Oldham at Odsal
Two cracking crowds there.
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41 minutes ago, AB90 said:
If SL didn’t sign overseas ‘has beens and never was players’ we wouldn’t have Jai Field, Bevan French, Lachlan Lam, Tom Amone, Edwin Mpape etc.
Yes but some English players who are currently part time in the championship would be in SL, which apparently would improve the England team.
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52 minutes ago, Jill Halfpenny fan said:
Widnes v Toulouse 2,613
And what a game for them to watch as well.
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4 hours ago, langpark said:
How does that even happen? They announce a sellout but only 80% turn up?
You’d think it was an England home international, other than the 80% bit.
2025 Attendance Thread
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Along with a load of other annoying clubs who do the same.