Billy King's Boots
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Oldham are chucking a bucket of cash at it aka "The Toronto Model" - we all know how that ended
Word from the sheds is that they're going full time next year
Good if you have bottomless pockets.
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On 07/06/2025 at 11:44, E.Thickett said:
There are some teams in League one chucking buckets of cash at players. Some are doing better than us - and some decidedly worse. Hornets have always done the best we can with whatever we've got and I don't see that any different now.
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On 03/06/2025 at 09:58, E.Thickett said:
I started to watch Hornets in 1963 before moving away. I have watched them for 30 years since returning .If nothing . I is done to stop the rot I will not be there next season I do not enjoy the match day experience any more
Serious question: what is it about the match-day experience you don't like? Hornets holds up well against every other club in League 1 and as good as some in the Championship.
No club in this division has money to blow on pre-match/half-time 'entertainment', so I'm not sure what you expect from match-day.
I don't know what you think is 'rotting' - but the club's in as good shape as it's been for a while. What would you suggest to improve things?-
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Historically: Apisai Toga. World class.
Modern Era: Paul Crook. Captained Rochdale Hornets to two trophies and equalled the club's points record.
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On 24/05/2025 at 13:04, The Blues Ox said:
Ive also wondered why more fans don't stand where the protestors are to avoid paying in.
We were at the game last Friday and seriously contemplated standing on the hill and watching for nowt.
Our observations were that there's absolutely nothing around the ground, so don't get there early. And the floodlights are embarrassingly poor. -
On 28/04/2025 at 20:34, Anita Bath said:
Hope the seats will be a bit bigger and leg room will be increased to finally end the ‘yorksher model’ of preventing you getting your hand in your pocket.
This. Legroom is worse than Old Trafford - and that's worse than Ryanair.
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10 minutes ago, clwydianrange said:
Whitehaven to beat Dewsbury. I watched Whitehaven last week against Crusaders and they are a better team than the scoreline suggested.
I saw us thrash Dewsbury last weekend. They were awful. Haven for the win.
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Worky by 30
Hornets by 18
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On 28/04/2025 at 16:53, Ivarr the Boneless said:
Iffley Road, Oxford, was a glorious place to watch RL on a nice day. The ground at Abingdon was best viewed on a very foggy day.
Abingdon is also in the running for the lowest capacity stand in world Rugby League.
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3 hours ago, Bull Mania said:
Best - Fortunate enough to have recently attended a Parramatta Eels game at CommBank Stadium (Western Sydney Stadium)Just a fantastic experience for RL geeks to experience an NRL game.
I went to the inaugural game, and been to a couple since. It's absolutely fantastic - a great RL day out, and a genuinely well-conceived/designed stadium built with supporter comfort/viewing in mind. The new Sydney Football Stadium is pretty close too - great sightlines from everywhere.
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Best for sightlines/facilities is CommBank Stadium.
Best for authentic RL heritage is Henson Park, closely followed by Lidcombe Oval, with Bramley a close third.
Best for Atmosphere was Central Park when it was rammed.
Best for a day trip is Workington or Whitehaven: drive through the lakes, bit of lunch lovely.
Best for a few days away = Edinburgh
Worst for sightlines/facilities = Whitebank, Sheffield, Wentworth Park (just move that bl00dy greyhound scoreboard) and, since the development, Shark Park Cronulla: all the General Admission views are compromised.
Worst for authentic RL heritage is either Salford Community Stadium or Sheffield
Worst for atmosphere = Alexander Stadium, Birmingham or Stade Ernest Argeles in Blagnac
Worst for a a day trip is Barrow.
Worst for a few days away = Blackpool -
Dewsbury by 40
Goole by 6
Haven by 12
Midlands by 12
And Hornets to win the Andy Mazey Derby by 14-
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27 minutes ago, maccbull_bigbullybooaza said:
When the NRL buy our sport they'll most likely merge Salford, Rochdale, Oldham, Leigh & Wigan to form the Manchester club. This is going to be massive for the sport.
The Leeds team will be big too taking in Leeds, Hunslet, Wakefield, Castleford and Featherstone.
Their end-game will be to merge all teams west of the pennines into a massive regional superclub. Similarly all the clubs east of the pennines, and the three cumbrian clubs. Midlands, London and Cornwall will all be merged into a Southern superclub - and we'll have four massive clubs playing each other five times a season in some massive National Four Regions competition until we all die of boredom.
