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| Can I just point out that without the points deduction, we would have finished the season 3 points behind Leeds, who are the SL Champions? Yet I have read plenty of their "fans" - invariably the "McDermott Is A Rubbish Coach" brigade - who still say they are crap, although they tend to have had to evolve from "he can't coach" to "he may be able to sort of coach but I really hate the style of rugby we are playing, I don't enjoy the games any more" etc.
Personally I think that glory years are rare, and whether any team achieves them is in the lap of the gods. So, for example, Leeds have now won the SL title 2 years on the trot - and it is a massive achievement. Yet I can't call those seasons Leeds glory years really, as they haven't really stood out as the seasons have gone on, not in the way that Saints or Bradford used to in their pomp.
So personally, I would like to see us continue to evolve and build gradually, and hope agaisnt hope that the combination of progressive youngsters that we have, the quality of the established players, and maybe one or two shrewd signings, somehow end up being the magic mix that is so unpredictable but that you definitely need in order to even think about "glory years".
If it happens, it happens. For now I just want a competitive and learning/improving side, preferrably with a nucleus of our own best youngsters, playing with the "spirit of 2012". That will do for me, and let's see where we can go from there.
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Never liked Kevin Costner, or any other Robbing Hood!!!!: |
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| FA, I feel reassured by your return to normality!
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| Quote: isaac1 "FA, I feel reassured by your return to normality!'"
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| Quote: vbfg "I think, Mr Lawyer Man, with a bit of charitable interpretation you might be able to penetrate through to my opinion.
Then I disagree with it, we were sooooo good they even had a name for it - Bullmania. We were an unstoppable force across the RL board.
Have you ever hear of Rhinomania? No.
Did they ever humiliate the cream of RU in the Middlesex Sevens? Not that I recall.
Did their halfbacks ever make a rap record? I don't think so.
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45465_1384791340.jpg And last but not least, to all those people who wrote this team off.
To all those people who critisized this team...tonight's for you.
K. Sinfield, GF 2011:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_45465.jpg |
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Then I disagree with it, we were sooooo good they even had a name for it - Bullmania. We were an unstoppable force across the RL board.
Have you ever hear of Rhinomania? No.
Did they ever humiliate the cream of RU in the Middlesex Sevens? Not that I recall.
Did their halfbacks ever make a rap record? I don't think so.'"
Bullmania took support from very little to through the roof. Once there was trouble at t'mill the fans generated in the hysteria of Bullmania vanished as quickly as they came. It was remarkable while it lasted and I hope the loyal fans that are left are now treated with more respect than you got from Peter Hood.
Yeah, you were fantastic and you enjoyed it while it lasted. Maybe this regime can build something more stable and give you a long term future to look forward to.
Anyway enough of that. At least I don't see those flaming BULL POWER stickers on back windscreens anymore. Good luck for next season and thank you for almost making up for you taking Jimmy Lowes off us by letting us have Jamie Peacock.
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| Quote: chunkyhugo "Bullmania took support from very little to through the roof. Once there was trouble at t'mill the fans generated in the hysteria of Bullmania vanished as quickly as they came. It was remarkable while it lasted and I hope the loyal fans that are left are now treated with more respect than you got from Peter Hood.
Yeah, you were fantastic and you enjoyed it while it lasted. Maybe this regime can build something more stable and give you a long term future to look forward to.
Anyway enough of that. At least I don't see those flaming BULL POWER stickers on back windscreens anymore. Good luck for next season and thank you for almost making up for you taking Jimmy Lowes off us by letting us have Jamie Peacock.'"
4000 average crowd in 1995, 11,700 average in 2012,
yep theyve all gone!
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