Cumbrian Mackem
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2 hours ago, gingerjon said:
Reading around it, it's about 70/30 likely. But four years off is the absolute earliest it could happen.
I wonder if the PNGRL would allow a Bougainville based franchise compete in the digicel cup?
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8 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
It remains an Autonomous Region within Papua New Guinea that may, at the earliest, become an independent territory in 2025.
So it’s a case of when and not if?
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28 minutes ago, langpark said:
I think this topic has come up before.
RL gains nothing if this happens. If Qld became independent from Aus tomorrow, what do we gain? Do the number of people playing and watching the game, magically go up overnight?
What do you mean if??
Bougainville is already an independent country and to the best of my knowledge there’s zero RL activity going on in Indonesia.
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Indonesia and Bougainville?
Indonesia has 2 provinces on the western half of New Guinea island in Papua and west Papua which could benefit from RL being the National sport in neighbouring Papua New Guinea.
Boungainville recently voted for independence from Papua New Guinea in 2019 and has a long history of RL being played on the island which has a population of 300k.
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1 hour ago, gingerjon said:
What a guy.
I think old Israel needs to practice a little more what he preaches.
Matthew 6:24
“No man can serve two masters: for either he. Will hate the one, and love the other; or else. He will hold to the one, and despise the other, ye cannot serve god and mammon.
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8 hours ago, The Frying Scotsman said:
In the real world meanwhile, this is extremely unlikely to happen.
Unless people try it won’t happen but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility.
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22 minutes ago, Big Picture said:
I know already, but they sure aren't "East Coast cities" — Montréal is more than 1200 km from Halifax and anyone in the media here knows that — so it's an elementary mistake to make, and more to the point one which a Canadian would not make.
Just re-read it and you’re right. Are all 3 cities described as eastern cities by Canadians?
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4 hours ago, Big Picture said:
Whoever wrote that doesn't doesn't seem to know much about the geography of Canada. Toronto, Hamilton and Montréal aren't anywhere near the east coast.
Eastern conference.
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22 minutes ago, GeordieSaint said:
I presume one of those Ontario’s is Ottawa…
It would appear that Toronto and Hamilton are the Ontario teams.
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I’ll be boring and say it’s probably a bit of both.
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19 minutes ago, Henson Park Old Firm said:
weren't the NRL going to buy up the league?
They’ve obviously got more sense.
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5 minutes ago, kiwis 13 6 said:
Unfortunately I think your right, I also doubt that NRL will reinvest any significant amount of profit from NZ TV rights back into grassroots game in NZ. NRL in its various incarnations have a 27 year history of putting nothing from NZ TV right profits back into NZ grassroots. The NRL has now already got more money for the NZ TV rights, which has been quoted as $160 over 5 years or $32 million/year. That is enough money to fund 2 & 1/2 NRL club grants of $12.5 million/year. IF the NRL just pockets all the profits and continues to spend all of NZ sourced profits to fund Australain based player development pathways ,Bunker referees, NRL administrators salaries...it really would greed of a sickening level.
What does the NZRL have to say if at all anything about this?
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9 minutes ago, The Rocket said:
Mack, money is what is good for the game, with money you can do everything, and if you`ve got enough of it you could even put a team in Perth and pay for it.
No mate, it is all about money, and the more you have of it the better. They say it`s what makes the world go around apparently.
Money is indeed good for the game but only if you are willing to re-invest a certain amount of said money back into the game in order to grow the game even more.
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2 minutes ago, Copa said:
The NRL CEO has talked about the possibility of a second NZ team. I doubt he was deliberately lying.
Past NRL CEO’s have also talked about the possibility of a 2nd NZ team along with a Perth team and expansion as a whole and yet we are still waiting to see such teams.
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2 hours ago, frank said:
There won't be a 2nd NZ team in the NRL. The Aussies have no intention of commiting themselves to that.
They are only interested in what they can take out of NZ not putting anything in. There is talk about getting rid of the women's team due to the fact it is costing them.
You can’t compare the women’s game to a 2nd NZ NRL franchise although I do agree with you that 99% of the time the NRL’s thinking and decision making are based on $$$ and what’s not necessarily good for the game.
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3 minutes ago, barnyia said:
The fédération doesn't do much for junior development, its the clubs who do most of the work, usually by very keen volunteers and parents!
Is there a French equivalent of sport England? Are government grants available for sporting programs?
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6 minutes ago, Eddie said:
More how many teams / participants there are, but yeah who funds it
I don’t know who funds it but if true it shows that somebody is and that funding RL activity in big cities far from the heartland can and is being found and is not pie in the sky la la land thinking.
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I fancy the giants for this one. Not sure of any score but I fancy the giants to overcome Catalan.
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40 minutes ago, Eddie said:
Is there? That’s great news! Do you know much about it?
Let me guess. You want to know Who funds it
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26 minutes ago, DoubleD said:
Plenty of good junior development in Lyon...........just nothing at the top of the tree
Who runs the junior development?
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11 minutes ago, Barley Mow said:
If Eddie has used Google to translate, I've noticed that it always translates 'Rugby à XIII' as rugby union when it should be league.
I'm sure it must be part of some conspiracy!
Remnants of Vichy in Silicon Valley .
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10 hours ago, Eddie said:
Le Midol reveals that the French Rugby Union Federation is considering an Elite 1 with eleven teams for the 2021-2022 season. It's no secret that Luc Lacoste is quickly aiming for a 12-team championship but had recently explained in La Dépêche du Midi that this would not be possible for the 2021-2022 season due to the health crisis. If we were heading towards a 10-team recovery, the Midi Olympique revealed that the possibility of integrating an eleventh is currently being studied while the FFR XIII works on the development of the next calendars. According to our information, this eleventh team in Elite 1 could be Toulon who has never hidden their desire to progress to the highest level in France as soon as possible. The Var club had made a big recruitment for the 2020-2021 Elite 2 season but it was ultimately canceled due to Covid-19.
Shouldn’t that be French Rugby league federation instead of “French rugby Union federation “?
Or are Toulon a dual rugby club like Leeds or harlequins of the past?
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33 minutes ago, The Frying Scotsman said:
I think we have missed the boat on Montpelier.
Colleague of mine is from there, mid-40s, and tells me that when he was a kid, they would go to watch rugby, and in Montpelier that meant Rugby League in those days.
He is now a card carrying supporter of the Union team, who are seriously cashed up, with a nice stadium, and plenty of supporters. Rugby League is gone from there for good I reckon.
Maybe it wouldn’t be the #1 code in the city but like Toulouse and Perpignan I’m sure that RL could carve out a following.
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2 minutes ago, The Daddy said:
But, but Wakefield.......
And it has beaches on the Mediterranean.
Potential new RL playing nations?
in The International Rugby League Forum
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I wonder if the Indonesian government forbids or is hostile towards the natives playing RL?