| FORUMS > The Virtual Terrace > GAME ON: Toulouse Olympique v Toronto Wolfpack. Sat 14:30:00 |
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| Quote: little wayne69 "I see what your doing here, but worrying about Batleys lack of home grown players shouldn't stop you focusing on your own club's problems ![]()
My own clubs problems will get sorted, our fans just need to learn a bit of patience and to accept we can’t win every year.
I get frustrated however at the bitterness often shown toward any non-heartland club in RL. The “there shouldn’t be any foreign clubs”, “they’re taking heartland clubs money”, “the RFL are helping them at the expense of heartland clubs” arguments are rife and consistent and then the delight and glee on display when they lose. These are often the same people who wonder why there aren’t more people with big money in RL backing clubs.
Wrencat in his latest post puts some reasonable concerns about when Toronto will be able to develop homegrown players. It will be some time. Yes they could have played 1 or 2 in League 1. That wouldn’t suddenly have turned them into Championship standard players and then another year or 2 in the Championship wouldn’t have turned them into SL standard players. They need to setup local roots as he rightly says. Well that takes a lot longer than 3 years and certainly takes longer than that to produce any quality players from it. However Batley have had 100+ years to do that and aren’t producing any at the moment. Someone said there are some Batley products playing in SL, I’m struggling to think of any.
This isn’t an anti-Batley post or criticism. Well not solely them. They are the same as the vast majority of British clubs below SL. Some people sometimes ask what benefits clubs like Toronto bring over British clubs. But I look at many British clubs and see these zombie clubs producing very little, sometimes nothing, for the sport and just staggering on from year to year.
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[b:1crbsr9w] Toulouse for Championship in 2017, Super League in 2021!
Avignon for Championship in 2021, Super League in 2022! [/b:1crbsr9w]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_18302.png |
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| Quote: Call Me God "HERE YOU GO BAZZA
rlhttps://youtu.be/YYC67xCfyCQrl'"
Wrong game. Wrong thread. This thread is about Toulouse's magnificent victory. |
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| Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE "Wrong game. Wrong thread. This thread is about Toulouse's magnificent victory.'"
It was you that mentioned Salford first...
Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE "Crowd 6103. Salford and Wakefield don't get close to that.'" |
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The fans, the members, the people there.. from the day I stepped foot onto that field at the AJ Bell Stadium,I knew I would love that club for the rest of my life. "Jackson Hastings"..
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemmingway, US journalist,widow of Ernest Hemmingway (1908-1986)
The Stupid Neither Forgive Nor Forget
The Naive Forgive And Forget
The Wise Forgive But Don't Forget
"I am not young enough to know everything"
Oscar Wilde Irish Playwright (1854-1900)
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| Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE "Wrong game. Wrong thread. This thread is about Toulouse's magnificent victory against a woeful championship team in Toronto.'"
it was coming Bazza from a team that just scraped past Dewsbury which game did you go to Baz ? or were there no flights out of Kingsford Smith airport ? |
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TWP scraped past Dewsbury, who Fax beat 26-0 yesterday (Fax finally got themselves out of 1st gear). Watched the highlights and TO looked very good in the second half. TWP play Batley next, followed by Fax, Sheffield, Barrow and Featherstone. 5 tough games and if they're still top of the pile after them they'll take some stopping.
TO's season will depend on how well they travel, particularly if they suffer injuries to key players.
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