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Agree with the points about Catalan but it was the RFL that brought them in, clearly it’s not worked out how they envisaged but it’s hardly Catalans or Toulouse fault. They can’t expect a big away following from either of them it’s just not viable.
I’m not sure what control you are referring to as all control lays with each club right now with the power of veto hence no control. Hence the state of the game over here. If the RFL had full control over the way the sport was/is run then maybe we could be in a better position than we currently are. But for years we have been run by fools. I agree it’s frightening to hand it over to the NRL and I’m wondering what their intentions for the game here are but there is no denying right now the NRL model is much much better than ours.
Regards the 10 team comp something tells me that one of them will be London especially as Hetherington is going there at end of the season. Think all the bleating from Beaumont right now and him getting Wood involved is he is worried Leigh will not be involved. Then again if Bradford got in above Leigh I would be beyond angry.
Interesting times.
I guess I mean control outside of the UK, I agree at the moment we have the clubs doing what is best for themselves to a large degree with a lesser thought on the game as a whole, I just worry jumping out of the frying pan and in to the fire if the NRL run it to their benefit, rather than the game in the UK. |
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| Alffi_7:karetaker:
Agree with the points about Catalan but it was the RFL that brought them in, clearly it’s not worked out how they envisaged but it’s hardly Catalans or Toulouse fault. They can’t expect a big away following from either of them it’s just not viable.
I’m not sure what control you are referring to as all control lays with each club right now with the power of veto hence no control. Hence the state of the game over here. If the RFL had full control over the way the sport was/is run then maybe we could be in a better position than we currently are. But for years we have been run by fools. I agree it’s frightening to hand it over to the NRL and I’m wondering what their intentions for the game here are but there is no denying right now the NRL model is much much better than ours.
Regards the 10 team comp something tells me that one of them will be London especially as Hetherington is going there at end of the season. Think all the bleating from Beaumont right now and him getting Wood involved is he is worried Leigh will not be involved. Then again if Bradford got in above Leigh I would be beyond angry.
Interesting times.
I guess I mean control outside of the UK, I agree at the moment we have the clubs doing what is best for themselves to a large degree with a lesser thought on the game as a whole, I just worry jumping out of the frying pan and in to the fire if the NRL run it to their benefit, rather than the game in the UK. And that’s the worry, there as to be an ironclad agreement that if they take over it’s not detrimental to the sport here. We don’t want to be a feeder league to the NRL not that there is much coming through in home grown talent these days but what we do have we need them to stay in the UK. If they can do for the sport here what they have done in Australia then I’m all for it, it’s hard to knock how big it is now for them and the financial side of it. We badly need that instead of the infighting we have now. |
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That statement sums up everything wrong with Rugby League.
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That statement sums up everything wrong with Rugby League.
Oh deary me. I could not believe that. Of all the things going on in the game, of the three very short paragraphs detailing the "Strategic Review" one paragraph was dedicated to a Haighs Pie and Peas lunch. FFS. We are doomed. |
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| Wires71:karetaker:
That statement sums up everything wrong with Rugby League.
Oh deary me. I could not believe that. Of all the things going on in the game, of the three very short paragraphs detailing the "Strategic Review" one paragraph was dedicated to a Haighs Pie and Peas lunch. FFS. We are doomed. Thankfully I'd guess that "Fishtank" (who wrote the small blog) has no influence. He might know a bit about Haigh's Pies & Peas though and obviously supports the "Pink Weekend". |
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I would need to know a lot more details about what the NRL is actually proposing before deciding whether or not it is a good thing. They talk about the NRL having "complete administrative control" over Super League, but what would that entail, exactly? A 10-team league (which feels to me like a backwards step, and less interesting) is nothing more than a restructure - same old, same old. But in what other ways would "complete administrative control" manifest itself? What are they actually proposing to do differently? Until I know more about those details, I am left seeing red flags when I hear the phrase "complete administrative control". Perhaps that's because I'm a cynical old so-and-so who knows that proposals like this tend to mostly benefit those in control rather than those down the food chain. I know things aren't great at the moment, and it's tempting to believe that anything's better than the RFL, but when you are in such a weak and vulnerable position, that's when you get vultures circling.
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| Smiffy27:Wires71:karetaker:
That statement sums up everything wrong with Rugby League.
Oh deary me. I could not believe that. Of all the things going on in the game, of the three very short paragraphs detailing the "Strategic Review" one paragraph was dedicated to a Haighs Pie and Peas lunch. FFS. We are doomed. Thankfully I'd guess that "Fishtank" (who wrote the small blog) has no influence. He might know a bit about Haigh's Pies & Peas though and obviously supports the "Pink Weekend". Aye, but presumably Batley were OK with that garbage going out. |
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Was supposed to be an announcement on the 15th of the take over of London at the Australian high commission but as been postponed.
