Valencia Huracanes

[langpark]

59 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Oh god, there was Franchise League as well, wasn't there?

https://www.facebook.com/franchiserugbyleague/

yes because Euro 13 was such a roaring success, they decided to expand and start another pro League.

 

PS:  weren't Bath Gladiators a decent little club until he took over?

 

Edited December 6, 2024 by langpark

[Eddie]

Lots of negativity here, which I get given the history of the individuals involved, but it’s just Cas travelling over for a friendly in Spain and that’s a good thing for them and their fans afaic. Valencia is a top place to visit. 

[gingerjon]

5 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Lots of negativity here, which I get given the history of the individuals involved, but it’s just Cas travelling over for a friendly in Spain and that’s a good thing for them and their fans afaic. Valencia is a top place to visit. 

As said, if that's all it is: fine.

However, if it is used to give credibility to the man who brought us Euro XIII, Franchise League (complete with club announcements and a fixture list), and Bath Gladiators withdrawing from the RFL to set up their own competition then that does become a problem. Even though all of those are jokes, they are all damaging in their own way.

[Click]

6 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Lots of negativity here, which I get given the history of the individuals involved, but it’s just Cas travelling over for a friendly in Spain and that’s a good thing for them and their fans afaic. Valencia is a top place to visit. 

Don't think anyone is being negative about Cas going to Valencia, it's more the apparent link up with a fictional club.

[OriginalMrC]

19 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Lots of negativity here, which I get given the history of the individuals involved, but it’s just Cas travelling over for a friendly in Spain and that’s a good thing for them and their fans afaic. Valencia is a top place to visit. 

Cas having a warm weather training camp is fine. Working with a well known chancer is not fine. RL will not be taken seriously while people like this chancer are given any credibility. The governing bodies can't do everything, those involved in clubs need to do their own research and apply some levels of scrutiny to what they do. 

[Eddie]

14 minutes ago, Click said:

Don't think anyone is being negative about Cas going to Valencia, it's more the apparent link up with a fictional club.

They’re not fictional if they’re playing a match. 

[Eddie]

15 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

As said, if that's all it is: fine.

However, if it is used to give credibility to the man who brought us Euro XIII, Franchise League (complete with club announcements and a fixture list), and Bath Gladiators withdrawing from the RFL to set up their own competition then that does become a problem. Even though all of those are jokes, they are all damaging in their own way.

I can’t remember the Franchise League luckily. Euro 13s I can, and was willing it to happen, who knows what would have happened if it weren’t for Covid but yeah agreed with the benefit of hindsight it seemed unlikely

[Click]

9 minutes ago, Eddie said:

They’re not fictional if they’re playing a match. 

Has this club done anything since they played Salford a few years ago?

[langpark]

9 minutes ago, Eddie said:

I can’t remember the Franchise League luckily. Euro 13s I can, and was willing it to happen, who knows what would have happened if it weren’t for Covid but yeah agreed with the benefit of hindsight it seemed unlikely

Come on Eddie. Even if there was no covid and every other star in the universe aligned, Euro 13 never had a chance. The majority of "clubs" were non-existent entities. 

[langpark]

13 minutes ago, Eddie said:

They’re not fictional if they’re playing a match. 

I am not sure if 'fictional' is the right word. But if it is the Cas reserves simply wearing Valencia shirts for the day, then it must be close to that word by definition. 

[gingerjon]

2 minutes ago, langpark said:

Come on Eddie. Even if there was no covid and every other star in the universe aligned, Euro 13 never had a chance. The majority of "clubs" were non-existent entities. 

Disappointingly, someone appears to have deleted the Euro XIII pages from Wikipedia.

[Eddie]

4 minutes ago, langpark said:

Come on Eddie. Even if there was no covid and every other star in the universe aligned, Euro 13 never had a chance. The majority of "clubs" were non-existent entities. 

I really wanted a Chisnau Scorpions jersey. 

 

[RigbyLuger]

It's easier to mock up a logo and shirt than actually do anything real, but we love giving credibility to nonsense.

[JonM]

2 hours ago, Ainley Top said:

Castleford, though, will get an extra 0.25 on the IMG scale for having a sunny break. Unfortunately they will lose 0.75 points for their inability to spell hurricane.  

In fairness, huracane is the Spanish word.  

[Gooleboy]

58 minutes ago, RigbyLuger said:

It's easier to mock up a logo and shirt than actually do anything real, but we love giving credibility to nonsense.

Weren't New York City operating from a kitchen in Huddersfield? 

[Dave W]

28 minutes ago, Gooleboy said:

Weren't New York City operating from a kitchen in Huddersfield? 

There's this just over the M62? >

Edited December 6, 2024 by Dave W

[sam4731]

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

I can’t remember the Franchise League luckily. Euro 13s I can, and was willing it to happen, who knows what would have happened if it weren’t for Covid but yeah agreed with the benefit of hindsight it seemed unlikely

Ooooh pick me, pick me, I know!

Nothing would have happened.

[Ainley Top]

8 hours ago, JonM said:

In fairness, huracane is the Spanish word.  

Fair do's! 

[Harry Stottle]

On 06/12/2024 at 08:19, gingerjon said:

This "Dean Buchan is running a real club in Valencia, has set up a rival to the RFL in Gloucestershire (etc), the Euro XIII draft will be in Atlanta" is the nonsense we had before IMG.

Seems it has carried on in the IMG era.

[JohnM]

True.

Remind us, Who was it who invented Ultimate Rugby League? 

[Angelic Cynic]

1 hour ago, Harry Stottle said:

Seems it has carried on in the IMG era.

A Fanorak seems like a good old IMG Americanism.

Should replace Fandom for .75 of a bonus point.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dean-buchan

[Worzel]

On 05/12/2024 at 21:44, OriginalMrC said:

What the hell are Cas playing at? Not the sharpest are they

I'm going to start a non existent club and see if I can get a Superleague club to agree to play against my team.

Me too. We’re called the Bankok Ping Pong Balls and play in the South East Asia Super League. 

[latchford albion]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/06/south-sudan-streets-named-after-australian-nrl-players-myth

Bring on the Juba Jaguars.

[Farmduck]

16 minutes ago, latchford albion said:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/06/south-sudan-streets-named-after-australian-nrl-players-myth

Bring on the Juba Jaguars.

I encountered the same phenopmen once. It was in Africa but I think it was Chad, not Sudan and I didn't keep any record of the town so I could never find it again. The one I found included OZ cricketers as well, not just Qld Origin players. I wonder if it was the person doing translations of the street names.

[JohnM]

There's streets in New York, South Africa, Canada and more, named after a former Leigh player.