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I'm pretty sure he was doing a Sky game a week or so back.
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| Quote Bulliac="Bulliac"I'm pretty sure he was doing a Sky game a week or so back.'"
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/39515658I don't think he was[/url |
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Yeah Joe Cobb retired a year ago Bulliac.
The refs do look better this year but it’s early days yet. I also wonder if they look better because we’re playing better. You always get a better deal when you’re the dominant team. Mind you at York it was a fine line and we did get the rub of the green there IMO.
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I'm with Bullseye. If, we win on Sunday then I'd love a strong championship side at home to really test our metal. I think we could have them all a good game and potentially spring an upset. At home with a big crowd behind the lads, and get some coin in. Not Toronto though.
Round after, Leeds at Leeds, another big crowd and gate.
Gotta grind past Hunslet first however and that will be a tough game.
I'd relish a good cup run though and some meaningful games against higher ranked sides would do wonders for our squad.
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I got the impression at the time that people were jumping to conclusions. Tim Roby I believe was the first to cite homophobia amongst the RFL (hence why he toddled off to Australia), and I think ever since then when a referee decides to leave, people just assume that's the reason. More likely with Cobb he just had a very good job outside of RL and it wasn't worth the hassle to keep refereeing, especially as badly as he was at it. I seem to remember Karl Kirkpatrick gave up officiating when they went full time and he didn't want to give up his very good living.
Anyway, we're derailing the thread about the game. My apologies.
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I got the impression at the time that people were jumping to conclusions. Tim Roby I believe was the first to cite homophobia amongst the RFL (hence why he toddled off to Australia), and I think ever since then when a referee decides to leave, people just assume that's the reason. More likely with Cobb he just had a very good job outside of RL and it wasn't worth the hassle to keep refereeing, especially as badly as he was at it. I seem to remember Karl Kirkpatrick gave up officiating when they went full time and he didn't want to give up his very good living.
Anyway, we're derailing the thread about the game. My apologies.
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| Quote Bulls4Champs="Bulls4Champs"I'm with Bullseye. If, we win on Sunday then I'd love a strong championship side at home to really test our metal. I think we could have them all a good game and potentially spring an upset. At home with a big crowd behind the lads, and get some coin in. Not Toronto though.
Round after, Leeds at Leeds, another big crowd and gate.
Gotta grind past Hunslet first however and that will be a tough game.
I'd relish a good cup run though and some meaningful games against higher ranked sides would do wonders for our squad.'"
Agree with that. I'ts fine to look ahead but I think we're maybe getting a bit ahead of ourselves by maybe dismissing Hunslet. We're possibly favourites for the game but it won't be easy against another side who may well try to use a grievance as motivation. |
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| Quote Bulliac="Bulliac"Agree with that. I'ts fine to look ahead but I think we're maybe getting a bit ahead of ourselves by maybe dismissing Hunslet. We're possibly favourites for the game but it won't be easy against another side who may well try to use a grievance as motivation.'"
Thankfully the team seem to have got over this hurdle. In the last few years there's been a lot of arrogance about them being the bigger club and they've taken a lot of teams for granted, often losing or narrowly winning as a result. From what I've seen (with the Ross Peltier interview and Keighley as an exception), they don't seem to be doing that this year. Maybe it's Kear that's bringing that about or maybe it's just a case of the penny having finally dropped and a lesson been learned. But it's a welcome change in attitude that they're not taking teams for granted any more. |
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| Quote HamsterChops="HamsterChops"Thankfully the team seem to have got over this hurdle. In the last few years there's been a lot of arrogance about them being the bigger club and they've taken a lot of teams for granted, often losing or narrowly winning as a result. From what I've seen (with the Ross Peltier interview and Keighley as an exception), they don't seem to be doing that this year. Maybe it's Kear that's bringing that about or maybe it's just a case of the penny having finally dropped and a lesson been learned. But it's a welcome change in attitude that they're not taking teams for granted any more.'"
I don't know, there were plenty of cringeworthy sound bites coming from the club before the season kicked off about us going unbeaten etc.
Only recently I think it was Lee Smith being quoted saying that he wanted to help get the club back to where it [ideserved[/i to be. I hate that phrase so much.
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| Quote Nothus="Nothus"I don't know, there were plenty of cringeworthy sound bites coming from the club before the season kicked off about us going unbeaten etc.
Only recently I think it was Lee Smith being quoted saying that he wanted to help get the club back to where it [ideserved[/i to be. I hate that phrase so much.
The club deserves to be exactly where it is!'"
Fair point actually. The attitude to the games does seem different though, even if maybe the soundbites aren't. |
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The attitude on the pitch is markedly different to some other arguably more gifted Bulls sides of the recent past.
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can't take anybody for granted. They're in the same league as us.
What I will say is that we have a very good squad that are well capable of performing very well, providing we perform to the best of our abilities.
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