Total Rugby League Posted August 9, 2020 Report Share Posted August 9, 2020 Sam Tomkins has added his support for a call to play a unique match covering two competitions to ease fixture-list pressure and save spiralling travel...View the full article TotalRL.com - Total Rugby League www.totalrl.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manfred Mann Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 Good point by the England full back. Sam is no fool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 I like it, but ingenuity like that has no place in rugby league 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hela Wigmen Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 What if it ends in a draw after golden point? Granted, it’s unlikely but it would be so very Rugby League that everyone would end up stood around looking confused after they draw 18-18 after golden point. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 7 minutes ago, Hela Wigmen said: What if it ends in a draw after golden point? Granted, it’s unlikely but it would be so very Rugby League that everyone would end up stood around looking confused after they draw 18-18 after golden point. Plan on until someone wins, obviously. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hela Wigmen Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 13 minutes ago, Eddie said: Plan on until someone wins, obviously. That’s certainly not in the rules of Super League and unlikely to be in the rules of the Challenge Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Taylor Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 Self interest. Deal with it. 2008 RFL Wakefield & District Young Volunteer of the Year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Warrior Dragon Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Hela Wigmen said: What if it ends in a draw after golden point? Granted, it’s unlikely but it would be so very Rugby League that everyone would end up stood around looking confused after they draw 18-18 after golden point. Good point, HW - Sod's Law has a happy knack of appearing at times like this! In this season especially, there must be a means of deciding a cup tie on the first occasion. If it the toss of a coin, then so be it. If it is play on for as long as it takes until somebody scores (a la NHL, post-season play-off matches), then you could record two different results for the same game, with that for SL being a draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADREDNIGE Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 What a farcical way to win the cup it's bad enough having to do it as it is without having one game count for two. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Hela Wigmen said: That’s certainly not in the rules of Super League and unlikely to be in the rules of the Challenge Cup. The SL game would be drawn, and then they’d play on to see who went through to the next round of the cup. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hela Wigmen Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 8 minutes ago, Eddie said: The SL game would be drawn, and then they’d play on to see who went through to the next round of the cup. But that’s not how it works. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 19 minutes ago, Hela Wigmen said: But that’s not how it works. I’m not saying it is, I’m trying to explain to you how Tompkins’ suggestion might work as you seemed confused by it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 This has happened before in amateur rugby where a single match has counted in the cup and league competitions. Not heard of it in the pro league 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 29 minutes ago, Hela Wigmen said: But that’s not how it works. But it could work as a one off. It’s not that complicated really. Plenty scoffed at no scrums (myself included) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcticchris Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 1 hour ago, MADREDNIGE said: What a farcical way to win the cup it's bad enough having to do it as it is without having one game count for two. Given that these teams have to play one round more than the majority of clubs left in the competition it’s actually more fair to them to allow this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubby Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 When I was in Year 11 we drew the same school from Hull in both the Yorkshire and England Schools Cup Quarter Finals. So we played one game for two competitions - special clemency was given to avoid more than one trip to Hull 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Kevin Sinfield Posted August 11, 2020 Report Share Posted August 11, 2020 Would the game be on bbc or sky sports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manfred Mann Posted August 11, 2020 Report Share Posted August 11, 2020 11 hours ago, Sir Kevin Sinfield said: Would the game be on bbc or sky sports? I would think that both networks should have the rights, just like Channel 9 and Fox have for three games a week in Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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