Rugby league in strange places

[corvusxiii]

47 minutes ago, DoubleD said:

There was a rugby league team in knaresborough for a while, I remember playing against them and getting a forearm smash to my face leaving me with a nice gash under my eye. They were a union team playing in the league summer season, not sure if still going. Facilities were dreadful, on a par with some of the worst rugby league grounds

Harrogate Hawks are playing York Barbarians today in Starbeck. I'm in Whitby taking on fluids though. 

[Hopping Mad]

I was down near Alfreton yesterday, watching non-league football. Came across the ground - in a public park at South Normanton - of Bolsover Bulls RLFC, who appear to run a number of junior teams. Posts up, pitch marked out and a publicity poster on the outside of the changing rooms.

Nice to see some rugby league interest remains in that part of the world, despite the long ago demise of semi-pro Mansfield Marksman RLFC, who played at Field Mill, Mansfield, then at North Street, Alfreton.

https://www.facebook.com/bolsoverbulls/?locale=en_GB

Edited March 10 by Hopping Mad

[Gomersall]

48 minutes ago, Hopping Mad said:

I was down near Alfreton yesterday, watching non-league football. Came across the ground - in a public park at South Normanton - of Bolsover Bulls RLFC, who appear to run a number of junior teams. Posts up, pitch marked out and a publicity poster on the outside of the changing rooms.

Nice to see some rugby league interest remains in that part of the world, despite the long ago demise of semi-pro Mansfield Marksman RLFC, who played at Field Mill, Mansfield, then at North Street, Alfreton.

https://www.facebook.com/bolsoverbulls/?locale=en_GB

They really should be the Bolsover Beasts with Dennis Skinner as honorary chairman.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Today I saw a Gateshead Thunder polo shirt in a charity shop in Bridlington. That could be the most random thing I've ever seen. 

[EggFace]

My nephew just returned from a week in Haarlem in the Netherlands and met a Aussie who was St.Merge Dragons which warmed my cockles.

[ronusa]

In the 70s playing league 0n Hackney Marshes in London,103 soccer pitches and 2 rugby pitches.

Good old days in SRL

Ron

[EggFace]

I also went into a Wigan Rugby League bar in Tenerife in 1993 not far from the whole Las Americas strip but went looking for it again in 1996 and couldn't find it.

[RayCee]

I was in a medical waiting room in NZ and I spotted a sign ostensibly about nurses. I realised it was a subliminal message from a Wire fan using an innocent poster to get his message across. What an unusual place to spot RL, albeit done surreptitiously.

[Gomersall]

I have a tv programme on Channel 5 on in the background about Cornwall. My wife chirps up that the man operating a mechanical digger on Newquay beach is wearing a Leeds Rhinos shirt. Sure enough he was. I’ll make a rugby league shirt spotter out of her yet.

[Gomersall]

On 19/03/2024 at 22:24, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Today I saw a Gateshead Thunder polo shirt in a charity shop in Bridlington. That could be the most random thing I've ever seen. 

Really? There are loads of charity shops in Brid.

[gazza77]

Walking through a wet and windy Peel in the IOM a couple of days ago. Passed an elderly woman walking the other way, pushing a shopping cart. She was wearing an old TT baseball cap (not that unusual over here), but also had on a Toronto Wolfpack coat.

[Tommygilf]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeTepkUb/

Leeds Rhinos shirt on show at the opening of Jeremy Clarkson's new pub in the Cotswolds

[gingerjon]

5 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeTepkUb/

Leeds Rhinos shirt on show at the opening of Jeremy Clarkson's new pub in the Cotswolds

Well spotted!

[Click]

Met 2 Huddersfield season ticket holders on another canal boat going through a lock .... 

Although being in Yorkshire probably isn't that strange.

[corvusxiii]

7 hours ago, Tommygilf said:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeTepkUb/

Leeds Rhinos shirt on show at the opening of Jeremy Clarkson's new pub in the Cotswolds

Struggling to think of something more offensive.

[unapologetic pedant]

19 minutes ago, corvusxiii said:

Struggling to think of something more offensive.

I'm not. In no particular order -

Cas away jersey, Broncos away jersey, Wire away jersey, Wigan away jersey, etc.

[fenster]

4 hours ago, Click said:

Met 2 Huddersfield season ticket holders on another canal boat going through a lock .... 

Although being in Yorkshire probably isn't that strange.

2 fartown season tickets holders could be considered strange.

[Futtocks]

7 hours ago, Tommygilf said:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeTepkUb/

Leeds Rhinos shirt on show at the opening of Jeremy Clarkson's new pub in the Cotswolds

I'm surprised a known RU bore like Clarkson didn't ban him on sight.

[Treize Hombres]

I always wondered why the Wigan fan in this video went clubbing in his Norweb shirt. 

[Old Frightful]

3 hours ago, Treize Hombres said:

I always wondered why the Wigan fan in this video went clubbing in his Norweb shirt. 

Apparently, all Wigan fans are obsessed with Saints aren't they?

(Tin foil hat time...)

[Henson Park Old Firm]

6 hours ago, Treize Hombres said:

I always wondered why the Wigan fan in this video went clubbing in his Norweb shirt. 

He probably got lost.

[Hopping Mad]

While looking for details of an MCC cricket fixture in County Durham, I discovered Park View Academy of Sport, Chester-le-Street, has a rugby league team. They're playing Scotland U19s, at Winlaton Vulcans RUFC, on August 31 (2.0 kick-off), in what the academy describes as a showcase game.

Edited August 27 by Hopping Mad

[welshmagpie]

On 27/08/2024 at 18:57, Hopping Mad said:

While looking for details of an MCC cricket fixture in County Durham, I discovered Park View Academy of Sport, Chester-le-Street, has a rugby league team. They're playing Scotland U19s, at Winlaton Vulcans RUFC, on August 31 (2.0 kick-off), in what the academy describes as a showcase game.

Funnily enough came across the same thing when searching for Scotlandrl on X/Twitter.

Good to see 

[unapologetic pedant]

Circa 1990-91. Top of the Pops. Indie "Madchester" band Paris Angels. Hard to discern, only got brief glimpses, could have sworn the drummer (sadly since passed away) was wearing a Balmain jersey.

By no means far-fetched, NSWRL jerseys were all the rage at the time among League fans here and in NZ. Internet searches unavailing. No trace of the performance anywhere.

[MattSantos]

I saw a Hindpool Tigers top in Helensburgh Leisure centre yesterday. Quick google as it made me wonder and it's an RL team based out of Barrow.