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[quote="bUsTiNyAbALLs":9q9d2t35]Do not converse with me you filthy minded deviant.[/quote:9q9d2t35]
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I'm not sure failing to meet your aim is much better than failing to meet your prediction
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| Quote: loiner81 "Well that certainly explains a lot ![]()
 I bet he got all giddy too thinking he had another trolling angle. No Pooley, not today my friend.
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "I'm not sure failing to meet your aim is much better than failing to meet your prediction'"
Oh no, did I miss the end of the season? That went quick.  |
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You're never going to get, literally, "every game matters". But the new set-up has certainly reduced the number of dead-rubber matches, and that's a big step in the right direction. It gets a qualified thumbs-up from me. A RU fan in my local has commented plenty off times about the fact that their promotion/relegation set-up leaves the promoted team with much less money to spend (half as much, I believe, as the other Premiership clubs). The result of this is that you get a team promoted who look enviously at Wakey's record: London Welsh didn't win a game all season! That is a mistake we don't want to repeat.
And, like plenty it seems, I'm finding the glass-half-empty negativity of some around here hard to take. I've never used an "ignore" function on any talkboard I've posted on, but I'm getting tempted here.
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[quote="bUsTiNyAbALLs":9q9d2t35]Do not converse with me you filthy minded deviant.[/quote:9q9d2t35]
[quote="vastman":9q9d2t35]My rage isn't impotent luv, I'm frothing at the mouth actually.[/quote:9q9d2t35]: |
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| Quote: loiner81 "Oh no, did I miss the end of the season? That went quick. ![]()
If your argument is it might still happen. It seems pointless to focus on the distinction between an aim and a prediction
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "If your argument is it might still happen. It seems pointless to focus on the distinction between an aim and a prediction'"
Oh god, he's off again.  |
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[quote="bUsTiNyAbALLs":9q9d2t35]Do not converse with me you filthy minded deviant.[/quote:9q9d2t35]
[quote="vastman":9q9d2t35]My rage isn't impotent luv, I'm frothing at the mouth actually.[/quote:9q9d2t35]: |
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| Quote: moto748 "You're never going to get, literally, "every game matters". But the new set-up has certainly reduced the number of dead-rubber matches, and that's a big step in the right direction. It gets a qualified thumbs-up from me. A RU fan in my local has commented plenty off times about the fact that their promotion/relegation set-up leaves the promoted team with much less money to spend (half as much, I believe, as the other Premiership clubs). The result of this is that you get a team promoted who look enviously at Wakey's recordyou can pretend its glass half empty if you want. But when you have lost about 20% of your attendances, and are falling still further, and the leadership is putting in place a plan even they think will take another 7 years to get back to where we were it isn't being pessimistic. The fact is a major change has been implemented without the expectation of success and has so far only achieved taking already low crowds even lower.
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[quote="bUsTiNyAbALLs":9q9d2t35]Do not converse with me you filthy minded deviant.[/quote:9q9d2t35]
[quote="vastman":9q9d2t35]My rage isn't impotent luv, I'm frothing at the mouth actually.[/quote:9q9d2t35]: |
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| Quote: loiner81 "Oh god, he's off again. ![]()
Jesus. At least gutters and Jean are imaginative in their nonsense.......
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Did you get rid of all the voices in your head? Do you now miss them and the things that they said?: |
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "I'm pretty sure this one was one you weren't targeting
I didn't say it was. I was referring to the home league win. Do keep up.
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It highlights the stupidity of the system that we could very well end up with a team with 5 wins playing one with 2 in a winner takes all play off.'"
I'm no mathematician but I think that a team with five wins can't possibly finish as low as 4th. I may be wrong but, if I am it would be a very unlikely outcome so hardly evidence of the stupidity of the system. Let's see how it pans out before slamming it. |
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2015 - major missed opportunity, 2016 - stronger teams = harder task (no problem there then), 2017 - OMG What now!!!:953.jpg |
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| I started to think about the same but it made my head hurt. Its not like Smokey to talk rubbish though  |
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "As poor as was to be expected, mitigated by the drop to 12.
Some teams have given up, others have just been pants, we have seen clubs picking and choosing the games to be 'up' for, and the expected increase in overseas players as clubs panic.
Attendances already at a low point have fallen further and we are left seeing Bradford's precipitously falling attendances being spun as growth by moving them from one data set to another.'"
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[b:3lwchg41][size=100:3lwchg41]February 9th 2008. Harlequins Rugby League v Wigan Warriors; Attendance [color=#FF0000:3lwchg41]8,041[/color:3lwchg41]
Entire 2015 Season over 11 games: Total Attendance[color=#FF0000:3lwchg41] 8,050[/color:3lwchg41].
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| Quote: loiner81 "Well that certainly explains a lot ![]()
Target you say?
Hmmm....... Targets normally come with rewards for achievement and consequence for failure.....the RFL don't do consequence.
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[quote="bUsTiNyAbALLs":9q9d2t35]Do not converse with me you filthy minded deviant.[/quote:9q9d2t35]
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| Quote: Kevs Head "I'm no mathematician but I think that a team with five wins can't possibly finish as low as 4th. I may be wrong but, if I am it would be a very unlikely outcome so hardly evidence of the stupidity of the system. Let's see how it pans out before slamming it.'" You are and its not really an unlikely outcome. |
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[quote="bUsTiNyAbALLs":9q9d2t35]Do not converse with me you filthy minded deviant.[/quote:9q9d2t35]
[quote="vastman":9q9d2t35]My rage isn't impotent luv, I'm frothing at the mouth actually.[/quote:9q9d2t35]: |
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| Quote: Conorgiantsfan "Why do you watch a sport that you obviously despise?'"
I don't. |
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