War of the Roses coming back?

[wackojacko]

Or have I missed something?

[Man of Kent]

What on Earth is ‘RL T20’?!

[Onieda FC]

5 minutes ago, Man of Kent said:

What on Earth is ‘RL T20’?!

You beat me to it....what the hell is that?

[Whippet13]

Cricket have T20 dont they? So a cricket match?

[Gerrumonside ref]

I won’t be satisfied until there’s a War of the Roses olympics!

Us sophisticatated types on the right side of the hill proving our superiority once again.

[Mr Plow]

So they’ve renamed Lancashire North West?

[Gerrumonside ref]

Just now, Mr Plow said:

So they’ve renamed Lancashire North West?

Yes, makes sense and although it upsets traditionalists like me, I can understand the potential for attracting new fans.

[Mr Plow]

28 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

Yes, makes sense and although it upsets traditionalists like me, I can understand the potential for attracting new fans.

I suppose. You’d have thought Yorkshire v Lancashire would be a big enough ‘brand’ though

[Wellsy4HullFC]

1 minute ago, Mr Plow said:

I suppose. You’d have thought Yorkshire v Lancashire would be a big enough ‘brand’ though

North West would include Cumbria too, yeah? Need all the help they can over there I guess.

[Gerrumonside ref]

29 minutes ago, Mr Plow said:

I suppose. You’d have thought Yorkshire v Lancashire would be a big enough ‘brand’ though

Yeah, I know where you’re coming from - guess we’ll have to see how people react.

 

[Sports Prophet]

What marketing genius drops the Lancashire name from the war of the roses?

Idiots!

[17 stone giant]

6 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

What marketing genius drops the Lancashire name from the war of the roses?

Idiots!

I like the idea of an origin game, but I agree with your assessment.

Either do Yorkshire v Lancashire, or do East v West (or North East vs North West).

[Scubby]

17 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

What marketing genius drops the Lancashire name from the war of the roses?

Idiots!

Perhaps the Yorkshire v Lancashire concept didn't go down too well. So the genius behind hit adopted Plan B  

[Copa]

Rugby league with cricket bats?

[17 stone giant]

I think a War of the roses match would be great. As a neutral, I'd be more interested in it than I am in club RL.

I also think the potential for making a spectacle of it and attracting a wider audience, is much greater than for something like the Challenge Cup final, which realistically will only ever have limited appeal outside of regular RL fans.

I'd make sure that it was on the BBC and try and get the whole country involved in the occasion.

Things like this are also a bit of fun, to help people choose which side they're on:

http://red-or-white.mirror.co.uk/index.html

[17 stone giant]

I put in May (Lancastrian) and Corbyn (Yorkist), so there's some rivalry for starters.

[JM2010]

1 hour ago, Wellsy4HullFC said:

North West would include Cumbria too, yeah? Need all the help they can over there I guess.

Isn't the North West an official region of England as well as Yorkshire and the Humber?

 

[TIWIT]

1 hour ago, Copa said:

Rugby league with cricket bats?

That's what I thought. Certainly be different.

[Clogiron]

I'm gobsmacked, is it North West so they can play it at Workington and be suprised when 500 turn up

[paulwalker71]

Perhaps they anticipated the comments from this forum?

'Salford is not in Lancashire, its in Greater Manchester'

'St Helens is not in Lancashire its in Merseyside'

'Warrington is not in Lancashire, its in Cheshire'

... and so on..

[The 4 of Us]

Good god please no. 

And the new state of the art kits will look like this? 

 

[Rupert Prince]

Well whatever secret obtuse plan someone is trying to sneak out, it's not got any space in the 2019 fixture list, has it?

This is all somewhat absurd, but unless it's a spoof then it's a plan from Rimmer.

 

[goldcoaster]

War of the roses?

Will they have Edward IV playing scrum-half and Richard III at stand-off for the Yorkists, with Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick as their battering ram front-rower? For the Lancastrians how will Henry VI perform at fullback when he is completely senile? All the while Lancasters coach Margaret Beaufort is off-side with her own fans for selecting her little boy Henry Tudor to be captain and star scrum half.

[Manx RL]

Where does Toronto fit in?

[Oliver Clothesoff]

If this isn’t anything other than a load of old pros going at it in a game of Twenty20 cricket to raise money for charity, it’s lunacy. 

Firstly, Yorkshire v Lancashire is an outdated, parochial, small time event that most of the country cannot get behind and keeps the image of the sport exactly where it is, in former mining towns across the M62. 

Also, if this is anything, have the Super League clubs agreed to this? 

If it is a game of Rugby League, the connotations with T20 are twenty over cricket, so what could that mean for us? Twenty minute halves, presumably. No mention of it yet but if this is the case, I don’t expect to see thirteen players on each side, either.