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Rugby League World Cup 2021 (Merged Threads)
Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
You mustn’t get to watch much rugby then if you’re more bothered about the towns and cities games are played in than the product on the pitch. I’ll look forward to watching Australia, PNG, Tonga and Fiji while you look at libraries and bus stations. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Don’t worry, Judith Chalmers and Wish You Were Here won’t be reviewing the cities. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Hopefully there’s not too much hassle with the rearranging of the tournament in terms of dates, venues and the like. As for what happens internationally in the northern hemisphere, there should be games. There should be every year, mind, so that’s not a big statement to make. I do fear though that the apathy towards the game and the crowds we’ve seen since the return of fans combined could mean we see relatively poor crowds if there are games. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Let it go, it’s over. World Cup off this year. We might get it next year, probably not, there’ll be something else to blame, a new calendar, the wrong shaped clouds etc. -
Didn’t he “buy” Bath or Bristol and somehow link them to Spain?
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Rugby League World Cup 2021 (Merged Threads)
Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Yes, it is double standards. Our feet stamping about the Australians is laughable when we play Combined Nations over an actual nation in a World Cup year, for example. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I’ve not seen anything that suggests that Australia and New Zealand won’t play international games or games against England. I read it as they will play, on their terms. Once the coup d’état gets more traction behind it, it’s then up to England to decide whether they follow suit and pander to the two of them in the hope they get some games against the two or go off on their own, becoming a huge fish in a tiny pond, relatively speaking, in which their biggest test will be Combined Nations. Ultimately, the cards are stacked in the favour of Australia and New Zealand. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/kangaroos/international-rugby-league-in-line-for-huge-boost-with-kangaroos-tour-and-pacific-tests-in-2019/news-story/3155632df64806de390f0869f72bd1d1 I knew the NRL had proposed things in the past and this is as good as I can find in relation to what they were proposing in 2018. Now, it’s not terrible, IMO. There’s a few tweaks we’d all make, I imagine but that wouldn’t have been a disaster of a schedule. Obviously that doesn’t account for pandemics or a change in ARL chairman, who is likely to have his own ideas. I’m certainly not advocating the coup d’état but I can see a proposal coming in the next six months or so, so we’re going to have to listen. -
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (Merged Threads)
Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
NRL now saying talks have started with Maori and Indigenous sides. Stick a fork in it, the World Cup is done. -
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (Merged Threads)
Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Exactly, this. -
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (Merged Threads)
Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Yes. There’s nothing there that’s suggesting what you are. -
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (Merged Threads)
Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
There’s been absolutely zero suggestion of that at the minute, so it’s a bit pointless discussing it. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
We just need to really focus on making the remaining Southern Hemisphere nations comfortable and happy to travel and replace the two with actual nations to save the tournament. Postponing/cancelling would be devastating on a number of levels. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
There’s some fair and valid concerns in that statement from the NRL clubs in relation to a few things. That said, its a convenient deflection to use for what is yet to come. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Ultimately, this. I was debating going to Newcastle for the opening game of England v Samoa because I felt there was a genuine threat to England on that day and felt I’d see a close game. Sheffield happens to be one of my favourite cities for a day out but I had no interest in going to England v Greece as I don’t really fancy seeing a 70-0 game. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I find comparisons a bit unnecessary. The package on offer by Japan for travelling athletes is likely to be very different to the package offered to Rugby League teams for a start, so it’s a bit like comparing apples and oranges. But as I say, I can understand why some players may not, at this time, want to travel over here. I do also think that Covid is an easy excuse for the powers that be down under to prepare a coup d’état, which it appears is their ulterior motive here. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I do. To an extent. It’s certainly easy to jump onto the coat tails of and use it as a deflection for other thoughts or motives though. The numbers for Covid here recently haven’t been great and I can see why some may look at it unfavourably and be wary of such travel. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I didn’t know Covid didn’t exist in coffee shops. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
The Australian media are going to do say that though, aren’t they? It’s just like people involved in the media here saying the Premier League is the “Best League in the World” and all of their usual spiel about that league when there’s four other top European leagues. Our media are pretty negative and our fans typically go on some arrogant ego trip about how it’s the greatest game, how bad football is etc. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
50/50 whether it goes ahead at all, according to Dutton. Discussions still ongoing. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Choosing invitational teams over actual nations to replace Australia and New Zealand would be so very Rugby League. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I mean, he has a point about the bastions of International RL. A month ago, we played a select team, not a National one and couldn’t name who was playing 48 hours before the game. The irony isn’t lost on me. That said, whataboutism doesn’t really do much in this instance. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
https://mobile.twitter.com/NRLonNine/status/1418919595189149708 Going to be some angry people on here abusing him now…I bet they’re preparing angry emails to an unmanned info@ email to the NRL as I type. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
No. They’re all either awaiting further information or consulting players, it seems. -
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Hela Wigmen replied to frank's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Also still uncertainties around the pacific nations, too.