M j M
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48 minutes ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
I think the above is the most likely scenario
Leeds lose a quality half and one of thier best players because Gary H wanted his own way
Hasn't worked out well for Leeds and it will continue
Apologists for GH will now accuse me of naivety....meanwhile Rugby league giant Leeds ship 100 plus unanswered points (or worse just rely with a lol emoji as they have no actual riposte)
Whatever they are doing with recruitment and players is not working any where near as well as other clubs
It will now hit the bottom line when memberships abd corporate are hit for 2024
I'll ignore the rest of this mess of a post but let's take a look at your wishful about the Leeds corporate market. The Big Corporates that Leeds are very strong in are very resilient and very bought into the long term. It'll take more than a couple of poor first team results to seriously undermine that. Smaller corporates/owner managed businesses may behave more like regular fans but your your doom mongering is likely to be largely misplaced there too.
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I'd assumed Cas had offered him a deal for next year and that was contingent on them being in SL. Best way to ensure that was to get there ASAP.
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Ron Barassi, AFL player and coach, who gave his name to the Barassi Line.
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19 minutes ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
Stingy Gary's tactics now looking like costing Rhinos plenty of money in non renewals and probably lost corporate
Maybe once the bottom line starts to take a bit he'll realise it is counterproductive and start spending
Don't believe what some Leeds fans say about Leeds not spending money, it's simply not true and repeating it is a distraction.
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1 hour ago, Damien said:
Leeds have been bad over the full season, that is why they are 8th.
Leeds have been perplexing. They won away at St Helens and Wigan and beat Catalan at home. Then lost twice to Cas (albeit that's not unusual for any Leeds team) and gave Wakey their first win of the season.
I clocked off for the season after the win at Hull and went on holiday (the plan as usual to be back in time for the play offs
). So I can't speak for the last two games but up til then the team were very frustrating - typically playing badly for most of a game, having a great purple patch and then allowing the opposition back into it. They were thus in almost every game to the death, losing most of them.
Those purple patches and that fighting spirit were the things some of us were clinging to but it sounds like even they've gone walkies in the past two weeks. Notwithstanding the somewhat weakened teams, Leeds shouldn't be losing like that, ever.
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2 hours ago, Tommygilf said:
I suspect the crowd against Cas will be both small and hostile (especially if we start to lose).
Not sure we need yet another Leeds thread but on this point sections of the crowd may well be hostile (that doesn't take much) but there will still no doubt be a comfortable 13 to 14,000 there.
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11 hours ago, DEANO said:
Absolute tosh. When sky bought the game those were the rules they implemented. Some clubs have been denied access due to their stadiums
Sky didn't "buy" the game nor did they insist on any rules being implemented.
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19 minutes ago, M j M said:
And they almost always win when the totalrl match poll says they will lose and lose when it says they will win.
I'm on a long flight and bored so have looked through the old posts and can confirm this has worked for 64% of Leeds games this season
Betting against the predictions on here with the same stake every week would have generated a healthy return.
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Apart from the disaster in Round One the biggest Leeds defeat this season has been by 14 points. Whatever you say about them - that they are mistake prone, lacking in quality, inconsistent, passive in defence, play like they've never met each other - one thing they haven't done under Rohan Smith so far is lie down and take a beating.
And they almost always win when the totalrl match poll says they will lose and lose when it says they will win.
*(past performance is not a guarantee of future results).
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41 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:1 hour ago, V02 said:
This has nothing to do with Leigh.
Why should I make things up? Would it upset the apple cart if Leigh had an academy, and please give me a good reason why they should not have one.
This thread is literally nothing to do with Leigh no matter how hard you try to introduce the subject.
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I remember buying my first edition of League Express, i've still got it somewhere, it was edition four or five, something like that. It was an instant hit with me.
