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| Quote: FearTheVee "Fine, we'll scrap MW and Easter Monday and you and all your teammates can take a pay cut Jammer.
And you can all stop whining about lack of recognition outside of the M62 too, as it appears you don't want to do much about it.
If MW wasn't there, another match would be. I'd rather he didn't speak for the fans as regards not wanting to travel up there for a match that's on telly - I personally can't bloody wait.'" I agree, I know a lot of fans aren't keen on the idea but I also know a lot of others love the weekend for whatever reason. |
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| Quote: FearTheVee "Fine, we'll scrap MW and Easter Monday and you and all your teammates can take a pay cut Jammer.
And you can all stop whining about lack of recognition outside of the M62 too, as it appears you don't want to do much about it.
If MW wasn't there, another match would be. I'd rather he didn't speak for the fans as regards not wanting to travel up there for a match that's on telly - I personally can't bloody wait.'"
We'll see how many empty seats there are, which will prove Mr Graham correct... |
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| Quote: the wicker man "We'll see how many empty seats there are, which will prove Mr Graham correct...'"
please can you provide the exact number of empty seats required for him to be proven correct? |
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| Quote: saints35 bulls0 "please can you provide the exact number of empty seats required for him to be proven correct?'"
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| Quote: saints35 bulls0 "please can you provide the exact number of empty seats required for him to be proven correct?'"
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| Quote: philipk "I dont see the problem with James voicing an opinion - he is entitled to it and nobody criticises those players who are quoted as being in favour of it , so if he's a lone voice so be it-
A Number of Club officials have reservations about this event and with good financial reason - it makes very little for them for the work they have to do.
Im not a Killjoy and i will accept that many fans enjoy the event but in a healthy debate people must be allowed to dissent . ive never been in favour of the event even going back to when it was first brought up in 2006 and visiting Cardiff didnt do anything that changed my View.
Expansion a la Celtic and Catalan yes , Weekend jollys which distort the fixture list ( and that is unarguable ) we can get on just fine without.'" ] |
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| Quote: philipk "I dont see the problem with James voicing an opinion - he is entitled to it and nobody criticises those players who are quoted as being in favour of it , so if he's a lone voice so be it-
A Number of Club officials have reservations about this event and with good financial reason - it makes very little for them for the work they have to do.
Im not a Killyjoy and i will accept that many fans enjoy the event but in a healthy debate people must be allowed to dissent . ive never been in favour of the event even going back to when it was first brought up in 2006 and visiting Cardiff didnt do anything that changed my View.
Expansion a la Celtic and Catalan yes , Weekend jollys which distort the fixture list ( and that is unarguable ) we can get on just fine without.'"
Well said. |
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I agree with him.
There is absolutely no publicity for it up here, I live within 30 minutes of Murrayfield, the only Scots who seem aware of it are the ones I have invited through work. Strikes me as a no more than an excuse for the rugby league fans to go and get ruined for a weekend away.
Graham could be seen as coming across as a 'complete tool' or 'utter weapon' here though, I don't see what he achieved by opening his mouth.
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| Quote: Ottoman Saint "I don't see what he achieved by opening his mouth.'"
Debate amongst a section of the community. |
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| Quote: Ski "Debate amongst a section of the community.'"
Isn't that banned ? |
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I agree with Graham. I'm not a fan of MM.
Its a lot of money for a regular fixture, and its also an extra fixture which isn't needed. IMO, every team should play each other home and away and that's it before the play-offs.
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| Quote: Ski "Debate amongst a section of the community.'"
Plenty time for debate after the event, rather than putting a downer on something that is due to take place in 5 days.
Graham has a propensity for shooting his mouth off - blasting the RFL for trying to take RL to other regions p*sses me off.
No doubt if the RFU had a similar event their players would hype it up rather than badmouthing it and we'd all look on enviously and whinge that the RFL doesn't have the balls to do something similar. |
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| Quote: saint billy "I agree with Graham. I'm not a fan of MM.
Its a lot of money for a regular fixture, and its also an extra fixture which isn't needed. IMO, every team should play each other home and away and that's it before the play-offs.'"
I suspect that it actually makes money for the game, rather than costing anything. Cardiff were rumored to be paying £500k to the RFL for the right to host it, Edinburgh are probably paying more. Add in the 30k ticket sales (around £500k), the extra tv revenue from having a big event and it is actually quite a big money spinner for the game as a whole.
I do agree on the uneven fixtures part of your comments though. |
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| Quote: saints35 bulls0 "I suspect that it actually makes money for the game, rather than costing anything. Cardiff were rumored to be paying £500k to the RFL for the right to host it, Edinburgh are probably paying more. Add in the 30k ticket sales (around £500k), the extra tv revenue from having a big event and it is actually quite a big money spinner for the game as a whole.
I do agree on the uneven fixtures part of your comments though.'"
I meant for the fans. It's a lot of money for the fans for just a regular fixture. If it didn't make the RFL money then there is no way they would do it. |
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