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No, not another football related thread, well rugby football but with the World Cup only a few months away and the country seemingly riding on the crest of the Euro 2020 wave do you think England Rugby League could jump on the bandwagon to get some support and momentum for Rugby League's national team by carrying on the 'coming home' theme (after all we are the founders of this great game and it's in our country) while the phrase and use of it is still fresh in people's mind? 'Rugby league's coming home' is as good as 'football's coming home' so why not try and capitalise on this?

I realise it's probably a silly idea and we're just hoping that Bob from Batley and Mick from Widnes will buy tickets for them and their mates and be happy with that as usual but is it not worth a try to market the England team and garner some national interest for our sport too?.

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24 minutes ago, Hela Wigmen said:

The greatest thing Rugby League can do is stay well away from that tagline that’s been adopted by the dregs of society who behaved like idiots at the weekend. 

But the opposite of that is the huge outpouring and encouragement that that tagline created that the decent people responded to.

Millions of people, rich and famous, skint and unknown who have never been a dick in their life also adopted it and created positivity, a momentum that the whole country rode on, is that not something we would love to happen to Rugby League? forget the idiots, they would have been idiots regardless.

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37 minutes ago, Hela Wigmen said:

The greatest thing Rugby League can do is stay well away from that tagline that’s been adopted by the dregs of society who behaved like idiots at the weekend. 

If you take that approach then you are letting those idiots win. It's the same thing with waving the UK or England flag. Most people have always done it for positive reasons in support of Team GB at the Olympics or the England football, cricket, etc. teams, but occasionally a tiny number of racists go on a parade and wave it. Why should the latter few tarnish things when 99.999% of people aren't like them? Over 30m people watched the England match on Sunday, and yet you want to let the overriding message be dictated by a small number of idiots - the same idiots that are probably out smashing up towns and each other every weekend throughout the year.

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5 minutes ago, 17 stone giant said:

Good idea. I definitely think it's worth a mention on advertising slogans for posters and tv adverts. It will get certainly get people's attention. Even better if you could get an England footballer (do any of them follow RL?) involved in some way.

It would be great, even ex-players who have an interest like Rooney and Stuart Pearce, the only problem is it would mean someone from England Rugby league putting in some effort to make this happen which we know will probably be seen as too much hard work.

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59 minutes ago, daz39 said:

It would be great, even ex-players who have an interest like Rooney and Stuart Pearce, the only problem is it would mean someone from England Rugby league putting in some effort to make this happen which we know will probably be seen as too much hard work.

i know it i not footballer related, but Adam Hills continues to mention it on the last leg.

I appreciate that some of the show is scripted but when you can get Alex & Josh talking about it to, it helps.

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Instead of doing a very Rugby League thing and attempting to piggyback on others success, they should create their own. All connotations are football related, it’s completely unnecessary and, frankly, wrong thinking we can point the use of this our way. 

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Get on to Paul Simon and ask for permission to use Homeward Bound for the tournament, after all it was written in the heart of RL land.

 

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10 minutes ago, Padge said:

Get on to Paul Simon and ask for permission to use Homeward Bound for the tournament, after all it was written in the heart of RL land.

 

Indeed, i've seen the plaque myself.

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9 hours ago, daz39 said:

Millions of people, rich and famous, skint and unknown who have never been a dick in their life also adopted it and created positivity, a momentum that the whole country rode on, is that not something we would love to happen to Rugby League? forget the idiots, they would have been idiots regardless.

I love the way English people excuse these thugs as "idiots". 

The rest of Europe is using phrases like "Violent Racist Bigots"

But yeah..... "Idiots". Such stupid behaviour from these "idiots". 

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12 minutes ago, The Frying Scotsman said:

I love the way English people excuse these thugs as "idiots". 

The rest of Europe is using phrases like "Violent Racist Bigots"

But yeah..... "Idiots". Such stupid behaviour from these "idiots". 

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I haven't seen/read anyone excuse what they did.

The terms you use appear accurate: violent, racist and bigoted. But I think idiocy covers it as well.

