Les Tonks Sidestep
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16 minutes ago, haskey said:
If that is the case . the league must dump IMG at the very earliest opportunity. Ie cutting our losses.
It could well cost the game a small fortune if IMG sue for breach of contract.
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17 hours ago, The Future is League said:
That sounds a hell of a gamble to me
Really? Its no more, and almost certainly less, of a gamble than having that spend budget in the Championship.
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5 hours ago, gazza77 said:
Given the change is dated from 24th sept and is only to note persons of significant control, it feels to me like this is simply correcting an error. Unless Paddy had either bought out Mark or had more newly created shares then he wouldn't necessarily have been a person of significant control, irrespective of being nominated to the board as chair.
No changes have been made to the listed directors.
The Confirmation Statement dated 22/12/24 (filed on 19/1/25) showed a transfer on 26/9/24 of 41360 (B) shares previously held by MC with a new entry for PH as a holder of 41360 B shares.
Colm Corran also ceased to be a director on 25/3/25 but was reappointed the same day.......
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4 hours ago, sheddingswasus said:
I said on an earlier post that awarding points for this rather on on field performance is wrong. But, making them part of minimum standards ( after bulletting IMG) is a different matter
We've had minimum standards for years. The problem is that they weren't enforced. Even under IMG the stated minimum standards in the guide book have 'get outs'.
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For anyone travelling to Fev on Sunday please note that the M62 will be closed westbound between junctions 29 (Lofthouse) and 28 (Tingley) from 9pm on Friday 4 July until Monday 7 July at 5am. Diversion will be via M1/M621. As far as I can tell the eastbound carriageway will remain open (but please double check as reports I saw a few weeks ago were that it was going to be a full motorway closure).
Safe journey if you are coming.
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24 minutes ago, N2022 said:
Small detail and my phone is doing some weird stuff, so I'm.open to correction, but it looks like BBC sport home page in mobile view no longer offers Rugby League in the first part of the dropdown, 8 or 9 most searched for sports. Looks like it's been moved for Euro 2025 and Cycling to get seasonal priority. Not sure if this has happened before but we are now with Darts, Horse Racing etc
This comes up regularly - you are almost certainly on the bbc.com not bbc.co.uk site
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15 minutes ago, fighting irish said:
I've not given a great deal of thought to this issue but wouldn't you agree that it's impossible for the referee to know whether a player is really injured or not?
Penalising a player for feigning injury (when he can't know for certain) leaves the referee wide open to scathing criticism.
Surely the ''six again'' option can be used to discourage deliberate time wasting and so it should but I think the ''wasted'' time should be added on the clock as well.
It's colloquially referred to as ''injury time'' but the principle of adding time is equally valid whether someone is injured or whether someone is wasting time deliberately to run the clock down.
I prefer this combination of options rather than suggesting the referee should make a guess and punish a player, when he simply can't confidently claim the player is not in pain.
Not sure that would help at all as it's usually the team in possession 'wasting' time so giving them 6 again would almost certainly encourage it more.
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1 hour ago, The Blues Ox said:
I didn't agree with the length of ban that Titus Gwaze got for lifting an injured player, I think he got 8 games, so in that respect Horne got off lightly but I still think its a bit of a shambles. On one hand we are saying do not lift an injured player and then in the next breath ref's are actively encouraging injured players to stand up and play the ball so we don't have a stoppage and a VR review of the incident.
There's a huge difference in refs encouraging an injured player to get up under their own steam and someone lifting an injured player.
edit: redundant apostrophe removed
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15 minutes ago, RigbyLuger said:
https://www.totalrl.com/bradford-bulls-being-in-super-league-in-2026-is-realistic/
Someone let the writer know that "West Yorkshire Radio" is not a real station that broadcasts Rugby League.
Without clicking on the link my money's on the article being written by Callum Walker?
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17 minutes ago, whatmichaelsays said:
It's a common tactic used by supporters of lower league clubs to keep insisting that we need to keep funding the lower leagues because "they're the heart of the community game" and because "the talent pool dries up without them".
When the reality is that these clubs don't provide the talent pool - that comes from amateur clubs. The lower league clubs just take the players the top clubs don't want.
It's not "showing disdain for lower league clubs" to question whether spending millions of central funding on keeping the likes of Craig Hall Jarrod Sammut and Paul Sykes earning a living from the game might not be a great return on investment.
You are Ian Lenagan and I claim my £5.....
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Ex Northants, Durham and England cricketer Wayne Larkins, 71.
