Is this the most one sided round ever?

[MZH]

With approximately 10 minutes of the Hudds v Wire game and the Catalans v London game still to come, the current aggregate score of the winners v losers is 216-8. Two teams have already been nilled, and Huddersfield have got 10 minutes to avoid making that 3. Surely that's the most one sided set of games we have ever seen?

Edited September 14 by MZH

[Barry Badrinath]

See if london put 40 on catalans

Edited September 14 by Barry Badrinath

[Eddie]

I was wondering exactly this a few minutes ago, whenever has 24-0 been the closest game of a weekend.

[Hopie]

Paper thin squads and a decent number of teams done for the year, its a recipe for batterings.

[wasginger]

SL not fit for purpose. For 3 or 4 clubs. You can't blame teams for putting big scores on clubs that gave up this season, knowing there's no relegation for them.

[Padge]

27 minutes ago, wasginger said:

SL not fit for purpose. For 3 or 4 clubs. You can't blame teams for putting big scores on clubs that gave up this season, knowing there's no relegation for them.

Oz has no relegation, big scores end of season every year?

[wasginger]

2 minutes ago, Padge said:

Oz has no relegation, big scores end of season every year?

That's Australia, and what they do with their league has no relevance to here in SL.

[Padge]

1 minute ago, wasginger said:

That's Australia, and what they do with their league has no relevance to here in SL.

So why do people here keep comparing the game here to the game there, and people wanting the Aussies to take over the game here. First thing Aussie administers would do is scrap p&r.

[Toby Chopra]

11 minutes ago, wasginger said:

That's Australia, and what they do with their league has no relevance to here in SL.

'course it does. British rugby league doesn't exist in a bubble 

[Fly-By-TheWire]

1 hour ago, MZH said:

With approximately 10 minutes of the Hudds v Wire game and the Catalans v London game still to come, the current aggregate score of the winners v losers is 216-8. Two teams have already been nilled, and Huddersfield have got 10 minutes to avoid making that 3. Surely that's the most one sided set of games we have ever seen?

I should point out I gave this a like for the maths and the effort, not for the fact it doesn't look good for SL.

[Fly-By-TheWire]

18 minutes ago, wasginger said:

That's Australia, and what they do with their league has no relevance to here in SL.

Well, it's the standard we should be aiming for though isn't it?   To attract neutrals you want close contests with attractive rugby from both sides.

[sam4731]

28 minutes ago, Padge said:

Oz has no relegation, big scores end of season every year?

27+ games, rules designed not to give players a break, constant limiting how many interchanges allowed= knackered and injured players.

Thank goodness our most important games are not when teams are at their peak fitness wise. We wouldn't want high quality games at the back end of the year, would we?

Edited September 14 by sam4731

[Hopie]

Every match this weekend has seen at least one half where one of the sides has failed to score.

[wasginger]

35 minutes ago, Padge said:

So why do people here keep comparing the game here to the game there, and people wanting the Aussies to take over the game here. First thing Aussie administers would do is scrap p&r.

People here may like to compare games, and wanting the Aussies to tkae over our game. But they are opinions people are entitled to. As to whether that would b e for the betterment of our game, is open to question.

[wasginger]

32 minutes ago, Toby Chopra said:

'course it does. British rugby league doesn't exist in a bubble 

It's developing our own standards that needs looking at. I'm quite sure Australian RL have their problems. There's numerous ways to improve the game here. Whether there's a will to look at the game as a whole instead of just SL. I doubt it.

[Dunbar]

1 hour ago, sam4731 said:

27+ games, rules designed not to give players a break, constant limiting how many interchanges allowed= knackered and injured players.

Thank goodness our most important games are not when teams are at their peak fitness wise. We wouldn't want high quality games at the back end of the year, would we?

I'm pretty sure that we have been told on these pages plenty of times that limiting interchanges and creating fatigue is the key to entertaining games and removing the modern day 'robots' who can only play in 20 minute stints.

[sam4731]

3 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

I'm pretty sure that we have been told on these pages plenty of times that limiting interchanges and creating fatigue is the key to entertaining games and removing the modern day 'robots' who can only play in 20 minute stints.

Can someone please give me a sensible argument as to why making players tired makes the game more entertaining?

[north yorks trinity]

1 hour ago, sam4731 said:

Can someone please give me a sensible argument as to why making players tired makes the game more entertaining?

More space for the faster and/or creative players?

[StandOffHalf]

3 hours ago, Padge said:

Oz has no relegation, big scores end of season every year?

P&R is part of the culture of the football codes in the UK. Teams who can't make the 6 and can't go down will just take it easy and go through the motions with youngsters more likely to feature.

[Eddie]

8 hours ago, Hopie said:

Every match this weekend has seen at least one half where one of the sides has failed to score.

That’s a niche stat  

[48C North Stand]

9 hours ago, sam4731 said:

Can someone please give me a sensible argument as to why making players tired makes the game more entertaining?

RL professes to be an elite sport. Some teams this year are simply not conditioned properly or fit enough to compete. There are 4 teams in SL that are not up to the standard required. The gap in the table tells this story. 

Part of the issue is that there hasn't been enough British Isles based players developed to the required standard in the past 10-15 years and now the top league has effectively only 8 teams with fair chance of being competitive on a weekly basis. 

The future of the game critically depends on kids becoming interested enough to play. That requires an active media presence by semi pro and pro clubs, a strong international commitment and consistent program and more funding for youth development. 

 

[sam4731]

8 hours ago, north yorks trinity said:

More space for the faster and/or creative players?

This argument is so counterintuitive. If a player is creative, why do you need to tire another player to bring this out in them. This is the equivalent of having F1 drivers change into Ford Focuses mid way through the race to allow more creative drivers to show how good they are at overtaking.

[sam4731]

51 minutes ago, 48C North Stand said:

RL professes to be an elite sport. Some teams this year are simply not conditioned properly or fit enough to compete. There are 4 teams in SL that are not up to the standard required. The gap in the table tells this story. 

Part of the issue is that there hasn't been enough British Isles based players developed to the required standard in the past 10-15 years and now the top league has effectively only 8 teams with fair chance of being competitive on a weekly basis. 

The future of the game critically depends on kids becoming interested enough to play. That requires an active media presence by semi pro and pro clubs, a strong international commitment and consistent program and more funding for youth development. 

 

So of course the way to do this is not bring players through a game that nurtures and supports them, it's to run them into the ground?

Also this is a different point but how many players that get a scholarship contract, make it through to the first team and actually make regular appearances. We treat players like commodities, chewing them up and spitting them out at a horrendous rate, leaving them completely dissolutioned from the game. Before anyone starts with the trope that all sports do this, think about whether other sports have the player pool to afford to do this.

We don't.

[Padge]

10 hours ago, StandOffHalf said:

P&R is part of the culture of the football codes in the UK. Teams who can't make the 6 and can't go down will just take it easy and go through the motions with youngsters more likely to feature.

RL has had more years without P&R than with, it is not an RL culture.

[north yorks trinity]

2 hours ago, sam4731 said:

This argument is so counterintuitive. If a player is creative, why do you need to tire another player to bring this out in them. This is the equivalent of having F1 drivers change into Ford Focuses mid way through the race to allow more creative drivers to show how good they are at overtaking.

Not entirely sure that analogy supports your argument. I'm not into motor sport as I think the car carries too much importance relative to the driver's ability and the lack of overtaking opportunities is an issue IMO so yes, maybe Ford Focuses would be the answer!!