Eddie
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8 hours ago, langpark said:
Ok, so it seems there is interest is there. Which is great to see! So I suppose the main question now is how do we get it started and under what 'banner'? TRL perhaps? Euro Rugby League could be another option? Like how a lot of Super League clubs have a foundation of their own, perhaps this could be something like an ERL foundation of sorts? I am just brainstorming, happy to hear other suggestions.
TRL Forum would be good, after all that’s what we are.
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There’s a lot of people on this forum who spend a lot of time taking about what ‘we’ should be doing to expand the game, hopefully some of them will be happy to chip a few quid in each month. Its really not a lot individually to many people but if there are 15-20 people involved it would make a massive difference to a club.
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I’d be happy to put a fiver a month in.
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10 hours ago, meast said:
5,733 Wigan v Sheffield
A few more than I’d expected.
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21 minutes ago, mozzauk said:
This will only be good for the Eagles, but there is a lot of convincing to do of the locals up at Meadowhead, Low Edges and other surrounding areas, as a lot of them are against the proposals, and that includes quite a few Eagles and Sheffield FC fans, as the roads where it is planned to be built are bursting at the moment...
So a lot of work to do to appease these people, as you dont want to annoy the people on your doorstep..
458 car and 7 coach spaces should be more than enough for Sheffield FC or the Eagles, with other people using public transport or walking, and cars having multiple people travelling to the match in them a crowd of 2000 wouldn’t need more spaces than that. If the Eagles ever get attendances like that again they’ll be doing very well.
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The Union club only averaged 1,886 this season and they’re supposedly a top championship club looking to get into the top flight. I feel sure Donny RL could better that after a couple of good seasons in the championship.
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58 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:
They've tried different dates, different scheduling, bringing in other broadcasters (Sky had a few matches), heck they even tried a new venue at Spurs, they've tried SL teams in at different stages, they've introduced the 1895 Cup and Womens Challenge Cup.
They are also reportedly considering a new format of the whole competition.
I can see how you might see it that way but an alternative view is that those changes show the lack of a plan. The dates moving around has been a hindrance (having to look up what month the final is in every year isn’t a great look for the sport’s premier cup competition) and bringing in different broadcasters shows a lack of continuity or ability to seal a longer term tv contract also. I do like the 1895 cup concept though.
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6 hours ago, Tommygilf said:
I think that is a very silly comment.
The RFL have been trying for years to do something about the decline in the Challenge Cup. Maybe its prestige is just in line with other knock out sporting cup competitions?
Or, and I think this is the major point, it exists outside and indeed contrary to the main customer engagement we have built up and established over decades now by not being included on Season tickets. Leeds vs Saints will be a good like for like comparison to show this.
What have the RFL been doing to arrest the decline of the Challenge Cup? Serious question btw.
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1 hour ago, Tommygilf said:
Any suggestions for Challenge cup attendances?
Hull KR v Salford N/A
Leeds v Saints 8,000
Wigan v Sheffield 5,000
Huddersfield v Hull 2,500
Leigh v Fev 3,500
Batley v Cas N/A
Wire v London 5,000
Halifax v Catalans 1,500
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1 hour ago, Exiled Wiganer said:
I ring them at least once a year to see what deals are on offer. They are always very friendly, and I always end up better off (or less out of pocket as Mrs Exiled would frame it). If you have a few minutes to spare of course.
Fair enough, I just cancel online and they get in touch offering a too good to refuse deal.
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54 minutes ago, sweaty craiq said:
Derek and the Wakey lad probably have a huge thing in common - no point filling in small losses over a long time but winning nowt when you can throw the gamble in a short space and have a much higher chance to succeed
Like Fev did, if it works it’s great but if it doesn’t it’s hideous, and winning/losing in the championship play offs is a very fine margin.
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2 hours ago, EggFace said:
The lady over the phone did but then I bet she didn't have a clue about what I was taking about.
She was probably amazed anyone orders a Sky package over the phone in 2024.
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9 hours ago, EggFace said:
Lat week looked forward to the Penrith v Parra game and it wasn't on Sky just the Dolphins etc but I was sold the deal that every Super League and NRL deal was on Sky when the lass was wrong...also no Storm or Manly game last weekend.
Did Sky say they’d be showing every NRL game?
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Quality player, one who I’d tune in to watch when he was at Salford, I’d love him to come back to SL.
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2 hours ago, iangidds said:
Your finances are more than welcome in Montenegro! A great place for holidays and be part of a rugby league club in the Balkan super league
Are you in the Balkan super league?
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16 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
Leeds united in the soccer Championship being a good parallel to Wakey this year
Football teams being galvanised after being relegated are too many to name, particularly for some reason when they drop into non league, though of course some teams have withered and died when the same happened to them.
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1 hour ago, DemonUK said:
I hate doing things like this. I think you meant 100g as 200g is nearer half a pound.
Ha ha yes
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50 minutes ago, OriginalMrC said:
I think that is unlikely unless they have very deep pockets and a long term plan to be in Super League. Think the Super League quota of 2 foreign clubs will put them off
The parochial quota, all clubs must be within 3 miles of an M62 junction.
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They’d better hope no more teams fold in the next two seasons.
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Welcoming applications for an 11th league one team is a good laugh. Would this new team be expected to pay all the away teams costs, and asked not to enter the 1895 cup?
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14 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
That’s not true either. You could sell in any quantity you liked but you had to list the amount in metric as well as imperial. Hence a pint didn’t become 500ml.
It never says 586ml in a pub though, always a pint or half.
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1 hour ago, JonM said:
The Metrication Act was passed in 1965, well before the UK joined the EU.
Yes but the EU enforced sales in metric, like a quarter of sweets became (the marginally smaller) 200g.
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4 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:
Brexit may not but I am pretty sure the EU, Britains former membership of, has plenty to do with it. Could have sworn when I arrived in UK, shops were still selling fruit and veg by imperial measurements until the EU forced the metric system upon the UK.
Trying to keep in keeping with this thread, do we think EU membership and/or subsequently Brexit has had any effect on RL attendances?
Yes fair enough the EU did force that and it hasn’t changed back. But no I don’t think it’s had any impact whatsoever on attendances.
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11 hours ago, Sports Prophet said:
I was going to call your use of imperial measurements as blasphemy and consider reporting you and the forum to the EU, then I remembered the whole Brexit thing.
Then I remembered a story of some street green grocer who refused to sell his fruit in metric measurements. I am pretty sure he was repeatedly fined. He was like the Imperial Measurement Martyr.
Now that Brexit has occurred, are British returning to their imperial measurement ways, or has everything remained metric?
Brexit has nothing to do with it, older people tend to use imperial measurements, younger people increasingly use metric. I like our archaic use of the imperial system.
2024 attendance thread
in The General Rugby League Forum
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There is merit in having a ground slightly too small, as people see tickets as a great thing to have and buy them early. I’d wager that if your ground was 5k bigger there’d have been fewer tickets sold for the Broncos game at this stage.