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On 16/03/2025 at 11:25, The Art of Hand and Foot said:
A sad tale of ineptitude at the RFL. Why am I not surprised!? BTW, where exactly where the mancunians based?
They were out at Manchester Rugby Union, if my ailing memory serves me correctly. I have one of their hoodies in the wardrobe somewhere.
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Clubs set the environment, values, expactations and attitudes. Players buy into that and drive it, creating a culture of joint purpose, collective effort, recognition of contribution and unity. One or two clubs out there with particularly dysfunctional/toxic cultures ATM - and that breeds disharmony, disaffection and fragmentation (looking at Keighley and Fev here).
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28 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:
Thanks Billy. What’s Rugby Union ?
It's like Rugby League - but for fat lads, or lads with no pace or skill.
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51 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:
A real game of two halves. We started off playing really slap dash, sloppy rugby, making mistake after mistake. Cornwall probably thought they’d nothing to beat early on. In fact they scored a try in the far corner that was ruled out for a forward pass. From my position it was just forward but I’ve seen plenty just like it not be spotted and given as a try. That should have been a warning to us but it took us 30 odd minutes to really get going. I don’t know what was said at half time but it certainly worked. The second half was almost non stop one way traffic. We stopped making mistakes, got everybody running hard and straight, and the flood gates opened. Not the sort of half I particularly enjoy to be honest. Fair play to Pirates, in spite of taking a beating they never resorted to foul play at any time and they kept doing their best in what was a thankless task.
The Cornish Pirates are the Rugby Union side. Cornwall RLFC's nickname is The Choughs
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Keighley as bad as Hornets were ruthless today. Hornets clinical, their big pack bullied the Cougars all over the park.
Despite Keighley's best efforts to decapitate Hornets' Lewis Else (an act of willful thuggery deliberately designed to incapacitate Hornets' playmaker), Hornets just shifted up through the gears and left the Cougars chasing shadows.
Great hat-trick from Hornets MOM Luke 'The Nuke' Forber - including an 80 metre effort that left lead-footed Cougars stranded in his wake.
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9 hours ago, Hopping Mad said:
" We have to admit that we have over-stretched ourselves putting together a squad capable of remaining in the Championship. We have invited supporters to purchase debentures, taking an ownership of the club, and we are open to discussions if there was some serious investment from potential new owners. We could have put together a squad within our financial limits but the danger was that we could have lost supporters and sponsors, and be in a more serious hole. However, there isn't an infinite pot of money within the current board, and that may be the direction of travel unless we can start to generate the income to match expenditure...."
"We've spent more than we're capable of raising in revenue to build a squad we can't afford, to gamble on staying in the championship, though we might go bust trying: instead of building a squad we can afford, that might lose a few more games. But if we do tank, we'll end up there anyway, having burned a shedload of cash we couldn't afford"?
Take that business plan to Dragon's Den, lads.
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Since the end of last season, The Dale have played on the pitch over a dozen times and Hornets once.
Proof if any were needed that football ruins the pitch
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On 29/01/2025 at 10:29, tuutaisrambo said:
The current Fev logo exists because they wanted a version of the Featherstone coat of arms simple enough to put on a pen. Then after I created the 1921 logo for this purpose (pens, pin badges etc) they used it on a kit (without telling me), then realised that the badge doesn't actually say Featherstone Rovers anywhere which resulted in the logo that we have now.
When I first started helping the club out around 15 years ago the logo they used for marketing was a jpeg of a fuzzy photo of the town coat of arms.
Ah, the 'shield within a shield' solution as invented by Burnley FC...
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On 23/01/2025 at 12:15, Bert Street said:
Talking to a Hornets fan last , who said Oldham had tried to sign Else. He said Rochdale had trebled his money to get him to stay.
Think he is a belter, but does tend to pick up injuries.
He had one serious injury last season - and that was when he was cynically targeted by Keighley. And he's worth every penny.
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On 22/01/2025 at 22:41, Bert Street said:
Dean does worry me.
You tend to get one piece of brilliant play per game, but a lot of very inaccurate passing.
He's super predictable. Runs left, kicks right. On more than two occasions on Wednesday, all the momentum of an Oldham move was going to your right edge and Dean went back against the current to no prevail.
And you can read his last tackle kicks in braille.
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Hornets two missed conversions away from beating an Oldham side that's spent money like a drunken sailor.
And there are zero replies?
This forum is dead.
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