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11 hours ago, Chilli Sauce said:
Appreciate its somewhat of a tiresome ask (apologies) but is anyone please able to summarise the key points from tonight, esp regarding the current & new ground situation. Unfortunately I can’t access the Twitter updates.
- New ground: SYMCA and SCC don't want the stadium at Meadowhead due to its location and the application is on hold. However, they are still planning for the new ground to be ready in 2 years time with a capacity of 2500.
- They're not on the best of terms with the owners of the OLP, but relations are better than they were. SG wanted them out at one point.
- Income is ca£900k less than expenditure(!) with central funding of £30k.
- Average crowd ca 1000
- Aston's was hard done by and his punishment unfair - although some people from the floor said they told Aston MM was not available for selection. The club and RFL are still agreeing changes in lieu of a reduced financial penalty.
- The Board fully support Lingard.
- They have no idea what will happen to the Championship/L1 going forward and have no influence on the current ongoing review.
Edit: source Eagles Chat Twitter
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1 hour ago, The Phantom Horseman said:
Looks like no further action following the incident involving Gareth Gale which was put on report.
https://www.rugby-league.com/article/63947/disciplinary-|-match-review-panel-Just clicked on that and saw these:
Izaac Farrell (Keighley Cougars) - Opposition: Swinton Lions - Grade C Head Contact - Fine - Penalty Points: 3 - Total Penalty Points: 5.5
Izaac Farrell (Keighley Cougars) - Opposition: Swinton Lions - Grade C Foul Language Towards Referee - 1 Match Suspension and Fine - Penalty Points: 5 - Total Penalty Points: 9
Do they need a new abacus or is it the vagaries of the Penalty Points system?
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47 minutes ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:
I wonder exactly when in September the adjourned court hearing will be reconvened. I am no expert in these matters, but I would have assumed that if a winding-up request is successful, then the company to whom it applied must cease trading forthwith (unless there is a right of appeal).
As I understand it, Salford's last three SL fixtures are scheduled for the 4th, 14th and 19th September. I wonder if they might be forced out of business by the court's decision just before the regular season ends.
In such a scenario, presumably all their playing records would be expunged from the SL table and, suddenly, with the play-offs imminent, one or two clubs might find their league position improve or deteriorate, as the case may be, depending on how successful they were against Salford. Interesting prospect!
23 minutes ago, LeeF said:Playing records probably wouldn’t be expunged. They would either give some form of default score or just an average of the previous 20 odd league matches
If only 1 or 2 games were cancelled I'd have thought it more likely that win% would be used to determine the final Table.
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Was wondering when the venue would get changed....
The train takes just over 20mins from Matabiau station to Colomièrs Lycée International from where it's about a 20mins walk to the ground (about 40 mins walk from Gare Colomièrs) or catch the L2 bus from either station. Last train to get there in time for ko is at 16.24. There's one train back after the match finishes, at 21.11 from Lycée or 21.15 from the centre. Alternative route is Line A to Arènes and then the L2 bus to the ground.
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38 minutes ago, LeeF said:
That’s actually the reverse fixtures of this weekend
Of course, not sure how I didn't spot that....?
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5 hours ago, Blind side johnny said:
There are no L1 fixtures scheduled for this weekend - can anyone tell me why?
Probably the same reason there's also a blank weekend of 16/17th August...
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4 hours ago, sentoffagain2 said:
If Salford do have to take a step back to the Championship or League 1 wouldn't it make sense to share Heywood Road with Swinton.It must be closer to Salford than Swinton.I remember years ago when Salford were relegated from the top division they were undefeated in the Championship and bounced straight back.State they are in i cant see that being repeated.
Sale RFC may want to have a say in that plan...
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5 minutes ago, doc said:
Widnes throwing away a good lead, again.
(Lack of) fitness?
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Mike Smith of Mike's Carpets, aged 79.
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27 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:
Looks like you can see the incident on the match video, whilst Reynolds was lining up the penalty a fella wearing this year's home jersey walks from the top of the terracing to about halfway down and lobs a plastic cup that lands near the feet of a Halifax player, it almost looks like he was trying to toss the drink to the Fax player but clearly an act of gross stupidity and hopefully he can be identified, though it won't be easy as the footage was from a long way away.
I can assure you that his language when he lobbed the drink (or before and after the incident) didn't suggest he was trying to toss the drink to a 'fax player.
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Really good performance. The only downside of the night was the idiot who threw a pint of beer at the 'fax players standing in-goal. The referee appeared to report the incident to the stewards and I wouldn't be surprised if we hear more about this. Not sure if the Club still have a suspended fine hanging over it?
Danny McGuire
in The General Rugby League Forum
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WMDC backtracked and approved the spend.