Quote Catalancs="Catalancs"And your boys, Wasps, look to have found a buyer.'" yeah great news and just the sort of money man needed to get the old club out of the hole, for the moment anyway ! just wonder how many years he will be prepared to fund the £2 million annual losses ? www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/ju ... s-takeover just the sort of person required at Odsal.....

Quote Catalancs="Catalancs"And your boys, Wasps, look to have found a buyer.'" yeah great news and just the sort of money man needed to get the old club out of the hole, for the moment anyway ! just wonder how many years he will be prepared to fund the £2 million annual losses ? www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/ju ... s-takeover just the sort of person required at Odsal.....

The same can be argued of football, half of the teams come from three cities. No team west of Reading and south of Birmingham. No team in the whole of the Yorkshire counties. The PL title only been won once by a team outside London or Manchester. Only one team East of Bedford. Now are we going to say football is not a national game? Of course not because sport is about more than the elite level competition. Same criteria can be applied to cricket.

Look below the elite competition. Best guide would be to go to any town in the England and see if the have at least one Football/RU/Cricket club that puts out more than one team.


I suggest you take a closer look at the map. Broncos aside all English SL clubs are contained within 30 mile band latitude across England with no club South of Warrington and North of Leeds. Leicester is distinctly north of Northamption as is Salford. Arguably the only team situated along the M4 are Reading and Bath. The M4 Argument would be better applied to Welsh RU. Regarding Newcastle and Leeds as I understand it Leeds are more financially stable than when they were in the Premiership. Bristol were in worse shape than Newcastle financially when they got relegated and have recovered without too much fuss. It more comes down to having the right backers, compare Bradford with the likes of Widnes, Wakefield, Wasps, Bath.
If Wasps had been relegated I would have made them a far better candidate to go under.

Similar reasons Wigan board gets plenty of Saints fans on it, Bradford fans on the Leeds board and same applies to Hull/HKR. People will see what they want to see, essentially ignoring things that contradict the way they want to see things, that is human nature. Look what happens when the EU/immigration/left-right politics are discussed on the "any other business" board the behavior is no different if anything it is even more extreme.


But if you were brought up in a blue collar environment in Leeds or Hull you would behaved the same way as those people do. Most criticism of RU is from a RL perspective and vice versa.

Is Martin Offiah's job title, players agent, turd polisher or master magician?
Worrincy will do OK in Union.....what he lacks in skill he more than makes up for in effort...

Northampton Saints sign Dominic Waldouck from Wasps

[url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/idru-investigates-bizarre-complaint-about-player-allegedly-urinating-in-his-shorts-to-put-off-tacklers/story-e6frf4pu-1226418519888?Wee issue to resolve in Illawarra rugby union[/url

Days after handing in a transfer request. Of course, I'm not suggesting Northampton tapped him up...




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Have they forgotten this strip



That was the one that I had but minus the sponsor as I was only 11

[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-2170838/Sonny-Bill-Williams-join-Japanese-Australian-rugby-league.htmlThe biggest dummy-spit I've read for a long time.[/url
Patronising, arrogant, one-eyed, sulking.

does the NRL really need him?

I'd say not but it looks like the Roosters are silly enough to pay top dollar and bring him back.

[url=http://tvnz.co.nz/rugby-news/peter-williams-good-riddance-sbw-don-t-come-back-4961870#Somebody else who hasn't taken the news at all well[/url