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I’m going to stick up for Rimmer and say he stepped up and responded rapidly to Covid to secure funding for rugby league before any other sport. A fair achievement.

That is undoubtedly why the government has appointed him for this crisis management role. They are in the crapper.

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Why would it? In other sports an ex-CEO getting a job in another sport wouldn't get any more column inches than what it has got in Rugby League either.

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3 hours ago, Damien said:

Why would it? In other sports an ex-CEO getting a job in another sport wouldn't get any more column inches than what it has got in Rugby League either.

It is everywhere that RU is in trouble, it doesn't get a mention anywhere that they are looking to RL to save them, imagine if it were the other way round ??

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3 minutes ago, yipyee said:

It is everywhere that RU is in trouble, it doesn't get a mention anywhere that they are looking to RL to save them, imagine if it were the other way round ??

The Government appointed him.

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Aside from the coverage in the RL press and the thread on here, it has been completely ignored 

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16 minutes ago, yipyee said:

It is everywhere that RU is in trouble, it doesn't get a mention anywhere that they are looking to RL to save them, imagine if it were the other way round ??

To be fair they arent looking at RL to save them. They are looking to a man who used to be CEO of the RFL to save them.. it is quite fundamentally different. Did the LTA look to RL to help them out when appointing Richard Lewis, or did they look to Richard Lewis to help them out.

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It looks from my vantage point like English union needs a dull, risk-averse accountancy approach to steadying the ship over the next few years.

Given that brief you could do a lot worse than Ralph Rimmer, perhaps with Michael Carter as a right-hand man.

If you need vision, inspiration, and rapid growth, Ralph probably isn't your guy.

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I can confirm 30+ less sales for Scotland vs Italy at Workington, after this afternoons test purchase for the Tonga match, £7.50 is extremely reasonable, however a £2.50 'delivery' fee for a walk in purchase is beyond taking the mickey, good luck with that, it's cheaper on the telly.

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1 hour ago, Just Browny said:

It looks from my vantage point like English union needs a dull, risk-averse accountancy approach to steadying the ship over the next few years.

Given that brief you could do a lot worse than Ralph Rimmer, perhaps with Michael Carter as a right-hand man.

If you need vision, inspiration, and rapid growth, Ralph probably isn't your guy.

Perhaps then it was the faux tweed hunting jackets and Golf Club style Fiji japes that clinched it.

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4 hours ago, crashmon said:

you can't grow on Sand..... Club  RU needs to stablise and here Raplh might be a good shout

That they are over paying their players and their salary is too high is i would imagine would be among the first 2 things he will tell them

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20 hours ago, yipyee said:

Cant believe this is staying under the radar and not really getting any column inches, certainly in league publications ?

I'm having a lot of fun with union mates down here about it 

They have no idea.....none at all 😂

Agent Ralph will have a 6 team Gallagher Premiership by the end of the year 

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2 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:

I'm having a lot of fun with union mates down here about it 

They have no idea.....none at all 😂

Agent Ralph will have a 6 team Gallagher Premiership by the end of the year 

Wonder if he will tout the middle 8s idea 💡 

I see there's already talk of turning the championship into a prem div 2 , where have we heard that one before haha

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13 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:

I'm having a lot of fun with union mates down here about it 

They have no idea.....none at all 😂

Agent Ralph will have a 6 team Gallagher Premiership by the end of the year 

Sale and Newcastle kicked out for being too far from the south. 

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