Derwent Parker

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No he wasn't one of the cheeks - he is in between them

Because the RFL does not care about anyone other than SL

Correct, 2 cheeks of same backside - -point was cost not who is causing it. It is a potential cost that Town currently dont have?

There;s other things too Town play at summer so apart from a rarity - dont use floodlights. Reds play at winter [also many more games] and some at night so with shorter days will use the floodlights far more. With electric under labour and stupid milliband being extortionate - who pays the leccy bill???

2 Main things really, I dont like low level stands - might be ok for soccer but the only ones who will have a view as good as we have at DP will be the back few rows and the boxes. Also dont like plastic pitches, again - might be ok for soccer because they practice their diving and rolling about crying and pretending to be injured , but rugby wise - I remember a couple seasons ago Wakefield had a plastic pitch laid and most of the players had blood running from their knees etc. hell on about it Also these pitches usually are covered in too many line markings - saw a cup match a couple year ago think it was Oldham at their previous ground and a player dived over for a try and got back up and ref disallowed it cos it was wrong line. On grass markings wear out or can be cut out when changed for rugby/soccer etc, permanent on plastic and looks stupid. Also the plans looked ok at full completion 5k capacity with 2k seats - but will that ever happen????? Bit small now. Plus has the finances been sorted ?? - do the Bods of both teams know or is it a wait and see? Town make a lot of money at DP from events and drink etc or are finances shared in any way

Loans are ok - D/R is awful

Better if it is being scrapped? All the good work town BOD have done - will be lost, BP too small a footprint for likes of Big tent we have, which generates extra income - that's assuming they get to keep drinks income - stadium needs to make money from somewhere if both clubs teams are playing for free?? or are all the ladies teams going to lose access to stadium - and made to play on greyhound track.

scrap it now and merge the leagues at end of season

With 23 teams in Champ/C1 it would mean that you cant play everyone H & A, so for example you dont play 7 teams at all , which when designed at start of first season it could be seeded so bottom of C1 dont play top Champ teams, Fixtures done by position numbers not team names. so works easy every season. Not playing 7 teams means you would still play other 15 teams H & A like we used too pre SL start.1995 This current season started on 23/Feb. and ends on 7/Sept prior to play offs During this we will only have 18 matches [9 home games] - during this period we will have had 11 blank weeks, ELEVEN blank weeks THEREFORE almost 3 months of blank weeks - which means we could have played 15 teams [30 games] in this same timespan, This is Probably to difficult for RFL to organize - but somebody clever could sort the fixtures out.

Need to merge champ and L1 - that will help

yes i do

There are lots already on you tube - ashton era

What about the Leigh game - a few tries there?

awesome, just had a couple of bad days but feel great after watching that, because from 1 to 15 they were awesome. Our current team going well now, also great to watch.

Always going to happen in this useless league - to many teams with no games just read Swinton has a 3 week gap - we have also had same. season started on 23/Feb. and ends on 7/Sept prior to play offs - During this we will only have 18 matches [9 home games] - during this period we will have had 11 blank weeks, ELEVEN blank weeks THEREFORE almost 3 months of blank weeks. Get the 2 leagues merged and have a proper league with a match every week like before SL

and the right colour blue

What??? each SL team gets approx as much as ALL Champ and ALL L1 teams added together?

Its nothing to do with the seasons - winter/summer This season started on 23/Feb. and ends on 7/Sept prior to play offs During this we will only have 18 matches [9 home games] - during this period we will have had 11 blank weeks, ELEVEN blank weeks THEREFORE almost 3 months of blank weeks. This is just incompetence - the RFL are just not interested in anything other than Super league. When SL only had 12 teams hence 22 matches RFL arrange loop matches and magic to give them 27 matches, but the RFL done nothing about the L1 clubs ITs a disgrace

The team played great from 1 to 17 thoroughly enjoyed it - Graham made a few great breaks - one leading to Dom;s try I believe but you are correct he has a habit of coming on and dropping it a few times, but that's unfortunate that some players take a lot longer to wash all the Jam off their hands?

and complaining about the ref

Vimto on top of Jam Sarnies - lethal combo

Still think we need more matches - far to many blank weekends in L1. in 2023 L1 we had 18 matches absolute useless league. Should go back to pre Super league days. Just picked a season out [happens to be a favourite] 1977-78 First Division 30 matches Challenge Cup 5 matches [for finalists] Player's No.6 Trophy 5 matches [for finalists] BBC2 Floodlit Trophy 5 matches [for finalists] Lancashire Cup or Yorkshire 5 matches [for finalists] So a potential 50 match season and they all had to go to work - with proper jobs even 1995 had a 30 match season - then Super league started following year and made the game go soft??? and here we are now! All the matches have gone , all the comps have gone, and are the RFL bothered that teams are struggling in L1 with hardly any matches [gate income] - NO all the RFL are bothered about are the top 12 teams????.

Good idea, middles 8s would have 23 games? which is not a problem.

Come on Town - put this to bed, going over there will kill town off and will be the biggest mistake ever, other than voting starmer in again