M j M
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Sadly Leigh sometimes manage to reinforce that suspicion that they are still a bit of a tin pot outfit. What the hell have player appeals got to do with Beaumont?
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The main thing I think the RFL need to focus on is their transparency.
I'd go all out on this front - and this will also create content, albeit some might think it's a distraction.
The MRP should produce a video each week analysing players whose actions have been graded, properly explaining them in the context of the current laws and looking at why they have got the grading they have recieved. And perhaps explaining why other ones haven't been graded the same way. Any red or yellow cards which don't even get on the MRP minutes should also be addressed here.
The Tuesday night hearings should be recorded and highlights made available the following day.
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Leeds have upped their post-game social media content this season, with four behind the scenes types of videos rather than just one the last couple of years.
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Did Bill Arthur do any of the games this weekend?
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25 minutes ago, Damien said:
Surely the work that clubs are doing to tick those boxes is contributing to more people attending? Increased promotion, marketing and fan engagement is bound to have an effect.
Yup, I'm sure it is. I'm fully in support of bringing IMG in and their role in the sort of improved central marketing we've seen and sharing of and support to clubs in implementing best practice.
It's possible to think that without thinking everything they have done is right - and the spreadsheet is just really distracting and dumb. Properly enforcing minimum standards would achieve a lot of the other targeted improvements without taking an axe to the public's perception of Super League's sporting integrity.
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24 minutes ago, dkw said:
Strangely the usually noisy good old Degsy has gone to ground on this one, along with a couple of his acolytes on here......
The owner having his own track record for drink driving perhaps affects things on that front?
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51 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:
You’re missing my point, we were told by some that it would adversely effect the people watching the sport
At the moment no-one has really seen any impact from the spreadsheet exercise. What effect it has remains to be seen but it will never stop being inappropriate and foolish.
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2 hours ago, Chrispmartha said:
Proof that grading system and tv deal deal will kill the game
It's possible for something to be stupid and wrong and the the sport still attracting support for the product in its own right.
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On 14/02/2024 at 21:21, Damien said:
The prosecutor told the court police had to drive at 88mph to keep up with Hardaker.
I think we've unfairly overlooked what Hardaker was trying to achieve.
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Hardaker has been indulged by all his UK SL clubs with the exception perhaps of Cas. Leigh are unsurprisingly just the latest in a long line, although at least the other ones pretended to give a cr&p about his behaviour.
Whilst the NRL's integrity unit in my view goes too far on some occasions it's the sort of thing which would have rightly weeded this bad apple out of the game the best part of a decade ago.
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Anyone know if the away seating at New Craven Park is allocated this year? Ticket i've got via Leeds has seat/row number on it so this is probably a stupid question but I think it's been unallocated seating in the past?
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No highlights on the BBC website as far as I can see this morning. Hope the Hull derby wasn't a flash in the pan in that respect.
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39 minutes ago, M j M said:
15,100 ish announced at headingley.
15,126 to be precise.
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15,100 ish announced at headingley.
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I wonder how much hair I would have, and what colour it would be, if I didn't watch Rugby League.
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7 minutes ago, Northern Eel said:
The Rhino's fans booing of McDonald is far from original, but it is having the opposite effect than they desire.
It's not often booing former players is really worth it but on this occasion I can see the justification for it. Whether it's useful or not to the Leeds cause is a different question.
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Interesting to see the BBC have the tries/binnings/send offs on their website (and linked on the front Sport page) already, with Sky commentary. I think this is new?
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4 hours ago, Henson Park Old Firm said:
At least it's not spent on some ridiculous global warming project..
Are you alright?
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The Leeds "heritage" shirt with the womens' team sponsors.
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4 hours ago, Dave T said:
I don't have an issue with this tbh. Clubs live and die by those kind of decisions, and they have to live with the culture they create. But I do think they should have been firmer in their press release.
Going back to the start of his problems, it was strongly indicated by Leeds that he was on a final warning going into 2014. He then had the James Child incident, which Leeds called a "witch hunt", complaining about what processes had been followed by the RFL. Then the following year there was the student incident.
I found it hard to believe then, and still do now, that many other employees on a final warning who followed it up like that would survive being sacked.
Leeds won the treble in 2015 and Hardaker won Man of Steel but it's never really sat right with me that he wasn't sacked well before then.
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34 minutes ago, sweaty craiq said:
Zak has been brilliant for Leigh
I think you said the quiet part out loud.
I get all the duty of care stuff but Hardaker should be on such a tight lead that every indiscretion since and including the 2014 homophobic comments and especially the 2015 incident with the student should have seen him sacked by the clubs he was at. The fact that clubs have indulged him and treated him in a way they wouldn't a lesser or junior player is fundamentally wrong.
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I remember going to Widnes during the foot & mouth outbreak
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Someone seems a little obsessed.
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United had to temporarily ground its five new a321neos because the illuminated No Smoking signs can't be switched off.
They've since resumed flying with a temporary exemption.
Thur 22nd Feb: SL: Hull KR v Leeds Rhinos KO 8pm (Sky)
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Leeds missing the two first choice props makes it tricky unfortunately. I'd expect Hull KR to win and cover the start.