Rochdale Hornets are pointless

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

Just caught the very end of Pointless on Monday night and heard them mention Rochdale Hornets.

So I re-watched it on catch up yesterday.

Turned out that one of the options for the final question was "pioneering rugby teams" which they went for.

Question was: Any of the original 22 founder members of the rugby leaage, the 10 founder members of the Welsh rugby union or something about womens rugby union.

They went for rl and gave Rochdale Hornets, Hunslet and Swinton as answers.

Also mentioned Batley and disregarded Widnes because we are too famous (Top couple)

Anyway, they took the money with Rochdale, Hunslet scored 1 point and Swinton was a wrong answer.

Batley would also have won the money.

Think there were seven pointless answers in total and they were right to disregard Widnes.

Wigan were the most popular anwer.

 

[johnh1]

What were the 7 pointless answers? I’m guessing, Manningham and Belle View Rangers would be two of them (that’s without looking anything up on google!)

[Mk13]

I'd have gone for Brighouse Rangers

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

Tyldesley and Stockport were two that come to mind.

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

Just rewatched it

Pointless answers: Batley, Leigh, Liversedge, Stockport, Brighouse Rangers, Broughton Rangers and Tyldesley.

1 pointers: Manningham, Runcorn and Oldham.

[deluded pom?]

I went for Manningham.

[EssexRL]

Ask that question to a hundred people in London and I’d imagine they’d all be pointless! 

[Bleep1673]

See the TV thread on AOB, I posted this on the broadcast day

[Bleep1673]

The Finalists chose Rochdale, Hunslet 1pt, and Swinton, Incorrect as we didn't join until 1896. Do try and keep up boys

[deluded pom?]

1 hour ago, EssexRL said:

Ask that question to a hundred people in London and I’d imagine they’d all be pointless! 

Nah! Clueless maybe.

[paulwalker71]

I happened to be watching and immediately came up with Liversedge, Manningham and  Heckmondwike

The latter was obviously wrong (apparently only joined in time for the second season) but two Pointless answers wasn't too shady.

[johnh1]

39 minutes ago, paulwalker71 said:

I happened to be watching and immediately came up with Liversedge, Manningham and  Heckmondwike

The latter was obviously wrong (apparently only joined in time for the second season) but two Pointless answers wasn't too shady.

Manningham wasn’t pointless either, apparently.

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

5 hours ago, Mk13 said:

I'd have gone for Brighouse Rangers

Liversedge?

[RayCee]

And I thought the thread was to slag off Rochdale's poor season. 

[Stan Doffarf]

I went for Liversedge, Broughton Rangers and Manningham. Bit surprised Manningham wasn't pointless, but I expect some random Bradford City supporter knew they started out as Manningham and were founder mmembers.