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| haha where do i start ive got a good few wrong over the years but here's a couple that stand out
Early last season i confidently predicted that Rhys Evans will replace Riley and become a permanent fixture
When we first signed Westwood I saw what was a slow, immobile centre and thought "what the XXXX" funny what a change of position does
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| Quote: SEB "Absolutely. BUT, licensing was supposed to reduce the risk of clubs spending money they didn't have. The benefits were supposed to be better run, stronger clubs that would help raise standards in SL year-on-year instead of the boom-bust symptoms associated with P&R at the lower end and chasing trophies at the other. It was under that basis that clubs were awarded a 3 year stay in SL, at the expense of other applicants who felt they'd earned the right on the field to challenge themselves at the higher level.'"
Possibly I'm suffering from the same thing I mentioned earlier, giving too many chances, but I think it needs more time, especially given the shocking economic conditions. Most clubs are struggling with lower incomes after a 10% drop in attendance between 2008 & 2009*, yet I don't really see any major change in how clubs are performing - might they have done worse without the licensing system in place? Bradford is a special case in that there appears to be have been actual fraud involved, and what exactly could be done to prevent that?
*Just been grabbing the figures from the results lists on wikipedia: 10,000 average per game in 2007 and 2008 compared with 9000 in 2009 and 2011, while 2010 was only half filled in. 2012 is currently at ~9800, but with most of the league decided that'll drop in the last two weeks.
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| Ryan Atkins. Never thought he would be a centre, thought he would make an ideal winger and run in a bagful. dfidn't think he had the hands or the heart to be a top class centre, and thought he would starve his winger. a winger is only as good as his centre, and atkins has made some impressive wingers look truely outstanding.
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| Tony Smith - inerited a good squad, but went off the boil and jumped from Leeds before he was pushed. Poor at England / GB and couldn't manage the cliques. Jumped at Wire - who hadn't done their homework.
Might have been wrong on that one.
The other one was Chris Hicks - aging Aussie who wouldn't do a lot.
Might have been wrong on that one too.
Tony / Chris - I was soooo wrong.
Smith - best coach I've seen since watching Warrington when Bowden was coach
Hicks - best winger since - and on a par with - John Bevan
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| who is going to admit they were wrong when they thought widnes would be a great addition to Superleague and would perform much better than bottom of the league crusaders. And would bring massive crowds...... what with them being a massive heartland club......?
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| Quote: the flying biscuit "who is going to admit they were wrong when they thought widnes would be a great addition to Superleague and would perform much better than bottom of the league crusaders. And would bring massive crowds...... what with them being a massive heartland club......?'"
Behave, they've improved exponentially since June and should be in with a shout of the play-offs next year.
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Things I learned on 11/08/12
Gareth Hock can't pass
Gareth Hock can't run
Gareth Hock can't fight
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| Quote: just_browny "Behave, they've improved exponentially since June and should be in with a shout of the play-offs next year.'"
This may be the first post in the 'mistakes' thred which is likely to be a mistake... How very meta.
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[quote="boz the warrior":1udbj28j]lee briers is a nice person whoooo luck at lee forming a scrum the wire bum banger[/quote:1udbj28j]
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| i'm never wrong,
still think we should have given cull another year or 2..still think we shafted penny..anderson's barmy army and his 4 year plan would have worked. why on earth we left wilderspool i'll never know.
and thats just the start of it!
we'll never win anything!
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| Here's mine
I thought James Lowes was a poo-thick Yorkshire git, with no charm, and a hanger on
How wrong I was
He was a million times worse
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Blustering in from sea,
With a rollocking song, he sweeps along,
Swaggering boisterously.
His face is weather beaten.
He wears a hooded sash,
With a silver hat about his head,
And a bristling black mustache.
He growls as he storms the country,
A villain big and bold.
And the trees all shake and quiver and quake,
As he robs them of their gold.
The Autumn Wind is a raider,
Pillaging just for fun.
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| Chris Riley being crap. Totally wrong.
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| haha is anyone going to be brave enough to admit they were in favour of the proposed merger with Widnes? :-0
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| Quote: jdrocket "How very meta.'"
I hate that use of the prefix meta, Aristotle will be turning in his grave.
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| Sending an email to someone when you can talk to someone on the phone, it'll never work.
Sky Plus ? What about the video !
Cheese cake ? Cake with cheese ?
Mozza will be worth at least another year, I'm pleased to say I was so right on that one !
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| The day after we lost the final eliminator to Leeds last year, I went to watch our under 20s in their final aganst Wigan at Leigh. After the game, I bumped into Chris Hill who was there watching. I exchanged bland pleasantries with him and wished him well at Warrington, and as I walked away, I remember my sense of patronising underwhelment resulting in my thinking to myself "He might get a game at Hunslet in the cup but he's got nothing about him and he'll be gone inside 12 months".
Erm..................
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| Most Saturday afternoons in the betting shop.
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