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RigbyLuger

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41 minutes ago, Gav Wilson said:

 

That's that then!

I lost all respect for Mazey when he had a go at those on furlough having BBQs etc. The chickens will come home to roost for this lot one day.

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The thing which drives me nuts is that no outsider, looking at our sport, would identify Catalans as the problem. You might point at Huddersfield, as having risible crowds for decades and not winning

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I'm not remotely interested in answering a question you've had answered multiple times on multiple threads before. I am, however, very interested in poking anyone who thinks these canny owners, t

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Beaumont really does believe that Leigh are the best supported club in the world because their home attendance is X% of the population of Leigh. It's an attitude that believes individual clubs ca

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JohnM

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1 hour ago, RigbyLuger said:

I lost all respect for Mazey when he had a go at those on furlough having BBQs etc. The chickens will come home to roost for this lot one day.

Reading this, this Mazey guy comes over like a poor man's answer to Derek Beaumont, but without the smart, suave, sophisticated way with words. 😄

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Griff

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4 hours ago, JohnM said:

Thanks for that. However Jo Draper is not an NED. She's an Observer. I'm not convinced the NEDs nor the two Observers are seeing what's going on. Of course, if the junta would publish the minutes, we could see who was in attendance and what was discussed.

What entitles you to see the minutes?

 

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Griff

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2 hours ago, RigbyLuger said:

I lost all respect for Mazey when he had a go at those on furlough having BBQs etc. The chickens will come home to roost for this lot one day.

BBQ chickens?

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Tommygilf

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Given the total disregard for the finer details of sports governance from the current RL owners, along with everything else, I'm starting to think that its entirely possible they just didn't read the full details of the IMG deal...

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The Blues Ox

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13 hours ago, JohnM said:

Reading this, this Mazey guy comes over like a poor man's answer to Derek Beaumont, but without the smart, suave, sophisticated way with words. 😄

Not sure about Derek Beaumont, but reading that he comes across as a poor mans Yoda.

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gingerjon

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1 hour ago, Tommygilf said:

Given the total disregard for the finer details of sports governance from the current RL owners, along with everything else, I'm starting to think that its entirely possible they just didn't read the full details of the IMG deal...

There is a certain type of confident business person or politician who ends up making the fatal assumption that the thing they've superficially read must go in their favour because they have been successful in besting people before. In broad strokes, they never like consensus (someone has to lose) and they don't trust the kind of pencil pushers who read the small print that they do actually need.

Now, how could one possibly believe that of the current crop of RL leaders?

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JohnM

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Yeh but no but yeh, it's a local game for local people. We make our own rules up as we go along.

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Tommygilf

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1 hour ago, gingerjon said:

There is a certain type of confident business person or politician who ends up making the fatal assumption that the thing they've superficially read must go in their favour because they have been successful in besting people before. In broad strokes, they never like consensus (someone has to lose) and they don't trust the kind of pencil pushers who read the small print that they do actually need.

Now, how could one possibly believe that of the current crop of RL leaders?

In a past life I worked for these sorts of people in a more pencil pushing role; essentially started saying "no" more than "how high" eventually because you can't just shout and bully your way through these things.

Hughes moving to Wimbledon and doing nothing else because duh London will get a licence must be the most frustrating example of this in RL land recently for the expansionists among us. There's plenty of others...

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GeordieSaint

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On 02/05/2025 at 12:41, Archie Gordon said:

Magic Weekend, CCSFs, CCFs day - all going to be overshadowed by gossip around a strategic review held at the least strategic time imaginable. Idiots. Just idiots.

It won’t be a strategic review anyway. That would involve looking at the whole sport in England. It won’t happen. It’ll be a structure review. Again. 

On 03/05/2025 at 06:05, Tommygilf said:

I'm starting to think that its entirely possible they just didn't read the full details of the IMG deal...

I wouldn’t joke about that. Some RL folk in power make Andrew Brigden look competent. 

JohnM

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 The question of "if a club-led review takes place in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?" explores the relationship between perception and reality.

1. Philosophical perspective: It suggests that sound may not exist without a perceiver; if no one is there to hear it, then sound, as a conscious experience, does not occur. 

2. Scientific Perspective: From a scientific standpoint, sound is defined as a mechanical wave that propagates through a medium. Therefore, the club-led review  does create sound waves when it takes place regardless of whether anyone is there to hear it.

3. Conclusion?

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Angelic Cynic

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My question would be how many of the Strategic Review lot attended the Magic Weekend @ Newcastle?

Will the Batley chair take umbrage at not being able to establish this important fact?

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RigbyLuger

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5 minutes ago, Angelic Cynic said:

My question would be how many of the Strategic Review lot attended the Magic Weekend @ Newcastle?

Will the Batley chair take umbrage at not being able to establish this important fact?

And if they did, how much did they cost the sport in tickets, food and drinks?

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JohnM

JohnM

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5 hours ago, RigbyLuger said:

And if they did, how much did they cost the sport in tickets, food and drinks?

I have it on good authority that the Puppet Master paid for the pork scratchings.

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RP London

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On 04/05/2025 at 14:55, GeordieSaint said:

It won’t be a strategic review anyway. That would involve looking at the whole sport in England. It won’t happen. It’ll be a structure review. Again. 

I wouldn’t joke about that. Some RL folk in power make Andrew Brigden look competent. 

I am not sure how it could be a strategic review anyway, that would imply there is a strategy to review in the first place.. not seen any sign of one of them for quite a while!

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JohnM

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Fortunately, there have been, there are currently, and in future, some great games, with lots of TV coverage: Sky, BBC, the Sportsman. More than ever before.

It's almost as if we don't actually need a club-led review after all.

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RP London

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1 hour ago, Archie Gordon said:

At least RFL strategy is no longer a 404 error. But it seems that a 404 error is still the (interim) RFL Chair. Fun times!

Its the most effective one we have had for a while!

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dkw

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Its really good that the RFL media are also asking questions of them, I mean its every day we hear about the lack of communications from them....oh wait, no, sorry, got that wrong, I`ll try again.

Its none of the days we hear about the lack of communications from them.

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dkw

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7 minutes ago, RigbyLuger said:

Some communication, but not from anyone on the board anymore 🤣

 

 

If hes telling the truth then thats exactly as some of us expected, certain club owners and members are basically taking control, this independent board is a complete sham. Sickening really.

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