Eddie

If they haven’t got a league to play in, why would they have a squad though? If the Spanish league goes ahead this season, then they’ll start building a squad.

They’re starting in the Spanish league this year iirc, so I doubt they’ll have a big squad yet.

If those away fans bring money in to help the club do grassroots stuff then I’m all for it. As long as they do want to do grassroots stuff as well as have a first team, which I understand that they do, they want Spanish players in the team not just a load of English and Aussie journeymen. Hopefully the new Spanish league which I gather is starting this year (Covid permitting) will pave the way.

9pm kick off, now you’re talking. Nice lunch and a few looseners in the old town, then head over to the beach area to pick up the pace a bit late afternoon and early evening, go to the match and then on to the Barrio del Carmen until you can’t drink another drop - best away day ever.

I thought that initially too, about the logistics, but as he said Elite 1 just isn’t commercial enough to be attractive to them. I guess the expats and easy flights are attractive too though, I imagine it’s easier to fly from Valencia to Manchester or Leeds/Bradford than it is to drive to Avignon or Villeneuve.

Is there a schools programme, how many season ticket holders have they got etc.

I was listening to the Valencia Hurricanes chairman on a podcast earlier and said the club still have ambitions to get into the English league. They asked if he thought Elite 1 might be better for Valencia, but he said for various reasons the English set up would be more suitable for them, mainly commercially as Elite 1 isn’t commercially strong enough. I’d love to see it myself, lots of cheap flights to that area, a popular holiday destination for an away trip, and already a number of amateur clubs in the region over the past few years. If they could do it and bring Spanish players through to the semi pro game it would be superb.

Indeed, there are six clubs entering the Scottish Cup https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1916632855164630&id=171690882992178

Thanks. Good to see five teams this season, with potentially Aberdeen to be added next year as they’re reforming.

I live in England and can observe what it’s like here.

I couldn’t care less what they do, but it’s evident that they don’t have the same mass attachment to Scotland as Tongan heritage people in Australia and NZ have.

There is a Tongan diaspora in Aus and NZ that the Tongan national team clearly represent, as evidenced by their fanatical support when Tonga play in those countries. The same can’t be said of people with Scottish grandparents living in England. The two situations are different.

There’s a massive difference as far as I can see, but happy to agree to differ.

I don’t know where they were all born, or even who they all are, but I think a fair few of the Fijians and possibly Samoan team are born there. However as I said they are choosing to play for Tonga, they feel Tongan. I really doubt many, if any, of the Scottish team feel like that, or would choose Scotland over England.

No, firstly a fair number of their international teams are born on the islands, and secondly they’re choosing to play for the island of their heritage ahead of Australia.

Kings Lynn?

13 of them. While I’d love to see the game grow in a Scotland I can’t get excited about 13 English blokes with Scottish parents or grandparents making a team for a WC.

I like this one, it’s got a touch of the Borussia Dortmund about it, and the Monseraptors is the coolest name too.

I love your optimism that an Aussie who plays football for Scotland can persuade loads of Scots to come to England for the RLWC, but it’s worth a go. Playing one of their games in Edinburgh might have been a good idea too.

Just don’t drive until it is out of your system then.

Ah I assumed it meant he was under the include at that time.

Driving coked up on the way to collect your kids is a bizarre thing to do, he must be seriously troubled. Obviously he has to face the legal consequences but I hope he can also sort himself out.

If Saints had a spare £100m to chuck at it I still wouldn’t advise them to try to crack Liverpool.

There’s been a few podcasts about that, details hazy in my mind but there was some sort of schism between the federation and clubs (classic rugby league) which halted things for a while. The recent disaster can’t have helped either.

I guess for kids and their families that’s a fair trek for a game though, and are most of your games North of Worksop too?