Quote: nickcat0 "I happen to agree with James Graham , though possibly for different reasons .
The integrity of a league system is based on playing each team home and away , if the result of this extra fixture alters the final standings in any way , then that integrity has been destroyed .
As for expanding the game outside the M62 corridor ..... why ?
The game has done perfectly fine for over a century , without being played all over the UK . If others want to come on board , let it be a natural progression , rather than a contrived result from the Magic Weekends .
Has anyone considered the possibility that after 114 years , the reason the game is still confined to a small area of the country is because only we are intelligent enough to "get" it .'"
this is a spoof post, right?
The integrity corrupted because there isn't a home & away league? There hasnt been one of those for ages.
Expansion away from the M62? Because it's vital and the game will wither without it.
The game hasnt done fine for over a century, and probably hasn't 'done fine' since the 50's and 60's. It was withering away since the 70's, unable to grow, nor attract player numbers or sponsorship or media attention or spectators to speak of. The game was dying and summer rugby, SL, initiatives like MM etc werent even in existence when the game was dying. Without expansion, whichever way you choose to measure it, the game would be on its knees by now.
Thanks to initiatives like these (though not really MM itself) people do want to come on board and there is now a pathway for clubs to do that, which there never was even when the game was 'doing fine'. There never was natural progression, but there is now. Anyway, it's only during threads like these on message boards like these, where people use expansion and MM in the same breath. MM isn't an expansion tool; it never was and never will be. It may have some positive effects in that regards, equally it may not but it doesn't matter because that isn't what it's about. Mind you, if people are exposed to the game and like it - purely as a result of attending MM - how can that be contrived? I'd call it good planning or marketing, or good fortune, maybe even lucky, but it isn't contrived.
too intelligent - what? the average RL supporter? The supporter who only knows 6 laws and couldn't be stuffed about any other club but his own, the very supporter who couldnt get off his ar$e and travel 20 miles to watch their country play an international? The supporter who cant see past his own self-interested nose? intelligent? Dont make me laugh. You were doing well with your post until you let that absolute pearler through!!
good trolling though!
