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| Quote: Bent&Bongser "Not sure what can be done for the South, but regarding the capital; Colchester, Winchester, London...... Leigh! You heard it here first!!'"
Come on, Bongser, you know full well Leigh it isn't going to be the capital any time soon.
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| Correck (sic), Benny. Bongs also no longer has a railway station but The Bridgewater Canal (The Cut) "flows" through Leigh - and very close to LSV. It's gonna happen!  |
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| Quote: nadera78 "There's no profit because after the hosting rights have been paid to the International RL, the tournament is running on a cost-basis. '"
Correct. The hosting rights are essentially "anything that is left after the bills are paid goes to development"....so if cities bid to host games and TV companies paid for rights etc, all that money, less operating costs are the fee.
Quote: nadera78 "And we're playing this thing in the midst of a major economic situation.'"
As often is the case, when times get tough, Rugby League fans think they are the only ones feeling the pinch...try and buy a ticket to England v the All Blacks at Twickenham later this month...even the £3k hospitality is all gone. QATAR will not be deemed "too expensive" and neither will a Tuesday Champions League match for the thousands of soccer fans from the UK who regularly make mid week trips, but ask someone from Hull to go to Leigh to pay £25 to watch top class international players and it becomes a "cost of living" excercise. ![]()
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Quote: nadera78 "Tributes also abound in post-industrial Middlesbrough, including a primary school,[108] shopping square[109] and the Bottle 'O Notes, a public artwork by Claes Oldenburg, that was erected in the town's Central Gardens in 1993. Also named after Cook is James Cook University Hospital, a major teaching hospital which opened in 2003 with a railway station servicing it called James Cook opening in 2014'"
from the captain cook societyAs it was, Cook did not encounter the Tongan islands until his Second Voyage, when he stopped at both 'Eua and Tongatapu (or, by Tasman's nomenclature, Middleburg and Amsterdam respectively) in October of 1773. Here he was "welcomed a shore by acclamations from an immence [sic] crowd of Men and Women not one of which had so much as a stick in their hands".3
Indeed, Cook found the islanders to be so accommodating that he returned to the archipelago in 1774 on his way back from New Zealand. Stopping at the island of Nomuka, Cook was sought out by name, and with this "proof that these people have a communication with Amsterdam ", the cultural unity of the islands was established.
It was at this time that he famously named the island group the Friendly Archipelago, "as a lasting friendship seems to subsist among the Inhabitants and their Courtesy to Strangers intitles [sic] them to that Name." 4
Cook's Third Voyage also included a visit to Tonga, this time for a stay of several months. Cook first dropped anchor at Nomuka in May, and then, at the invitation of the great chief Finau, travelled to another island, Lifuka. Here, Cook and his men were treated to such entertainments as "whould [sic] have met with universal applause on a European Theatre ".'"
Might be that Middlesbrough actually Bid for the games because they felt that there was a direct link between one of their own really liking one country, whilst the other was named after him?
Quote: nadera78 "All of that falls at Dutton's feet. He's not done a good job at all.'"
Agreed.
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Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number--
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you--
Ye are many -- they are few.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley - 'The Mask of Anarchy'
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| Quote: Benny Profane "Wasn't the location of the games down to the "Northern Powerhouse" thing? Wasn't funding reliant on staging the games up there? (These are genuine questions
'Northern Powerhouse'
Up there with 'levelling up' and that old 80s classic ' trickle down'.
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| Quote: RfE "'Northern Powerhouse'
Up there with 'levelling up' and that old 80s classic ' trickle down'.'"
And the Norther voters swallowed it, Hook, Line and Sinker, delivering the show of a government who fresh from mishandling a pandemic causing hundreds of thousands of deaths now want to give tax breaks to the super rich at the start of a recession.
Still. At least Corbyn didn't get in. That would have been a disaster |
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| Quote: orangeman "And the Norther voters swallowed it, Hook, Line and Sinker, delivering the show of a government who fresh from mishandling a pandemic causing hundreds of thousands of deaths now want to give tax breaks to the super rich at the start of a recession.
Still. At least Corbyn didn't get in. That would have been a disaster'"
Politics? I'm not sure that should be discussed on this forum (even though I'm inclined to agree with you, for once  )
For a start, I'm not sure how we can blame David Hughes for any of it... |
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| Quote: Benny Profane "Politics? I'm not sure that should be discussed on this forum (even though I'm inclined to agree with you, for once ![]()
Easy.
Energy prices are skyrocketing, which is contributing to the general malaise around the economy. Meanwhile, these energy companies are making billions.
Hughes is a smaller version of these energy companies, most of whom don't generate the energy, they broker it. Therefore, when your home gets repossessed there is a chance you can blame Hughes. SIMPLEZ 
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| Quote: orangeman "Easy.
Energy prices are skyrocketing, which is contributing to the general malaise around the economy. Meanwhile, these energy companies are making billions.
Hughes is a smaller version of these energy companies, most of whom don't generate the energy, they broker it. Therefore, when your home gets repossessed there is a chance you can blame Hughes. SIMPLEZ ![]()
Not sure if Hughes still has involvement at Vitol but they are certainly cashing in on the energy crisis making around $4.5 billion in the first six months of this year. Compared to last years record $4.2 billion profit for the full year they are on course for quite the bonanza.
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Well done Samoa, superb performance today.
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| Quote: Deadcowboys1 "Well done Samoa, superb performance today.'"
And England were rather poor. |
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| Quote: jbuzza "And England were rather poor.'"
Chugged along in the 1st half winning territory battle without looking very dangerous. Didn't exploit the man advantage. Didn’t really have any zip until the last 15 and still gave away an intercept try which ultimately cost them the feel good factor of a Final. Massive own goal. Not sure England were poor just sub par.Equally not sure Samoa were particularly fantastic just a bit improved and that proved enough. They definitely deserved to win which, really is inexcusable. |
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| Quote: BigTime "Chugged along in the 1st half winning territory battle without looking very dangerous. Didn't exploit the man advantage. Didn’t really have any zip until the last 15 and still gave away an intercept try which ultimately cost them the feel good factor of a Final. Massive own goal. Not sure England were poor just sub par.Equally not sure Samoa were particularly fantastic just a bit improved and that proved enough. They definitely deserved to win which, really is inexcusable.'"
On the plus side though I took the decision a couple of months back to get my money back for World Cup Final tickets I’d bought. So every cloud.... |
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I thought Samoa were impressive. One of their tries was amazing!
As for England? Seeing the team you support underperform, lose any sense of structure and go on to lose? That's Groundhog Day for us.
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| Quote: Benny Profane "I thought Samoa were impressive. One of their tries was amazing!
As for England? Seeing the team you support underperform, lose any sense of structure and go on to lose? That's Groundhog Day for us.'"
Choker isn’t it. Too many had their weakest game just when it mattered. RL in England now less newsworthy than RU ladies game. Big opportunity missed. Roll on Batley at home circa Feb 2023. |
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| Quote: BigTime "Roll on Batley at home circa Feb 2023.'"
Dreading that already.
And it looks like there are only two matches on the telly for the Bash. One of them is us against Toulouse.
Please, no! Why do this to us?!
My liver can't take it! |
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