My English teacher at school was a big Hull fan and wrote the Hull home game match reports in the paper for many years. Which was good fun in a school in Leeds - except for the time John Gallagher dropped that bomb in the '91 Premiership semi. Some things you can't joke about
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I think there's a bit of BS going on here. There's a difference between Hetherington striking a hard bargain (which is legendary across the game) and Leeds not spending. The club budgets full cap and uses all marquee spots. The aim of Hetherington being tight is supposed to drive more out of the cap - not save on total spending.
Now it may be his frugality isn't working when trying to sign players any more. But Leeds will continue to have funds available and it's just not true that the club is trying to save money on the playing squad.
I'm pretty sure we will see that this includes a willingness to to spend big on transfer fees, something which has been a constant through the Caddick/Hetherington era.
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3 minutes ago, Man of Kent said:
To my eye it looks like Leeds are struggling financially. Didn’t they post significant losses during Covid?
Leeds are not struggling financially.
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47 minutes ago, FearTheVee said:
they appear to have lost the young player with the most potential to Wigan.
Morgan Gannon is still at Leeds?
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Despite going with a halfback pairing of a second row and a schoolboy Leeds are leading 4-18 at half time.
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52 minutes ago, Saint Toppy said:
Is it good business? Wire paid £185K to take him there and he’s now leaving in a free transfer.
Amortised over the 9 years he's been there that's £20k a year which has been very good value for what they've got out of him. With him leaving, regardless of fee, Warrington are getting rid of an ageing player who is no doubt high on their wage bill. Seems like a good deal to me.
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5 minutes ago, Barry Badrinath said:
Good technique is it tez?
I sense it's not a popular opinion but it's exactly for this reason (commentators not knowing the rules) that I liked it when they had SCummings alongside them in the commentary box.
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Fortunately or unfortunately Google knows my preferences ...
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5 minutes ago, phiggins said:
You think Matt Shaw just picked out those 4 incidents of his own accord?
Do you even know how this sort of click bait journalism works? It certainly doesn't involve waiting for the head coach of a SL team to review the video and decide that the best way to spend his time is by compiling a list of things for Matt Shaw to write about.
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6 minutes ago, phiggins said:15 minutes ago, M j M said:
Matt Shaw just rehashes press conferences (that he has already reported on) over the course of the week and picks things out of social media. If you think his strings are pulled by Rohan Smith then you have a very weak grasp on reality.
Well somebody has highlighted those incidents as the calls that angered Leeds. And somebody has also provided him with the video with the ref's audio.
But the point stands, that that article does not scrutinise the referee, it simply relays criticism of specific decisions, without any real proof that they were even incorrect.
I'd say anybody that thinks that the result of that game was down to referee inadequacies rather than Leeds' own, would have an even weaker grasp of reality.
I note your abrupt pivot to an entirely different argument and your creation of a straw man to try and deflect (I've not made any comment at all on the game or any of the decisions).
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2 minutes ago, phiggins said:
How else would you describe this? https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/four-refereeing-calls-leeds-rhinos-27608974
The only quote from Smith in there is from the press conference. Anyone who was at the game knew what the controversial incidents were.
Matt Shaw just rehashes press conferences (that he has already reported on) over the course of the week and picks things out of social media. If you think his strings are pulled by Rohan Smith then you have a very weak grasp on reality.
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1 hour ago, phiggins said:
Quite how listing individual decisions, at the behest of the losing coach
You're just making stuff up.
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2 hours ago, meast said:
Has there been pressure from the Leeds club for it to be pursued as some are suggesting?
Don't be so utterly, pathetically, obviously ridiculous.
Iconic RL Commentary quotes/catchphrases......
in The General Rugby League Forum
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"Everybody's saying 'Go, go, go! And he goes!'"
Every Rugby League fan should know this like soccer fans know Wolstenholme, but we simply don't celebrate our glorious history.
Ray French's best was the Hanley "he's still going" one.
These guys deservedly got criticism but they could on occasion summon up a memorable phrase in a memorable moment. Our current Sky commentators are more solid plodders but I don't think they can reach memorable heights.