[The Cornwall RLFC Thread]

5 minutes ago, ArthurO said:

I don't know if this is a little 'off topic' but, in the context of 'attendance at sporting events in Cornwall'. I live about three miles away from United Downs (stock cars and bangers) Raceway in St Day. The racetrack is about five miles away from Penryn, where the rugby club would be based, but it's much harder to get to as the roads on the Downs get progressively smaller/narrower. The racetrack itself is situated in the center of a long-gone copper mine. The area around the track is huge. When I attended the race meeting on Sunday just gone (31st Oct) although it's obviously difficult to put an exact figure on the attendance because it's an open, embanked, no-terracing, oval around the track perimeter, I would guestimate there to be about 3,000 people (male and female) of all ages. The weather wasn't good, it rained, bring your own chairs and there's no shelter. I guestimate about seven or eight hundred cars in the official (waste ground) car park with many more parked out on the roads and industrial estates adjacent to the official car park. It took me about 45 minutes to exit through the gate after the race ended. BUT, this is the point, stock car and banger racing truly is a 'minority sport' with little or no media 'exposure'. Yet on Sunday there were drivers racing their cars there that had come down from Rochdale, Sheffield, Ormskirk and a town in Essex amongst many other places not in Cornwall. During the course of the year there are regular 'Challenge Cup' races between English and Scottish drivers. Nobody complains about the distance they have had to travel in order to get there even though they are pulling a racing drone drone warble warble car on a heavy trailer behind their team vans and/or wagons. Sadly, due to historical 'political' circumstances the racetrack may not have a future in 2022. Perhaps some of that big crowd (by Championship /League 1 standards) could be attracted to a 'New' sporting event (R.L), on a Sunday, just a mere five miles away ? ?  Who knows ? ?

     

It definitely is.

[The Cornwall RLFC Thread]

1 minute ago, Tabby said:

Surely they can leave on a Thursday and get back for Monday at work.. Small details.

Eeeeeeee...... It weren't like that in my day. We 'ad Yorkshire league for us, and Lancs league for them uns.

FFS. Even people who are HALF serious about their sport can do 1 overnight trip per season.

 

[The Cornwall RLFC Thread]

27 minutes ago, ShropshireBull said:

  It's once a year.  Leave saturday night, play Sunday,  coach back. This is ridículous.  Lads here in Spain getting buses from Bilbao to Seville for rugby. 

100% mate. It's embarrassing listening to them.

(Although you wouldn't leave Saturday night. You have to leave earlier in the day to get to the hotel at a reasonable hour. Small details though).

[The Cornwall RLFC Thread]

5 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Let’s face it some people think there should only be clubs in Lancashire and Yorkshire, they even moan about Cumbrian clubs as it’s too far to travel. I expect Wigan will be next, that’s over 12 miles from the nearest junction of the M62. 

I think you are right - Wigan will be next. Mainly because the "moaners" overwhelmingly seem to support Yorkshire clubs. 

[The Cornwall RLFC Thread]

18 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

The rest of the paragraph that you left out provided the relevance.

 

Fair enough. Maybe I jumped the gun.

I just re-read his whole paragraph and I still see zero relevance to Rugby League in 2022.

Basically he went to a county rugby union match, over 30 years ago, and there was a lot of people from Cornwall there (30 years ago) and only a few from Yorkshire.

And somehow this is meant to tell us that Cornwall could be the launchpad for Toronto Wolfpack 2.0???

WTF?

[The Cornwall RLFC Thread]

7 hours ago, Scubby said:

My guess is that they will sign half a dozen Queensland Cup level Australian players on full-time contracts and then build a team around them with locals and a few loans from SL clubs. That would make them reasonably competitive in League 1 pretty quickly IMO

How do you get work permits for full time Australian players in League 1?

I thought that was what caused the undoing of Celtic Crusaders a few years ago. They had to have guys on holiday visas as they couldn't get work permits?

To me, it doesn't sound viable at all.

[The Cornwall RLFC Thread]

6 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

I remember attending a county championship rugby union final at Twickenham around 30 years ago

 

 

What has that got to do with a Rugby League club allegedly launching in 2022?

 

[The Cornwall RLFC Thread]

52 minutes ago, ShropshireBull said:

it also helps as clear signal to Union : Close the door to the Prem and Cornwall can just go over to league and have tv coverage and summer crowds instead. 

It really doesn't.

That is complete fantasy. They will not "just go over to league and have TV coverage". Dream on.

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As recently as 2013, the MEN was reporting that Salford were moving to THIS place.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/salford-stadium-gets-green-light-884852.amp

 

Fast forward a few short years, and they have left the Willows. Rented a krappy box stadium that looks nothing like this, been effectively booted out by a union club who were not even involved originally, and are now moving their Super League operation into a non-league soccer ground.

If they keep regressing at the same rate, they'll be part time in a couple of seasons.

Tragic mismanagement, of the type that only Rugby League seems consistently capable.

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2 hours ago, ShropshireBull said:

 

On Union, that´s what happens when you mix professionalism with the availability of lots of ped´s.

 

I am not for a second saying you are wrong.

But........ Is it not a bit risky on here alleging that a rival sport has a lot of drugs in it?

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6 minutes ago, M j M said:

Has it ever been clear to anyone why Cas ditched amber for that grotesque orange colour? It just seems such a dumb thing to do.

"Tigers"

Nickname, branding. Tigers are not amber.