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M j M

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  1. 1 hour ago, Odsal Outlaw said:

    Yes they were always faded but from memory I thought they were faded in blue suggesting the £30 price band.

    i don’t have a huge issue with the £20 tickets as such, although do think it undersells the product somewhat, but think their approach to doing it is once again very poor. 

    Yes they were coloured blue so either someone got it wrong or they've changed their strategy. 

  2. 2 hours ago, Odsal Outlaw said:

    With a new cheaper price category as well. £20 in top half of top tier. Interesting to create a new pricing tier that wasn’t previously advertised.

    And I'm guessing wasn't planned given it's not on the pricing category. 

    This series was supposed to be different and yet here we go again, the people who were first in didn't get the option of the cheapest prices. 

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  3. 31 minutes ago, Wilderspoolmemories said:

    He's a Hull lad and former rovers player so he's hardly going to call against Rovers?

    I've looked up the rule and see no reference to a defending player not being allowed to ground the ball the same way as an attacking player. It seems like, just as in the play off semi final last year, wires have been very badly treated again.

    I've no recollection of the play off semi but as a general point the laws of the game alone don't tell you about the interpretations that referees and coaches have agreed on. I'm assuming it's in those interpretations that what Wilkin refers to comes from. So don't open up the Persecution Complex just yet. 

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  4. Ryan Hall isn't as fast as Offiah, that's not particularly contentious. 

    I do wonder how Offiah would turn out if he played Super League now, the game is very different and Hall is much more suited to the modern winger's role. Maybe Offiah's talents would overcome the changed game regardless. Conversely I don't imagine Hall would have been a winger in the pre-SL era; he might start out there but I imagine he'd end up in the second row over time. 

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  5. 48 minutes ago, Jonty58 said:

    No it wasn’t a try and he knew it.

    Hall hadn't got a clue what was going on, it was too fast for him to perceive if the Australian player had pushed it out or if he'd got to it first or if it had been grounded. 

    A player's reaction is zero evidence for whether a try has been scored or not. 

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  6. 31 minutes ago, THE RED ROOSTER said:

    If you want to understand Gary Hetherington's managing philosophy , I refer you to this podcast about his time at Leeds which outlines IMO the right to go about building a Rugby League club

    Lot Pod Meets Gary Hetherington

     

    Not listened to that but the approach needed at Sheffield starting from scratch was obviously very different to what was needed at Leeds and London will be different again. But Hetherington will know that all too well.

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  7. 38 minutes ago, fieldofclothofgold said:

    I kind of agree with that assessment.  I think the title of this thread should be signings from different periods of club history .I.E pre war Wigan Jim Sullivan , 50s Billy Boston ? 

    I'm also interpreting this as signings from other clubs. Otherwise for Leeds you could say that day Doug Laughton popped round to Mr and Mrs Sinfield's house in Oldham in the early '90s is the winner.

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  8. 31 minutes ago, The Future is League said:

    Giveen what Gary Hetherington has done at Sheffield Eagles and Leeds I think there is every chance he could be that Silver bullet given time.

    Hetherington is the most successful Rugby League administrator of the past 50 years and here he is written off as a "well meaning owner" and whatever crackpottery JohnM is on about. If there's anyone who can make a success of London on a relative shoestring then Hetherington can. 

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  9. 42 minutes ago, JDM said:

    The Leeds press release provides a list of all time British try-scorers as well.

    Indeed it does - 

    https://www.therhinos.co.uk/article/21880/record-breaker-hall-confirms-he-will-go-again-in-2026

    Hopefully he won't get injured before calling it quits. If so he should overtake Newlove and Neil Fox which would put him 17th on the all time list.

    Ike Southward and Barney Hudson are within reach if the increased try scoring rate he's seen since returning to Leeds is maintained which would push him up to 15th.

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