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| Wires71:karetaker:
That statement sums up everything wrong with Rugby League.
Oh deary me. I could not believe that. Of all the things going on in the game, of the three very short paragraphs detailing the "Strategic Review" one paragraph was dedicated to a Haighs Pie and Peas lunch. FFS. We are doomed. And in all fairness, we're not much further away from that ourselves. Yes, we've got more money and a flashier profile, but we've still got videos of Wolfie messing around with leopard toys trying to sell cup tickets. I wish we'd stop leaning into the WWE/Carny(not Brian!)/Darts mentality. |
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matt_wire:Wires71:karetaker:
That statement sums up everything wrong with Rugby League.
Oh deary me. I could not believe that. Of all the things going on in the game, of the three very short paragraphs detailing the "Strategic Review" one paragraph was dedicated to a Haighs Pie and Peas lunch. FFS. We are doomed. And in all fairness, we're not much further away from that ourselves. Yes, we've got more money and a flashier profile, but we've still got videos of Wolfie messing around with leopard toys trying to sell cup tickets. I wish we'd stop leaning into the WWE/Carny(not Brian!)/Darts mentality. Yes our marketing is lowest common denominator (god knows what mouth breathing ejits it is aimed at, certainly none with any money to spend that's for sure). Just look at this crap for the Hull game based on the Myler incident. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=9544393848990577. This isn't going to tempt newcomers, it's pathetic. The problems with our game go far deeper than this though. At it's heart is the offering on the pitch just isn't as dynamic and exciting as it was, even 15 years ago. The gladiatorial contest has gone, the aggression has gone and with it the biff (which we all liked). But the honesty has gone too. Feigning injury, gamesmanship, robotic, predictable plays and the absolute pantomime pile on that is the ruck/play the ball with players looking round to see how long they can hold a player down and invent news ways of tangling legs and arms to obstruct play. Arms thrown in the air in fake protestation. Put simply - it's boring. Then the coverage - relegated to the digital channel back waters the game constantly makes a laughing stock of itself, almost a parody. Dim witted Northerners with dreadful elocution all within a context of one big joke - the televised draw for the CC 1/4 final being a good example. Commentators from the womens's game are just not credible, a self congratulatory attempt at DEI, at the expense of being even vaguely capable sports commentators bringing the game alive for the viewers. The public image of the game looks so low rent. I don't know of any other sport that performs as poorly in front of the cameras. Then we have the woeful refereeing standards and rules. That tackle by Palasia last night would have been straight red last season - no debate, shoulder to the head with force and intent. The rules are all over the place. |
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matt_wire:Wires71:karetaker:
That statement sums up everything wrong with Rugby League.
Oh deary me. I could not believe that. Of all the things going on in the game, of the three very short paragraphs detailing the "Strategic Review" one paragraph was dedicated to a Haighs Pie and Peas lunch. FFS. We are doomed. And in all fairness, we're not much further away from that ourselves. Yes, we've got more money and a flashier profile, but we've still got videos of Wolfie messing around with leopard toys trying to sell cup tickets. I wish we'd stop leaning into the WWE/Carny(not Brian!)/Darts mentality. Yes our marketing is lowest common denominator (god knows what mouth breathing ejits it is aimed at, certainly none with any money to spend that's for sure). Just look at this crap for the Hull game based on the Myler incident. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=9544393848990577. This isn't going to tempt newcomers, it's pathetic. The problems with our game go far deeper than this though. At it's heart is the offering on the pitch just isn't as dynamic and exciting as it was, even 15 years ago. The gladiatorial contest has gone, the aggression has gone and with it the biff (which we all liked). But the honesty has gone too. Feigning injury, gamesmanship, robotic, predictable plays and the absolute pantomime pile on that is the ruck/play the ball with players looking round to see how long they can hold a player down and invent news ways of tangling legs and arms to obstruct play. Arms thrown in the air in fake protestation. Put simply - it's boring. Then the coverage - relegated to the digital channel back waters the game constantly makes a laughing stock of itself, almost a parody. Dim witted Northerners with dreadful elocution all within a context of one big joke - the televised draw for the CC 1/4 final being a good example. Commentators from the womens's game are just not credible, a self congratulatory attempt at DEI, at the expense of being even vaguely capable sports commentators bringing the game alive for the viewers. The public image of the game looks so low rent. I don't know of any other sport that performs as poorly in front of the cameras. Then we have the woeful refereeing standards and rules. That tackle by Palasia last night would have been straight red last season - no debate, shoulder to the head with force and intent. The rules are all over the place. | |
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