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15 hours ago, daz39 said:

Indeed, i've seen the plaque myself.

Widnes North Railway station no less ?

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13 hours ago, The Frying Scotsman said:

I love the way English people excuse these thugs as "idiots". 

The rest of Europe is using phrases like "Violent Racist Bigots"

But yeah..... "Idiots". Such stupid behaviour from these "idiots". 

🙄

No one is excusing them but as we probably don't know them personally it would be a bit crass to label them as something we can't prove they are, BUT we all saw them behaving like idiots in that moment which is what i am judging them on, chances are they are vioent and racist bigots but i'm not going to suggest they are.

Anyway Gareth Southgate did an advert after 1996 so why not see if he will get involved with this, we could maybe have a line like "football didn't come home but Rugby League is", coming from him surely it will get people's attention and not just the violent racist bigots.

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On 13/07/2021 at 14:07, daz39 said:

No, not another football related thread, well rugby football but with the World Cup only a few months away and the country seemingly riding on the crest of the Euro 2020 wave do you think England Rugby League could jump on the bandwagon to get some support and momentum for Rugby League's national team by carrying on the 'coming home' theme (after all we are the founders of this great game and it's in our country) while the phrase and use of it is still fresh in people's mind? 'Rugby league's coming home' is as good as 'football's coming home' so why not try and capitalise on this?

I realise it's probably a silly idea and we're just hoping that Bob from Batley and Mick from Widnes will buy tickets for them and their mates and be happy with that as usual but is it not worth a try to market the England team and garner some national interest for our sport too?.

Yes, I think we should all push this, Clubs, organisations, individuals, RFL, SL, etc.

#Rugby'sComingHome 🙂

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6 minutes ago, meast said:

Yes, I think we should all push this, Clubs, organisations, individuals, RFL, SL, etc.

#Rugby'sComingHome 🙂

A hashtag is actually a good call, but yours would be a disaster.

Seriously... "Rugby" is a word that has been lost. The other code have monopolised it, with their governing bodies: "World Rugby", "Scottish Rugby", "Rugby Australia", "Fédération Française de Rugby" etc etc. Outside of a couple of unknown northern towns, "rugby" means union.

A proper "RugbyLeague" hashtag would be a good starter though.

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13 minutes ago, The Frying Scotsman said:

A hashtag is actually a good call, but yours would be a disaster.

Seriously... "Rugby" is a word that has been lost. The other code have monopolised it, with their governing bodies: "World Rugby", "Scottish Rugby", "Rugby Australia", "Fédération Française de Rugby" etc etc. Outside of a couple of unknown northern towns, "rugby" means union.

A proper "RugbyLeague" hashtag would be a good starter though.

The theory being that people wouldn't know the difference and would just support it regardless 🙂

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19 hours ago, daz39 said:

No one is excusing them but as we probably don't know them personally it would be a bit crass to label them as something we can't prove they are, BUT we all saw them behaving like idiots in that moment which is what i am judging them on, chances are they are vioent and racist bigots but i'm not going to suggest they are.

Anyway Gareth Southgate did an advert after 1996 so why not see if he will get involved with this, we could maybe have a line like "football didn't come home but Rugby League is", coming from him surely it will get people's attention and not just the violent racist bigots.

equally it depends who people are referring to with "Violent racist bigots". Those that broke into the stadium and started fights were definitely violent but whether they are indeed racist or bigots is a up for question as they did not (as a group) show that, just the violence. There was some violence i have seen on video against people that could be racially motivated or could just genuinely be violence with no racial undertones, but again this is not all of them just a small amount. There are then the keyboard warriors that were extremely racist and bigoted but not violent (they were just sat at home typing, whilst probably waiting for the next video on some porn site to download while sitting in the basement of their parent's house [at 42]). individual cases could be of violent, racist bigots but as a group for everything that happened around the final a catch all of idiots probably works well. 

 

For the last paragraph I wouldn't get him using a line like that but having him and some of the players in a promo saying "got excited by our tournament, we're excited about this one.... etc" would be great, but not cheap, maybe its where the bbc may be able to do something we cannot.

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