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Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
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| Quote: SEB "Back to the OP, my own personal opinion as a board member of another Supporters Trust, I think the Halifax campaign is embarassing and brings the role of Trusts into disrepute. I had sympathy for Halifax's situation but cannot support a campaign with such a negative and narrow minded title. It's not even accurate - it suggest the RFL don't support P&R themselves, when they clearly do as it exists in many levels of the game other than SL.'"
So what do you suggest they do instead ? |
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kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: SEB "I suggest you ask Catalans Dragons, Castleford Tiger, Hull KR and Widnes Vikings. They seem to have managed to bring themselves from a lower level into SL and survive (OK Widnes haven't started yet but I'm sure they will be OK this time)'"
Introduced into SL with 3 years relegation excemption , that cost Widnes and Cas to go down
Promoted via P and R
Quite rightly re instated after being shat upon to put the joke Welsh club in
Hardly inspiring is it ? |
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kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Code13 "This is my point, they are blithering idiots whose sole achievement will be to damage the wider game as a whole and the Halifax club in particular with this utterly stupid, ill conceived, badly worded, badly delivered "campaign".
Maybe they'd be better off trying to get people from Halifax to actually go to the games, which will be the surest way of getting Fax into Super League.
No Im not trolling, but I am fed up of tin pot clubs thinking they have a divine right to be in the top flight.'"
Maybe as a Huddersfield fan you could help them achieve this ?
Oops I forgot , you lot cant get fans to watch you in SL , can you ? |
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kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: ROBINSON "“Hate RFL, Love P&R”
Idiots.
Look, sorry Halifax supporters, but your club didn't get a franchise this time around. We'd have loved to see you in Super League, but sadly, there cannot be places for everyone.
The franchise model is in place for the very reasons you cite as being reasons FOR P&R - finances. How can a club possibly get things right on or off the field with no stability? This is not association football, with Arab millionairs and oil tycoons willing to put billions in - this is Rugby League, and we have to be responsible, otherwise ALL clubs bar the very fittest will potentially face ruin in their strive to compete.
And what of the relegated clubs? We all know VERY well that if you get relegated, your club suffers a massive drop in income, which if not managed ruthlessly - ie get rid of staff, playing and otherwise - will KILL YOUR CLUB.
As an aside, quoting a Kevin Sinfield comment from 2005 does not vindicate your story. It was six years ago - perhaps you ought to ask him what his up to date views are, now that the franchise model has been tried and tested, and now that he's a bit older and wiser. He may well have changed his mind now he's seen the model for himself.
I would urge the Halifax Supporters responsible for this to reconsider. Whether they believe P&R is the way forward is irrelevant. The fact is this is coming across as being very bitter, and an attack on the very organisation that allows them to compete as a professional Rugby League club, not to mention alienating to a lot of the fans who have accepted they have to grin and bear the situation.'"
Fair doo's , so why not just state that fact , rather than encourage a club to fiddle attendances just so they can pretend that there were 2 clubs in the Championship qualified to apply ? |
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| Quote: Code13 "No Im not trolling, but I am fed up of tin pot clubs thinking they have a divine right to be in the top flight.'"
Tin pot clubs? 
Rather arrogant don't you think? 
Although I'm a Wakefield fan I sympathise with the Fax fans and its rather easy for clubs safe in SL to 'look down' at other clubs supporters, even if you don't agree with thier
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| Quote: Code13 "This is my point, they are blithering idiots whose sole achievement will be to damage the wider game as a whole and the Halifax club in particular with this utterly stupid, ill conceived, badly worded, badly delivered "campaign".
Maybe they'd be better off trying to get people from Halifax to actually go to the games, which will be the surest way of getting Fax into Super League.
No Im not trolling, but I am fed up of tin pot clubs thinking they have a divine right to be in the top flight.'"
What a dummy spit. Jeez - grow up sunshine. |
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kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Wildthing "Tin pot clubs? ![]()
It tells us what we already know . wildy , it is a case of . ' There but for the grace of God go I '
But some dont see it that way do they ?
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| Quote: $t€ 1 "Worse than Kopites'"
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| Quote: Starbug "It tells us what we already know . wildy , it is a case of . ' There but for the grace of God go I '
But some dont see it that way do they ?'"
Indeed. I can take the brush off by Robinson - he follows a proper SL A grade club. But when a Huddersfield fan writes "I am fed up of tin pot clubs" it really slams home the stupidity and ignorance of some people. Timing is all important - i'm sure if we wheel ourselves back 20 years he wouldn't be sounding so cock-headed. Mrs Bouquet (Bucket) is alive and well on these forums. |
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The only ones spitting dummies are the Fax supported club who can't accept that for all Wakefields failings, they had a better bid than theirs.
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| Quote: Code13 "The only ones spitting dummies are the Fax supported club who can't accept that for all Wakefields failings, they had a better bid than theirs.'"
Could have fooled me! |
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Probably. You don't have the brightest bulb do you? You'll get right on with the fax fans behind this campaign.
What on earth have I got a dummy to spit over? The issue doesn't affect my club at all, apart from the general reflected idiocy on all RL fans of the Halifax fans.
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[quote="Newsom 13"]You're the Ginger Journo Scouser. Not me.[/quote]
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| Quote: Code13 "Probably. You don't have the brightest bulb do you? You'll get right on with the fax fans behind this campaign.
What on earth have I got a dummy to spit over? The issue doesn't affect my club at all, apart from the general reflected idiocy on all RL fans of the Halifax fans.'"
There should just be a Championship moaning thread on VT for the likes of 'Fax and Leigh fans to get involved with, rather than a few threads which all derail into the same thing every time. |
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kcab sfrawdder
Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity
Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike
SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg |
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| Quote: Dan_FC "There should just be a Championship moaning thread on VT for the likes of 'Fax and Leigh fans to get involved with, rather than a few threads which all derail into the same thing every time.'"
And then what would all you lot talk about ?
Booing Sam Tomkins ? , how bloody boring ? |
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| Quote: Dan_FC "There should just be a Championship moaning thread on VT for the likes of 'Fax and Leigh fans to get involved with, rather than a few threads which all derail into the same thing every time.'"
And yet you still feel the need to post on them? |
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