M j M
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1 hour ago, Moe syszlak said:
Plus, wire haven't had a big away following visit yet
But but but... they were playing Hull KR!
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What's going on with Warrington's crowds? Are some fans burned by too many years of hope not being matched by delivery?
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St Helens won a championship with a try like that being given. At London as well I think.
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21 minutes ago, Padge said:
Both replies still stand, hardly a baren period for Wigan for either of your chosen dates.
But much more barren than the last decade has been for Leeds.
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8 minutes ago, Padge said:
So why the sudden "record" spending splurge?
Leeds have always splurged in the transfer market, event when there was a team well filled with academy players performing well. Doing it when those players are just coming through also makes sense.
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Is there anyone who doesn't absolutely hate this pathetic video referee system?
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10 hours ago, Hopping Mad said:
No wonder so many FC Halifax Town supporters who, going back to the Thrum Hall days, used also to watch the rugby league club, now refuse to set foot in the Shay when fellow tenants Fax are playing.
Halifax Town hardly have a virtuous financial record.
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Seemed harsh at first glance. But I can see why it's been given.
Talking about "corruption" is just more of the entitled, arrogant, unpleasant rubbish the St Helens club and their fans have been coming out with for too long. For that they deserve every on-field ill fortune that is coming their way.
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According to Callum Walker, "the St Helens club has released a statement reaffirming its commitment to anti-social behaviour"!
https://www.totalrl.com/st-helens-release-statement-on-anti-social-behaviour-following-crowd-issues/
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Lots of people underestimating this Leeds team. I like it.
It's only a couple of months since Leeds saw off Catalans at home and Smith has already coached the team to two wins at Gilbert Brutus in his two years in charge.
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They do suggest this is only a short term thing until they can find a commercial sponsor to pay them money. I wonder how much the DW deal was worth.
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Does that just leave Brian McDermott from their short list?
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Hull FC agreed a sponsorship deal when P&O Ferries were a large local employer of good standing.
Hull KR agreed a sponsorship deal after P&O had sacked all the local workforce in scandalous circumstances.
Trying to equate the two is amazing.
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A reminder of this advert P&O's security company placed just before the sackings indicating how they planned to approach the job.
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2 minutes ago, Tre Cool said:
Im sure noone in Hull ever uses their ferries
It's tricky, there are no direct alternatives so what do you do? I'm sure there are people in Hull who refuse to use them and others who have no choice.
Hull KR on the other hand had the option to say no.
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56 minutes ago, Worzel said:
Myler made a decision, when given an opportunity to show his values. That’s a quite different thing entirely.
What on earth are you talking about?
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2 hours ago, Archie Gordon said:
The first para is spot on.
On the second, he doesn't seem interested in hiring a business operation.
If he left at the end of the season, almost nothing would come crashing down because the one thing he did build - the scholarship/academy - doesn't exist any longer.
EDIT: To add: even when he did have very good people involved in the rugby operation - thinking Ward, Langley, Eccles plus Powell in charge of youth - he somehow managed to lose most of them; and not to bigger jobs, they just moved on from the club.
Oh yeah, making the owner understand that they need to behave differently is crucial. However he's probably still reeling from the Gus whatshisname era when he let him run things.
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Is there any reason Souths aren't at the SFS? I thought they were moving back there?
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24 minutes ago, THE RED ROOSTER said:
The ownership of the club needs to change by next season.
You will never find someone willing to put anywhere near as much money in as the current owner. Without him London wouldn't exist.
What use is made of his money is the question, an experienced guiding hand for on and off field decision making is vital.
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Of course it's Myler's fault for Warrington not following the rules
7 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:Myler is a tool
Go SAM
It's very hard to look at Sam Burgess and not think he is very much a tool as well. But you do you.
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Leeds should win comfortably.
I'm away for this one and am sort of glad I am given the hostile environment towards their own club the moronic minority of Leeds fans will no doubt again generate.
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I know NRL 360 is a bit of a toxic mess but I'd love something similar in this country.
I can't imagine who could be on it though, almost all our pundits are either unwilling to operate in anything other than cliches or not smart enough to really give it an edge.
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22 minutes ago, Tre Cool said:
What about the RFLs strategy neglects non SL clubs? The RFL have zero income and the only club I've seen them directly help is Bradford Bulls (and that didn't work). Every successful club either has a very rich owner or big support/stadia. This victim mentality helps nobody. The problem is the sport's failed to grow commercially. We have to protect the elite league to some extent or there'd be an even bigger problem for everyone. If Fax want to be successful there's a clear route, but they need to generate their own money like everyone else.
I disagree, it's the sport's decision (maybe not the RFL's) to focus everything on the twelve or 13 current or recent SL clubs. In fact that's probably giving everyone too much credit: it's probably not even be a decision, it's just neglect, allowing the SL clubs all the power and lack of a central strategy.
The SL clubs include three, four or five who are genuinely big ones and the rest who happened to be in the right place at the right time and are no bigger than a bunch of other clubs who have been cast to one side over the past 20 or 30 years. That's the biggest problem with the IMG stuff - we have a load of teams who in the long run are all probably much of a muchness Grade Bs. But incumbency is now so huge that we have effectively permanently written the rest off, with the consequent decline in interest and engagement in Rugby League in those places.
The sport's core strategy should be AFL-like: as big and strong as possible in the north of England with strategic, long-term expansion plans into select new markets. Rugby League isn't really a northern sport any more. It's a sport that is strong in 11 or 12 towns in the north with a rag-tag bunch of other places where it used to be a dominant force and is now secondary or worse.
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Time to move the Grand Final
in The General Rugby League Forum
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2015 and 2017 were definitely sell outs, no more tickets were available. I've no idea why you're going out on a limb over something like this.